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15/01/2024

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-origins-and-influence-of-brian-enos/id1516844211?i=1000641285810

‎Show The Pitchfork Review, Ep The Origins and Influence of Brian Eno’s Pioneering Album Ambient 1: Music for Airports - Jan 11, 2024

15/01/2024

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In the latest episode of Pitchfork’s podcast, our critics revisit the legendary producer’s classic 1978 LP, which was recently featured in our Sunday Review series.

23/11/2023

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Het kostte de BBC vijftig jaar om de naam te noemen van de vrouw die een revolutie inluidde. Delia Derbyshire maakte de eerste elektronische tv-muziek.

23/11/2023

https://soundcloud.com/specklesound/dance-or-dream-james-holden

James Holden played this ambient / other mix at a Speckle gathering last year. James will share more like this on Fri 8 Dec 2023 in London. Info–> https://speckle.se/daw This mix bears nearly three

01/10/2023

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Read Alastair Shuttleworth’s review of the album.

15/09/2023

Ambient legend Brian Eno has announced the upcoming release of 25 new songs “built entirely out of stems and samples from his own material”.

03/09/2023

McBride’s death this week aged 53 brings one of the great musical duos to an end – but, as his partner Adam Wiltzie explains, there is still more music to be heard

02/09/2023

Stream new releases from Slowdive, Speedy Ortiz, Jeff Rosenstock, Smoke DZA & Flying Lotus, Brian Eno, Midwxst, Sprain, and Theee Retail Simps

02/09/2023

https://www.nporadio4.nl/overzicht/zen

Ben je toe aan een klein momentje van rust? Ga lekker luisteren en geniet van deze klassieke muziek!

02/09/2023

In this post, we’ll explain how generative AI works and guide you through a tutorial on how to generate AI music in a few steps!

26/08/2023

BRIAN ENO ON THE LOSS OF HUMANITY IN MODERN MUSIC

In music, as in film, we have reached a point where every element of every composition can be fully produced and automated by computers. This is a breakthrough that allows producers with little or no musical training the ability to rapidly turn out hits. It also allows talented musicians without access to expensive equipment to record their music with little more than their laptops. But the ease of digital recording technology has encouraged producers, musicians, and engineers at all levels to smooth out every rough edge and correct every mistake, even in recordings of real humans playing old-fashioned analogue instruments. After all, if you could make the drummer play in perfect time every measure, the singer hit every note on key, or the guitarist play every note perfectly, why wouldn’t you?

One answer comes in a succinct quotation from Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies, which Ted Mills referenced in a post here on Miles Davis: “Honor Your Mistakes as a Hidden Intention”. (The advice is similar to that Davis gave to Herbie Hancock, “There are no mistakes, just chances to improvise.”) In the short clip at the top, Eno elaborates in the context of digital production, saying “the temptation of the technology is to smooth everything out.”

But the net effect of correcting every perceived mistake is to “homogenize the whole song,” he says, “till every bar sounds the same… until there’s no evidence of human life at all in there.” There is a reason, after all, that even purely digital, “in the box” sequencers and drum machines have functions to “humanize” their beats—to make them correspond more to the looseness and occasional hesitancy of real human players.

This does not mean that there is no such thing as singing or playing well or badly—it means there is no such thing as perfection. Or rather, that perfection is not a worthy goal in music. The real hooks, the moments that we most connect with and return to again and again, are often happy accidents. Mills points to a whole Reddit thread devoted to mistakes left in recordings that became part of the song. And when it comes to playing perfectly in time or in tune, I think of what an atrocity would have resulted from running all of The Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street through a digital audio workstation to sand down the sharp edges and “fix” the mistakes. All of its shambling, mumbling, drunken barroom charm would be completely lost. That goes also for the entire recorded output of The Band, or most of Dylan’s albums (such as my personal favorite, John Wesley Harding).

To take a somewhat more modern example, listen to “Sirena” from Australian instrumental trio Dirty Three, above. This is a band that sounds forever on the verge of collapse, and it’s absolutely beautiful to hear (or see, if you get the chance to experience them live). This recording, from their album Ocean Songs, was made in 1998, before most production went fully digital, and there are very few records that sound like it anymore. Even dance music has the potential to be much more raw and organic, instead of having singers’ voices run through so much pitch correction software that they sound like machines.

