field notes / Email Outtage
Email sent to this website between 11pm Pacific Time today and Saturday, March 31, may be iffy. I’m in the process of changing email service providers. Apologies for any inconvenience.
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[ March 29, 2007 / bookmark ]
[ March 26, 2007 / bookmark ]
downstream / Tweaked Reality MP3s
Been a while since the Downstream has included an entry from the ever expanding “Remix! Tree” at the Freesound website, freesound.iua.upf.edu. The site is a trading place for recorders and admirers of raw field recordings. The Tree is where …
[ March 20, 2007 / bookmark ]
downstream / Morr Documentary MP3s
The Morr label’s podcast (link) offers an opportunity to peek inside the laptops, and brains, of its musicians. Most recently, Bernhard Fleischmann spoke in detail about the recording of the two long live sets that comprise his most recent …
[ March 19, 2007 / bookmark ]
downstream / Pointillist Russian MP3s
There’s something a tad antiseptic and just a little maudlin, and yet altogether compelling, about Luxurious, a collection of music attributed to Polina Voronova, said to be a young Russian musician. The album ends with its best piece, in which …
[ March 12, 2007 / bookmark ]
downstream / Salt Mine MP3
Here’s some salt that’s good for the diet. The listening diet, that is. The latest raw field recording from the wanderingear.com netlabel is a 20-minute exercise in cavern tourism. The recording was made in the Salina Praid salt mine, …
[ March 8, 2007 / bookmark ]
downstream / Bi-Rhythmic MP3
You can bob your head to “rows” (MP3), the new aghost track posted for free download at kracfive.com, though to do so you have to imagine your head is placed evenly between two pachinko machines of divergent makes …
[ March 7, 2007 / bookmark ]
downstream / Trimpin Profile MP3
The sound artist Trimpin is the subject of a two-part interview and profile newly uploaded to the Other Minds archive at archive.org. Back in 1990, Charles Amirkhanian, head of Other Minds, spoke with Trimpin in advance of an installation …
[ March 5, 2007 / bookmark ]
downstream / 8-Bit MP3s
No, “8-Bit Adventures of a Bored Office Worker” is not the new movie by the guys who made Shawn of the Dead. That would be Hot Fuzz. “8-bit Adventures” is a new podcast from Resonance FM, focusing on, well, the …