downstream / Circuit-Burnt MP3s
The lineup for the next Circuit Bending Festival in New York, at bentfestival.org, has been posted. And even if you can’t make it there between April 19 and 23, the list still provides a handy primer to who’s doing …
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[ April 11, 2006 / bookmark ]
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downstream / Noise-Improv MP3s
In the world of noise music, no one can hear you scream. Or, more to the point, your scream may be heard, but it’s likely to have been so utterly transformed by digital and analog sonic torture devices that it …
[ April 7, 2006 / bookmark ]
downstream / Industri-Organic Scape MP3s
The Kikapu netlabel usually leavens its ambience with beats, often bringing them to the foreground. However, for much of Sieve’s recent Vacuum-Assisted, you might be hard put to distinguish the beats from mere static in the ether; others bring to …
[ April 6, 2006 / bookmark ]
downstream / Minimalist Dreamtime MP3s
The blank white background, the text-only interface, a font seemingly better suited to character-recognition software than to the human eye … the website of the Complementary Distribution netlabel is as minimal as, perhaps even more so than, the music it …
[ April 4, 2006 / bookmark ]
downstream / Freesound Remix Tree MP3s
A wise friend once described 1970s AM radio as a medium in which singer-songwriters flirted with each other, had love affairs, broke up and then (usually resulting in the best songs) told tales. The remixes of raw sound at the …
[ April 3, 2006 / bookmark ]
downstream / Five-Hour MP3 Performance
In years to come, April 1 will be the day with the lowest traffic on the Internet, as users do their best to avoid being suckered by deadpan pranks. Hence my initial hesitation when this past Saturday I received an …