The world of video-game music is just that, a whole realm unto itself, with its own rules, its own obsessions, its own stars, it’s own logic. Judging by the sheer density of video-game-music sites, there is a large group of people much of whose listening time is spent on pixelated tunes that, by tone and [...]
This is one of several images from Paul Madonna’s current art exhibit at Electric Works, a gallery in San Francisco. It was used for the show’s promotional postcards, and it’s also the cover of his new book, titled Album:
Images of old audio equipment are a staple of this collection of Madonna’s nostalgic paintings and drawings, [...]
Recommended reading, news, and so forth elsewhere:
● The Difference Between Abstract Music & Abstract Comics (factualopinion.com): "The only real difference is that the guys who make the Buddha Machine don't start calling people idiots when they say they'd prefer a little more music with their purchase of sound," writes Tucker Stone.
● Second International Conference on [...]
From The Strain, the new vampire novel by Guillermo del Toro (Cronos, Pan’s Labyrinth, the forthcoming two-part The Hobbit) and Chuck Hogan (The Prince of Thieves):
“Now she was hearing it again. Same noise she’d been hearing since arriving for her shift, only steadier now, louder. A humming. A droning sound, and the weird thing was, [...]
Star Trek’s Spock, reminiscing in a short comic published in the May 2009 issue of Wired:
By the time I joined Starfleet years later, I had become quite proficient at the harp.
However, I noticed an interesting effect of the music on the human mind. For Vulcans the music was a means of purging emotions by giving [...]
The top 10 posts for the last 31 days are as follows, grouped here for the sake of comparison:
As always, free music (i.e., free MP3s) is a major draw, though it’s rewarding, personally, that just three of this month’s top entries come from the site’s daily Downstream section: (1) Serial, asynchronous collaboration with street sounds [...]
To celebrate the 100th anniversary this past September of the birth of famed sound tinkerer, the Japanese toy manufacturer Presspop, working with musician and artist Archer Prewitt, has released an collectible figurine of Raymond Scott:
Scott is pictured by a replica Clavivox, one of his many inventions, and the whole thing comes with a CD. More [...]