There is a lot more to say about the way the albums represented above were recorded, but the overall point is that just as too much CGI has often ruined the excitement of cinema (we’re looking at you, George Lucas) —or as the digital “loudness wars” sapped much recorded music of its dynamic peaks and valleys—overzealous use of software to correct imperfections can ruin the human appeal of music, and render it sterile and disposable like so many cheap, plastic mass-produced toys. As with all of our use of advanced technology, questions about what we can do should always be followed by questions about what we’re really gaining, or losing, in the process.

Source:
https://www.openculture.com/2023/08/brian-eno-on-the-loss-of-humanity-in-modern-music.html

21/08/2023

Brian Eno is releasing his score for Netflix's 'Top Boy' next month to coincide with last instalment of the hit show

13/08/2023

iO-808 is the most accurate TR-808 in-browser replica yet…

09/08/2023

The singer-songwriter on indie sleaze, Cocteau Twins as perfect music, DJing as “money for nothing,” and her excellent new album

08/08/2023

https://mixmag.net/feature/8-best-ai-tools-for-music-production

Want to use AI to your advantage as a musician? Check out these tools for music production

29/07/2023

Two new additions to the user18081971 SoundCloud account, widely understood to belong to the enigmatic producer

24/07/2023

RELEASED TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO TODAY

The full, continuous mix of Late Night Tales: Howie B - first released on 24 July 2001 - is now available to stream on our Mixcloud channel.

Listen now: https://www.mixcloud.com/LateNightTalesOfficial/late-night-tales-another-late-night-howie-b/

“What It Is?” - The Undisputed Truth
“Love's Theme” - Love Unlimited Orchestra
“Twilight” - Maze ft. Frankie Beverly
“I Changed My Mind (Stereo MCs Rattlesnake Mix)” - Lyrics Born, Stereo MCs
“Uplink” - Stratus
“Mirage” - Santana
“Walking in Rhythm” - The Blackbyrds
“Summer Hot” - Curtis Mayfield
“Contrazoom” - Spacer ft. Alison Goldfrapp
“Respiration” - Blackstar
“Work the Angles” - Dilated Peoples
“Heavy Tune” - Gong
“Under the Boardwalk” - Howie B
“Violet Don't Be Blue” - Herbie Mann

24/07/2023

https://youtu.be/6eoYp_mciIU
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Psychologically Speaking 002

Each broadcast hopes to make you discover a new place in your head: it is a musical exploration of new places, feelings and experiences, sometimes cutting de...

24/07/2023

https://youtu.be/EU9HLVV1X2Q
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Psychologically Speaking 001

Each broadcast hopes to make you discover a new place in your head: it is a musical exploration of new places, feelings and experiences, sometimes cutting de...

24/07/2023

Coming soon:

For years, we have been concocting digital collages of everything that can apply to calm you down or, on the contrary, to rob you of your tranquility, make y...

21/07/2023

To celebrate the imminent release of Late Night Tales presents After Dark: Vespertine, we're giving away a vinyl copy of every single After Dark album to one lucky winner.

All you need to do to enter the competition is like and share this post: and, in the meantime, you can find out more about After Dark: Vespertine at https://orcd.co/afterdarkvespertine.

12/07/2023

The long awaited album by Isabelle Adjani is called Bande Originale and will be released on November 10th, 2023. The track featuring David Sylvian is called Il Manque Un Mot (There’s a Word Missing). Translated press release note: Isabelle Adjani is what we can call an icon of French cinema. With ...

04/07/2023

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9948-the-50-best-ambient-albums-of-all-time/

Wallpaper music? None here. These are the albums that have shifted moods and created new worlds

04/07/2023

Playing Modern Classical, Classical. Prior his passing in March of this year, Ryuichi Sakamoto was privately compiling music that would be played at his own funeral. This broadcast is a presentation of these selections.

03/07/2023

https://youtu.be/22itEs6H7aA

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupWhen Loud Weather Buffeted Naoshima · David SylvianWhen Loud Weather Buffeted Naoshima℗ 2007 samadhisound llc, un...

03/07/2023

https://youtu.be/imwb13rIR28

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupWhen We Return You Won't Recognise Us · David SylvianDied In The Wool - Manafon Variations℗ 2011 samadhisound llc...

03/07/2023

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Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupThere's A Light That Enters Houses With No Other House In Sight · David Sylvian · Franz Wright · Christian Fennes...