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[ November 30, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Image of the Week: Caged Sound

“Cuckoo Radio, Caged Songs Sung (Tick Tock Tick)” is the title of an installation, pictured below, by Ven Voisey, running as part of the Arscape exhibition in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

The cages are speakers …

[ November 29, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Quote of the Week: Eno’s Vocal Unit

This is Brian Eno, on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday (November 23, 2008), discussing the virtues of ensemble singing:

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella …

[ November 28, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / Subterranean Audio Document MP3 by Will Montgomery

Sound documentarian Will Montgomery ventured into the boiler room for his entry in the Touch Radio series (touchradio.org.uk). Montgomery recorded the hissing and clacking and otherwise deeply resonant doings of an underground heating system whose construction dates from the …

[ November 27, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / Free Dubtronic Pole 12″ Prerelease MP3

Few acts have melded digital production with dub as seamlessly as Pole (aka German musician Stefan Betke). His lanky works have mixed snare shots and pixel-precise percussion, deep echo and techno flourishes, gurgling …

[ November 26, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / Lovely Ugly Buddha Piano-Trio Mix MP3

The newly upgraded Buddha Machine (version 2.0) is getting remixed, barely weeks into its commercial release. Over at Kill Ugly Radio (i.e., uglyradio.wordpress.com), the “piano” loop from the Buddha Machine 2.0 has …

[ November 25, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / Thin Blue Rumble Pack MP3

Much like their video-game peers, police officers are adding a rumble pack to their experience of dealing with grand theft auto — and any other incident requiring use of a siren. As Wired …

[ November 24, 2008 / bookmark ]

downstream / World Music/Outward Sounds MP3 Mix by DJ Olive

These days, it isn’t so rare to find a DJ equally comfortable in exhibition halls and dance halls, in galleries and clubs, but long before such renaissance styling was the norm, DJ Olive was the high-low liminal culture figure to …