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A Window Into The Future Of Sound
Michael
The way we listen to music today is not going to last. A bevy of new technologies is set to radically change our relationship to auditory media. novel speaker materials, remarkable advances in recording equipment,... More »
New Research Uncovers An Orchestra Of Bird Music
Michael
Three recent articles on bird music research have deepened my already profound appreciation for our sonorous avian companions: 1) Teresa Feo and Christopher Clark of Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology just published their study of... More »
Painting While Dancing, Part 4
Michael
Painting is dangerous. We don't typically think of painting as dangerous, because we imagine the landscape print in our motel room to have emerged uncomplicatedly from the sweatless brow of some middle-aged homebody with a... More »
Blue Stone Jones' Electronic Music Podcast
Michael
www.bluestonejones.org In the midst of vast culture-level arguments over digital rights and intellectual property, my friend Matt Jones does something incredibly cool: he releases a bi-weekly podcast of his original electronic music compositions, Blue Stone... More »
The Trans-Human Music of Akhentek
Michael
A moment of speculation, rooted in a study of universal trends: Human history can be defined as development along any of numerous axes, but my preferred story-for-our-species is of an advance in mind control technologies. ... More »
Soundtrack To Your Funeral, Part VII: Switching Off
Michael
Compared to Life (if the familiar dyad even makes sense), Death is famously dispassionate. Death doesn't care when, or why, or how, or who. Death can not care, because caring is the job of the... More »
Painting While Dancing, Part 3
Michael
Painting @ Trilogy Lounge, 2008 03 06 Sometimes I feel like grabbing someone and pleading with them to please remind me what I'm doing, pretending to be a painter. It's a term I can only... More »
Painting While Dancing, Part 2
Michael
Live painting was a curiosity to me, bizarre and insignificant, until last summer, when I finally got to see it actually happen. I had just moved to Boulder from Lawrence, Kansas, where I had been... More »
The Soundtrack To Your Funeral, Part VI: Takin' Life So Serious
Michael
As I've said before, the soundtrack to your funeral is as personal a playlist as you'll ever make. Assuming you have the luxury of deciding what to play to your mourning crowd (and assuming that... More »
Two New MG Live Music Videos
Michael
After a year of apologizing to people for not having recent examples of my music online, I can finally take a break. Here are two videos from my 13 March 2008 show at The Laughing... More »
visionary music
April 2008