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“You ever tighten a guitar string really really slowly, past the point it can handle the strain? It makes this weird sound, almost like a scream.”
That’s Robert Sean Leonard’s Dr. James Wilson, in the TV series House, addressing …
The Buddha Machine is a collection of loops that keeps on giving. The original device, a cheap little plastic box available in a variety of colors, was developed by the China-based duo FM3. It contains nine short loops of sound …
Walden Pond is the Galapagos Islands for English majors. The transcendental musings of Henry David Thoreau are rooted in his experience there, and those writings made him something along the lines of America’s version of William Wordsworth, both of them …
Composer Carl Stone has been writing a column — that is, he’s been blogging — for the newmusicbox.org website since August of this year. He’s posted on such topics as the use of a turntable in advertising, the end …
What to make of the surface noise that’s fairly high in the mix on the languorous song “Conceptual Crush”? The song appears on Clovis Heald’s Wading for Motorcycles, which is being released as a tape cassette (you read that correctly) …
Perhaps as many artists have pursued truth in the golden ratio as entrepreneurs and adventurers have sought gold. Martin Neukom’s new 13-track collection on the domizil.ch netlabel, Studie 18, is among the most recent such investigations….
The following is the description-cum-manifesto of the “Destructive Sound Events” curated by ILIOS as part of the first Athens Biennial:
A sound monster will occupy certain Athenian territories and will transmit a destructive sound wave. Here we don’t talk about …