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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.

Ohio is a piano

August 28th, 2009

88 piano keys mapped to 88 Ohio counties.

Stillness is the Move

June 30th, 2009

"after all that we've been through / i know we'll make it after the wait / the question is a truth / there is nothing we can't do / i'll see you along the way baby / the stillness is the move"

Harry Partch - Music Studio

June 22nd, 2009

"I am a philosophic music man, who, long ago, was seduced into musical carpentry."

Don’t Believe the Type!

June 9th, 2009

Amost endlessly amusing. Personal fave: "Garamond, Wayward Son."

Augmented reality scratching

April 29th, 2009

Maybe the best part is the video-applied LP label.

Rock my Religion

April 19th, 2009

I remember seeing part of this in Nesbit classes in school, but I guess there's more to it than just Patti Smith.

Desperate Man Blues

January 30th, 2009

I've been meaning to rent/buy/watch this for a while now. and it's on Pitchfork.tv for the next week. Now if they would just post Season 4 of House. I swear I could watch it all in a week, pitchfork!

souvenir de chine

December 7th, 2008

Music video cunningly taking advantage of birds' (and mice's?) attraction to themselves in mirrors.

MixTape: Top of the songs-to-resuscitate-someone-to Pops

October 17th, 2008

I would totally be into being resuscitated to the beat of Staying Alive, if it came to that.

Banjo used in brain surgery

October 15th, 2008

"A musician who underwent brain surgery to treat a hand tremor played his banjo throughout to test the success of the procedure."

"Since 1983, in addition to his work on and about the violin, Jon Rose has been bowing and recording the music of Fences worldwide. A wide range of atmospheric music can be coaxed from these ubiquitous landmarks."

Kitundu - Sound Artist

September 24th, 2008

New MacArthur fellow who builds hybrid string/turntable instruments that are sort of like harps or pianos as much as anything else, and some "elemental" turntables powered by different natural phenomena.

Noise for Obama

September 18th, 2008

Sadly not one of the many communities that the Obama campaign's inclusive graphic designers thought of. Grassroots are picking up the slack.

Bees

August 12th, 2008

The music, it must be noted, is terrifying. It makes the bees seem like killer robots.

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