Thursday Mar 11

People

Written by Liz McLean Knight Friday, 31 December 2004 18:57
imageKate Simko
After reviewing Detalles’ “Shapes of Summer” for the previous issue, I chatted electronically with the Chicago half of the duo--Kate Simko-- and managed to catch her live performance at Danny’s on Memorial Day (September 1). After her set, which was executed on a Macintosh running Abelton Live, we talked briefly about her process as a musician. In opposition to the stereotypical image of a solo beat jockey hunched over computers and knobs engaged in a nonverbal discussion with the machine, Kate welcomes collaboration with other artists. “Shapes of Summer” was born from the musical rapport she established with Andres Bucci while studying in the Meditteranean climate of Chile. We followed up our discussion over email in the following days.

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Written by Liz McLean Knight Tuesday, 07 September 2004 00:00
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Cepia aka Huntley Miller is a Minneapolis-based musician who started out in a traditional band that combined downtempo, hip-hop, IDM, drum n' bass thing with 5 live musicians with releases on the Merck label before moving to Ghostly.

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Written by Liz McLean Knight Sunday, 07 September 2003 06:26
imageMr. Projectile

Matt Arnold prefers to call himself Mr. Projectile, smokes Kool cigarettes, only buys electronic music, and is slated to release a new album on Music Aus Strom and Merck in the near future.

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Written by Liz McLean Knight Sunday, 07 September 2003 06:26
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Some people know him as "Atropa," others as "that one guy in American Heritage," others call him Scott. The man behind the aliases chats with Modsquare about his musical endeavors.

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Written by Scott Shellhamer Sunday, 07 September 2003 06:26

The 8 Bit Construction Set and the Beige Programming Ensemble have completed such projects as a 12" containing software executable on Atari and Commodore computers, re-programmed Nintendo cartridges, collaborated with Bodenstandig 2000, and initiated the World Cassette Jockey Championship competition. Scott Shelhamer takes on the Beige boys in an email interview in which they disclose their favorite kernal routines, debates the importance of hardware and software, and discusses the degree to which their 8-Bit basslines made his booty shake.

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Written by Mark De Nardo Sunday, 07 September 2003 06:26

Bud Melvin sounds like a Doc Watson video game complete with power ups and end screen songs. In November, Bud rocked the house at the First Annual Game Boy Challenge with his 8-bit folk.

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Written by Boban Ristevski Sunday, 07 September 2003 06:26

Mark DeNardo is an unusual dude. He calls other dudes "cats" and plays acoustic guitar while singing, sometimes along with his Gameboy. I saw him play at a party for Select Magazine. I was like, "Who is this guy?"

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Written by Brien Rullman Sunday, 07 September 2003 06:26

Quantazelle explains her composition process, bringing in parallels to quantum theory, and discusses how software choices can affect the process.

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