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Learning Music Monthly
is a subscription based
album-a-month series.
“This May Also Be It” is a compilation of songs from
the last six Learning Music albums.
LMM 2.1 - Allegro
LMM 2.4 - Geochemistry
1. Ask Me No Question
2. Nature’s Cup
3. Short Tempered
11. All In A Summer’s Day
12. Poppies and Horses
(June 2009)
(March 2009)
"This 'allegro' movement of season
two includes lots of keyboards, drums,
and electronic trickery.”
"Ten of the best filmmakers I know made
music videos without sound. I spent the
month of May writing and recording
these songs to fit them.”
LMM 2.2 - Matchstick Monument
LMM 2.5 - You Can Take It In
(April 2009)
(July 2009)
5. Vow
6. Electric Letter
14. 45
15. Permanent Vacation
"A small, humble, yet potentially firey
monument to my wife. A very personal
favorite."
"A self-reflexive commentary on synth
pop, gloriously orchestrated by
Mike Richardson."
LMM 2.3 - An End Like This
LMM 2.6 - Frequency Histograms
For Predictor Variables
(May 2009)
(August 2009)
8. Eighty Seven Year Old Brain
9. Letters When I’m Lonely
4. Charity
7. Life-Cycle
10. Demand
13. Paradigm
“Co-producers Jeff Eliassen and Dave
Devine took Learning Music to Denver,
CO. They artfully reworked these 9
songs from the first season of LMM."
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“Ninety nine 20-second tracks, meant to
be played in random order, composed
only of sounds made by the human body
and manipulated samples of objects I
found in the kitchen."
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Learning Music Monthly
is a subscription based
album-a-month series.
What is Learning Music?
Learning Music began as a collaborative album-a-month project. Started in November 2006 by John Wood
(keyboardist for Inara George, Sebastien Tellier, Mike Andrews, Kelly Osbourne, Anni Rossi, Obi Best), the series included
an album recorded entirely on handheld cassette recorder, a collection of music videos, an autobiographical musical
written by a robot, and dozens of homemade electro-acoustic folk-pop anthems.
Twelve months and twelve albums later, Wood decided it was time to get out of the house. Inspired by the early works
of Terry Riley, The Talking Heads, Storm & Stress, and Woody Guthrie, Learning Music became a live band, which has
included as little as four to as many as twenty musicians at one time (usually averaging around fifteen people).
One year after the original series concluded, having established the band with two month-long residencies in Los
Angeles and a handful of other performances, the album-a-month schedule now resumes.
What is Learning Music Monthly?
Learning Music Monthly is a collaborative, subscription-based album-a-month series. As a subscriber, you receive a
brand new full-length album of original music every month. You can choose to receive your monthly issues on CD
(delivered to your mailbox in beautiful handmade packaging, with cover art by a different artist each issue), or in
downloadable high-quality mp3 format. Subscribers also receive unlimited access to our online archive of music,
including a newly re-mastered album from the original twelve Learning Music albums released each month.
Additionally, you are invited to collaborate in the creation of Learning Music Monthly, with remixes, covers, and
sound donations, regardless of whether you are a subscriber or not.
Learning Music has such elastic boundaries between
participants and observers that it’s hard to see it as
anything other than a new vision for folk music-making.
:: BMI
The material isn’t limited to one genre or aural aesthetic.
The only consistent thread is the high quality of intent
and skill put into each piece.
:: The World In A Paper Cup
This 2009-2010 season of music is sure to be on the
sonar of anyone with an interest in innovative
contemporary pop. :: Tiny Mix Tapes
... it has mass appeal and it’s a shame we are not
taking more notice ...
:: Electronic Voice Phenomon
Top 5 Pick (July) :: Filter Magazine
Meet John Wood. He’s Learning Music. He’s 27, a
profilic composer, a whiz-bang keyboardist, almost
stupefyingly ambitious and, when it comes to making
music, a communalist, if not a communist.
:: Buzzbands.la
It's an evening of buzzes, whistles, bangs, boings, and
everything in between, with the virtuosic prowess of
Wood on keyboards leading the cacophony.
:: Flavorpill
If you too were living inside John Malkovich's head
(or perhaps Charlie Kaufman’s), it is conceivable that
Learning Music would be playing. Light, shimmering
melodies, crafted from innumerable instruments including
keyboard, light cymbals, computerized synths – (often
performed with a consortium of artists) that appears to rely
mostly on quirky stream-of-consciousness.
:: RCRDLBL
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