Music Review – Gas – Wolfgang Voigt’s Techno-Minimalism Is Paired With Brian Eno’s Serenity
Sadly, we left Montreal a couple of days before his Mutek performance.
Good news is though, Syracuse is one of only a handful of stops on the Alva Noto / Bytone Raster-Noton North American tour this week.
…also wrote and conceptualized the 15 minute film surrounding Michael Jackson’s “Bad” video.
via Richard Price (writer) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The wonderful bookish blog A Journey Round My Skull has a post this week highlighting the fact that Charles Seliger: Redefining Abstract Expressionism is available (at least partially) on Google Books.
I was shocked to see Seliger’s 1944 work Organic Form in my RSS reader, as it’s a piece I’m well familiar with– it was the basis for my kind of project from 2004.
I need a big long project like this one again– I’m already getting excited about the possibilities for all the new basement space we’ll get in our new house (coming Saturday!).
Anyway, in honor of being reminded of this guy, here’s the final phase of my project, a short video, uploaded to youtube and magnificently degraded. Better versions here.
DANIEL MILLER (THE NORMAL) INTERVIEW. MAYO THOMPSON INTERVIEWED WHILE LOOKING SHARP AS HELL. DAVID THOMAS NO SOCKS. MORRISSEY JUST WALKING DOWN A STREET. MAYBE LIKE HALF A SECOND OF HARRIET WHEELER. SOME JARVIS. AN ENDEARING MOMENT WITH DUFFY. EXCUSE CAPS PLEASE BUT THIS IS SERIOUS FOLKS.
Do It Yourself – The Story Of Rough Trade. via WFMU.
& because it’s relevant: the mute records logo:
Side One:
I Wonder
Are You Real?
My Dying Machine
You Are, You Are
Complex
ME
I’m an Agent
I, Assassin
I Die, You Die
Side Two:
Oh! Didn’t I Say
This Is My Life
Me! I Disconnect from You
Everyday I Die
I Can’t Stop
I Can’t Breathe
This House Is Cold
We Are So Fragile
Glitter and Ash
Bunch of rad Yaz remixes. Diplo one especially. via Missingtoof.com.
Here’s the Hercules and Love Affair one they mention. Not H&LC’s best work, sadly.
While we’re at it, how about some Phil Collins? I know, I was surprised too.
“Fully working, manual record player made entirely of paper. To play the record the handle needs to be turned in a clockwise direction at a steady 331/3rpm. The paper conethen acts as a pickup, amplifying the sound enough to make it audible. (Record shown,
The Sound of Music 1965). – Simon Elvins. via KOMPAKT blog.
Fi-Hi : UBDJ – Urban DJ Mixer: Mixer.
This is the first mixing tool I’ve seen for non-vinyl formats that’s actually interesting. It’s cheap and portable, just like the things you’re supposed to use as inputs, and it leaves cueing and stuff up to the devices.
This would be amazing in a car, or as a theme to a party where everyone brings their iPods and are on the hook to mix.
It’s as forces are actually conspiring to make me miss that place– The Bell House got like 100x better the second we left. Still, though, no regrets.
What the link doesn’t mention is that Larry Johnson also performed, Sarah Vowell DJ’d, and that Kristen Schaal apparently played theremin while dressed in some kind of foam suit. Pretty awesome night when a GNR cover band is actually the lamest part of the bill.
Luckily, this morning, I was able to buy tickets to see both Sarah Vowell and Bell House regular AC Newman in Syracuse and Ithaca, respectively in the coming weeks.
A bunch of early 20th Century cylinder recordings are now available from the Belfer Audio Archive at SU, including this one:
boo.
…is how I was singing The Cure’s Fire In Cairo in the shower this morning, for some reason.
I’m really loving this deluxe edition of the Three Imaginary Boys album (which came out forever ago), I think it has jumped ahead of Head on the Door as my favorite Cure album. The extras on the 2-disc set are pretty good, but mainly I’m just happy about how crisp it all sounds… much better than my flimsy old Austrailian vinyl copy.
Dig those dancing Boston teens.
