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[ April 13, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Aero-Mic’d @ Meridian Gallery (San Francisco)

Due to some impending travel, I could only stay for the first set at Friday night’s Meridian Gallery triple bill in San Francisco. Meridian co-founder Anne Brodzky opened the show by commenting on how the evening’s performances served as kind …

[ April 12, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Quote of the Week: Millhauser’s “Next”

From Steven Millhauser’s short story “The Next Thing” in the May 2008 issue of Harper’s magazine:
And I seemed to hear, along with the clatter of shopping carts, and voices in the nearby aisles, the dim sounds of a summer night: …

[ April 11, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / Live Madlib Mix MP3

The estimable left-field hip-hop label Stones Throw’s latest podcast entry is a contribution by prolific producer Madlib. Recorded live at the Hella International event at last year’s Miami Winter Music Conference, it’s a short live set that emphasizes …

[ April 9, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / Tape Music MP3 (And OGG)

The tape work “Dreaming in Darkness” was performed at the Other Minds festival in San Francisco last month — and already at the festival’s audio catalog at archive.org there’s a downloadable MP3 (and OGG) of the piece, …

[ April 7, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Michael Barth Meyers’s Sound Sculptures @ Johansson Gallery (Oakland, California)

The artist Michael Barth Meyers had an exhibit last autumn at the Johansson Projects gallery in Oakland. I missed the exhibit, but when I dropped by the gallery earlier this year, two pieces were still hanging. Both evidence Meyer’s emphasis …

[ April 7, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / Don Buchla Interview MP3

Red Bull Music Academy continues its ongoing series of interviews with under-celebrated music-industry characters. With a voice reminiscent of Tom Carvel’s, Don Buchla talks about various stages in the history of the synthesizer in a wide-ranging, two-hour conversation, all about …

[ April 5, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Marble Music (San Francisco)

The marble blocks that hold up the railings at One Bush Plaza in downtown San Francisco always look to me like sheet music:


[ April 5, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Quote of the Week: Dinger, RIP

News spread this week of the passing in mid-March of Neu! and Kraftwerk musician Klaus Dinger, an early rock’n'roll proponent of man-machine interfaces. The following comment by Brian Eno was quoted frequently, perhaps because of its inclusion in the New …

[ April 4, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / Multi-Locale Soundscape M4A by Novi_sad

Forget the proverbial best of both worlds — courtesy of the latest free download from Touch Radio, the spinoff of the eminent Touch label, you can have a 22-minute artificial soundscape comprised of elements from at least four audio worlds: …

[ April 3, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / Brutal New Drumcorps Mix MP3

New Drumcorps mix up, all digitally mutated metal riffs turned into dessicated dance music. It’s featured in the “New Music Download” podcast series from UK Channel 4 radio in Britain, hosted by Tom Ravenscroft (MP3). (It’s the episode from …