On March 5, the presumed disparate worlds of electronic effects and orchestral music will join forces for the world premiere of the EarthQuaker Symphony at E.J. Thomas Hall in downtown Akron.
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This month, we offer you a few precious questions and answers with our beloved Sales Manager, Master of Halloween Costumes, keeper of hairless cats and flatulent synthesizer sound connoisseur, Karl Vondran.
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Since 1997, MATMOS have pushed the boundaries of what would soon be called “intelligent dance music” beyond the natural limits of self-contained software and circuitry by using found objects…
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“I’m a sick person,” confesses John Vanderslice.
He’s not wrong.
Vanderslice suffers from a terminal case of G.A.S. (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) and it’s spreading...
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In SQÜRL’s music, the twisted scraping of industrial wreckage (to my ears the byproduct of musician/filmmaker Jim Jarmusch’s northeast Ohio upbringing) gives way to uneasy drones seemingly stuck in time like crestfallen Lake Erie tides fighting a losing battle against subzero temperatures before resolving at last into saturated but sparkling reverberated arpeggios. It’s what The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly might have sounded like if Ennio Morricone booked studio time with Steve Albini and hired Sunn O))) as session musicians...
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