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."

Ubu has been tweeting additions to their own archives as well as avant garde music/knowledge finds elsewhere on the web.

"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."

The author reads some poems, with accompaniment.

Amazing new track from Sam Amidon.

"you said the desert will eat us alive / i said i'll make the decisions you just drive"

"Oh I think I might have heard you on the radio / But the radio waves were like snow"

Off the forthcoming Solar Life Raft mix, which I am know even more breathlessly anticipating.

"What will I do without the weight of you?"

Man does this build.

Experimental etc. collects a massive number of Fahey albums.

"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."

Mutek podcast recording of a Polmo Polpo live appearance in 2003.

"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."

Even more St James Infirmary.

Just in case you find yourself wanting to listen St James Infirmary Blues. A lot.

Archive.org's massive collection of old time radio plays, one of the most obsolete forms of art.

"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."