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Courtney Hartman Announces New Album, Shares 2 Singles

2017 Alumna Courtney Anne Hartman announced her debut solo album, Ready Reckoner, and released two singles, ‘January First’ and ‘Hollow’. The album, which was engineered by OneBeat collaborator Shahzad Ismaily, is out June 14th. Regarding first single ‘January First’, Hartman told Rolling Stone, “I wrote [it] from my floor on New Years Day 2017, needing to throw off the expectations I piled upon myself, the small disappointments and the never being enough. The song became my soft resolution to be unapologetic for who I am and how I move through the world — even when I fall asleep with the light switch on or eat out too much or don’t know how to love someone.” Listen to ‘January First’ and ‘Ready Reckoner’ below!
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Jay Afrisando Presents ‘Gendhing Cosmic’ at The 2019 Linux Audio Conference

2015 Fellow Jay Afrisando presented his new sound installation, ‘Gendhing Cosmic’, at the 2019 Linux Audio Conference at Stanford University. The work, which was played through 56 speakers and 8 subwoofers, was electronically generated using SuperCollider, the open platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. ‘Gendhing Cosmic’ reimagines how pakem- the principal guidelines derived and practiced in Javanese gamelan musical tradition- are ripped from traditional instruments, thereby scattering their original identity and creating a new one. The piece was originally exhibited at the 2018 Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival and the 2018 West Bank Arts Quarter Festival in Minneapolis.   Watch a video of the installation below.  
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Piotr Kurek Releases Polygome

Warsaw based minimalist electronic musician and 2012 OneBeat Alumnus Piotr Kurek released a new album called Polygome last week. This is Piotr’s first release on the French/British electronic record label Hands In The Dark. Tiny Mix Tapes, who reviewed the album, wrote about the evocative power of Piotr’s latest work: “Even after repeated acclimations, the stark simplicity of Polygome can suddenly alienate you. It can veer into this dissociative static, along the lines of a synthetic performing human error, while the human doggedly hammers out machine-precise action. This impressively subtle disruption, particularly with such spare parts, gives the album a curious, oblong charm.” Read Tiny Mix Tape’s full review of Polygome HERE. Stream Piotr’s phenomenal new album below: