downstream / Remix EP from Silences Sumire (MP3s)
The act Silences Sumire released one of 2008′s best albums, a collection of heavily remixed jazz elements called Return Is Selective, on the digital arm of the Ropeadope record label. The extent to …
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[ December 26, 2008 / bookmark ]
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downstream / Old-School Esther Venrooy MP3
Esther Venrooy’s The Spiral Staircase album is represented on the website of its releasing label, Entr’acte (entracte.co.uk), by a single download (MP3), six and a half minutes of saw-toothed wave forms that suggest music several decades in the …
[ December 24, 2008 / bookmark ]
downstream / Free Noise-Drone MP3 from Growing
The band Growing earlier this year released All the Way, among its tracks one they opted to distribute via free download. Titled “Green Flag” (MP3), it’s the piece with which the album …
[ December 23, 2008 / bookmark ]
downstream / Have a Very 8-Bit Christmas (MP3s)
Tis the season for blippy, retro fun. The 8-bit mode has infected everything from toys to fashion, so why not seasonal favorites? Enter Doctor Octoroc’s 8-Bit Jesus: Classic Christmas Songs in the Style …
[ December 22, 2008 / bookmark ]
downstream / Free Jonathan Coleclough Performance MP3
The musician and “sound organizer” Jonathan Coleclough takes small sounds and amplifies them. As a result of his careful, artful alchemy, it isn’t just the sounds that are expanded, but the spaces within the sounds. The Rare Frequency podcast (…
[ December 21, 2008 / bookmark ]
field notes / Tag Clouds: Ambient, Noise, Plurality
Finally got around to cleaning up the tags that are attributed to this site’s posts. The “tags” are terms such as “turntablism,” “classical,” “gadget,” and the ever popular “free,” which help categorize the coverage.
There had been a lot of …
[ December 21, 2008 / bookmark ]
field notes / Image of the Week: Sky Eavesdropper
From artist Steve Roden’s deep bag of sound-related esoterica:
Writes Roden, “a detail from a 1940′s ‘linen’ postcard (so called because of the texture of the paper), of some military men with an …