I've been revisiting Pauline Oliveros' 1990 Crone Music . It's her music for an experimental performance of King Lear and it is fascinating stuff. I don't know whether anyone else ever took the accordion on a journey such as this. It's not just her custom instrument, it's the huge array of pedals and processing that she uses. There's some enormous reverb, but what really makes Reason in Madness Mixed so memorable is that way that she'll swerve the listener, and suddenly pitch bend a note off at an unexpected moment. This might [...]
A harsh noise experimentation and audio typology.
wenn man schon so einen gewichtigen namen trägt. auf important records ( aktuelle alben von eliane radigue und merzbow ) gibt es jene musik zu hören, von der mancher nicht einmal zu träumen wagte, geschweige denn sie sich vorzustellen. sie zu hören, ist eine andere bank. doch wer glaubte an den gelungenen versuch, akkordeon und stimme so in einen einklang zu bringen, dass der offensichtliche verzicht auf eine melodie keinen verlust bedeutet? in ambientes miteinander, ein schütteres auftauen, so meine ich jedenfalls, pauline oliveros ' minimalistische klangmeditationen ("accordion & voice war ihr erstes solowerk in 2007) zu [...]
In a Fader TV spot from last June, Luke Fischbeck of Lucky Dragons mentioned that "The last two shows I played in New York, I'd hand somebody a rock and they'd say 'Oh no no, not for me,' and I'd b... Continue reading "Live: Lucky Dragons and Pauline Oliveros Spend Saturday at the Stone" >
Hi you all - I've been doing book launches for my new book "Sound Unbound" for the last couple of months. It's been one of MIT's top selling books of the year, and basically, we've had an excellent run in cities like Berlin, London, Paris, Stockholm, Milan, Rome, San Franicsco, NY, L.A., Seattle, Boston etc etc The Vienna book launch is coming up in a couple of days. If you have any friends there, please forward the info. There'll be lots of people from different scenes for the launch, and well... I think it'll be pretty fun. [...]
an essential guide to the birth of electronic music. brian eno puts it pretty well in the introduction in the accompanying booklet: "many of the ideas in this collection have now been so completely assimilated into popular listening that it may sometimes be hard to remember how surprising it all was on first outing. some of it still sounds pretty exotic. these cds are important as part of the story of how we got to where we are now–the cultural conversation so far–and as a still fruitful repertoire of future possibilities." there's also a dvd out [...]
Photo credit: omnia Mt Macedon Cemetery in Victoria, Australia is home to Peter Schipperheyn 's dramatic sculpture "Asleep". It is one of the most intriguing and beautiful contemporary works of art I've come across in recent years. The beautiful contradiction between the young women's vulnerability and the unsettling surroundings of the cemetery. The way her right hand lovingly grips the edge of the tombstone. It simply takes my breath away every time I look at it. The story goes that the artist was commissioned by a woman to make this sculpture [...]
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