There are certain real-world references that often serve as descriptors when it comes to electronically mediated music. There’s the robotic cycling of the cicada, the semi-sentient hum of an aging refrigerator, the proto-minimal-techno rumble of the subway, the piercing …
The great netlabel Monotonik (mono211.com) closed out 2007 not with another in its ongoing free new electronic releases — but with a tasty archival entry. Back in 2000, on his own Systorm …
Just as 2007 was quickly coming to a close, Taylor Deupree posted a quiet, two-minute paean to time that was almost immediately past. He explained his process on his website, 12kblog.wordpress.com, as follows:
today, on the last day of 2007, …
Before it recedes too far into my memory, a quick note about a panel discussion I attended last month. On December 11, 2007, at the San Francisco offices of the software development company behind Songbird (songbirdnest.com), a quartet of …
New Zealand’s Tim Coster is a musician, label owner, and concert promoter whose own creative output often focuses on the use of field recordings. There’s a nearly 20-minute live performance by him available at archive.org. Titled “three parts of …
Quick News, Links, Bits: (1) Brian Eno is advising the British Liberal Democrats leader Nick Clegg on “youth issues” (bbc.co.uk). … (2) The sign for the Long Now Foundation’s museum and …
This is what I’ve been most focused on, listening-wise, this past week:
(1) If it’s possible to imagine a merging of Charles Mingus’s muddy, deeply felt jazz and Morton Feldman’s proto-ambient classical arrangements, this …
Re-uploaded six additional archival interviews I’ve done, dating back to 1995. Here they are in something approximating alphabetical order:
Autechre’s Sean Booth (circa Chiastic Slide and Cichlisuite) on architecture and technology, 1997 (”More Songs About Buildings”)
Dub Assassin on learning from …
From an obituary of Joybubbles, born Josef Engressia (May 25, 1949 — August 8, 2007), the “original granddaddy phone phreak”:
Someday there will be no need of the dial tone, and for a few of us it will be as …
There is beauty in decay. The beauty in destruction is more complicated, ethically and artistically. The composer Karlheinz Stockhausen’s all-too-timely comments about the spectacle that was the destruction of the Twin Towers in Manhattan on 9/11 haunted him right up …