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beatin the skins

Great marketing by Zildjian, a true reflection of the “community of users” ideal. Use of social media whereby Facebook has become their principal portal and given exposure to artists past and present. … …Happy 100th Birthday to Zildjian Artist, Viola … Continue reading

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stop all that jazz

… It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.A fantastical rigidity and outright antagonism to Jazz and its corresponding swing variant in the Nazi era. The critique tended to flatten out the contradictions of this musical form … Continue reading

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filling in the pauses: the aural gaze

Creating a new genre of music. Improvisation, “making shit up” when you articulate the pauses and these gaps, these silent but charged spaces become the content and assume the central position in the compositional structure….. Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) : … Continue reading

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