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	<description>The Audio Journal of Michael Hammond</description>
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		<title>A Guide to Being Creative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Produce, produce, produce.
Release.
(Involve others.)
Keep the circling mind in check. Do not obsess over an idea:  you will kill its magic, temporarily, and maybe forever&#8230;
The work is about taming obsessive and destructive tendencies and distilling a certain wholeness of spirit and steadiness of gesture.  At times you will feel this so utterly and explicitly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guitar Tone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guitar tone has played an exceedingly important role in my musical development.  When I was a kid, my six-string fixation fostered an appreciation for the harmonic series before I knew there was a harmonic series, improved my Deep Listening skills before I ever read about Pauline Oliveros, and instilled a love of drone and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In The Studio</title>
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In the studio doing the final mixes on Penelope all week.  Stay tuned for more&#8230;
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		<title>Found Sound: Mariachi Mash-up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not sure that this really warrants an entire post, but I&#8217;ve been meaning to share this for a while.
The other day, my brother and I were enjoying a fine taco dinner at one of the many taco establishments on our block (my neighborhood has a very large latino population and there are about half a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Well Tuned Laptop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I listened to all five hours of La Monte Young&#8217;s &#8220;Well Tuned Piano.&#8221;  Two things that struck me most about the piece:
1. The simple act of detuning the instrument turns it into a completely different beast.
2. The overtones are as much a part of the piece as the fundamental frequencies.  At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Performing Sounds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently played a very unique show.  It was a performance of Sarah Kirkland Snider&#8217;s Penelope featuring Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond and the incredible chamber ensemble Signal.  There were about 25 of us crowding the stage at Brooklyn&#8217;s Bell House.


&#160; &#160;Hi!!! Can you find meee??
At this particular show, I was playing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reworking With Soul</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I closed my last post saying I would share an example of how this thinking about soulfulness in music has manifested itself in my own music.  Here&#8217;s an example.
For the past few weeks, I&#8217;ve had this little acoustic guitar shuffle laying around.  I liked the chords a lot!  I thought to myself, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Beatles With Booty&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had never heard of Alex Chilton when I read about his death last week.  I still don&#8217;t know the man&#8217;s music very well, but I am learning.  What I do know is that he wrote that song &#8220;The Letter,&#8221; which is burned into my memory from the hundreds of times I heard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.empiricalear.com/scribbles/beatles-with-booty/</link>
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		<title>First Noise:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ambient music for the beginning of what promises to be a sweltering summer:
This is a recorded document of my inaugural interaction with the very first piece of truly musical software I ever created.  It&#8217;s essentially about a hundred layers of guitar stacked on top of each other, pushing and pulling until the layers drip [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.empiricalear.com/sounds/first-noise/</link>
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		<title>Welcome:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi.  I&#8217;m Michael.  This is a blog.  Here you will find little bits of noise and song for your perusal.  Please participate as you see fit.  If you&#8217;re a musician (or not) and you do something fun with a clip or idea you found here, I&#8217;d love to hear (about) [...]]]></description>
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