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.
Archive for the 'music' Category
Bees
August 12th, 2008
The music, it must be noted, is terrifying. It makes the bees seem like killer robots.
fakeisthenewreal.muxtape.com
August 6th, 2008
Neil's mux.
muxtape
August 6th, 2008
here's my muxtape. the theme is "these are 12 songs I like."
MY COLLECTION OF RECORDED 78 RPM RECORDS
July 21st, 2008
Overwhelming collection of mp3s recorded from old 78s.
Researchers make noises of pre-Columbian society
July 17th, 2008
Pre-Columbian audio anthropology.
10 Banned Albums
June 7th, 2008
Davis destroyed 10 banned records and then recorded them playing back. If the photographs correspond to the music playing, its hard to see how some of them still play as recognizably as they do, and for so long. The magic of technology!
Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison
March 27th, 2008
"The recordings were not intended for listening; the idea of audio playback had not been conceived. Rather, Scott sought to create a paper record of human speech that could later be deciphered."
King Carp in a Dan Ryan Ditch
March 7th, 2008
Yes. Yes and yes. I can confirm that these records also work very well in the context of winter in suburban and post-industrial adolescent Massachusetts. Just want to add that the title track on Star above the Manger is maybe one of the best songs of all.
Singing Science
February 24th, 2008
Hilarious archive of science-based songs, including the original of TMBG's "Why does the sun shine?"
Tom Petty’s Los Angeles
February 21st, 2008
Hell yes.
John Cage at Seventy
February 8th, 2008
"In other words, instead of just being about cooking, it will be about everything that interests me. But I will arrange the use of chance operations so that cooking comes up more than anything else."
List of Songs about New York City
December 18th, 2007
Sure are a hell of a lot of these.
Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers
August 28th, 2007
Maybe one of the hardest groups to google on the entire internet, [the user] have been playing it pretty quiet lately, but Angel reminded me about them by talking about printers today.
Control to Efficiency / Efficiency / New Existential clause
Control to Efficiency / Efficiency / New Existential clause
The Future of Music: Credo
August 24th, 2007
Manifestos like Cage's seem to tend to act against the expectations of more everyday futurism, which tends to predict a future like the present, only moreso, by somehow managing the feat of envisioning a future that is truly different from the present.
Aspen Magazine
August 24th, 2007
via leahb. I remember reading some of these essays in school and actually also learning about Aspen at more or less the same time, but I've never delved into it in the way that ubuweb's archive makes possible and to some degree demands. via leahb.
Maestro Gives New Meaning to Traffic Jam
July 2nd, 2007
Despite a very WAH WAH title, this is a great story about a pretty cool project going on in my former temporary hometown. Used to drive over the Mid-Hudson to get from school to the only decent record store in two counties. Synergy!
Postopolis!: Jace Clayton aka DJ/Rupture
June 6th, 2007
Abstract of a talk given by Boston's own Jace Clayton at the recent POSTOPOLIS happening/event/symposium at the Storefront for Art and Architecture. Sorriest to have missed this.
Talk About the Passion
April 10th, 2007
Not everyone can carry the weight of the world.
Hyphy
April 6th, 2007
"Driver walks alongside slow-rolling car with the door open, giving the appearance that the car is driving itself. Passengers ride with all the doors open and sometimes leap out of the moving cars, sometimes dancing on top of the hood."