Directed by Nicolás Méndez . Louis and I , math music and s creenshots. We were trying to illustrate our love for both math and music . Also pictured are some screenshots discussing the video. Roman Signer, Zelt , 2002. Ryan McGinley, Untitled (Hot Springs) , 2005 Thanks to our great [...]
I woke up with a horrible hangover this morning. I decided to go out with friends last night to prove to them that I'm not a total recluse, and I wound up raging pretty hard. We started out night by playing some drinking game with a deck of playing cards that I think I remember hearing about in high school once. I was not very good at it, but it enabled me to drink a few beers in a very short amount of time. We headed out to the bars at about 10:30 and the next 4 hours were kind [...]
Feb 13, 2010, 11:14pm
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For this purpose the qualification "beautiful" or "ugly" makes no sense for sound, nor for the music that derives from it; the quantity of intelligence carried by the sounds must be the true criterion of the validity of a particular music. - Iannis Xenakis Closet Mouth - Hello Little Child
Iannis Xenakis was a vile man who like to break violinists' fingers. No really, that's the only possible explanation for Mikka "S" , which he clearly wrote in a fit of pique in 1976. It requires the musician to play two simultaneous sliding drones on the instrument, often with the fingers moving in opposite directions up and down the neck. One day, there will be no violinists left, and who will be laughing then? Not Xenakis, that's for sure, as he died in 2001 and the world is a poorer place for the loss of [...]
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I, along with a large proportion of the London population it seemed, opted to spend most of Saturday in The Barbican Centre. They were billing it as "do something different day"; the ziggurat was full of kids making bags and butterflies, people running around playing team games, and me: skulking around in the shadows [...]
ALEC EMPIRE TALKS TO CHRISTOPH DE BABALON ABOUT HIS NEW ALBUM, BREAKCORE, SAMPLING TECHNOLOGY AND GREEK MYTHOLOGY Alec Empire: "Please tell us about your new album. What made you come up with the concept? I think it is outstanding that a musician would think himself into such a imaginary world and drags the listener into it." Christoph de Babalon: "My new album "Scylla [...]
"...the reports of dozens of machine guns and the whistle of bullets add their punctuations to this total disorder. The crowd is then rapidly dispersed, and after sonic and visual hell follows a detonating calm, full of despair, dust, and death. The statistical laws of these events, separated from their political or moral context, are the same as those of the cicadas or the rain. They are the laws of the passage from complete order to total disorder in a continuous or explosive manner. They are stochastic laws." [...]
I'm not sure how many of you have been reading this page for a while, but some of you may remember last summer's "The Great Chili Cook-off That Never Was" . 368 days ago, I tried to attend the Beverly Hills Farmer's Market Chili Cook-off. I showed up too late, and lamented my misfortunate for longer than I should have considering I didn't have a job or anything to do that day anyway. Nevertheless, when I saw this past week that somebody had Google'd "Beverly Hills Farmers Market Chili Cook-off", I got to thinking that maybe it was an [...]
The 80th Scripps National Spelling Bee is starting today. This has been one of the few days so far where I have missed having a television in my place of residence. For some reason, I have always been really interested in watching ESPN's coverage of the cute little kids spelling words I've never even heard spoken aloud before. I think I've seen at least five in a row until this year. It used to be a treat when I would come home plastered in the wee hours of the morning and catch a rerun of a past spelling be on [...]
Another week has ended. A new week is set to begin. I hope your weekends went swimmingly. Maybe some of you even swam somewhere? The weather sure has been warm enough, right? I don't really know, I'm just saying that. For all I know eighty-five percent of the country could be covered in snow. Well, since you asked...my day was nice. I went shopping this morning for groceries and toiletries, then I had a good healthy lunch, and then I spent the afternoon joking around with Steve. We walked down the street drinking matching pink smoothies. It was [...]
[ October 5, 2006 / bookmark ] XENAKIS TAPE-MUSIC MP3: The website of PS1/MoMA, wps1.org , is Byzantine, which is to say, yes, it may be hell to navigate, but that's only partially because of an interface that employs pulldown menus, javascript popops and nested subdirectories to seeming crosspurposes. It's also because it's just so rich with goods. Take, for example, the Sonorama series of audiocasts, curated by longtime Downtown music figure Elliott Sharp, whose dozens upon dozens of broadcasts thus far range from Max Neuhaus's take on John Cage's "Fontana Mix" [...]
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