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[ January 31, 2006 / bookmark ]

downstream / AFX Freebie MP3

Not every musician has a website or a myspace.com page, not even otherwise digitally astute musicians. Some of the most prominent electronic acts, including Aphex Twin and Autechre, have no specific home on the web. Aphex’s disinclination carries over to …

[ January 31, 2006 / bookmark ]

field notes / Janet Cardiff @ MOMA (NYC)

During a trip to New York, over this recent New Year’s, I visited the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, primarily to take in the Janet Cardiff sound art piece from 2001, “40 Part Motet. A Reworking of Spem in …

[ January 30, 2006 / bookmark ]

downstream / Live Oliveros & Hutchinson MP3s

Let us now praise generous podcasts, especially those featuring original, otherwise unavailable content. The Meridian Gallery in San Francisco, which is currently hosting monthly concerts, has two archival performances up in its newly launched podcast series. Both are time-warping ventures …

[ January 30, 2006 / bookmark ]

interviews / Crashing by Design

Noise regularly becomes sound art in the hands of Thomas Dimuzio. But contrary to appearances, the pursuit of the N word is not an intrinsically chaotic one. Here in Dimuzio’s home studio, on a high hill in San Francisco’s Sunset …

[ January 29, 2006 / bookmark ]

field notes / Tangents (Buddha, Syrianna, Mieville)

Quick Links, News and Good Reads: (1) Apparently this (link) is a half-hour video of the duo FM3 (Christiaan Virant and Zhang Jian) playing chess with their Buddha Machines at the De Appel museum of contemporary art in Amsterdam, …

[ January 27, 2006 / bookmark ]

downstream / Frogger MP3s

FonoZoo.com is exactly what it sounds like it promises to be: a menagerie comprised entirely of the sounds of animals. No feed bills, no pesky smells, fewer ethical quandaries. The organization’s latest publication is a commercial CD sure to be …

[ January 25, 2006 / bookmark ]

downstream / Franken MP3s

As the Kikapu netlabel, at kikapu.com, creeps steadily toward its 100th release, out pops something dark and dreary, and altogether listenable. Roto Visage’s Der Golem, Kikapu’s 87th entry, is 11 tracks not to be listened to before bedtime. That …