Quick Links, News and Good Reads: (1) Ceal Floyer’s third solo gallery show in New York, at 303 Gallery, includes a piece in which “a few seconds of a song pass back and forth between two CD players, forward on …
Several months following the launch of the website promoting the re-release of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, David Byrne and Brian Eno’s trailblazing 1981 essay into trance-inducing sampling and pop minimalism, the public-domain, communal remix portion of that …
Stud’s I Saw the Future album, the Kikapu netlabel’s 93rd, puts its rhythms first, but it doesn’t worship them. They’re either slow enough to feel like they’re about to disintegrate at the seams, as on “Supertaeb” (MP3), or fast …
There is little if any appointment listening on the web. Don’t let the phrase “webcast” turn you off. More often than not, a live web broadcast is archived, as with Matmos member MC Schmidt’s April 30 appearance on the Shirley …
Quick Links, News and Good Reads: (1) Just closed at the Migros Museum in Zurich, Switzerland, the exhibit “While Interwoven Echoes Drip into a Hybrid Body: an Exhibition about Sound Performance and Sculpture,” curated by Heike Munder and Raphael Gygax, …
The Monome, a fresh new music interface, is in production. A programmable grid of of 64 buttons, it’s a smallbrew device. That is, the piece of hardware is neither a mass-produced corporate item nor a homebrew bit of weekend-invention happenstance. …
I co-curated an exhibit that opens today at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. Titled Cartoon Tunes: Capturing Music in Comics, it features over 40 pieces of comic art, including a bunch of material I commissioned and edited, between …
Thomas Dolby has posted on his blog a funky nugget (”Groksploitation,” MP3), a collaboration with JJ Abrams, who’s contributed to the music of his own productions, including the TV shows Lost and Alias and the new Mission Impossible film, …
Monolake’s music, at its best, is so subtle as to be easily missed. That’s as true of his most quiet work, often released under his real name, Robert Henke, as it is of his more propulsive techno, which is labeled …
Another release from Term, the free-MP3 sublabel of 12k, run by Taylor Deupree. The lag since the previous Term release, which was the subject of the March 20 Disquiet Downstream (link), may be Term’s shortest yet. Perhaps these gorgeously …