There are at least seven “laptop orchestras” around the world, according to the list up at Tom Whitewell’s excellent and obsessive music-tech website, musicthing.blogspot.com. Among them is the Tokyo Laptop Orchestra, which …
The song “G-Mart” by Relcad is tagged on his website, relcad.com, with this enticing note: “It is likely you will hear that rain sample again.” The track indeed begins with a quiet field recording of rain — light rain, …
Sound art is often presented as an installation — that is, as a site-specific event in which the resonances of the space are an inherent part of the work. Still, we can’t all …
News on Quiet, Minimal and Otherwise Atmospheric Music on the Big and Small Screens: (1) As of my first viewing, I can’t say if there’s enough of a proper score in No Country for Old Men to fill a …
Sound designer and musician Tim Prebble went to Japan and, like many of us might in similar circumstances, he picked up a handy new gadget. Fortunate for us, he immediately put that gadget, a self-contained digital audio recorder, to use. …
Recent Items from the World of Sound Art: (1) Open call for entries for the Zeppelin Sound Festival, sponsored by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. The premise for the festival: “There are many kinds of deafness. This …
The artist Tom Moody applies the same lo-fi, lo-tech tools to visuals as he does to sound, an approach generally described as “8bit.” Even when he is using acrylics instead of software …
News, Quick Links, Good Reads: (1) Generative music-maker Kenneth Kirschner is the subject of a new interview up at tokafi.com: “[Q:] Your music is electronically processed to a large extent. Why then, are you still interested in the …
There is now a disquiet.com-specific command for yubnub.org, “a (social) command line for the web.” The command “dq” in yubnub now searches the entire disquiet.com website. More detailed info on the specific command at yubnub.org.
As I mentioned when …
The title to Douglas Gordon’s exhibit currently at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art — Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work from about 1992 until Now — could mistakenly give the impression that it’s a single compression, a …