The Music Between The Lines
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Column: thoughts of a quarantined Hucbaldian
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
(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,
Column #77: Time to listen wider
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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Column #Christmas Edition
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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Humans of Hucbald: Vera van Buren
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
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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Column #70: writing letters
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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Musical Signs in Netflix’s Mini-Trailers
Searching for hours before finding something to watch has become even more difficult in the twenty-first century with the coming of streaming platforms. The variety and amount of films or series to watch has become the burden of the modern consumer. Not so long ago, Netflix introduced a sort of “mini-trailer,” that is made available
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Throwback Thursday: Christmas Edition
Our first Christmas in our new home Christmas Eve This February I moved in with my boyfriend Deon to a big village named Houten. It was already fully-furnished when we moved in, so there was very little that actually represented us. This Christmas I was super excited to decorate the house in our own personal
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