As Christmas was nearing, I stumbled upon some Christmas articles of mine. I remember writing the Christmas column of last year as well and thought it would be funny to read and compare with this year’s Christmas column. And guess what.. Apparently, I also wrote the Christmas column of 2018! That means I’ll be writing […]
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A World That’s So Different From All That You Are: Miss Saigon and Orientalism Read More »
I can’t believe it’s already mid-april. The sun is shining, the days are getting longer and warmer and the trees and flowers are blossoming. When I sit in my garden or go for a walk in the forest, the nature is so quiet and loud and beautifully painful. You wouldn’t think the world is going
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(Re)defining Sampling in Digital Audio Workstations: the Case of DirtyCircuit and Deadmau5 Sonja Hamhuis In 2008, amateur musician DirtyCircuit used two samples of Deadmau5’s “Faxing Berlin” (2007) in one of his tracks. The samples were included in the database of FL Studio, a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) used by many early-career EDM producers. However,
January was a loooong month. Usually time flies by, but this time, my perception of time seemed to slow down. I hate January, it’s the worst month of the year. However, this year, even though it went by really slowly, I feel kind of satisfied. With myself that is, because the world is just a
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A lot has happened already in my Christmas break, so I thought it would be fun to write a diary-style column for this Christmas edition. Tuesday, Dec. 24th 2019 This year my boyfriend and I decided to invite our families to celebrate Christmas at our place instead of theirs. Usually we celebrate at our older
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This month our human of Hucbald is Vera van Buren ! Vera just graduated from the musicology research master, focusing on the intersection between music and gender studies. This interview took place in march 2019. Since then, she has found an apartment in Rotterdam and has decided not to work in academia (for now). Find
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Discovering Identity: the Contribution of Disco to Experiences of Queerness Subcultures: Music, Identity, Media Moira de Kok April 2, 2019 Since its inception, disco music has been connected to queer communities.[1] It enjoyed its heyday during the mid- to late 1970s, yet it has seen a resurgence in popularity from the mid-1990s onwards. Its
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Dear Hucbaldians, I start this column in the form of a letter. I love writing letters to my friends as it somehow feels more personal than typing an e-mail or sending a message on the phone. Of course, I am typing this on a computer because digitalising a handwritten letter to put on a
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