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SAN FRANCISCO 07
SAN FRANCISCO 08
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The
underground is in the living room
Call it what you like: experimental post-ambient, electro-acoustic,
or electronic art-pop, the music that is currently being
created by the living-room instrumentalist is anything
but noisy, cold or inaccessible. Electronic music has
grown up and gone through many rebirths in the past sixty
years. It has long moved beyond the singularly conceptual
and theoretical and has now merged with the human psyche
to bring forth a heartfelt, evocative, and highly emotional
art-form. Composing songs and albums often with only
a laptop, a suite of innovative software, and an eclectic
mix of instruments, a new genre has emerged from these
unconventional studios around the world. Gusting out
of the underground and the living room, it serves as
a soundtrack to our modern lives.
The artists presented at IXMAE are
a selection of composers that demonstrate the (mostly)
calm, (sometimes) optimistic, and (always) wondrous
aspects of this new form of experimental music. |
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