Archive for the 'music' Category

Jim Jupp presents the monthly companion programme to The Belbury Parish Magazine blog, The semi-official organ of Ghost Box Records.

nice find, kio.

"I set myself a half-day project to write music specifically for shuffle mode – making use of randomness to try and make something more than the sum of its parts."

"Vaughan Oliver is one of the great (music) designers. His work is highly original and often breathtakingly beautiful. Probably best known for his work for The Pixies and Cocteau Twins on the 4AD label, Oliver’s designs for Scott Walker, His Name Is Alive, Heidi Berry and many other lesser known names is just as remarkable. For someone who claims to have been uninspired by typography at college, his use of type is a joy. In its gestural expressiveness it focuses and enlivens each design with tremendous inventiveness. Oliver’s work often foregrounds dark images produced by photographers who are essential collaborators in the creative process (key names include Simon Larbalestier, Nigel Grierson and Marc Atkins). Also central to his process is a willingness to experiment and a deep engagement with the music. The result is work that is passionate, elegant and highly influential."

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

88 piano keys mapped to 88 Ohio counties.

candidate for the weekend

"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"

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

"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."

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.