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[ December 19, 2007 / bookmark ]
Nothing like waiting for a nearly 40-megabyte MP3 to download, only to find little of interest inside. Earlier this year, a podcast popped up in the Red Bull Music Academy that included interviews with three producers: Martin Ware, Rob Bowman …
[ December 18, 2007 / bookmark ]
The following song titles are not likely to find themselves lodged on any pop charts: “Oil, Glass, Acoustic Possibilities,” “Infra-Red Oil Analysis, Metal Source, Glass in Non-agressive…,” “Molecular Oil Structure Analysis with X-Ray and Metal…”…
[ December 17, 2007 / bookmark ]
There’s uncut, and then there’s four times the original length. That’s how Monolake’s expanded edition of “Indigo,” the track that closed his 2001 album Cinemascope, sizes up. The original track, at about eight and a half minutes long, is now …
[ December 17, 2007 / bookmark ]
Quick News, Links, Bits: (1) Ike Turner, the rock’n’soul legend who will forever be remembered as Tina Turner’s abusive husband, passed away earlier this week (November 5, 1931 – December 12, 2007). …
[ December 15, 2007 / bookmark ]
This just in, via email:
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From: info@theeraser.net
Date: 7:08 AM
please excuse this addiTion to YouR pile of email.
ThIs is not stricTly junk.
this is a quick notE to Let YoU know thAT there will be shorttlY be a bunch of …
[ December 15, 2007 / bookmark ]
From “Remembering Moondog,” Philip Glass’s preface to Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue, the authorized biography written by Robert Scotto and published this year by Process:
“I wondered how, as a blind man, he managed to cross the street without …
[ December 14, 2007 / bookmark ]
If you meet the Buddha on the road, you know what to do: kill him. But what if you meet the Buddha on the Internet, and he’s already dying?
Back in early August of this year, at a website called …
[ December 14, 2007 / bookmark ]
Still filling in some of the last few empty spots in the site’s archive. With the end of 2007 near, I’ve (re)uploaded the best-of lists for 1996 (the year Disquiet.com launched), 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, …
[ December 13, 2007 / bookmark ]
The Los Angeles-based sound artist Steve Roden isn’t just a master of quiet music, the coiner of the related term “lowercase sound,” and a thoughtful and meticulous visual artist.
He is also a flea-market …
[ December 13, 2007 / bookmark ]
I’ve uploaded five more of the backdated interviews, from 2002 through 2003: Canadian composer Benoît Charest, on his score for the film Les Triplettes de Belleville; composer Elise Kermani, on revisiting “retro” multimedia performance and remixing Vivaldi; London-based …