Ellard

After a short break of two years, show four of WNIGN. (There’s no point rushing these things.) This episode: Alvin Lucier, Boris Karloff, Pancake Trees and Frogs. Stream it. I use Windows Media Audio because it sounds best. Please use VLC if nothing else works for you.

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As predicted in the last newsletter, heavy upward movement on the HUSSEIN Obama Islamo Terrist!! value, following general trends ahead of the US Election, although much of the buying is coming from an aggressive bid by Bush Inc. subsidiary Palin Rape Kit LLC. We don’t see this trend having much legs past early November, and [...]

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NEW PROTOOLS 8 IS ON ITS WAY!
Amazing new features are coming to the Industry Standard!

Less Ugly. PT8 looks like it comes from this decade!
Now only 208 less tracks than our competition – down from 224.
Pitch stuff up or down. We enabled the other bit of the elastic audio plugin added in 7.4.
Cut and paste your [...]

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You play a note on a bass. (Here we’ll only look at the note and not any of the higher tones that add to the timbre of the instrument.) The bass string vibrates back and forth, it pushes together air in a radiating pattern of compressed and uncompressed regions that reach our ears and cause [...]

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Much as I love to laugh at people all day, let’s use this blog for something useful.
Most people have a general idea about frequencies of sounds. They know that some sounds are ‘low’, ‘deep’ and some are ‘mid’ and some are ‘high pitched’. When they come to mix music they know that different instruments can [...]

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Now I’m cross again. Look, people, people… honestly… I know there’s traditions that go with music appreciation. We recognise these and put up with them because it’s part of the sub culture. So in dance music every artist that manages to get the slightest recognition is always a ‘genius’. Their ‘phat beats’ are ’soulful’ and [...]

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Rhyming Structures in Mid Period Ebonic Poetics.
Supertramp as a Sampling Source for Happy Hard Core: a Historical Survey.
Alternative Topologies for Ring Modulation.
Supplanting the Microphone as Phallus: Towards a Vaginal Sound Scape.
Comparative Mass Values in European Heavy Metal.
The Guitar Solo: a Sociological Perspective.
The Bloop and you.
Money: the Economic Theories of Pink Floyd.
Klangfarbenmelodie in the works of [...]

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