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Interview with Ilithya

With excellent design skills and a never ending creative drive, Ilithya is a technomancer for the new age. Her practice includes shredding GLSL shaders everyday as well as designing jaw dropping websites. Frogmod is so lucky to have been able to catch up with her and discuss how she manages to make all of this magic and hopefully if you are reading this you too can be inspired by her exciting ideas and creative practices.

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Review: Colin Fisher "Reflections of the Invisible World"

Over the time during the pandemic, one of the satisfactions was viewing artists practices on social media as a hopefully temporary replacement for live music. One artist who I was infatuated with was Colin Fisher and their unrelenting musical drive. Their multi-instrumentalist abilities evoked notes of Allan Holdsworth, Sonny Sharrock, and Milford Graves with some touches of eastern disciplines as they posted almost daily their solo performances. These sessions often produced winding improvisations that include complicated scalar patterns and flowing timing sensibilities. When Halocline Trance announced Colin's new LP Reflections of the Invisible World, I dove right in and was delighted in what I experienced.

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Friendship Achievement: Inbox Within "Hangouts Vol. 1"

Copyright 420 is a collective of media explorers who seemingly draw like minded individuals across the United States together, but the core ensemble lives in Asheville, North Carolina. These adventurers take from humor and "digital content" as they please but always combine the results with a love for an almost platonic notion of Music.

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Michele Zaccagnini "Score Granulation: hypertextural Debussy"

Granular synthesis is a simple concept with amazing results. If you have any list of object, you could pick from this list and re-organize it to your liking. With audio in the time domain, you can apply this method of sorting amplitude values within a section of a stored recording and get new jumbled results. The essence of this concept could be applied to any array of data and composer / educator Michele Zaccagnini is currently demonstrating this with existing musical score data from Debussy via Max in this tutorial below:

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Local Frogs: Key Tides "From the Top of the Rock"

Over the course of 20 minutes From the Top of the Rock envelops listeners with densely layered synthesizers and wonderful textures, but the first installment of the tryptic never lingers in the haze for too long. Instead, a melodic thread permeates the release and provides a welcome pulse throughout each of the four atmospheres. From the Top of the Rock’s heavily manipulated samples and nearly forgotten field recordings are buoyed by chorused guitars, fretless bass, Casiotone, and autotuned vocals to create four distinct and deeply introspective zones.

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Review: Zaumne "Élévation"

Polish recording artist Zaumne has a new 12" LP via fellow Polish label Mondoj. This record was commissioned for a mysterious art collective known as WET and inspired by Baudelaire’s “Flowers of Evil”, already you can see this release is rife with esoteric signifiers and glimpses into a secluded world.

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Nestup is a new programming language for rhythms via Max for Live

Nestup really shines at creating simple mathematical expressions for dividing up a measure. This means you can also have odd numbered sub-divisions that result in complex swing that only a select few musicians could physically play. It also seems like a nice direction for algorave-esque live performance and would pair vary nicely with Timo Hoogland's Texteditor for Jitter. Happy patching and make sure its all odd.

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Review: El Pelele "AMENAZA"

Argentinian performace artist, sculptor, illustrator and now club diva El Pelele has dropped one of the most psychotic and fun releases I have heard in recent years via London's Quantum Natives. Quantum Natives is the perfect home for this record as their catalog embodies much of this chaotic energy from all over the globe but each artist always brings their personal culture to the table. The beauty of this is now we have a great perspective of what powerful sound art for the club / brain could look like in China and Argentina. 

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Review: Brin, Dntel, More Eaze "Futurangelics"

Soft audio recording label Cached Media has been active for only a short amount of time but has been a lovely home for pruveyors of gentle ideas and whispery sounds. Their newest offering is a collaborative record from Brin, Dntel, and More Eaze, each of whom have a very distinct style ranging from synthetic pop orchestration, driving computers with drums to summon extraterrestrial textures, and the frail beauty of "emo ambient".

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New Single from DV-i "perpetual"

DV-i is a quote "...a hypermedia girl that composes music and makes various visuals" and this is a severe understatement. She shreds so hard on every medium its always filled me with a small inkling of fear but mostly awe. Her work draws heavily from Y2k era fashion, Mecha, and archival Roland Sound Canvas timbres and is always a delightfully maximalist feast.

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Never Before Heard Sounds teases "Audio style-transfer in a box"

Audio style-transfer is an exciting new form of audio generation that takes the nuances from a digitized instrument signal (which it was likely trained to understand with a neural network) and then with an additional neural network will replace the old audio signal with a new sound.

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Interview with Dustin Wong

Dustin Wong is a stalwart of the experimental music scene with his psychedelic and flowery approach to textures, rhythms, and melody. The primary narrator of Dustin's music has often been guitar but lately his voice and guitar have seemed to share more space together.

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Interview with JJMF

New York, New York jazz musician and instrument designer Joseph Allan Johnson is actualizing independence in 2021. Their unique music utilizes custom designed audio instrumentation and woodwind instruments, and will easily be both appreciated by serious jazz musicians and computer instrument enthusiasts.

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Interview with Kristen Roos

With his ornate multi-media weaving, Kristen Roos is an artist with a holistic perspective that draws from textiles, early computer art software, and digital pattern generation. His newest record, Universal Synthesizer Interface, utilizes a MIST FPGA computer to run Atari ST software the legendary Laurie Spiegel sent him.

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