HannesLately I’ve been seeing lots of these “artist naming their 10 favourite albums” posts. I like those because...
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Ten Albums
Lately I’ve been seeing lots of these “artist naming their 10 favourite albums” posts. I like those because there’s often something new for me to discover in them. It’s definitely not easy to boil down half a lifetime of music listenting to just 10 titles and doing so is likely a great excersise. It forces [...]
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On Resonate
In the wake of Bandcamp’s acquisition by Epic Games, I decided to look at which other music publishing platforms are out there. Not that I think that the acquisition will necessarily be bad for Bandcamp. It might be of course, it wouldn’t be the first one. But it’s a bit early to tell. Still, I […]
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Blinking Lights 011 – The Permanent Gravity of Hot Water Tapes
I recently found a book in our local book-crossing hut about the Italian musician singer-songwriter and composer Franco Battiato, who died last year in May. Battiato is a figure I’ve always been interested in for various reasons. One certainly was his ability at crossing borders between avantgarde and pop music, between high [...]
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Design Notes on Colour Blindness – Part 2
In Part 1, I went through some of the background that lead Émilie Gillet and I to search for solutions to improve the usability of Mutable Instruments’ modules for people with colour blindness. Let’s now see what solutions we considered, tested and eventually implemented, both to improve older modules and to design new ones. Initially, [...]
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