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acid jam from my small minicase modular build

Well, I have been talking about my return to modular synthesis, and building a modular from scratch, as a way to chronicle the journey of small beginnings, and hopefully potential [...]

new namm 2010 gear from doepfer roundup

Well its January 2010 so you know what that means? Its NAMM time again, so the flood of new product offerings and announcements is underway. Looks like Doepfer has several [...]

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redvoid and dj q on zentrip radio tonight at 1am

Published on February 19th, 20094 comment

From 1:00am to 4:00am EST tonight, redvoid and thee dj q will be on Zentrip Radio on wmnf 88.5fm community sponsored radio in Tampa, FL. Tonight’s show will feature a live Ableton dj set by dj q, and the fm broadcast debut of redvoid’s better daze mix cd. Call into the show and comment on the air.

DJ Q's Ableton Live rig in the WMNF 88.5FM studio

minimalism

Published on February 15th, 20097 comment

: Philip Glass (via last.fm)

The term minimalism is commonly misunderstood, and often maligned. In its truest sense, minimalism was an art movement, a form of architecture, and then finally a form of music, specifically Classical or art music. Recently this label has also been applied to electronica as well, and many questions seem to arise from the use of this term, which probably needs some clarification.

The best way to think of minimalism in the broadest sense, is as a series of concepts or ideas. Ideas drive many things, and in creative endeavors, ideas become design principles, guides or even sometimes arbitrary rule sets used to steer the process. The Mies Van Der Rohe quote “less is more” gets thrown around, and did stem from the Bauhaus architecture and design movement so it is legitimately part of the true definition of minimalism, but it is possibly not clear enough to those who do not intuitively understand it at face value. Another way to say this is “doing the more with less”, as in create the most function from the least amount of form. I like to use the term “Occam’s Razor” which fundamentally means “economy of means” or what we could all just call plain simple.

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