Mother, in a fit of insanity, has bought six litres of sandwich filling (because it was reduced); we've hardly any bread to sandwich it in. I will come back to this blog soon. I will. I have a lot of studying to be getting on with at the moment, so I'm letting that take up my time. I have, however, decided to share this little thing of mine. It's a piece I composed back when I was doing my Music A-Level. There are five versions of it here (really, it's the same piece five times over), [...]
Things have not been so hot at home lately. Besides this I find myself desperately busy of late. As much as I want to get away and upkeep this little project for me, it has been nigh on impossible to do so. I know I have spent more time on hiatus than not, but now is not the right time for this blog. Give me a few more weeks to get things in the real world back to a relative state of normalcy and I'll be back with you as soon as possible.
The month-long MP3, entitled Nisan Moon Phase (Extended) , is now online. Because of its decreased bitrate (though given the lo-fi nature of this 786 hours, 3 minutes, and 4 seconds long piece, the lower bitrate is not going to be entirely detrimental to the enjoyability of the work and it'll save your hard drive the strain of what would normally be a file of approximately 750GB - larger than most people's largest drive) at the 192kbps standard they have so far gone for), the file is not being considered part of the a larger Bull of Heaven project [...]
Bull of Heaven is the name of a posthumous project of one Clayton Counts , of The Beachles' Sgt. Petsounds (in)fame, collaborating with a host of others (particularly Neil Keener, co-compiler, former member of Planes Mistaken for Stars *, now of Git Some ), exploring the possibilities of sound art and music in the rapidly-advancing digital age. They have released several works of noise art under this moniker and, ironing out the problems with distribution of large files in the past couple of weeks, have now successfully surpassed the longest [...]
This is a site of unspeakable horrors. Be sure, if nothing else, to watch Rob Rouse talking about his love of chicken Maureen. That Chicken CD? is still available here .
We're off... This is just so I feel like I'm back on track. Really, I've not much to say on the thing, nor on my (undoubtedly oversized) collection of poorly recorded 1980s children's television show theme tunes. One thing I will say is that I once saw, presumably in 1988, Button Moon 's live theatre show (which probably makes this my first outing to the theatre, shortly before my day s * as a catwalk model), and I've a badge somewhere to prove it. The official website does not rule out [...]
Nobody else will. Knobtweaker was amongst the advance guard (somewhere I shall almost certainly never find myself, as I shuffle along in my esoteric fashion) when it came to its knowledge of present and future indie-dance credibility. Now it is sadly no longer with us, but on re-listening to (part of) their Best of 2005 list I find it still beats in terms of class and dance-ability the set-lists of those indie-music DJs locally - we have them, even here in the back-end of Nowhere - who think they are with the curve, at [...]
In 2000, Goldfrapp appeared on the scene with Lovely Head , a song that, along with Utopia , also from 2000's Felt Mountain , featured on a number of club chill-out compilations, yet they failed to trouble the UK charts in any way until around 2005's Supernature , when they made it high up in both the singles and albums charts. Certainly, I didn't help them any, though I was aware of them thanks to being, at the time, developing interests in different types of music thanks to magazine cover discs and compilation albums, long before [...]
Negativland became one of, if not the most famous sound collage bands in the world when their release U2 brought them to the attention of the band's lawyers - then to the band themselves (in a somewhat fascinating way ) - and nearly destroyed them. But still they persevere and continue to put out new material, most recently Thigmotactic , released earlier this year. All of their music can be streamed from their website and several downloads are available. This particular soundbyte is one of the system sounds created by [...]
Internal errors prevent images at the current time. Kid Ory, besides being a jazz trombonist, was also a bandleader (hiring many illustrious names in his career, including Louis Armstrong) and was composer of the Savoy Blues. Trying to find accurate information about the composition itself appears unseasonably difficult, but it seems to be (at least according to this page ) one of the key pieces that drew the focus in ensemble performance toward key solo performances rather than keeping the group uniformly balanced. As I cannot find accurate information I'd sooner [...]
Cluckin' A. This blog so far has been all good intentions but with little in the way of actual content. I hope with this post to redeem myself a little before beginning afresh on Monday as previously planned. A full explanation is included in the file, but in short this is my by-now moderately (but internationally) infamous chicken-themed compilation, which has been given in CD-swaps, as currency in small bartering exchanges, and snuck into the CD collections of several Brighton cafés, bars and shops. I call it That Chicken CD? . [...]
I will start here again on August 1, which seems as good a day as any, with something a little special. From thence shall I restart this faltering project as intended. Until then, please do keep checking in with those feeds that populate my sidebar; I put them there for a reason.
Scratch that "starting tomorrow" as this computer is still not right. One day I'll have a working desktop and be able to actually do the things I want to do with this machine. Until then my PC guy and I are going to be having a quite serious falling out.
"She read some books, she walked around." I would not normally post on a Sunday, but have decided to as I have something to report anyway and I might as well write something up at the same time. We'll come to that a little later. First, a little about the song. Jhhl Lowengard has a peculiar little corner of the Internet where occasionally things pop up. It is well worth a look. Jhhl can also be found at one of my favourite haunts: WFMU.org . This song is from [...]
Both myself and my computer are going on separate holidays to recuperate. Hopefully we'll both come back refreshed and ready to take on this blog properly. I have to say that it is mainly my computer that has halted regular updates, but a reasonably massive upgrade is planned for it that will hopefully see it a little more stable than it has been of late. We'll see you in a few weeks.
Picture: Anyone with an idea as to where I am likely to have put my camera should let me know. A few weeks' absence has occurred due to circumstances I couldn't possibly control. These little problems seem to have been fixed - except for the having gotten a job element which is, thankfully, still an obstruction in the path of my blogging - and I'm ready again to get on with the task of blogging. The song that has been selected for my comeback is not exactly a fröhlich fanfare, but it [...]
Computer problems mean another untimely week off. I shall leave the MP3s up. Take this opportunity to catch up and hopefully I'll have a stable computer to work with after this addition week of servicing. In the meantime, do check out the Contrast Podcast and the many fine blogs linked to in my sidebar. Note to self .
"You're talking to a freak." Way back when (actually, not so long ago) I was Head of Music on a student radio station. This seems like an exciting job at first, until you realise that around 95% of all you receive is pap (you may choose either definition, especially given the number of people famous simply for having breasts getting into the recording studios has risen dramatically these past few years). It then becomes a grueling task, getting up and trying to find the diamond amongst the rough. For a while I had fun sending biting [...]
"I don't exist in usual places." Two tracks on the blog today, simply because I missed yesterday's. No big deal as I would have had nothing much to say about the last track, except that I found it here and that it's nice. With only two samples, however, it is difficult to get much of an impression of the artist. Excet I don't have a lot to say about today's artist either. This is the peril of such a systematic blogging technique: you don't always have oodles of knowledge to spew forth [...]
No picture, but then this is a short track so I shall make it a short entry. This track is part of a larger project conducted by Soulseek Records , the first of those entitled 24 Hour Massacre . This is a collaborative work where the artists try to segue from the piece preceding theirs in order to make a seamless-feeling unit. With 40 minutes each to make their contribution and get the work delivered to the next artist in line, this demonstrates a unique form of music-making under pressure. It is [...]
The S+7 Method
Avicii – Two Million
Beck – I Just Started Hating Some People Today
H&M Lookbook Mujer y Hombre Otoño 2012.
