Quick Links: (1) Charles Babbage would be proud. Check out the video documentation of a symphonic performance in Brighton, U.K., last month that involved a 16-ton steam engine and several laptop computers (link). The composer, Stuart Smith, shares details …
A half-hour live performance by musician Greg Davis is up on the website of Kranky Records, which released his Somnia album late last year. It’s the most recent in Kranky’s ongoing series of free MP3s. Recorded at the Zeitgeist Gallery …
So, Brian Eno, studio-as-instrument innovator, has a new album out, Another Day on Earth (Hannibal/Rykodisc). It’s his first full-length song-form album since his cantankerous collaboration with John Cale on Wrong Way Up, back in 1990. What little difference the time …
Waldchengarten is the first act to get a release entirely to itself on the Noisejihad netlabel, based at noisejihad.dk/netlabel. Noisejihad releases free downloads of live concerts, and previous entries in its series have paired the likes of Zbigniew Karkowski …
The Brooklyn, N.Y.-based record label Colour Sounds specializes, as it bills itself, in “avant, out, psych, improv and other interesting recorded musics.” The “Listen” page on its website, vorg.net/csr, features numerous excerpts, live tracks and otherwise unreleased MP3s, and …
DJ Spooky, media-manipulating turntablist that he is, likes to mix things up. So, if you want to hear the three MP3s he’s posted of parts of his Rebirth of a Nation project, you head over to the “art” page on …
Quote of the Week: “[T]he easy access to and ubiquity of music is oppressive. It often feels like a passive aggressive assault. I’d pay extra for silence.” That’s David Byrne, replying at length at davidbyrne.com to Alex Ross’ recent …
Tiny Creatures’s self-titled album has appeared on two different netlabels, as the seventh release from Birdsong (birdsong.co.il) and number six from Imaginary Albums (imaginaryalbums.com). And tiny these creatures are, the collection’s 26 tracks ranging from 28 seconds in …
The two latest entries from the quietamerican.org website’s One-Minute Vacation project, in which volunteers submit field recordings from around the world: June 6 brought one of the finest entries so far this year, one of those taped moments that …
Over at the kracfive.com collective, the new monthly track in the site’s “MP3 Rotor” is a tremendous song by Miragliuolo, “Skipfunk (Short Version),” which is exactly what it suggests: all the jerky confusion of a skipping CD shaped in …