We interrupt the fairly steady flow of free music downloads for the occasional spoken-word entry. Several lectures in the Long Now Foundation series held in San Francisco have been mentioned on this site, most recently one by Ray Kurzweil, the …
New York-based composer Kenneth Kirschner is a believer. “If I have a religion in life,” he says, “it’s the iPod.” Asked to detail the tenets of this faith, he quotes science-fiction writer William Gibson, who once noted, “The Walkman changed …
Kenneth Kirschner’s name should be familiar to anyone who checks out the Disquiet Downstream, where his work has made more than one appearance. Kirschner’s music is often produced with generative software programmed in Flash, and it’s available in abundance on …
Another day, another new podcast, though today a solid one, the debut of the KrankyKast (MP3, RSS), from Kranky Records, the Chicago-based home to a mix of explorative electronic and psychedelically rural acts, the best of which blur …
With far more elegance than the project might suggest, (dj) morsanek is constructing an album-length collection in which each track is built from segments of pre-existing avant-garde, out-jazz and otherwise exploratory recordings, and he’s posting the material online as a …
For four sweaty years, beginning in the summer of 1999, I wrote about music from New Orleans. That sounds like a dream nexus — though probably less of one when your area of interest is abstract electronic music, as is …
Quick Links and News: (1) The Metropolitan Museum of Art has an exhibit up through the end of the year titled The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult (metmuseum.org), which provides a good parallel to the fascination of early …
OAKLAND, CA — It began with someone playing a renaissance melody on a recorder and ended, four hours later, at midnight, with rough scraping noises amid a machine whine. In between there were dead bodies, a wicked game of Tempest …
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Belatedly, some notes from each of the four nights at the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, held August 18 through 21 of this year at the SomArts building. Between the abstract fragile sound art, courtesy of …