Amber Sketches: music themes by Elena Stepanova (Helga’s Ephemeris, Etherstrings), written for Roger Zelazny’s Nine Princes in Amber and other novels (“The Chronicles Of Amber”). This is a project in progress. You can listen to
Amber Sketches
When The Full Moon Shines on T.E.M.S. CD compilation
Tunguska Electronic Music Society has just released a compilation titled Chernobyl Retrospective, which includes Elena Stepanova’s track, When The Full Moon Shines. Elena’s comments about the creation of the track: When The Full Moon Shines fits
[✍] Oblique Strategies
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Oblique Strategies is a set of cards created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt in 1975 to help solving creative problems. The deck offers “over one hundred worthwhile dilemmas”. Each card in a deck
[✍] Meditating in South Kensington (London 2007) [LJ blog]
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Meditating in South Kensington is indeed easy. It takes just a Guinness and some psychedelic tapestry in the room. This Queen’s Gate hotel where I live is not bad, really. Actually, it is quite good.
[✍] Theremin, ’20s: time of dreamers [2]
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Following up upon my article, “Theremin, ’20s: time of dreamers [1]”, here is a fragment from the RCA brochure, “The Victor Theremin” (published about 1930). An absolutely new unique musical instrument anyone can play. Not a radio. Not
[✍] Theremin, ’20s: time of dreamers [1]
While I am waiting for Moog Etherwave to arrive from the US, and I have time to relax after a recent concert at the Crocus Expo, I want to write a little bit about