I recently watched a horror film that I’d heard about after it set the internet ablaze. As with any horror that generates a considerable internet buzz, headlines and bylines were calling it “the scariest movie ever made” (cannot tell you how many times I’ve heard that). This movie kept people up at night for days…
Turned on to Modular Synthesis
The Sound + Vision Studio at LPL offers many audio/visual resources to use for FREE, but Joel's favorite is "Big Red"...our custom built modular synthesizer.
Music For Filling Spaces and Emptying Your Head
Originally referred to in its infancy as furniture music, background music, environmental music, or simply minimalist, ambient music is a genre of music that focuses entirely on the tone, emotion, texture, and feeling of sound rather than any specific theoretical or structured approach. Through its various incarnations over the years, composers and musicians have morphed…
Graphic Notation – An Indeterminate Approach to Music
Many of us think of music as notes on a staff - a stark, rigid representation of tones created on an instrument in a universal format of five lines, four spaces, and their octaves above and below. Through time, this traditional notation has been challenged, modified, and played with. In the Renaissance era, a concept…
Guitar Gods and Gear Mods
In the last few months, two notable musicians who inspired me to seriously pursue guitar playing as a craft in my teens passed away. Alexi Laiho of Children of Bodom was a virtuosic metal player who incorporated neoclassical aspects into his songwriting, fueled by his background as a violinist (which spoke to me deeply, being…
Dark Music for Dark Times and Otherwise Happy People
From Humble Beginnings Death metal has been one of my obsessions for the majority of my adult life. In 2007, middle school Joel found a video on a fledgling media worldwide website, Youtube. This video depicted a famous marching band scene from popular children’s cartoon Spongebob Squarepants. However, the audio had been replaced with a…
Taking It Outside
I'm no beefcake, but I appreciate the activity of lifting heavy objects repeatedly. A couple of years ago I decided to make some significant changes in my life to improve my mental and physical health, and getting back to the gym and lifting was a crucial part of that process. I developed the habit to…
Sound+Vision Spotlight: Thighmaster
The Sound+Vision studio at LPL sees projects that run the gamut. Full bands, singer songwriters, podcasts, oral histories, voice-overs, and plenty more have utilized the extensive audio and video recording capabilities of the studio. These projects also sit across the spectrum from hobbyists and enthusiasts to professionals. Whatever you want to work on, S+V can…
An Interview with Ricky Roosevelt and Raymond – Sound+Vision Sessions
Friday, September 27th marks the next installment of our local music showcase, the Sound+Vision Sessions. The series highlights local music talent in an all-ages environment from 7:00-9:00 p.m. This time around, we move down a slightly more experimental, hip hop and R&B path with Raymond and Ricky Roosevelt, two artists of the Vivid Zebra collective…
An Interview with CS Luxem and Hypermortal – Sound + Vision Sessions
Sound+Vision Sessions #3 is 7-9 p.m. on Friday, September 28 and features the local artists CS Luxem and Hypermortal. If you have an ear even remotely close to the ground of the local music community, it is likely you have heard the name CS Luxem. Christopher Luxem is a veteran of the local scene—a talented…
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