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Via makezine.com comes news of this ingenious hybrid of a CD and a 5″ vinyl single: The delightful item is the brainstorm of musician Jeff Mills, a storied Detroit techno DJ. It serves as the medium for his recent, science-fiction-themed effort, The Occurrence — Sleeper Wakes. It’s useful to read the Mills hybrid as an [...]
Recommended reading, news, and so forth elsewhere: Life After Transducers: Interview by Federico Placidi with sound artist and composer Agostino Di Scipio at usoproject.blogspot.com. He imagines a possible life cycle of electronic/electric music: FP: What would happen to your works if one day there were no more possibility to perform it in a socially shared [...]
Belatedly and apologetically, an important download announcement: get your browser over to ninjatunexx.com, where the MP3 giveaway of the week — in celebration of the Ninja Tune label’s 20th anniversary — is “Moon River,” as reconsidered by turntable expressionist Kid Koala (aka Eric San). The song is only available for about another eight hours, and [...]
Attention to Martin Skelly‘s “Playlist Player” has apparently swamped his website. In the meanwhile, photos in addition to these are at Skelly’s flickr.com set. Via iso50.com, this is Skelly on how it functions: “There are two parts to the design: the player, and the record box containing five different coloured covers. Once the playlists are [...]
Fully half the top 10 most popular posts on Disquiet.com in the past month were not MP3 downloads (out of a total of 44 posts in April). It’s always a little rewarding to know people are checking out the site for something other than free music. These entries include: (1) the second in a series [...]
Christoph Hess is a Bern, Switzerland-based turntablist who treats his instrument of choice the way John Cage treated pianos. Under the name Strotter Inst., he sticks everything from string to sewing needles into his wheels of steel in an effort to expand the tool’s sonic capabilities. The result is a deeply textured approach to performance. [...]
Achim Mohné‘s new podcast isn’t particularly new. It was recorded in July 2000 at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. But it sounds as fresh as a new layer of dust, and just as delicate. To hear the piece in 2010 for the first time is as if a room had been left undisturbed for a [...]