The penguinremixed.co.uk contest continues apace, with farflung, computer-enabled correspondents uploading remixed (more to the point, song-ified) edits of samples from Penguin audiobooks. Among the better recent ones is “Left Right Left,” credited to Quixotic (link). Despite the musician’s …
Charlie Schmidt’s album Xanthe Terra, released this week on the Strange Attractors label, is very much in the mode of the late John Fahey, who was reportedly Schmidt’s friend and mentor. (Their close association reportedly resulted in some of the …
The Museum of Contemporary Arts in Los Angeles ended its Visual Music exhibit on May 23, 2005, closing the same weekend that George Lucas debuted his latest Star Wars film, The Revenge of the Sith. It’s unfortunate that MOCA couldn’t …
Quick note about some things I’ve published recently in print, which means there isn’t much to link to. … (1) I have a piece in the new issue of Make magazine (vol. 02) about these keen “piggyback” audio plugs that …
Quick Links: (1) Via boingboing.net, using a driving interface as a musical instrument (link). Via gizmodo.com, (2) a photo-sensitive theremin (link) and (3) a touch-sensitive interface from JazzMutant/Cycling ‘74 (link). … Good Reads: (1) Alex …
The Monohm netlabel, based in Vienna, Austria, has released one album thus far in 2005, an EP by Markus Brosel, titled Locus. Monohm takes a minimal approach to everything, from its music to its website to its liner notes. Each …
The third and latest release from the “minus n” netlabel is as notable for how it’s presented as for how it sounds. A vaguely poppy riff on minimal techno, Lod’s Taskenti EP is four tracks of metrically succinct music composed …
Scanner, the British electronic musician also known as Robin Rimbaud, regularly posts MP3s of his live concerts on his website, scannerdot.com. It certainly seems fair-minded for him to give out music for free, since so much of his early …