Articles by Bryon Hayes

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  Speaker Music

  Of Desire, Longing

  PUBLISHED Dec 4, 2019

  DeForrest Brown, Jr. transplanted himself from the deep South to New York City in the early 2010s, and has since garnered a reputation as a...

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  Robert Ashley

  Automatic Writing

  PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2019

  Having been around since 1978, the Lovely Music imprint is one of the longest-running sources for independent and adventurous avant-garde A...

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  New Chance

  Hardly Working

  PUBLISHED Nov 13, 2019

  Toronto producer and vocalist New Chance (aka Victoria Cheong) explores dance music's past, shuffling effortlessly among stylistic cues wit...

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  Lee Gamble

  Exhaust

  PUBLISHED Nov 12, 2019

  For the second instalment in Lee Gamble's Flush Real Pharynx series, the producer has eschewed the serpentine meanderings of the opening ch...

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  Nils Frahm

  All Encores

  PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2019

  The idea for All Encores was born before German musician and composer Nils Frahm created the masterpiece All Melody, which arrived in early...

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  Emptyset

  Blossoms

  PUBLISHED Oct 9, 2019

  The cases for artificial intelligence and machine learning continue to flourish and spiral outward, growing in number minute by minute. Med...

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  Minor Pieces

  The Heavy Steps of Dreaming

  PUBLISHED Oct 8, 2019

  Since 2014's A Turn of Breath first dazzled experimental music aficionados with its lush vocal loops, Vancouver-based singer-composer Ian W...

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  Machine Listener

  Colubrid

  PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2019

  Arts-inclined visitors to Cleveland who seek to skip the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame should pay a visit to Research & Development, the studi...