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[ February 29, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Tangents / Video Streams (ping pong, Electroplankton, anechoic …)

Videos Worth Streaming: Robot orchestra made of ping pong balls and glasses (engadget.com). … And a band whose instruments are a Nintendo DS (with Electroplankton) and two handheld Apple products (dhadm.com). … Music made only from sounds …

[ February 29, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Tangents / Macero, Mosquito, videos …

Quick News, Links, Bits, Reads: A belated R.I.P. for Teo Macero, studio maven and Miles Davis fellow maverick (latimes.com, nytimes.com, jazztimes.com, pitchforkmedia.com). … The Mosquito, a high-pitched anti-truancy weapon mentioned here previously (disquiet.com, …

[ February 28, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / Drone MP3 by (and Interview with) Joanna Brouk

Back in 1972, Charles Amirkhanian interviewed the under-recognized composer Joanna Brouk. Audio of the interview is interspersed with examples of her work, which as heard in this 70-minute recording is comprised of slow, lengthy, drone-like performances on acoustic instruments …

[ February 26, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / Simple Tom Moody MP3

The 8bit, lo-fi artist Tom Moody says he likes “tunes built around a single sound.” His song “Nice Nemesis,” a post about which on Moody’s blog included that clause, is certainly simple enough to meet those standards (MP3). …

[ February 25, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / Buddha Machine Jam MP3

Just to follow up on this morning’s mention about a difference between two generations of the Buddha Machine, here’s a late-night jam on various instruments atop a bed of drones familiar to anyone who’s picked up one of FM3’s little …

[ February 25, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Buddha Machine 2.0?

This isn’t news on the order of a multi-touch iPod, a less brick-like Zune, or a post-DRM Sony MP3 player — but the Buddha Machine has apparently experienced an upgrade.

This milestone in the product life cycle of the sound-art …

[ February 23, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Sounding Out the Game Developers Conference (San Francisco)

Some of the most widely publicized news from this past week’s Game Developers Conference (gdconf.com), held in San Francisco at the Moscone Center from February 18 - 22, centered on a sixth-sense device, from Emotiv (emotiv.com), that uses …

[ February 23, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Quote of the Week: Autechre’s Crack

From an interview with Autechre’s Rob Brown at pitchforkmedia.com on the occasion of the new album Quaristice:

But there is a kind of yearning for a big musical movement to blow everything else away, and I guess r&b …

[ February 22, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / Warp Founder Interview MP3

Up at the Red Bull Music Academy, a conversation with Steve Beckett, Warp Records founder, on the rise of rave culture, the influence of hip-hop on electronic music, how British geography shapes culture, early adventures in online distribution, working with …

[ February 20, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / Classic Wieland Samolak MP3s

Not all the freely downloadable music at the website of Robert (Monolake) Henke is outtakes of Henke’s past recordings. He some time back posted the complete, out-of-print album Steady State Music, released by Wieland Samolak in 1993. It was the …