On October 20, Audiobulb Records uploaded a new various-artists electronic-music collection in MP3 format. Titled Exhibition #2, it’s currently highlighted on the label’s website, audiobulb.com. The set features 11 tracks, ranging from gentle stereoscopic play, Claudia’s “Sleepyhead (Roomix),” to …
Audio technician Dane A. Davis tells Wired magazine, in its November issue, about his sound designs for the Matrix film trilogy:
It’s all about telling a story with noise.
The article is online here. The issue also includes a brief …
Canadian composer and guitarist Benoît Charest wrote the music for the masterful new French anime, Les Triplettes de Belleville, which is a bit like saying he wrote its captions, since the film is almost entirely free of dialog, so much …
Stasisfield is an Evanston, Illinois-based record label focused on what it calls “minimal instrumental experimental music.” So far this year it has released eight sets of free MP3s, the latest of which is London-based musician Thanos Chrysakis’s three-song Transparent Geometries …
C. Reider is a one-man game of telephone. The voices that enter his recording devices exit entirely transformed. Almost invariably, what was said in the first place is altered beyond any sort of verbal comprehension. There are instances on the …
Scanner, aka Robin Rimbaud, regularly transforms field recordings into subtly rhythmic, often ethereal music. He’s uses everything from voices caught on surveillance equipment (hence his moniker) to tapes of Andy Warhol interviews (see his recent album, Warhol’s Surfaces). Five MP3 …
Deadbeat is the pseudonym of one Scott Monteith, the Montreal, Canada-based electronic musician. Several Real Audio streams of his work are available on the audio page (here) of his website (here). Be sure to check out the hour-long …
At a club called Shibuya Nest in Tokyo, Japan, on February 9 of 2003, Christian Fennesz, who records under his last name, took the stage with his laptop and let loose three quarters of an hour of sublimation and noise. …
Cambridge, Mass.-based musician Keith Fullerton Whitman, aka Hrvatski, occasionally posts MP3 files of outakes and works-in-progress on his reckankomplex.com website. The current item is what he calls “a completely alternate demo version” of “You Didn’t Look High Enough,” the …
Reading and Listening of Interest on the Internet This Past Week or So: An overview of sound artist Christian Marclay (”An Artist Makes Music Touchable,” from the New York Times) and an interview with British painter Trevor Bell, …