Read all about it here: 
https://www.frantisek-hruska.com/since-there-is-ony-one-of-you

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The building pieces of the composition are the two existing whole-tone scales. I chose these two scales so that each tone of the western 12-tone system is represented exactly once. 
The other reason is given by the fact that it’s written for pipe organ. Pipe organs most often have the pipes arranged around an axis symmetry, alternating around the axis in the middle. The result of this is e.g., we have C1 on the very left and C#1 on the very right. As the piece begins with both the full-tone scales being played in sequence, it should result in a clear stereo image. Upon which the spatialization gets progressively more chaotic only to arrive back to the original scales (but transposed one octave higher) exactly 24 bars later.
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Since There's Only One Of You (A Tom Johnson Homage)

MFOM 746 Spot 1: Intimacy and Meditation

MFOM Program 746: Intimacy and Meditation

Feeling like 3 hours of American gamelan? I got you covered.

In the last few months, I had an immersion into the 'genre'. A story of how deeply personal obsession of Canadian composer Colin McPhee (and later his American counterpart Lou Harrison) resulted in the unlikely transplant of traditional Indonesian music culture into the ivied towers of American academia. A story somewhat related, but very different from musicological cliché about Exposition Universelle 1889, French musical impressionists and tiresome litanies about cultural colonialism.

While I was going through the written history, I also started to amass the recordings. In stark contrast to the abundance of bibliography - McPhee alone wrote three books - I was surprised to find that audio renderings are few and far between. Most of it out-of-print or released by tiny avant classical or uni-adjacent imprints. It took a while to source and process it. Most of what I encountered is gorgeous. Depressingly, obscure to anyone but people purposely researching the subject. Midway through this process I realized I should systematize the findings into a sort of digestible genre survey. I find it's a good way to remember things. And since not many people in their right mind would undertake similar deep-dive I decided to share it. The 'programme' is a lengthy one due to the nature of the material. So, I split it in 2 parts.

The timespan is from the 1930s (McPhee's brilliant proto-Reichian orchestral stylisation Tabuh-tabuhan) via postwar music by Harrison and minimalist gamelan by the 1970s downtown cohort (Barbara Benary, Philip Corner) + their West Coast counterparts (Daniel Schmidt, Daniel Lentz). With healthy dose of recent'ish pieces by Brian Baumbusch, Bill Alves and Michael Tenzer. I also included some sonorically sympathetic works by Partch and Cage which influenced all the above. There're also odder bits by Robert Turman, John L.Adams, Maggi Payne and R. Murray Schafer to keep things quirky. Now I don't know who would be interested in 3 hours of gamelan, but it's up there for the taking.

Full tracklist here:
https://snowsovgethen.com/journal/snows-ov-gethen-hermetic-journals-american-gamelan-part-i-ii

Hermetic Journals: American Gamelan Part II

Hermetic Journals: American Gamelan Part I

Episode 340 of The VentureFizz Podcast features Steph Johnson, Co-Founder & CEO at Multiplayer.

Steph is an inspiration. As discussed in this interview, her background might not be the prototypical tech CEO profile for a few reasons. First, she came up through the agency world and then ran comms in-house for major tech companies like DigitalOcean and MongoDB. Second, she is a female founder of a dev tools platform startup and yes, we need more female founders. And third, she has a neurological condition called Tourette Syndrome. All of these factors have ultimately given her unique skills to thrive in her current role.

Multiplayer is a visual collaborative platform that makes it easy for engineering teams to design, develop, and manage distributed software.  The company is venture backed and on a mission to create better ways for developers to work.

In this episode of our podcast, we cover:

* Steph’s background story and how she got her career started with agencies in NYC.
* Her decision to move in-house to run comms at DigitalOcean and MongoDB, plus what she learned at each company like the importance of a developer community.
* Advice for making the shift from agency to in-house roles.
* Founding Multiplayer with Tom Johnson, her Co-Founder, CTO, and husband… and why being married was a strategic advantage when they raised capital.
* The details on the Mutliplayer platform and its beta release.
* Advice on the storytelling element for a company building technical products.
* And so much more.

Episode 340: Steph Johnson - Co-Founder & CEO, Multiplayer

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