downstream / Singing Iceberg WAV
The musician and sound artist Joe Colley has a piece in which he puts clay in a small cup, attaches a contact microphone and pours in water. It’s less a composition than it is a recipe, but what results sonically …
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[ May 7, 2007 / bookmark ]
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interviews / Lique-Fiction
Shortly after I moved back to San Francisco from New Orleans in 2003, I sat down with three science-fiction writers to talk about two parallel topics, how both San Francisco and science fiction had hit a glass window called reality.
For …
[ May 3, 2007 / bookmark ]
downstream / Cut Chemist Lecture
Another good Red Bull Academy Lecture, this one from ace turntablist and producer Cut Chemist, aka Lucas Macfadden, Jurassic 5 cohort and DJ Shadow collaborator. He talks about the difficulty (well, more the expense) in sampling rock stars, the downside …
[ May 2, 2007 / bookmark ]
downstream / Japanese Dread MP3s
The six-track EP The Castration by Ryu does include one entry, the title cut, so to speak, in which the title word is repeated against what seems like lightly mediated field recordings of some ancient, indigenous ritual (MP3). But …
[ May 1, 2007 / bookmark ]
downstream / Lou Harrison MP3
The wayback machine that is the Other Minds catalog at the Internet Archive (aka archive.org) has set its dial to May 14, 1977, when a concert at St. John’s Presbyterian Church in Berkeley, California, celebrated the 60th birthday of …