Evan X. Merz

musician/technologist/human being

Posts Tagged "music"

Jazz from California

30 August, 2020,  Evan X. Merz

Jazz isn’t necessarily the first thing you think of, when you think of California. You might think of surfing, Dick Dale, the Golden Gate…

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Encores 2 by Nils Frahm, and the Joy of Live Music

It’s difficult to unpack my feelings about Nils Frahm as an artist. I remember, a few years back, hearing rave reviews about one of his…

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Remember Nina Simone

27 January, 2019,  Evan X. Merz

I recently read But What If We’re Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past by Chuck Klosterman. The premise of the book is…

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Getting Lost in Pop

I’ve spent so much of my life making legitimately weird music. See my algorithmic music on bandcamp for that. So it’s only natural that at…

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SoundCloud, I love you, but you’re terrible

03 February, 2018,  Evan X. Merz

I finally started using SoundCloud for a new electro project called Fynix. I casually used it in the past under my own name, in order to…

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