[ August 9, 2005 / bookmark ]
So, musician and tinkerer Gijs Gieskes isn’t entirely clear about what he’s up to, but among his recent experiments is an apparent second attempt to create a sequencer using standard cassette audio tape… and, as if that weren’t extraordinary enough, …
[ August 8, 2005 / bookmark ]
Want to hear vinyl-only tracks by Matmos, Bowery Electric, Nurse with Wound, Meat Beat Manifesto, Four Tet, Pan American, Kid 606, Tortoise, Cyclobe and others? Download the July 24 podcast from brainwashed.com (MP3). In what he dubs a “waxcast,” …
[ August 7, 2005 / bookmark ]
Quick Links: (1) On NPR’s July 30 Weekend Edition (RealAudio), astrophysicist Donald Gurnett explained that space really isn’t entirely silent, and shared sounds recorded by the Cassini space probe when it reached Saturn last year. (Thanks for the tip, …
[ August 7, 2005 / bookmark ]
Has access to Japanese electronic music gotten easier, thanks to Apple? Apple launched an iTunes Music Store in Japan on August 3, bringing to 20 the number of countries with iTunes stores, including not only the U.K. and Germany, but …
[ August 1, 2005 / bookmark ]
Another month, another set of weekly One-Minute Vacations, courtesy of Aaron Ximm’s quietamerican.org site. Each Monday, more or less, Ximm posts 60-second audio snapshots recorded around the world and contributed by a growing assortment of volunteers. Highlights in July …