So many drones move expectedly from whimper to rapture, modulating and growing at their own leisure, one half-life at a time. As a result, it’s rewarding from the start to experience “Blue” (MP3), off AO’s new two-track set, Endlessly, …
Quick Links and News: (1) A new, 10th-anniversary edition of Brian Eno’s book A Year with Swollen Appendices is apparently due out in January from the publisher Canongate (canongate.net); it’s said to include a CD of a story written …
Electronic musician Greg Davis has gotten a mention in the Disquiet Downstream about once a month of late, and if his current online music distribution venture keeps up its initial pace, his appearances may become even more frequent. In August …
At freesound.iua.upf.edu there’s a running tag of text that appears above the free, public-domain, open-source samples of sound uploaded by the site’s many contributors: “Is this sample illegal or abusive? Click here to let us know.” Illegal, likely no; …
Quick Links and News: (1) At this year’s Fringe Festival, the Scottish Ballet presented Acrid Avid Jam, revisiting the 2001 work set to music by Aphex Twin (link). The company returned to Aphex’s music this year in a new …
Norwegian noise-meister Lasse Marhaug played a 40-minute set this past July at the Norberg Festival in Sweden. The event is preserved as a high-density (192 Kbps) if lo-fi MP3 at the Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre’s sound archive (teks.no/lasse_marhaug). …
The Babelcast, housed at the felexatone.net website, suggests a kind of android version of what Scanner’s often up to: scrounging for choice overheard verbiage in the airways, mixing it in with some digital noise and tonal material, and producing …
In advance of its recent release, the album May 23rd 2007 (that’s its title) by the Kallikak Family (aka skilled studio concocter Andrew Peterson) was represented by a single MP3, just under three minutes of eerie sound design titled “Second …
It’s the first of the month, which means, among other things, the automated mailbots of many email lists send out little reminders that you once upon a time submitted your email address to their discretionary use — such as the …
“Poroes,” which closes Miyazaki Shintaro’s three-piece Untitled Studies, sounds a bit like a string ensemble fiddling away the dark hours in some remote locale as a storm approaches. What else could explain the brief spells of mournful playing, the rough …