Tag Archives: music

SXSW 2011

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Arthur

This year I decided to listen to all the SXSW 2011 showcase tracks: all 1154 of them. The torrents are available from the Unofficial SXSW torrents website, a whopping total of 6.5 Gb. The point of this exercise? I consider … Continue reading →

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Them links

Posted on April 19, 2008 by Arthur

Via Suzanne Vega’s site, I found out that she nowadays (also) blogs for the New York Time’s ‘Measure for Measure’ periodical. There are other musicians writing for that very same blog: the only (other) familiar author is Roseanne Cash. You’re … Continue reading →

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VirtuAmp

Posted on February 9, 2008 by Arthur

A couple of months ago, I found VirtuAmp, a (real-time) virtual guitar amplifier that comes with a range of virtual pedals, including a tremolo, flanger and compressor. It works actually pretty good too and it’s easy to setup: your (desktop) … Continue reading →

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Bird’s eye view

Posted on December 28, 2007 by Arthur

You may have heard about the death of Benazir Bhutto, who was prime-minister of Pakistan in the Eighties and Nineties. The shocking thing I thought was the fact that this was the second assassination attempt after she returned from exile. … Continue reading →

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Strings and Skies

Posted on November 25, 2007 by Arthur

There’s an old Dutch Polish Swedish British Belgian Luxemburg Czech Hungarian San Marino 18th century saying which explains the correlation between full moon and cold weather: “Clear Skies, Invalid Memory Writes”. OK. Skip the European geography introduction in the first … Continue reading →

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