Archive for the 'mp3' Category
"The history of recorded music in Chicago during the 20th century was broad and deep, traversing sonic areas both familiar and unknown."
Ubuweb on Twitter
January 20th, 2010
Ubu has been tweeting additions to their own archives as well as avant garde music/knowledge finds elsewhere on the web.
Dispersion of Sound Waves in Ice Sheets
January 15th, 2010
"The high frequencies of the popping and cracking noises are transmitted faster by the ice than the deeper frequencies, which reach the listener with a time lag as glissandi sinking to almost bottomless depths."
Ogden Nash
January 1st, 2010
The author reads some poems, with accompaniment.
How come that blood
December 16th, 2009
Amazing new track from Sam Amidon.
The Pillars of Baalbek
October 27th, 2009
Call it a ritual
October 5th, 2009
"you said the desert will eat us alive /
i said i'll make the decisions you just drive"
California Dreamer
October 5th, 2009
"Oh I think I might have heard you on the radio /
But the radio waves were like snow"
Bebey (DJ /Rupture and Matt Shadetek remix)
September 9th, 2009
Off the forthcoming Solar Life Raft mix, which I am know even more breathlessly anticipating.
All my friends are funeral singers
September 9th, 2009
"What will I do without the weight of you?"
Tangeier
July 14th, 2009
Man does this build.
John Fahey
July 2nd, 2009
Experimental etc. collects a massive number of Fahey albums.
Josef van Wissem at Ubu Web
June 29th, 2009
"Jozef Van Wissem's favorite compositional device is the palindrome. The Dutch-born, Brooklyn-based lutenist plays pieces forward, then backward, creating music that is potentially without beginning or end. Although this strategy is rooted in 17th century compositional practice, it still serves his agenda of rescuing his archaic instrument from history's dustbin."
Polmo Polpo live in Montreal, 2003
May 9th, 2009
Mutek podcast recording of a Polmo Polpo live appearance in 2003.
Here’s Looking at You Kid
February 2nd, 2009
"You can tell Gayle, if she calls, / That I'm famous now for all of these rock and roll songs. / And even if that's a lie, she should've given me a try."
Standing Pat: The St. James Infirmary Blues Appendix
December 6th, 2008
Even more St James Infirmary.
So Young, So Cold , So Fair : The Saint James Infirmary Blues
December 6th, 2008
Just in case you find yourself wanting to listen St James Infirmary Blues. A lot.
Welcome to Old Time Radio
December 6th, 2008
Archive.org's massive collection of old time radio plays, one of the most obsolete forms of art.
Faulkner’s Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature
November 30th, 2008
"There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat."
