
a bi-weekly round up of writing on experimental music
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Dear Listeners, Joseph here with another regular edition of the ACL newsletter.
If you didn’t catch my piece last week on Montreal Tape Run, check it out. In the next couple days I’ve got an essay on producer albums coming soon, inspired...
“There are black silences, like thunderclouds, that burst into flashes of music,” H. G. Wells writes in Select Conversations with an Uncle. The phrase finds an almost literal...
Out of the Box is a monthly series focusing on physical media. It’s an excuse to engage with my collection in a new way, as well as to write about older releases and genres we don’t often cover at ACL.
Various Arti...
Dear Listeners, Joseph here with another regular edition of the ACL newsletter.
My Montreal trip went well, and I’ll have more to say about the Eclectic Guitar Fest gigs I caught. As always, good to see old friends and make new ones while...
Dear Readers, Joseph here. I’m back in Montreal (see previous weekly) and while I was hoping to get Out of the Box #31 published this week, traveling and preparing for my talk today and my performance on Tuesday (plus a couple interviews I’...
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dedicated to instrumental and experimental music. [email protected] www.acloserlisten.com
co-founder of A Closer Listen, producer of the Sound Propositions podcast, musical compositions and sound art projects have been published by international labels, broadcast on radio, and presented in festivals, galleries, and museums
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