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		<title>Food Opera Manifesto</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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On May 22, 2012, I realized a longstanding dream when I collaborated with local chef Jason Bond (of the widely acclaimed Bondir Restaurant in Cambridge) on a new multimedia composition entitled Food Opera: Four Asparagus Compositions. Chef Bond crafted a four course, asparagus-based tasting menu, and I provided real-time algorithmic accompaniment, responding to cues from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arcanum at 60</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Update: In addition to the PC Gamer citation, below, Forbes listed Arcanum as one of the 12 best video game soundtracks of all time in September 2012.]
The March 2012 issue of PC Gamer magazine includes their list of the top 100 games of all time, and Arcanum, for which I composed the soundtrack and designed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jay Chou and the Bastion OST</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been playing a lot of Bastion lately, the indie game by Supergiant that has popped up on a whole bunch of Best of 2011 year-end lists.  One of the music tracks has a lick in it that sounded oddly familiar, but I couldn’t place it at first.  Then suddenly one day it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Christmas Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a whole essay planned about this, but I don’t think I’m going to get around to it in time to do anyone any good this year, so for now let me simply post my list of somewhat obscure Christmas music that I’ve been casually researching over the years.  Thanks to my pal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>29 Giraffes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you’ve got one more week to view my solo show over at the Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media (through November 6).  The centerpiece of the exhibition is my 6-channel, real-time, algorithmic sound installation Kaleidoscope Music, the history, aesthetics, and inner workings of which are amply documented elsewhere (Dig Boston feature, Artforum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got back about three weeks ago from a wonderful, inspiring, and very successful visit to San Diego.  I was in town at the invitation of the San Diego Museum of Art to premiere my new piece Mobile 4 at the museum’s Summer Salon Series.  While I was in the neighborhood, I also had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Christian Marclay + Guitar Hero)/2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As previously posted, I had the pleasure of doing some shows with my friend Yan Jun 颜峻 from Beijing recently.  As I was digging up some links to introduce him to Boston area friends, I found this clip of a performance we did, together with Beijing-based Bruce Gremo, at the 2008 Shanghai eArts Festival [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Yan Jun</title>
		<link>http://www.benhouge.com/writings/?p=673</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was so pleased to have a good friend from China, the Beijing-based sound artist Yan Jun 颜峻, visiting us in Boston for a few days last week.  He had stayed with me before in Shanghai, and I think he’s about the sweetest houseguest I’ve ever had.  He’s in the US for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Statement of Purpose</title>
		<link>http://www.benhouge.com/writings/?p=636</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Calder]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At PechaKucha Boston earlier this week I presented the US premiere of my Statement of Purpose.  I primarily think of it as a composition, but you might also call it a performance piece.  I suppose “multimedia lecture” might be most accurate.  It was written in September 2008 for presentation at PechaKucha Shanghai [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EndWar Audio Post-Mortem</title>
		<link>http://www.benhouge.com/writings/?p=628</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who are curious, here are the slides from my Boston Post-Mortem presentation last week.  It was a conscious affectation to only capitalize the first word of every heading, and I now regret it, but I’m too lazy to go back and change them all.  Also, I’m sorry the font size changes [...]]]></description>
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