The song “Tryplmeade Gorsmatch” comes close to the end of the self-titled album by Bumps, released a few months back earlier on Stones Throw. That’s a record label properly known best for hip-hop, especially of the producer-heavy, soul-inflected, headphone-pleasing vibe …
Alvin Lucier’s composition “I Am Sitting in a Room” is so ripe for adoption, it’s surprising that the work isn’t revisited more often. In the 1970 original, Lucier recorded himself stating something plainly and then recorded that recording being played, …
It’s no doubt in poor taste to make a Three Tenors joke the day after Luciano Pavarotti passed away. Sorry. In any case, the Tenori-On has, as of this writing, nearly 700 friends on myspace.com. Tenori-On is not a …
Yesterday would have been John Cage’s 95th birthday. What better way to belatedly celebrate his serendipitous musical philosophy than to fill your MP3 player with 100 short tracks, select gapless playback and hit shuffle?
That’s the theory behind “One Hundred Ambient …
What’s the best way to handle a mallet instrument? Maybe hit it with a nice broad piece of wood, all the better to get some solid tone out of those hard metal or wood bars. Maybe with a drumstick, for …
A year ago today, I uploaded a project called Our Lives in the Bush of Disquiet. It is an homage to the then 25-year-old (and now 26-) album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Brian Eno and David …
In both dog years and electronic-music years, the early 1980s is a lifetime ago. That’s when Pauline Oliveros released her Accordion and Voice, an album of insular, searching drones. The Important Records label this year remastered the analog master tapes …
If you didn’t snag a flyer on your way into the New Work space at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, you’d think a plane had crashed through the wall, and somehow the external shell of the building had …
Quote of the Week: “They do not need to be correct because they are symbols; they stand for the essence of music, not specific notes. Their unconventionality also reminds me of the graphic scores of experimental music; they …
Among the individuals responsible for bringing drones into the modern museum, one key one is Banks Violette, who has collaborated with black metal musicians from Scandinavia and with the band Sunn O))’s Stephen O’Malley in the construction of installations that …