Another fine Other Minds MP3, from the Internet Archive, at archive.org. It’s a 1973 KPFA broadcast of a 40th anniversary segment on early electronic composer Edgar Varese’s historic percussion piece, Ionisation, which famously included a siren in its score. …
After a long work week (President’s Day notwithstanding, at least here in the U.S.), nothing may be as soothing as a bit of navelgazing — or, more to the point, shoegazing. Yes, the genre is alive and well, and at …
Free downloadable music appears regularly, in plain sight, and with little fanfare. Dig a little on the Amazon.com site, and you’ll find not only free music promotions for artists ranging from Cex to Sigur Ros to Depeche Mode to …
Straight outta Portugal (the country that birthed the poet who gave this website its name, it’s probably worth mentioning) comes Test Tube, a netlabel with 10 sets under its belt, one of the most recent of which is Rui Gato’s …
Two terms get tossed around a lot, and though they sound similar they mean entirely different things. “Electronic music” is music in which the tools of artistic production are inherently mechanized (laptops, turntablism, field recordings). “Digital music” is music whose …
Reportedly the first step in breaking an addiction has something to do with owning up to it, so suffice to say my name is Marc W. and I’m hung up on the Internet Archive, specifically its Other Minds catalog, at …
Closing out the week with more archive.org treats from the Other Minds collection: avant-garde piano virtuoso Margaret Leng Tan doing the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” on a toy piano. Perhaps it’s the lo-fi quality of the recording, but the piece, with …
FRANCIS DHOMONT MP3: Another downloadable prize from the Other Minds catalog at the Internet Archive, archive.org: a March 6, 2004, recording of composer Francis Dhomont performing “Les moirures du temp” and “Phonurgie” (a neologism, meaning “fabrication, shaping, creation of …
Genres come and go. And if one ever seemed ripe to go from the get go, it was glitch. Sure, certainly from early on, glitch was something to behold, especially how Markus Popp managed to make the desecration of CDs …
If you’ve been paying attention to the ccmixter.org site’s current remix competition, you’ve no doubt gained respect for the musicians who made tracks available for open-source sampling. Name-brand acts, including Matmos and David Byrne, Chuck D and Dan the …