The subtitle to Dark Matters, the new exhibit at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, is “Artists See the Impossible.” Many of the featured artists employ sound in an attempt to achieve this end. But perhaps …
Netlabel works are, by nature, untethered. They’re generally the effort of relatively unknown musicians, composing and performing from behind opaque pseudonyms that obscure their identities, and the releases rarely have a physical manifestation, like a CD, or anything else to …
Name: The Pâte à Son • Rating: Hella Cool • Format: Online Software • Play
The Pâte à Son was devised in 2004 as “a sound toy and compositional tool conceived to encourage musical experimentation.” Built in Shockwave, it appears …
Name: Small Sound Toy • Rating: Kinda Cool • Format: Online Software • Play
Designed by Brian Judy and housed amid other interactive experiments at Judy’s boogaholler.com site, Small Sound Toy is a mouse-activated digital xylophone of sorts. Vertical …
The passing of film director Michelangelo Antonioni this week brought many things to mind, many of them sound-related. This is in part due to Antonioni’s pop instinct, as exemplified by the rollicking soundtrack to his film Blow Up (1966); in …
Many new readers have come through thanks to the Buddha Machine article in Rob Walker’s “Consumed” column in this past Sunday’s magazine section of the New York Times (nytimes.com).
Here’s a quick rundown of Buddha-related material on Disquiet.com: (1) A …
In the photograph up at the website of the Four Directional Doubt netlabel (fourdirectionaldoubt.free.fr), the three men look more like keyboard players than turntablists. To many ears, they may sound like something other than turntablists as well. But turntablists …