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	<title>Dennis DeSantis</title>
	<link>http://www.dennisdesantis.com</link>
	<description>Composer, Sound Designer, Percussionist</description>
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		<title>More thoughts on the iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By now, every geek this side of Cupertino has weighed in on the iPad. So my attempt to add to the noise could easily be seen as just a crude attempt to cash in on a trending topic for the purpose of leveraging website traffic. Fair enough.

But as a geek with a particular niche interest -- computer music technology -- I hope to bring some fresh perspective.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dennisdesantis.com/2010/01/29/more-thoughts-on-the-ipad</link>
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		<title>In C Remixed (Rehashed)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that the dust has settled on this project, I&#8217;d like to say a few words about it.
The Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble is a pretty amazing group.
A couple years ago they managed to blow everyone&#8217;s minds with a series of killer performances of Steve Reich&#8217;s Music for 18 Musicians, culminating in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dennisdesantis.com/2009/11/18/in-c-remixed-rehashed</link>
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		<title>The health care &#8220;opposition&#8221; is fake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like the &#8220;Brooks Brothers Riot&#8221; after the 2000 election and the &#8220;tea party&#8221; silliness earlier this year, the current town hall opposition to health care reform is not a grassroots, Middle American movement.
Instead, it&#8217;s a top-down, highly coordinated effort to create the illusion of a popular uprising. This phenomenon is known as astroturfing.
Let&#8217;s examine who&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dennisdesantis.com/2009/08/16/the-health-care-opposition-is-fake</link>
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		<title>Taking Musical Chances</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Students at the So Percussion Summer Institute getting ready to play Shifty.
A couple weeks ago, I had the pleasure of doing a composition master class at the So Percussion Summer Institute. My piece Shifty was on the repertoire list for the students, and I was asked to come to a rehearsal and talk about it.
It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dennisdesantis.com/2009/08/09/taking-musical-chances</link>
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		<title>Not even wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli once said, after reading a &#8220;scientific&#8221; paper, &#8220;Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!&#8221; (&#8220;That is not only not right, it&#8217;s not even wrong!&#8221;)
The phrase &#8220;not even wrong&#8221; has since come to refer to ideas that are so malformed that they cannot even be assessed.
Here&#8217;s an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dennisdesantis.com/2009/07/15/not-even-wrong</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Automatic&#8221;: a self-generating Live Set</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Live comes with lots of crazy devices. One of my favorites is the ancient Vinyl Distortion audio effect. This isn't because I'm particularly interested in vinyl emulation - if you know my music, you know that it's squeaky-clean and ultra-digital. I love Vinyl Distortion because of the "Crackle" parameter, which outputs semi-random noise.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dennisdesantis.com/2009/07/13/automatic-a-self-generating-live-set</link>
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		<title>My job at Ableton</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My last post covered lots of questions that I'm often asked. As I look at it now, I realize that it reads like a litany of things I no longer do. So for balance, here's a bit more about my current gig.

The short answer is that I'm a technical writer.

(Tip: if someone asks you what you do, don't tell them that you're a technical writer unless you want them to go away. It's like telling them that you're a mortician or a Republican. You can see the interest drain from their face, and their expectation of now-it's-gonna-get-lame is palpable.)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dennisdesantis.com/2009/07/10/my-job-at-ableton</link>
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		<title>OAQ (Occasionally Asked Questions)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some questions (and corresponding answers) that I seem to be asked fairly often. I'm not asked them often enough to make this a real FAQ, and personal FAQs are boring and narcissistic; it's likely that the question I'm asked the most often is "Would you like room for milk?"]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dennisdesantis.com/2009/07/10/oaq-occasionally-asked-questions</link>
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		<title>MTV: the M stands for neither &#8220;music&#8221; nor &#8220;money&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My past few ASCAP royalty statements have been weird.

I usually get money from concert music performances and money from electronic music.  This all makes sense. The payouts are labeled so you know basically where things are coming from and nothing is ever so wonky that I feel that it's necessary to figure out which exact radio station in Poland played the track and why.

But for the past few statements, there's also been a payout from MTV - for $1.96.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dennisdesantis.com/2009/07/08/mtv-the-m-stands-for-neither-music-nor-money</link>
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		<title>Autechre musings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, I had the pleasure of arranging Autechre's "Cfern" for Alarm Will Sound. Doing an arrangement requires you to listen over and over again to little bits of a piece at a time, which is an entirely weird sort of listening experience and allows you to hear all kinds of stuff that you might otherwise miss.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dennisdesantis.com/2009/07/08/autechre-musings</link>
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