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dedicated to instrumental and experimental music. info at acloserlisten dot com // Sound Propositions podcast

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iheartnoise.bsky.social
Crazy to think Tower Records had a Frank Gehry designed five-story building in Boston at one point 😱

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Tower Records Building // 1918 & 1986
New England is home to just three projects by world-renowned (and sometimes maligned) architect Frank Gehry. To me, architecture is best when it makes you stop, look, critique, and comment on it. A…
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October 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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"When he glanced at the tape, he saw the iron oxide flaking off, that he was catalyzing the very process he hoped to pre-empt. He let it happen for nearly an hour, then repeated the process with five more loops."

How ‘The Disintegration Loops’ Saved William Basinski’s Life (gift link):
How ‘The Disintegration Loops’ Saved William Basinski’s Life
The composer’s ambient masterwork, created from disintegrating magnetic tape, became synonymous with 9/11. When he made it, his own life was falling apart.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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campradio.bsky.social
Listen again: a closer listen / 23rd November 2025

Playing tracks by Copenhagen Clarinet Choir & Anders Lauge Meldgaard, Tortoise, Jilk, Late Aster, Demsky and more.

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November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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campradio.bsky.social
6-7pm: A Closer Listen

The best new instrumental & experimental sounds. Joseph from @acloserlisten.bsky.social mixes the latest new releases, showcasing records reviewed on the blog + some special treats.

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#Experimental #Ambient #SoundScapes #Electronic #Drone

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November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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campradio.bsky.social
Sunday!
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10-11am: Modern Jetset
@irisberkeley.bsky.social

11am-1pm Radio van Horen Zeggen

4-5pm: Modern Jazz from around Europe
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6-7pm: A Closer Listen
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Show notes: www.facebook.com/CampFRRadio/

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November 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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peretsky.bsky.social
I am a one man music school. It is exhausting but I am good at it. Your participation and support are what makes it happen. You can still sign up for the Field Recording Field Trip and listen to today’s lecture to catch up.
November 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
acloserlisten.bsky.social
First listen to the new De La, album intro with Giancarlo Esposito is more poignant than I expected. “Is there a Dave here? Dave…?” 😢
November 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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machinefabriek.bsky.social
"Zuydervelt and Gregov’s original score for FLUX is as unpredictable as that first circus, rolling into a wagon town, restoring a sense of wonder to dancer and audience alike."

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Rutger Zuydervelt and Lucija Gregov ~ FLUX (music for a performance by still still / Marta & Kim)
Rutger Zuydervelt has been extremely active this season, releasing a series of solo and collaborative works across multiple genres.  FLUX sees the artist returning to the fruitful collaboration wit…
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November 22, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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theradr.bsky.social
hey guys i made a seasonal meme
Meme: Straight ahead: Pausing to consider the meaning of Cohen's lyrics Everyone, for some reason, takes the exit towards Singing "Hallelujah" again in religious contexts
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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quietdetails.bsky.social
Read on for my chat with Dennis and loads of shout-outs @moonbuilding.bsky.social @acloserlisten.bsky.social @electronicsound.bsky.social @scannerdot.com @fieldswefound.bsky.social and more

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Much love and have a good weekend

Alex

#36 #quietdetails #music
36 Q&A today - background and in the studio
Last day of half-price
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November 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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ianboddy.bsky.social
A cool review of 'Hydrology' (DiN94), the new album by @loulayorke.bsky.social (Loula Yorke) over at @acloserlisten.bsky.social.
"Loula Yorke’s Hydrology is an effortlessly flowing universe of modular synthesis".
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Loula Yorke ~ Hydrology
Loula Yorke’s Hydrology is an effortlessly flowing universe of modular synthesis. Deeply rooted in the essence of water as a starting point, the six pieces on the album explore fluidity in differen…
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November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Upcoming Drag City Interviews @wfmu.bsky.social

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Sat. Nov 29th: Hillbilly Ragas: Sir Richard Bishop Interview Sat. Dec 13th: Ghosted: Oren Ambarchi Interview (More info...) Sat. Dec 27th: Let the Spirit Out: Kahil El’Zabar Interview Sat. Jan 10th: Tucson Tour Report: Bitchin Bajas Interview Sat. Jan 24th: Öppet Archives: Swedish Free Jazz Round Table
November 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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A CLOSER LISTEN weekly #95
A regular edition full of reviews, recommendations, and upcoming releases
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November 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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peretsky.bsky.social
goddamnit
November 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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burningambulance.bsky.social
John Zorn made his own Agharta with the Electric Masada double live CD At The Mountains Of Madness. It turns 20 this month, and is the subject of today's newsletter.
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John Zorn's Electric Masada
At The Mountains Of Madness Turns 20
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November 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
What a legacy. It’s positively thrilling – particularly in comparison with the spinelessness and conservative functionalism of higher ed today
Cage’s “Experimental Composition” and Other New School Curricular Treasures
Words in Space is the work of Shannon Mattern.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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room40.bsky.social
Mamoru Oshii’s rendering of Ghost In The Shell is 30 today. This is a film that has lived inside me, and its themes are something I have visited, and revisited, through various periods of my work. I had the pleasure to interview the film’s composer Kenji Kawai.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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drewdaniel.bsky.social
Do you want to hear me talk for a bit about the forthcoming Soft Pink Truth album from our basement studio? Your wish is granted! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmJW...
The Soft Pink Truth on "Mere Survival Is Not Enough"
YouTube video by Thrill Jockey Records
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November 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
acloserlisten.bsky.social
Those SYR introduced me to so many important artists back in the day
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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marksmusic1977.bsky.social
#Muslimgauze
Muslimgauze: Chasing the Shadow of Bryn Jones | Short Documentary
YouTube video by Cultures of Resistance Films
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November 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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please be for real right now.
Urinals in a bathroom. They are tubas.
November 17, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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passionweiss.bsky.social
The Best 100 Rap Albums List: Recast as Rock Albums.

@sonraw.bsky.social runs through Pitchfork's recent rewiring of the rap canon and re-imagines it by applying the same list-making decisions to rock albums.

8,000 words of inside baseball brilliance.

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The 100 Best Rap Albums Of All-Time List – As Rock Albums | Passion of the Weiss
"They'd never have the balls to do this to rock music." Son Raw dissects and inverts the new canon.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
acloserlisten.bsky.social
Professor Skye is so corny. I really dislike the shift to video “criticism.” I know the kids want video but they also want sugar. They don’t know what’s good for them.
November 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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alexleonard.bsky.social
Delighted to see the great review of the new #Errorgrid compilation .XOR on the ever excellent @acloserlisten.bsky.social

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#music #industrial #idm #electronic
Errorgrid ~ .XOR
The future of instrumental industrial music continues to be safe in the hands of the Errorgrid imprint.  .XOR unites five artists for a compilation that investigates what it means to hold on to one…
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November 15, 2025 at 9:51 AM