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Category: Issue 6

An Account of the Punk Experiment in L.A. 1976-1984

This is a brief, secondhand summary of punk and hardcore punk as both developed in Los Angeles. It is the … More

Communication

The Disconcerting State of the Concert

On an anonymous day in the mid ‘90s, Antoine Roundtree (known as Skee-Lo in the Los Angeles freestyling scene) strode … More

Composing with Words: Form, Performance, and Meaning

  A composer suggests what to do and how to do it. Sometimes the suggestions are very specific, and sometimes … More

Mixtape: Sepand Shahab’s “Sounds over the Internet”

A long time ago in Italy, people wrote music for pipe organ in combination with other instruments. At the time, … More

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