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[ April 30, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / Communal Fourth World Chat Room MP3s

Chat rooms have a bad rap. They’ve gained a touch of the aura that used to hover around the word “hacker.” Though today it means something closer to “entrepreneur,” hacker used to be equivalent to “dangerous anti-social malcontent.” Chat rooms …

[ April 30, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / DJ Spooky/MIT Book Review in Nature Magazine (May 1, 2008)

My review of the new book Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (MIT Press), edited by Paul D. Miller, is in the latest issue of Nature magazine, dated May 1 — founded …

[ April 28, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / Stephen Vitiello/Beta Collide Tape MP3

In the current moment of hybrid music, of field recordings mixed with live performance, of remixes that can pass as first-draft compositions, of laptop-enhanced traditional instrumentation, it can be informative, not to mention entertaining, to listen before you look, or …

[ April 27, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Image of the Week : Grandmaster Flash Back

As the April issue of Wired is being replaced on newsstands by the May one (an Apple cover story giving way to Steve Carell’s mug), here’s a shot from the former:

Photographed by Nick Waplington, …

[ April 26, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Quote of the Week: Furby-tronics

This is Thomas Fang speaking about circuit bending in advance of the Bent Festival, to be held this weekend in Manhattan:
The spirit of circuit bending is random effects — fucking with the electronics system until you get something you …

[ April 25, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / Abstract Japanese Turntablism MP3

A fifth anniversary entry from the Turntable Radio podcast features Japanese figures DJ Baku, Exsample (Ken-One, Naoki and Shige) and Miyajima. Like the best abstract turntablism, the work …

[ April 22, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / MP3s of Inventive Beats from Anton Holota

Thanks to the sort of dark, nearly sub-aural thuds that make speaker cabinets rumble with pulmonary might, the dozen tracks on Products of Passed Days by .at/on (born Anton Holota) contribute to a …