The BBC has published online a brief feature, with audioclips, about music experimentation, titled “Sex Drugs and Four Minutes of Silence.” To borrow a now infamous bit of BBC phraseology, the title unnecessarily sexes up a story that stands …
Brief Bits: (1) Rockapaloozer Take 2? For a festival that in the past has been a lightning rod for electronic music, the upcoming Los Angeles-vicinity date for All Tomorrow’s Parties is essentially free of bands that don’t have guitars …
The lineup for the annual Resfest video festival has been announced. The touring fest starts on September 18 in San Francisco (res.com) with a party featuring Amon Tobin and RJD2. Res is a series of screenings of adventurous, creative …
There was for a short time a section of Disquiet.com called the 4D, which quickly transformed into the site’s long-running Downstream section. These are the 4D entries for August 19, 2003:
(1) The Earl is a SoCal studio DJ who crafts …
Insert “art” or “music” for “physics”:
new theoretical physics in any age is just as likely to be stimulated by the technologies of the moment as to be spun out platonically from the abstractions of the past.
That’s William R. Everdell, …
Over six years passed between an evening in late January 1997, when Colin Bradley slow-burned the air during a Manchester, England, concert performance, and early 2003, when he made recordings from that show available on CD for the first time. …
There was for a short time a section of Disquiet.com called the 4D, which quickly transformed into the site’s long-running Downstream section. These are the 4D entries for August 5, 2003, the day it launched:
(1) Composer Elise Kermani takes a …
Sam Phillips passed away last week, on July 30, 2003. Regarded as one of the founders of rock’n'roll, thanks to his work with Elvis Presley, Ike Turner and others, Phillips was also an early experimenter in recording-studio technology. An obituary …
Bob Dylan said, “Electricity ruined music,” according to filmmaker Larry Charles. Charles told the anecdote during a Q&A session following the July 31, 2003, screening of his new film, Masked & Anonymous, in San Francisco. The film stars Dylan …
On the fourth night of the fourth annual San Francisco Electronic Music Festival — July 26, 2003 — Elise Kermani, one of the night’s four performers, was one of three of those acts to experience technical difficulties.
The audience was respectful …