[ August 31, 2008 / bookmark ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 …