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Joshua Robinson

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May 2026 Newsletter – Akira, Gamelan, and the Semiotics of Sound

Gamelan and Semiotics I’ve been thinking lots about the semiotics of sound and music, particularly regarding gamelan. Semiotics is essentially the idea saying that music often represents something that it doesn’t inherently represent. It sounds more complicated than it is, because a few examples show quite clearly how this can be. Usually music is an […]

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April 2026 Newsletter

Running and Producing The festival block ended last week, and finally I can get around to publishing this newsletter. Just prior to festival, Eugene, the artistic director, told me he’d been thinking that an ultra-marathon runner is a great set of skills to have in a production manager too. It sounds crazy at first, but […]

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