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I Dream of Wires: Carl Craig - Modular Pursuits. “I get a...

Wed, 16 May 2012 12:22:00 +0100

I Dream of Wires: Carl Craig - Modular Pursuits.

“I get a little… a little crazy about it. Um. Y’know how many filters does a person really need? I got a lot of fucking filters, y’know?”

“Please don’t go and leave me here.”

Tue, 15 May 2012 17:35:04 +0100

“Please don’t go and leave me here.”

bushdog: Dangerous Minds | John Peel’s Record Collection:...

Tue, 01 May 2012 07:01:01 +0100

bushdog:

Dangerous Minds | John Peel’s Record Collection: Online from tomorrow, May 1st

John Peel’s Record Collection will go online tomorrow, 1st May. The John Peel Center for Creative Arts will start uploading details of the DJ’s famed collection. Each week 100 discs will be made available, covering every genre of music, and unveiling 2,600 albums over the coming 6 months.

weareknesset: Endless channels of opportunity and potential.

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:17:19 +0100

weareknesset:

Endless channels of opportunity and potential.

Stockhausen on music culture and the state of human evolution.

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:21:32 +0100

Stockhausen on music culture and the state of human evolution.

Sound Is Art-Gilligan

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 03:07:36 +0100

Sound Is Art-Gilligan:

audiokayness:

Wow …

from the link:

Sound Clip: Gilligan by Rick Scott

To produce this track, the artist writes that he:

- Acquired the theme music to the original Gilligan’s Island tv show (1:35).
- Played it at .1 to .5 times its original speed in grains from 1 to 1000 ms long.
- Added resonance/delay/reverb.
- Mixed panned forward and backward versions.
- Did minimal mastering (no compression).

Preach it, Walter.

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:21:03 +0100

Preach it, Walter.

voltagecontrolled: Analog Drum ‘n Bass Yesssss. Although I...

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:02:48 +0100

voltagecontrolled:

Analog Drum ‘n Bass

Yesssss.

Although I doubt the genre would have ever been kick-started had it required a room full of modulars instead of just a sampler (or MOD tracker) and a handful of samples.

I must also note that it’s refreshing to see a large modular system put to use in making a tune rather than the usual exploratory squirblies (fun as they are).

Whoa. Thank you so much all you wonderful Tumblrists for all the...

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:13:00 +0100

Whoa.

Thank you so much all you wonderful Tumblrists for all the stimulation, education, inspiration, creativity, enlightenment and entertainment you have fed my eyes, ears, head and heart over the past few years.

More please!

(I somehow feel a strange compulsion to find another 202 Tumblrs to follow now.)

(Were I smarter, I’d have waited until 3 minutes past 3 to post this.)

The cover of March/April’s Tape Op magazine, illustrating...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:34:00 +0100

The cover of March/April’s Tape Op magazine, illustrating various sonic concepts with drawings of bunnies.

All Hail The Beat by Nelson George A short film overview of the...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:10:21 +0100

All Hail The Beat by Nelson George

A short film overview of the highly beloved Roland TR-808 drum machine.

“It’s kick drum sound is legendary.”

"Great music slumbered in him, but it never came to such an awakening as he himself dreamed of and..."

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:46:03 +0100

“Great music slumbered in him, but it never came to such an awakening as he himself dreamed of and heard in his soul.”

- Anton Prokesch, friend of Schubert. (via schubertiade)

The Tao of Poverty Row: In the rush to “clean up” the images of...

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:23:00 +0100

The Tao of Poverty Row:

In the rush to “clean up” the images of classic cinema, to remove every speck and splice digitally, etc., are we not also losing something? What about the blurry, hazy artifact-ridden images of yesterday, the streaky bad-tracking VHS blurs and statics? Was there really no “point” to that “accidental” art you spent so much time looking at but never “seeing”? Before CGI there was something called imagination…and whiskey.

[…]

Consider the top picture[…] It’s from a scene in TOMORROW where people are walking around outside, doing something. What they are doing is impossible to tell, but the screen is a brilliant composition of white and dark squares, a gray market VHS Mondrian, ditto the checkered wallpaper in the second shot (below) which shows the results of a fire in the Ghost’s office. The smoke bleeds the whole right half of the frame a pure white, like the film is being forgotten by Jim Carrey in ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, or bleached by some experimental filmmaker like Stan Brakhage. Note too the vertical reflection at left, which indicates that these checkered walls are in fact shower curtains, or some other sort of wondrously flea-bitten 1940′s sound stage free-hanging wallpaper.

[…]

Oh ghost of Edgar G., forgive us our dread of the decay which so wants to set us free.

"Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive..."

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:39:29 +0100

“Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.”

- Holger Czukay (via slangking)

Photo

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:15:00 +0100

Aleph Null - Rocket 303 to Cosmos 808 In lieu of anyone more...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:36:00 +0100

Aleph Null - Rocket 303 to Cosmos 808

In lieu of anyone more qualified stepping forward, it fell to me to contribute this April’s pattern to the SoundCloud monthly acid group. (A high-resolution transcription of the pattern can be seen here for better legibility and easier programming.)

My version has - at least to my ears - an early 90s spaced-out techno-trance vibe to it; the blame for which I place on finding my folder of miscellaneous astronaut transmission recordings. Also, I’m pretty sure Pete Namlook is partially responsible somehow.

I’m really looking forward to hearing how other folks in the group interpret the pattern. DyLABs has already taken it to a very cool and crazy place.

Photo

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:23:00 +0100

Photo

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:45:42 +0100

notationnotes: YES from Hugo Cole’s book Signs and...

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 08:46:44 +0100

notationnotes:

YES

from Hugo Cole’s book Signs and Symbols.

Take a very simple human verbal response and, through a variety of processes of varying complexity, investigate the varieties of notation appropriate.

"Bambaataa stood at the back of the crowd with a smile on his face. He whipped out his cellphone to..."

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 08:36:40 +0100

“Bambaataa stood at the back of the crowd with a smile on his face. He whipped out his cellphone to snap a photo of the band during “Numbers,” just like all the fans standing next to him. During the opening strains of “The Man-Machine,” he began air-keyboarding along with the melody line and mouthing the lyrics (“Machine machine machine machine machine machine! Maaa-chine!”) and grinned ear to ear when the group kicked into “Computer World.””

- — Geeta Dayal

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(via goatfalcon)