Tag: Wendy Carlos
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Prehistoric Ocarinas-Ancient Flints Contain Musical Scales
A few years back, I posted the “I Found a… Pipe” blogpost – an attempt to initiate a series of found object accounts; exploring the dynamics of curiosity, the chance encounters, the chains of association, the pratfalls and prat-uplifts that may accompany such discoveries. One of the persistent themes is the idea that electronic-equivalents of sound-making processes…
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Toronto Composer Nick Storring sends listener on a journey with “Gardens”
Nick Storring — Gardens Open Your Eyes And Forget (16.21) (Come To My) Thicket (5.30) Unexpecting (3.52) Nothing Seems To Rhyme (7.25) Inside Every Man Lives the Seed of a Flower (13.21) Gardens was composed, performed, recorded and mixed spring 2011-autumn 2013. All instruments performed by Nick Storring. The work was designed as an informal…