Author: PamelaM
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Photo gallery of some favorite performers
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Read more: Photo gallery of some favorite performersI realized I had a treasure trove of unused pictures of concerts and musician friends. So now, after a bit more organizing, you can check out this photo gallery…
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Singing Machines Part 3
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Read more: Singing Machines Part 3Reminiscing… I was hiking the Monadnock-Sunapee trail on an August Saturday near our cabin on a New Hampshire lake. I was in the woods at least a quarter mile away from shore and I could hear the motorboats, making endless circles around the lake. It was my homing beacon, better than any compass. I could…
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Singing Machines Part 2
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Read more: Singing Machines Part 2The propeller of the little 9-row airplane that flies from Phoenix to Flagstaff Arizona hums low, the fan warbles at a mid-range pitch, and then the whole plane shakes like the butt-kickers at the IMAX theater as we take off. As we rise higher, the puddle-jumper thrums a pumping pulse about 60 beats/minutes until it…
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Singing Machines Part 1
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Read more: Singing Machines Part 1It’s a cool August morning at our cabin. The quartz heater next to me plays a perfect fourth over and over as the thermostat switches from low to high and back again. A tractor-trailer truck makes an eerie whistling glissando as it speeds downhill on I-89 near the welcome center in Vermont. Was it a…
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Electronic Musician – Why I’m dissatisfied
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Read more: Electronic Musician – Why I’m dissatisfiedThere’s a lot of reasons why I don’t like the new Electronic Musician, recently merged with EQ magazine. The Profile section is many pages, covering musicians who I don’t know in styles I don’t listen to, and they’re almost all guys. I didn’t do a statistical survey, but in the October 2011 issue, there’s a…