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A little technology and a lot of imagination can go quite a long way. With an uncanny knack for bending and warping sounds slightly out of phase with the way they sound in the real world,
” data-original-title title>Jon Hassell had a way of turning the trumpet (or indeed any piece of the soundscape) into something nobody had ever heard of on Earth.
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