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Learning Music Monthly is an album-a-month project. Each season of LMM lasts for twelve months and includes twelve issues. Every album features artwork by a different visual artist, and is released under a Creative Commons license.

This is a compilation of songs from the second half of season two (LMM 2.7 - LMM 2.12).

Ovulation

from LMM 3.2 - Neapolitan Shake

this album is a collection of 3 Learning Music EPs ... "Little Conversation" comes from the "Ghost Transference EP"

Little Conversation

This edition of LMM is a collaboration between myself and a group of middle school music students, many of whom started playing music only recently, under the direction of their instructor Jason Golday (author of LMM 1.8 - Burning Music). The process was a fairly simple one: Over the last academic year, the students have been writing pieces of music together, using what pitches they know (between five and seven different ones) on the available instruments (drums, glockenspiels, and recorders). Jason recorded these pieces and sent them to me. I manipulated them in various ways, adding voice and a few other sounds, paying close attention to the environmental elements of the recordings I had been given. In some cases, the sound of the space in which these pieces were initially performed is almost as important as the actual musical notes.

It was Jason's idea to attempt this. I have to give him a big thanks for suggesting it. He heard early on the mesmerizing compositions his students were writing, and knew they were worth doing something more with. Once I started working on it, I too realized how strong and unique their musical concepts were. Really, the album was done before I ever got to it. I'm really happy with how it all turned out.

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du Look

a medley from LMM 2.6 - "Appendix to Frequency Histograms for Predictor Variables" .....
    
    "Ninety nine 20-second tracks, meant to be played in random order, composed only of sounds made by the human body and manipulated samples of objects I found in the kitchen." - john wood

Appendix to "Frequency Histograms for Predictor Variables"

From Ra Ra Riot's upcoming full-length "Beta Love" out January 22, 2013 on Barsuk Records (USA / Europe), Hostess (Japan) and Arts & Crafts (Canada).

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Ra Ra Riot "When I Dream" (Single)

"Down Under, Mining", from new Dear Reader album 'Rivonia', out 8 April 2013.

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DEAR READER - Summer Tour 2013

08.05 Hannover DE - Musikzentrum
09.05  Magdeburg DE - Moritzhof
10.05  Dresden DE - Scheune
11.05 Linz AT -  Posthof
13.05 Stuttgart, Schocken
14.05 Zürich CH - Rote Fabrik
15.05 Basel CH - Kuppel
16.05 München DE - Atomic Café
21.05 Freiburg DE - Schmitz Katze
22.05 Belfort FR - La Poudriere
23.05 Paris FR - Le Nouveau Casino
24.05 Köln DE - Gebäude 9
26.05 Münster DE - Gleis 22
27.05 Hamburg, Uebel & Gefährlich
28.05 Berlin, Lido
13.07. Rüsselsheim, Phono Pop Festival
02.08 Jena, Kulturarena
22.11 Luxemburg - Sonic Visions Festival

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Dear Reader - Down Under, Mining

Learning Music Monthly is an album-a-month project. Each season of LMM lasts for twelve months and includes twelve issues. Every album features artwork by a different visual artist, and is released under a Creative Commons license.

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Ovulation

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