Design Clipboard is a new series of articles I plan to write here on Horizontalpitch. As you can guess from the name, these...
Lately I’ve been seeing lots of these “artist naming their 10 favourite albums” posts. I like those because...
In the wake of Bandcamp’s acquisition by Epic Games, I decided to look at which other music publishing platforms are out...
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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Even if this blog is mostly about making electronic music with things that you can use IRL, today’s issue of Blinking Lights is all about software modulars, which you maybe haven’t heard of yet. Most well-known software modulars, like VCV rack or Softube Modular, rely heavily on the skeumorphic representation of hardware. [...]
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Why Blog? Marc Weidenbaum has a good answer to that. Also I’ll try to follow his suggestion and post a bit more often. Let’s see how that goes. If you’re somebody who posts regularly on social media, but feels kind of weird about it, give the article below a read, it’s full of interesting thoughts […]
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Updates on my own projects have been piling up over the last few weeks. So this edition of Blinking Lights is selfishly all about me. Ambient Nuggets #4: Kurodama & Benjamin Mauch by Purlieu Recordings The biggest news is definitely this split release with Benjamin Mauch. I’m a big fan of his work, and have […]
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Émilie recently delighted us with an in-depth recount of Beads’ long and windy history. It all started about 4 years ago with the above mockup Émilie sent me. You can read the full story here: Beads an illustrated history When you work together for so long, it happens that your thought patterns start to align. […]
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This might look like a best-of-2020 list, but it’s not. It is, rather, a random – albeit carefully curated – list of the following: albums or videos I was planning to write about in 2020 but didn’t manage to; albums that don’t really fit into the concept behind horizontalpitch, but which I find too cool […]
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Some things old and new. As mentioned in one of the previous Blinking Lights posts I do like to swap albums with other artists. So far, all these trades have brought me into possession of some wonderful albums, which perhaps I would otherwise never have found out about. I’m happy to say that the trend […]
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I’ve recently started to do album trades. It’s a fun way to discover new music and get in touch with other musicians. Through such a trade I got this lovely album, by the Portuguese musician João M. Santos, who goes under the name The Daily Misconceptions. It’s exactly the right amount of dreamy moods, bell-like […]
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Did you know that there is a Synth Museum in Switzerland? They are called Swiss Museum & Center for Electronic Music Instruments (SMEM) and are currently running a Kickstarter campaign to fund what they call Playroom: a space that will offer hands-on access to the museum’s collection and much more. So, now that you know, [...]
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[ecko_quote source=”Simon Reynolds – Ambient Archaeology”]Ambient is un-rock and roll because it’s built up by layers, whereas rock is about jamming: instruments fit together like cogs, forming a rhythmic engine that kicks your ass. Ambient is kind to your ass. It’s sofa rock, Erik Satie’s ‘furniture music’.[/ecko_quote]
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