Archive for the 'Theory' Category

The Quietus

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Very promising looking new magazine in the works. The Queitus – “[catering to] the intelligent music fan between the age of 21 and 73″ – is set to launch a print version in the next couple of months. For now, they’ve got an already impressive blog where Melissa Bradshaw’s unleashed this gem on Sonic Warfare.

Sonic Fiction™

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Exceedingly literal example of SF Capital from Native Instruments with their new ‘Sonic Fiction‘ soft synth.  Finally, someone has translated Eshun’s Afrofuturist conceptronics into something we can all buy enjoy: a feature rich, user friendly addition to NI’s prosumer-oriented Kore Audio platform.  Developed by Jeremiah Savage… “SONIC FICTION uses concepts and scenarios from the world [...]

On the war path…

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

I got hacked a couple of weeks ago, which has set me back a bit.  That Mr.Bump/Funky post and others are coming but I had to do a lot of damage control after an iframe injection attack that left all of my sites quarantined by Google/Firefox.  The good news is that the blog and Dark [...]

Dancecult Journal

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

“After the initial call for contributions some ten months ago, I am now delighted to announce the launch of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture. The first edition of Dancecult, a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal for the study of electronic dance music culture (EDMC), is now live, with downloadable PDFs accessible at http://dj.dancecult.net. Alongside Managing [...]