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 […]
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Ben Owen – Scored Instruction for Durations / Michael Pisaro – Ascending Series (2.1)
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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 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 […]
Ryu Hankil – The Sound of one hand Typing
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Ryu Hankil’s solo improvisation at Echoraum from Balloon & Needle on Vimeo. I attended a seminar on Kafka and Philosophy on Thursday (which I will write more about in posts this week) which culminated in an amazing hour-long lecture by Henry Sussman, Visiting Professor of Germanic Languages from Yale university. I found the day enormously stimulating, but […]
Tronics: Love Backed by force – Early 80’s post-punk DIY.
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Tronics were a post-punk band from London, fronted by Ziro Baby (more recently known as Zarjaz). Between 1979 and 1984 Tronics released four singles, a cassette, an LP and a flexi-disc. A brief flirtation with the “mainstream” indie scene culminated with a single on the Creation label. The band started in 1977 as a fairly standard thrash/punk outfit called […]
Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening. 31 – 35
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This post is part of a series. You can see the previous post here. We’re moving into the 1970’s now with this wonderful list. We’re bleeding into the very tip of the 70’s and stretching ourselves to some far out places. If the 1960’s were groovy, then the 1970’s were highly experimental. I didn’t really […]
Creel Pone #4: Take me to Electronic Heaven
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This post is part of a series. Read the earlier posts for more on Creel Pone. My Creel Pone post is a real treat this week. I actually wrote this one on the back of the other because the music was too exciting to leave for a few weeks. We have 100 (or so) albums […]
Keith Rowe and John Tilbury: E.E. Tension and Circumstance – A concert I wish I hadn’t missed.
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` I’m new to the world of Keith Rowe and John Tilbury, so my initial connection to them both was to listen to excerpts of this album (I don’t have the album yet) from the Dusted review (written by Bill Meyer) and the review by Richard Pinnell on his (incredibly excellent) blog The Watchful Ear about the […]
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