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The only I problem I have with DLs is the playback mediums available. Common PC soundcards and iPods just don't compare with an amplifier. BUT I did recently try out a DAC with a USB connection. 320KB Spotify streams sounded pretty good through loudpspeakers. The tipping point to DLs inches closer ...

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HONG CHULKI, JIN SANGTAE, AND KEVIN PARKS—音影 Celadon, a label focused on electroacoustic and improvised music from Korea, is proud to offer its second release, a CD recording from Hong Chulki, Jin Sangtae and Kevin Parks entitled “音影” or “Eum-young” in Korean pronunciation. The title is a kind of ho...

Herb Levy and Caleb Deupree. Probably a few more that I'm forgetting. I started following/discussing in '99 on the Zornlist. Jesse K was on there as I recall and I believe he was in university then. He's probably early 30s now. I suspect most of the avid audience is Jesse K's age or younger.

Bill, how do you arrive at the age demographic above - on the basis of fora like IHM? Are you guessing somewhat? Not even challenging your take [younger = eai-orientation, older = other musics]; it challenges my not-very-reflected-on assumption that it is nearly the reverse of what you say, or perh...

I agree with this perspective, and regard unauthorised file-sharing as an activity that is unfair and harmful both to the labels and the musicians whose work is effectively being looted. Though a few individuals might go on from downloading an album to actually buying it, I’m sure that this is a sm...

i think the new vinyl market is indicative of an audience willing to overlook or even seek out inconvenience in order to demonstrate their support of the music. mississippi records makes a pretty swift business selling cheap (both in price and to some extent quality) records of their favorite music...

cds are as obsolete as vinyl records or cassettes. they are inefficient, over-priced, and all too often unappealing. as of today the main reasons to buy cds are specifically to support the artist or to collect/obtain the art object. that's probably a harder-line statement than how i really feel, bu...

If you're looking at monitors for a reasonable price, try out some Pro Ac Tablettes. Very nice for the price.

just how much better does the music sound on a system including sonus faber cremona, I feel sad I could never afford such equipment Go to an audio show or a high end shop sometime and check it out. I think you will be really amazed. As far as not being able to afford such equipment, give it time. A...

If you're going to put your speakers through stress, I'd get some cheap ones.

Hey Gerardo. I do have the Kindle as well as the Sony Reader Touch edition. I would recommend the Kindle over the Sony Reader because the Amazon store is a lot more extensive. The Sony does OK with pdfs much of the time, but it too has problems with scans. The Sony Reader also has battery problems a...

You probably won't find a turntable with a preamp built in. You'll need to get an outboard phono preamp to feed your active speakers. You can find some of those fairly cheaply. Powered speakers aren't used as much because the listener doesn't have the option in that case of choosing the amplificatio...

There are once again parallels in all of the arts regarding postmodernism and modernism. In literature, the age of postmodernism is said to have started with two groundbreaking essays by John Barth in 1969, "The Literature of Exhaustion" and "The Literature of Replenishment." In the first case, the ...

My point is not really all that controversial. The parallels to abstraction and antirepresentation in the visual arts are in areas like atonal music or free improvisation where the privileged status of melody and harmony was overturned. Music has never really been "representational" except for when ...

That's all I've ever been, Jesse. Never an original thought in my brain--only synthesis.

In the 20th century, visual art became nonrepresentative, and the body of criticism that emerged from that development reflects it. Fictions were also produced that undermined immersion or that made indeterminate the ontological level of the story, or that had unreliable narrators. There are paralle...

Min Boyce wrote:I'm amazed at the negativity and narrow-mindedness on display here. Vuvuzela is the purest form of improvised folk music.

Here here. I love the sound of the vuvuzela.

That's a very difficult batch of questions, Caleb, and I'm not sure I can begin to answer them. Since I don't really teach music, I'm not in a position to guide any students about it, and given the reactions to the music I've lectured about infrequently, there doesn't seem to be much interest. So I'...

Buy the fuckin' CD already. It's fantastic!