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[ May 19, 2009 / bookmark ]

field notes / Tangents: Oliveros Award, Dalek Sounds, Byrne House Music …

Recommended reading, news, and so forth elsewhere:
● PDF: Pauline Oliveros Wins 2009 William Schuman Award (millertheatre.com): As music awards go, the William Schuman has been particularly open-minded. It's gone to classical-tradition figures like David Diamond, jazz-informed mavericks like Gunther Schuller, minimalists like Steve Reich, and out-jazz characters like John Zorn. There's something particularly gratifying about [...]

[ January 20, 2009 / bookmark ]

downstream / Battlestar Galactica (“A Disquiet Follows My Soul”) Remix MP3s

Given that the next episode due out from Battlestar Galactica is titled “A Disquiet Follows My Soul” (air date: January 23), it seems a good time for a quick look at the growing number of BSG remixes — an inevitability, given the TV series’s Steve Reich-ian score cues, as well as the healthy overlap between [...]

[ December 31, 2008 / bookmark ]

reports/essays / Best of 2008: 10 Albums, 10 Downloads, 8 Processes

Three lists this year — two of highly recommended music (one each of 10 commercial full-length recordings and of 10 freely downloadable recordings), and one of 8 cultural processes that came into their own in 2008.
Picking favorites, making lists, is something an individual either is drawn to, or is loathe to participate in. I [...]

[ December 27, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Quote of the Week: Fringe Sonics

In episode 8 of the ongoing first season of Fringe, Fox’s X-Files-like TV series, a young boy is seen during the opening scene in the back of a car, patiently deploying notes on a piece of sheet-music paper. The boy’s father is driving the car, and outside rain falls heavily.

Son: Dad, don’t get mad at [...]

[ December 13, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / Quote of the Week: Sonic Leverage

Dialog from “The Homecoming Job,” the second episode of Leverage, a new TV series on the TNT network about a group of thieves who moonlight as vigilantes, under the tutelage of a former insurance executive played by Timothy Hutton.
In this scene, one of the thieves, Eliot, a seasoned fighter (who may be based, in part, [...]

[ September 7, 2008 / bookmark ]

the crate / Heavy Rotation: Byrne’s ‘Hymnal,’ Fehlmann’s Sidetrips, Akrobatik’s Blueprint

What I’ve been most focused on, listening-wise, this past week:
Thomas Fehlmann’s self-deflatingly titled Visions of Blah (Kompakt) is about half standard-issue, if masterfully textured, techno: all loungey backbeats and gentle grooves. But then there are the surprises, like the churning, gurgling, dastardly noise of “Rainbow Over Stadtautobahn” and the almost embarrassingly lush “Boheme Rouge,” on [...]

[ July 1, 2008 / bookmark ]

field notes / tangents / Electroplankton, Alaska, cabaret …

Quick News, Links, Bits, Reads: Playing catch up on links I’ve accumulated. … Is the Nintendo DS video game Electroplankton out of print? Someone’s selling it for over 70 bucks, used, on amazon.com. (Thanks, Jeff.) … Speaking of which, amazon.com has updated its underacknowledged free-download service, now as part of the blue-light specials at amazon.com/mp3deals. [...]