Tag Archives: Technology

Recreating my musical self with the aid of (community) gravity and other invisible forces

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 16 March, 2011

I have had a somewhat unsettled relationship with making music for a long time. It has always been a passionate one, but it has often been difficult to the point of not being an active musician for many years at a time. I always seem to return though and I’m going through that process again now. Perhaps because I’m a bit older […]

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Hemmed in by signposts: Metaphors limit the scope of social media innovation

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 24 August, 2010

Metaphors are a crucial part of how we relate to the digital world. They are crucial in one sense as the low-level languages that computers use are incomprehensible to humans. All our spangly, shiny Powerpoint presentations and music libraries are streams of hexidecimal or binary digits to our processors and disk drives. Unless you’re very special […]

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The perils of modern music making, part 2: Blinded by the light

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 9 August, 2010

Music is a sonic medium. As obvious as this is it can be easy to forget when faced with the rich visual environment of modern music creation software. This is, mostly, a good thing but as a card-carrying grumbler I feel compelled to spin a cautionary tale of this land of milk and honey. Don’t let your eyes rule your ears. […]

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