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Rivers Cuomo's Spreadsheets — Engineering a Career as a Band
The Weezer frontman has been quietly running his songwriting practice as a database for almost thirty years. The system is invisible on the records, which is the point.
By Linus Embry
The Imogen Heap Equation — Where Music Tech Becomes Music
Two decades into her career, Imogen Heap is the cleanest single example of the founder-artist model. The Mi.Mu gloves, the Endel collaboration, and *Sparks* are the same project asked from three different angles.
By Vera Sokolov
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2 Rivers Cuomo's Spreadsheets — Engineering a Career as a Band
The Weezer frontman has been quietly running his songwriting practice as a database for almost thirty years. The system is invisible on the records, which is the point.
By Linus Embry
The Imogen Heap Equation — Where Music Tech Becomes Music
Two decades into her career, Imogen Heap is the cleanest single example of the founder-artist model. The Mi.Mu gloves, the Endel collaboration, and *Sparks* are the same project asked from three different angles.
By Vera Sokolov
- Linus Embry
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