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Hello, If anyone is interested in investigating music from music students at Newcastle University, it's all hitting the fan at: http://icmus.ath.cx/audio One of the few courses in the country to have a folk degree alongside Free Improv and Max/MSP classes, people might be interested in the...

As a free improv player, I'd just like to add that multitrack recording totally 'sucks'... suddenly, I'm dangerously close to wearing a 'keep music live' t-shirt and attending Ocean Colour Scene gigs...

The idea of the new, of progress, may be tied into narratives that have lost their totality in these days of sampling culture and limewire. I've said a similar thing in the hauntology thread, because I think the two link up, some sort of 'end of history', but I haven't clarified it at all yet...

Narratives of Progress Don't know if I'm barking up the wrong crooked and bare tree here, but I was thinking about how Derrida coined the term as a response to an 'End of History' and perhaps there may be an analogous occurence in music. Echoing the physical and political breakdown of...

Boards of Canada I've just embarked on an essay on Boards of Canada, mainly focusing on Music has the Right to Children and trying to get the bottom of why and how it still evokes something so intangible within me... I've been reading Freud on the uncanny and screen memories, looking at some...