field notes / Holiday Break
Just a note that Disquiet.com is taking a holiday break for the week of Thanksgiving.
archives
[ November 24, 2003 / bookmark ]
[ November 21, 2003 / bookmark ]
downstream / Eno Interview Stream
Brian Eno spoke at length on the KQED radio interview show Forum on November 13. The conversation is archived here. (Due to the organizational structure of the KQED website, kqed.org, it appears to be necessary to page backwards …
[ November 20, 2003 / bookmark ]
downstream / Bushwacked MP3s (+ More)
What happens when you apply the talents of the digital-media wizards at the London-based record label Warp, home to Aphex Twin and Autechre, to the speeches of the president of the United States? “Bushwacked” is an MP3 of George W. …
[ November 19, 2003 / bookmark ]
downstream / Coastal MP3
On October 8, about a week before the launch of Disquiet.com’s Downstream department, this site published a package of downloadable and streaming music and music-video files courtesy of the Ninja Tune record label. That package (”N Is for Ninja”), and …
[ November 18, 2003 / bookmark ]
downstream / TV Theme Stream
The network Radio-Canada asked the musician who goes by the name Pheek to remix the musical themes to some of its most popular TV series, dating back at least to the 1950s. The result of that archival effort is currently …
[ November 17, 2003 / bookmark ]
downstream / Avant Guitar MP3s
On the cover Neil Jendon’s new album, Live at Buddy in Chicago, Jendon stands on a stage, the image slightly blurred, as if he’s in constant motion, as if he’s contorted by rock’n'roll, as if he’s more interested in bending …
[ November 14, 2003 / bookmark ]
downstream / Three Chef MP3s
THREE CHEFS MP3S: The Kracfive collective has posted the results of another of its Iron Chef of Music events, the ninth overall. Kracfive’s series, which began in June, is based on the Iron Chef TV show, in which star chefs …
[ November 13, 2003 / bookmark ]
downstream / Laotian MP3
Aaron Ximm went to Southeast Asia on his honeymoon in 2000, and he came back nine months later with a dowry’s worth of field recordings. A self-described “headphone tourist,” he subsequently produced a CD of sounds he found in Laos …
[ November 12, 2003 / bookmark ]
downstream / Meta-Remix MP3
The British trio Red Snapper helped define the Warp Records label in the mid-1990s with a series of singles and collections, sets marked by lessons learned from U.S. hip-hop and European club music and good old guitar-oriented soul. Some called …
[ November 11, 2003 / bookmark ]
downstream / Plaid Music Puzzle
The Warp Records band Plaid is promoting its new Spokes album with a mini-site (here). At the time of this writing, six of the album’s 10 ambient-techno tracks are available in streaming mode. An added incentive: the site includes …