This past week saw the release of 8-Bit Operators (Astralwerks), on which over a dozen Krafkwerk classics are performed on Gameboys, old Atari setups and other lo-fi, lo-rez and, in general, unintended digital audio production tools. A heap of the …
Listening to MP3s of sound from outdoor installations can be a bit like watching an Akira Kurosawa film on your laptop: less than faithful to the original. That said, as site-specific art with audio becomes more common, a seven-megabyte file …
The Ropeadope record label has long been a home for plugged-in roots music, from Kid Koala’s scraggly rock outfit Bullfrog, to the avant-groove of Medeski Martin & Wood, to the funky turntablism of DJ Logic, just to name a few. …
“Longplayer” is the name given a sound installation by Jem Finer that is seven years into its planned 1,000-year run. It has “listening posts” around the world, in London and Nottingham, England; Alexandria, Egypt; and Brisbane, Australia, with additional posts …
Start the week off with a bang, or more specifically with Red Zero Radio’s “Atomhead” mix, blurring (no, pummeling) the line between dubstep and grindcore, with metalicized beats that sound all the better for the wear and tear (MP3). …
Quick Links, News and Good Reads: (1) In the early 1960s, Yoko Ono was an interpreter for Japanese novelist Kobo Abe (Box Man, Woman in the Dunes), translator Donald Keene recounts in his ongoing memoir in the Daily Yomiuri newspaper …
The Other Minds organization has posted a second evening’s worth of MP3s from its December 2005 “New Music Seance,” seven tracks in all collecting mostly solo piano work, performed by Sarah Cahill and composed by Ruth Crawford Seeger, Alvin Curran, …
Nothing like a little cross-pollination. The Wandering Ear netlabel got its start as a pure-sound alternative project by the folks who’d earlier started the Dark Winter netlabel. While Dark Winter (at darkwinter.com) focused on studio concoctions, Wandering Ear (…