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A curated, gender-balanced project involving more than forty DJ-producers and composers from both Texas and Mexico, MXTX’s multifaceted and dynamic creative output includes live performances, an open-source audio sample library, and the highly anticipated studio album MXTX: A Cross-Border Exchange.
Fracture Sounds elevate the humble cardboard box to versatile percussion instrument.
Sonokinetic’s Orchestral Strings is as playable as it is high quality.
Kate's conversation with Vlad As the founder of Strix Instruments, Vlad was recording samples in the Exclusion Zone for an audio project when he discovered one of Pripyat's many pianos. He says the sound from hitting the keys made him realize they would never be heard again. Over the 100 visits to Pripyat, he and his team recorded 20 different pianos in various conditions. Many were missing their lower strings, which had been stolen for the metal, but they still had functioning sustain pedals. Vlad overlaid the samples he recorded to create a single unique voice. Vlad and the team also record...
GRAND FORKS -- A few hoursâ drive from the Bakken oil fields lies a treasure trove for geologists: rock from nearly every oil well ever drilled in North Dakota, under one roof. The rock is tucked neatly into cardboard boxes stacked on numerous warehouse storage shelves in the Wilson M. Laird Core and Sample Library on the University of North Dakota campus in Grand Forks. âWeâve got about enough core to lay out from here to Fargo, 85 miles or so,â Director Jeff Bader said. The library is part of the North Dakota Geological Survey and houses two forms of rock: core and dr...