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Meditative Anxiety is a strange marriage of music, static, and colors
Playing it by Ear in Meditative Anxiety
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Drake’s awkward "Hotline Bling" dancing is the ultimate in uncool as cool
Those goofy Hotline Bling moves show that “nerd culture” is now pop culture Drake, memes, and the art of being uncool
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What’s going on over at The Chinese Room?
A lot is going on at The Chinese Room at the moment. Perhaps not as much as before Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture was released, or necessarily more than any other studio out there, but what is going on is being documented in surprisingly personal and honest blogs. This is going to start off grim an
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Steve Reich is being phased onto the Game Boy
Steve Reich composes music for humans, and good music at that. You could, however, be forgiven for thinking that there is something mechanical to his work. Phasing, the technique most commonly associated with Reich, involves the same sequence being played at gradually—and slightly—divergent speeds.
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Videogames are helping to keep the symphony orchestra afloat
But they’re still considered to be the ugly stepsister.
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Need more Panoramical? Check out this ethereal interactive journey
With new album Yume, ambient electronica musician Helios seems to recall the beauty of lazing underneath a sun-crested sky. The music soothes by letting high notes drift out to a gold horizon. It seems to lift off from the soft fringes of grass and get carried out on a hot puff of wind. More precise
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The fell kings of the cul-de-sac return on Deafheaven’s New Bermuda
The suburbs suck: from Rush to Arcade Fire to Deafheaven.
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Meet the net artist behind Danny Brown’s chaotic, videogame-like visuals
“Sleepless nights and chaotic visual decisions.”
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Disclosure and the problem of internet-sourced ’90s nostalgia
The faceless faces behind ‘90s nostalgia.
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Go beyond the music visualizer in today’s Playlist pick
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Panoramical (PC, Mac) BY FERNANDO RAMALLO & DAVID KANAGA Forget the “music visualizer” that has been spinning webs of geometry on your PC since the ’90s. Panoramical finally makes it as outda
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Behind the Sega-core racing tunes of Horizon Chase
These screaming synthesizers are more revival than retro.
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Panoramical turns sound to magical color and back again
Making music, making motion, making magic.