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...There had been a very strong tradition of having people come to HBS right out of college, but then, the word was out on the street that you had to wait to go to B-school,” Dewey says, noting that eBay CEO Meg Whitman came to HBS directly from Princeton University. “Conventional Wisdom kept reinventing itself. So we looked at our applicant pool and said where are the amazing folks who want to come out of college...
...Music Department nonetheless made use of the studio during the course’s brief hiatus, allowing graduate students in the department to use the facility. White says the department used the downtime to grant residencies to electronic sound artists Keith Fullerton Whitman and the band Matmos...
Most recently, Whitman has been acting as a de-facto artist in residence. Since getting keycard access last summer, he has been using Harvard’s studio for electro-acoustic composition to make “long form” pieces, using equipment like a Serge Modular system and Buchla Music Boxes that he would have never had access to otherwise...
...Whitman feels right at home in Boston, where—unlike in New York City or San Francisco—musicians seem less focused on self-promotion, getting signed or “making it,” he says. According to Whitman, artists in Boston are content to make music for themselves and a handful of friends, without feeling the pressure to send demos to a variety of record labels—a frame of mind that spans all different genres of underground music in Boston. Perhaps this is why Whitman’s presence is still largely unfelt...
Ironically, it’s his alias that attracts fans in Cambridge, more than his real name. Last Friday, fans at the WZBC show at the Central Square TWCA expected the breakneck beats of Hrvatski—and were supplied instead with the sprawling, droning oscillations of Keith Fullerton Whitman...