I keep going back to this beautiful story in my head. After having had a show cancelled, steve roden drove back home and performed there alone, when the sun was rising. He recorded himself and made the piece available along with the story and a couple of blurry cell phone pictures of the moments in [...]
Back in january I spent some time exploring simple electronic circuits for sound, following the lovely handmade electronic music. One of the greatest discoveries was voltage starving, which gave a great degree of unpredictability to any circuit. I recorded some explorations. I find it interesting to imagine what is happening inside the circuit to make [...]
speaking of which, there’s also The Real London Underground: Experimental Music at the End of the 90s, in which kenneth goldsmith makes a map of the london underground (music) of the time. His mention of chris cutler makes the article appropiately relevant for the discussion sparked by his recent filesharing epiphany published in the wire, [...]
I keep going back to the popular guide to unpopular music, a series of articles on avant-garde music and life written by kenneth goldsmith around the end of last century. On “don’t quit your day job. yet…” he interviews 5 composers about how their (non-composing related) day job has helped and influenced their practice. “High [...]
This was going to be a blog post about how sometimes I discover a new music scene that I have no clue about and get into hunter mode, looking for more about the context, label, whatever in a glutton, semi-intoxicated state, and how this week this has happened with emeralds, and the not-new-york-not-california usa experimental [...]
For those of you who don’t know, L.A.’s dublab.com is simply the best radio station of the internets. I still remember that glorious day that my brother told me “hey you must come and see that!, I’ve discovered a radio station and they’re playing Sun ra’s ‘Space is the Place’. Full length!!” (gracias nono). That [...]
Some time ago, I wondered how could I take some notes about the music I was listening to. After having a look at the last.fm player source code* I instantly saw what a stupid thing I had suggested. In no way I’d be able to figure out that bunch of c++ classes (not that it [...]