There’s music minus one, and then there’s music that’s little more than one. “Music Minus One” were those old LPs of arrangements lacking a single part, so you could practice your Dixieland clarinet playing or whatnot. “Little more than one” …
An eight-minute slice of glacial melodicism sandwiched between two half-hour vacuum-packed decanters of space music, Souns’ Scenarios for the Real Self is as expansive as it is ethereal. The relatively concise interlude, “Natreal” (MP3), is almost unbearably light ambience. …
Each of the six tracks on Gate Zero’s 6 Rooms is intended to suggest a different space, among them a living room, a kitchen and an illusory locale on the Star Trek holodek. The experiment is an interesting idea, though …
“Whereas the Limmat runs deep and fast and appears rather pure in its composition, the Sihl plunders along slowly, is comparatively shallow and interspersed with a good number of rocks jutting through its surface, small whirlpools and random clumps of …
Quick Links, News and Good Reads: (1) The Hafler Trio is planning a subscription service for limited-edition releases (brainwashed.com). … (2) Grooves magazine is ceasing to be a print publication, the website announced earlier this month, opting to become …
Quick Links and News: (1) Perhaps inevitably, a podcast of silence, for John Cage’s MP3 player (silentpodcast.com). … (2) Among Time magazine’s list of the best inventions of 2005: the Turtle Dance, a little plastic toy that, among other …
The podcasts from brainwashed.com are often like a good college radio show, a string of great songs casually strung together, but occasionally they’re much more, like when they plumb the depths of the record collection of the series’ host, Jon …
If you’ve checked out the Buddha Machine and the website of its creators, FM3, then you’ve likely stumbled on the playful “exploded view” of the machine, credited to one Longmo. (More on the Buddha Machine in Monday’s Downstream entry.) Longmo …
Tristan Perich is a prolific musician who isn’t afraid to think small. His project One Bit Music will soon turn the CD on its head. The album (allowing for a broad definition of “album”) will remove the familiar disc and …
The niftiest electronic-music release of 2005 may be neither a traditional commercial recording nor a free download, but something else entirely: a little, battery-operated, plastic device called the Buddha Machine, devised by the duo FM3 (aka Christiaan Virant and Zhang …