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[ May 11, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Image of the Week: Steampunk Sequencer

This is the Sequential Resonation Machine, created by Joseph Casbarian:

According to the post at oddmusic.com, the machine is a kind of mashup of a sequencer and a pipe organ. Three MP3s on the …

[ May 10, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Quote of the Week: Roots Maneuver

From the title track of the brand new Roots album, Rising Down:

Look at technology they call it downloading
I call it downsizing somebody follow me
Does a computer chip have an astrology?
And when it fuck up could it give you …

[ May 9, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / String-Based Ambient MP3 Collection

The 22-track, various-artist String Ambient collection benefits from a more literal enaction of its title than some record labels may have elected for. There are, indeed, harps and ukuleles and acoustic guitars put …

[ May 7, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / NIN MP3s: This Dub’s for You

The leader of Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor, announced this week the release of a new NIN album, and it’s available entirely for free. He did so with a simple statement: “Thank you …

[ May 6, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / Turntablism MP3 Megamix

The latest podcast from tablist.net — that’s “tablist” as in “turntablism” — collects about 20 tracks by the unsung home-studio strivers who are regulars on the tablist.net website, alongside some accomplished beatmaker players. The contents range from rhythm-heavy studio …

[ May 5, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / 21-Year-Old Henri Chopin 7″ MP3

Courtesy of musician Steve Roden’s blog, inbetweennoise.blogspot.com, a five-minute recording of Henri Chopin, the pioneering poet who passed away earlier this year. Roden has ripped to MP3 format the 7″ that accompanied the 1987 Chopin catalog published by Galerie …

[ May 4, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Image of the Week: Tales of Hofmann

This is the face — and, more to the point, those are the eyes — of Albert Hofmann, the Sandoz chemist who first synthesized LSD.

Hofmann passed away this past Monday, April 28, at the …

[ May 3, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Quote of the Week: Gann’s Horoscope

This is the sort of sentence that Kyle Gann says he used to fantasize inserting into his music criticism:
Don’t bother attending Nic Collins’s Roulette concert this Friday, Mercury is retrograding over his midheaven, and it’s a sure bet his …

[ May 2, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / Nine Industrial Drone MP3s from Quiet Covenant

Nine extended industrial drones comprise the album Underneath, credited to Quiet Covenant and made available for free download courtesy of the estimable netlabel Dark Winter. Each track is a decaying sine wave, a …