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[ August 31, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Image of the Week: Loud Roots

The interface of Weather Report on the Brick Table, which will serve as the foundation of a new installation, Roots, by Jordan Hochenbaum, Owen Vallis, and Memo Akten:

Roots will be on view at Minitek: …

[ August 30, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Quote of the Week: Sebald’s Radio

This is attributed to the late German writer W.G. Sebald during the last year of his life, 2001:
as i lay down i turned on the radio set standing on the wine crate beside the bed. the names of cities …

[ August 29, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / New Trio of Tech-Metal MP3s from Drumpcorps

The whole new-retail mode of “download for free, buy the snazzy version at a premium” isn’t restricted to the established likes of Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead. Drumpcorps (aka Aaron Spectre), long a …

[ August 28, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / “Molotov” Cocktail MP3 from Bass Communion

Can something be searing and sedate at the same time? More to the point, can some single thing, a single slice of sound, be mistaken from a distance just as easily as one …

[ August 25, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / Jon Wozencroft Field Recordings MP3 from Touch

For his entry in the Touch Radio series, its 33rd, Jon Wozencroft has compiled 15 archival recordings, ranging from train sounds he taped for a Neville Brody exhibition, to overheard conversation, to rain and birdsong, to a field recording of …

[ August 24, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Image of the Week: Rock Around the Clock

Beastie Boys’s “So What’cha Want,” the Cure’s “Close to Me,” the Jackson 5′s “ABC”: DJ playlist from a high-school reunion? No, just three of the  nearly three dozen samples from which Girl Talk (aka Gregg Gillis) constructed the mash-up “What …

[ August 23, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Quote of the Week: Radio Free Korea

This Baruch Gottlieb, director and co-founder of SFX Seoul, as quoted in The Korea Times on August 20:
Radio is a presence in our lives. It’s kind of like a soundtrack to our lives. Something that you don’t know quite …