The loopdiary.com website collects a fairly steady schedule of guitar-based soundscapes, 20 so far this year by a single musician who goes by the name Disproduction. These are loops, but not loops as in brief presets that you can …
Here’s another nugget from the Other Minds catalog at archive.org (aka the Internet Archive). This time it’s a 1987 discussion with Nicholas Slonimsky, the legendary musical biographer, and a humorous and insightful speaker, who passed away in 1995 at …
So, where is the free MP3 hidden on the website of Beck, urban folklorist turned sample meister turned r&b ironist turned (as of his new album, Guero) back on himself? Well first you go to beck.com, and then you …
Drones are simply one end of a very long musical continuum. At the far opposite side is, arguably, music possessed by the rhythmic jitters. Take the recent EP by Bacanal Intruder, Room-a-Tronic, released on the Spanish netlabel So Soft (at …
In the November issue of Wired magazine last year, a CD was tucked under the cover. At first glance, one might have mistaken its reflective surface for a graphic designer’s attempt to add some metallic bling to the cover subjects: …
Good Reads: John Oswald (of Plunderphonics fame), Douglas Kahn (author of Noise, Water, Meat) and poet Kenneth Goldsmith in an online discussion about “The Politics of Sound / The Culture of Exchange,” introduced and moderated by Lina Dzuverovic, courtesy of …
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — San Francisco regularly has more than its share of sound-art activities, but for the week that began on April 9, the fruits were even more plentiful than usual. Here’s a run through of a great week …
There’s a 45-minute lecture by John Cage deep in the Other Minds stacks at the Internet Archive (archive.org). In fact, there are many Cage lectures in the Archive, but for today let’s pay attention to the one with the …
Kenneth Kirschner is a New York-based composer whose format of choice is not 12-tone, nor drum’n'bass, nor electroacoustic, but Flash. That’s Flash, as in Macromedia Flash, the pervasive multimedia software platform that powers countless websites. Kirschner composes in layers. He …
The musician known as Osymyso made a promise at the start of the year to upload 50 individual MP3s to form 05ymy50, an ongoing album-in-progress, which he’d mix, at the end of the project, into a seamless piece. He’s just …