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Instagr/am/bient 25 Sonic Postcards
An Introduction to Instagr/am/bient: Photos shared with the popular software Instagram are usually square in format, not unlike the cover to a record album. The format leads inevitably to a question:...
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Headphone Commute’s Kranky Label Special
Headphone Commutes Kranky Label Special: In this label special we’re featuring a Chicago-based Kranky, known for its output by Pan•American, Loscil, Brian McBride, Benoît Pioulard, Christopher...
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Etherreal.com Review En Francais
EtherREAL: Lors de sa tournée en septembre dernier sous le nom de Library Tapes, David Wenngren avait proposé des morceaux proches, nous disait-il alors, de son futur album en commun avec Christopher...
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The Meridians Review From The Silent Ballet
One could be forgiven for thinking that David Wenngren, of Library Tapes, and Canadian sound artist Christopher Bissonnette, would make a dream collaboration. Their first release together, The...
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Le Mal Du Siècle / Relay
Relay is an online music project devised and curated by Irish musician John Lambert aka Chequerboard. The aim in the project is to create an unbroken chain of sound pieces where each work is created in...
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Ambient music community finds inspiration in Instagram and ice cubes
By Jeff Blagdon For communities of creative individuals, working under shared constraints can result in some incredible work, showing off what artists can put together with a limited set of tools. A...
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Workspace and Environment on Trash Audio
I was asked not long ago for an interview with TrashAudio.com. I was flattered but also slightly hesitant. I don’t usually disclose how I work or where for that matter, choosing to keep some of that...
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Vibrating On Two Notes
I was recently asked to produce a mix to accompany the latest issue of Carousel Magazine. The following is from the magazine’s site: As an accompaniment to our Summer 2012 issue, we’ve invited Kranky...
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Year End Part I
I realized recently that I hadn’t posted on my own site in near to six months. I’ve been in hiding attempting to finish some new material that I have been working on the better part of two years....
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Year End Part II: The Best of 2012
I have some misgivings about publishing year end lists. But I do find that I gather great suggestions from other peoples lists. There is simply too much great music being made and never enough time to...
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Kranky Celebrates 20 Years with Anniversary Shows
From December 12 to 15, Kranky will celebrate twenty years in the business with shows at various Chicago venues. Highlights include ambient duo Stars of the Lid backed by the Wordless Music Orchestra...
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I will be performing in LA on November 6th along with Tim Hecker and Akira Rebelais and in Seattle on November 8th for immersound. immersound is a concert event/philosophy initiated by France Jobin...
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Kranky’s 20 Uncompromising Years
Label cofounder Joel Leoschke describes the label’s five most tragically overlooked Chicago releases. Chicago Reader
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Consequence of Sound Show Review: Kranky Twenty
“Canadian electronic musician Christopher Bissonnette followed, perched at one corner of the stage behind two laptops, a tablet, and a large mixer, letting an enormous projection screen dominate the...
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‘Essays in Idleness’– April 7, 2014
‘Essays in Idleness’, my third full length solo release, will be available April 7 on Kranky. By Gregory Adams Six years on from ambient electronic artist Christopher Bissonnette’s last...
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By Volume Review
Essays In Idleness is a translation of Tsurezuregusa, a collection of medieval Japanese essays, penned as streams of consciousness by the monk Yoshida Kenkō. Its casual, thematically miscellaneous...
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The Quietus Review
The continual crossover between the wings of academically trained electronic experimentalism and what can generally still be called “indie music” – at least in the sense of independent labels, if not...
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Futuresequence Review
The work of Christopher Bissonnette is, even to those who do not find his particular brand of contemplatively-minded electroacoustic work riveting, a worthy flag to hoist in the argument for the...
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Fluid-Radio Review
Essays In Idleness, the third album from Canadian composer Christopher Bissonnette, is a refreshing change from the international school of ambient music and its widely held belief that the sweet...
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