Category Archives: Harmonitronica

New pieces and notes about my harmonitronica work — electronica and ambient pieces created almost entirely with the harmonica.

Discreet Music, Continued: Ignorable Versus Boring

Posted on October 23, 2010 by ken

An email correspondent asked what I meant in my previous post when I said that Discreet Music is not boring, since it’s not something you could really listen to all the way through. Perhaps a better word would have been … Continue reading →

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Complex Simplicity and Discreet Harmonica

Posted on October 17, 2010 by ken

Benoît Mandelbrot died on Thursday. I hadn’t realized the founder of chaos theory, the man who coined the word “fractal” to describe a concept he had discovered, was still alive. Fractals haven’t even been around for 30 years? But yes, … Continue reading →

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Old-Time and Open-Source

Posted on August 28, 2010 by ken

The other night at a bluegrass jam in Red Hook, a couple of hipsters came in and started singing some old-time songs. They played loud and fast and not terribly well, and didn’t leave much room for others. They played … Continue reading →

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February Harmonitronica

Posted on February 2, 2010 by ken

Introducing … harmonitronica. As some of you may remember, I was experimenting with some electronica approaches last year, and I’ll be going much farther in that direction this year. I started writing this song and programming the drum loop last … Continue reading →

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