{"id":7976,"date":"2012-12-26T10:09:30","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T17:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/?p=7976"},"modified":"2013-01-12T18:37:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T01:37:21","slug":"2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/26\/2012\/","title":{"rendered":"2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

2012 was a good year for me. I was very productive creatively.
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\nIt was also a good year for netlabel music, I found a ton of good stuff to listen to. For the last several years, I’ve done a write-up of some of my favorite netlabel things released during the previous twelve months. I’m doing it again this year with this blog post, but before moving on to my end of year recommendations, I would like to call attention to the work I was personally involved in during 2012.
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\nTwo of my albums came out this year:
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\n“Buddha Reduction<\/a>” on Vuzh Music
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\n“One of the Drone Boys<\/a>” on Linear Obsessional.
\nBoth are free downloads with CC licenses allowing for non-commercial derivative work.<\/p>\n

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\nInarguably the biggest thing I did this year was curate and open an exhibition of sound art, which was visited by hundreds of people in Fort Collins, Colorado, made possible through the financial support of Front Range Community College and guided by my Museum and Gallery Studies instructor Jennie Kiessling. It was titled Sound Through Barriers<\/a>, and included performances by Jeph Jerman and Cheryl Leonard. The exhibition & performances are extensively documented at the website<\/a> with TONS of photos and TONS of sound recordings and a big curatorial statement<\/a> that distills some of my thoughts about listening. Hope you’ll read it if you haven’t.<\/p>\n

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\nI also started performing live, after having been an exclusively a composer of recorded music prior. Here’s a video of one performance:
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