I’ve always had a soft spot for Youth Radio on NPR, but What’s is the new What? has taken that affection to a whole new level. The story Dissonance is the new Harmony prompted me to set a bookmark that day and commit to blog it when I had the chance. Now I have the chance…
November 1, 2008
Why Dissonance is the new Harmony (a lesson in Authenticity)
August 30, 2008
NIN’s Alessandro Cortini On The Buchla 200e
Buchla 200e
In late 2005 I configured and ordered a Buchla 200e analog synthesizer, and after it was hand made by Don and Ezra Buchla, it was delivered in 2006. It is the most confounding hybrid of organic and electronic logic I have ever encountered. I spent a few months writing the Wikipedia entry for it, just so I could have a user manual. And in the process I created a novel way to achieve portamento using analog components to control the MIDI module. But I’m not an expert…Alessandro is. (more…)
