A character in the opening chapter of Don DeLillo’s new novella, Point Omega (published this past Tuesday, February 2, in the U.S.), finds himself in a gallery that is showing a work of art by Douglas Gordon. The work is Gordon’s 24 Hour Psycho (1993). Gordon took the Alfred Hitchcock classic (which turns 50 this [...]
Maybe the equation is this simple: SoundCloud.com = Twitter.com + BandCamp.com. But such cursory Web 2.0 mathematics doesn’t do justice to the resulting combination.
Thanks to a clean and smoothly functioning mix of friend-collecting, list-making, track-favoriting, and general music-uploading (and -downloading, including the ability to charge/pay for tracks), not to mention -listening, the SoundCloud music [...]
Been awhile since the most recent Disquiet.com overview of notable stories elsewhere on the web. He’s a quick rundown, to bridge the gap from 2009 to 2010:
● Why Brian Eno’s score to Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones is reportedly not eligible for an Oscar (thewrap.com, via moviescoremagazine.com).
● Thanks to Google Translate, an interview with composer [...]
The Fotofono studio space in Brooklyn, New York, recently posted three binaural recordings from a live performance by five accomplished electronic musicians. A lot of music can be labeled “for headphones only,” but nothing is as literally headphone-oriented as is a proper binaural recording. The process involves placing microphones in a way that mimics the [...]
Raster-Noton’s Frank Bretschneider was among the performers at the Decibel Festival in Seattle late last month, and this image is representative of his “audio-responsive digital geometry”:
As the complex figure’s shape suggests, it needs to be experienced in motion to be fully appreciated. Festival report, including video of Bretschneider’s performance, at xlr8r.com. Image courtesy of raster-noton.net. [...]
The past month’s visits to Disquiet.com were weighted unusually — it’s almost always the case that the most popular posts involve the week-daily free-MP3 recommendations, from the Downstream section of the site. But in September, only four of the top ten were Downstream pieces: (1) the remixed African hip-hop of Oh No’s Ethiopium, (2) the [...]
Caught the initial concert of the three-event, two-day, first ever On Land Festival in San Francisco. It featured a mix of electronic music, freak folk, and post-rock on Saturday, September 19 (the first two shows), and Sunday, September 20 (the closing show).
The Saturday afternoon event, held in the Swedish American Hall up above Cafe [...]