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Dna: DNA on DNA
by Clifford Allen
There are certain strong alliances between the punk ethos and free music, for a do-it-yourself aesthetic pervades both, in medium as well as practice--self-produced albums and concerts, and collectivity (the Arkestra house as a punk house?) for example, as well as the fact that both have been strongly aligned with protest, both in America and in Europe. Among a coterie of musicians in New York in the early '80s, the merger of ethic and aesthetic fueled a small group of ...
Continue ReadingMajor Breakthrough: Music's 'DNA' Decoded
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All About Jazz
Peter Neubcker, the German music software engineer responsible for the popular pitch correction Melodyne, has created a program called Direct Note Access (DNA) that can dissect a chord into individual notes so that the chord can be re-formed into something new.
For music producers who use computers -- which is just about all of them -- this constitutes a major game changer whose implications for the future of music are deep and widespread. For example, Direct Note Access will make ...
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Jamaaladeen Tacuma's DNA Galleria Featuring James Blood Ulmer
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All About Jazz
Jazz is the teacher, Funk is the preacher
Few principles in jazz have remained as willfully esoteric as harmolodic theory, the concept introduced by Ornette Coleman's Prime Time in the 1970s. All these years later, the precepts still cause scattered confusion among music theorists. Thankfully we have Jamaaladeen Tacuma, electric bassist and unfailingly soulful free-funk prophet; and James “Blood" Ulmer, guitarist, blues wailer and harmolodic sage. The former was essentially the backbone of Prime Time, and has authored a handful ...
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