Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. Henry Miller Hello lovely precious readers, (where would the world be without readers?) I wanted to draw your attention to this wonderful interview with my Publisher Seb […]
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Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening. 36 – 40
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Oh you’re in for a treat here. Just don’t ever say I never do anything for you! The section of five on at 36-40 on this remarkable list are some of my deadliest favorites in the collection. The five albums below may have set the world on fire, but there is no doubt they did […]
Ben Owen – Scored Instruction for Durations / Michael Pisaro – Ascending Series (2.1)
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Ben Owen – Scored Instruction for Duration Available from the Compost and Height Split series as download. From the notes: Recorded: 20080527 52° 29′ 41.12″ N 13° 25′ 32.23″ E Landwehrkanal, Berlin, Germany The score is 10 minutes in duration. When the piece is played this specified duration is left to the perception of the […]
The Ear – They’re watching you.
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During the early 1960’s, director Karel Kachyna met Moravian writer, Jan Prochazka and their long collaboration produced many of the key films in Kachyna’s oeuvre. In 1968, under Soviet occupation and during the Normalisation period when the stranglehold was starting to decend over Czech film, Kachyna’s darin gpoliticalnoir-dramaUcho (The Ear, 1970) was withheld from circulation […]
The Quorum by Joshua Cohen – Playing at being human, away from the grunt and take.
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Because we shouldn’t believe in nations, because we have forsaken our traditions or our traditions have forsaken us, because only individuals matter to those who happen to be one… because everyone has their own voice and we’re all speaking at once, connected through a disconnect and yet still insisting on our fundamental differences, that we’re […]
Eric La Casa and Tarab – Sounds of magnified beauty.
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I’m very fortunate to have made a great friend in Patrick Farmer over the last week. What is fast turning into a creative conversation, started from an introduction to the wonderful Compost and Height Split Series. The series is completely sold out now, but the downloads are still available cheaply, and I am indulging in each of them this […]
Suzanne Ciani – Atari and other forms of love
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http://www.junostatic.com/ultraplayer/09/MicroPlayer.swf As we are all well aware now, I have a new-found love and passion for different types of experimental music – the world of sound opening up for me currently is nothing short of life-altering. There is one small problem with these joyous discoveries. The deeper toward sound I move, the fewer women around […]
Albert Marcoeur: Album a Colorier – Resisting definition
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I read in a Pitchfork review for another album, that Marcoeur has been called the French Zappa, except that he doesn’t sound much like Zappa and he lives. I agree that he isn’t like Zappa (at all, at all) but I thought it was a rather funny definition. Originally from Normandy, Albert Marcoeur defuses all […]
The Party and the Guests: Jan Němec – the film they banned for years.
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A Report on the Party and the Guests (Czech: O slavnosti a hostech, also known in English as The Party and the Guests) is a 1966 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Jan Němec. It was entered for the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was aborted owing to the events of May 1968 in France. This film has the illustrious reputation of being […]
The Squid – Aaron Dilloway & C Spencer Yeh go deep.
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One of the things I’m loving about my new-found Noise appreciation, is learning what I like and why I like it. This week I’ve been working hard on my forthcoming book of short stories and its brought out the literature in the sounds. Where associations were an ‘imprint’ before (I love this song because of what I […]
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