Levinhurst - Hope
Posted on October 21st, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, music, web.
I liked the Cure at a particular time of my life and then I felt like I outgrew them. Probably because I liked them when I was 15. Now they just inspire embittered nostalgia and I need to have cheap rye close at hand to listen properly.
Then I heard a track by a band called Levinhurst in this post on your standard life.
Levinhurst is the new band from Laurence “Lol” Tolhurst. For those
of you not obsessed with The Cure, Lol was one of the original
founding members.
I was a little bored with the whole thing until the tremendously excellent ugly glitch noise came in. The I stopped wondering whether tha band had more than one fellow with a sampler in it. It’s worth a listen.
Automatous Monk
Posted on October 9th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, music, CreativeCommons, science.
Looking around for suitable music to use as the foundation for video demos I came across the work of the Automatous Monk.
The esteemed brother derives lovely music from cellular automata which is very nice.
It’s interesting to compare the catchy Prelude and Fugue in D minor with this piece of synth pop [generated by 4 hamsters].
a single stereo cable
Posted on October 5th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, music.
The studio is set up as of today - all that’s missing is the projector and a single stereo cable. The inaugural flight of the sound system is a round of stiff little fingers which is the best possible thing right now.
Splice
Posted on September 20th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, music, CreativeCommons, output, web.
I’ve signed myself up for the Splice online music remix and sound sharing service. Uploaded an old track called ‘punctuated equilibrium’ to see what [if anything] gets done with it. It’s a 2 minute track and my limited experience with the interface leads me to believe that might choke everything.
Anything that encourages community remix of Creative Commons material is good by me. Personally, I’m eager for the day when we can vat-grow designer organisms from Creative Commons licensed genetic templates. Until then - more music.
Feynman - physics and the remix
Posted on September 10th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, music, images, web, science.
I don’t know anything about the province of this video other than what it says on the screen but hot damn is it ever the goods.
satisfying groove
Posted on September 7th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, music, web.
SUB FM - Where bass matters!!!
Halfstep heaviness and the satisfying presence of very low frequencies.
As they say -
To listen - click on the submarine!
garageband armada
Posted on September 6th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, music, CreativeCommons, output, web.
My friend AboxJ, who has done some remixing of my material on ccMixter has put up a few tracks at garageband.com which are gathering momentum.
Most of the reviews are positive (some are ecstatic)- check the links below to hear the tracks and read the musings of the intercontinental peanut gallery.
Silophone
Posted on September 6th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, music, web.
Silophone , in Montreal (Canada)and Tank-FX in Obenhauser (Germany)are both big spaces into which you can have a sound played, recorded, and sent back. This allows for monstrous reverb and interesting effects.
This composition by blunbderspublik is very nice.
Silophone makes use of the incredible acoustics of Silo #5 by introducing sounds, collected from around the world using various communication technologies, into a physical space to create an instrument which blurs the boundaries between music, architecture and net art. Sounds arrive inside Silo #5 by telephone or internet. They are then broadcast into the vast concrete grain storage chambers inside the Silo. They are transformed, reverberated, and coloured by the remarkable acoustics of the structure, yielding a stunningly beautiful echo. This sound is captured by microphones and rebroadcast back to its sender, to other listeners and to a sound installation outside the building. Anyone may contribute material of their own, filling the instrument with increasingly varied sounds.
Tank-FX link via
FindSounds
Posted on September 5th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, music.
These aresome of the Sound Types
available from FindSounds
Sometimes you just need the sound of a walrus.
fresh remixes
Posted on September 5th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, music, CreativeCommons, output, web.
I got a note in my mailbox today from EFX who has dropped a couple of remixes into the stream at ccMixter. Both are good but
I Rise Above is excellent.
glitch-hop indeed.
Bun-Zer0 : Dubstep Mix IX
Posted on September 2nd, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, music.
Via Future World Funk, this mix of unreleased dubstep plates.
It’s got lovely swirling saxophone and an understated menace that I like. Music by which to sharpen knives.
Bun-Zer0 : Dubstep Mix IX - Mixes - FWF
Mighty rock glory
Posted on September 1st, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, music.
I don’t know anything about the stylish blog Can you see the sunset from the southside? but, through them, I’ve been introduced to the brilliance that is Ima Robot.
Truthfully, I don’t know anything about Ima Robot either, but ‘Disconnect’ is lightning jelly on toast. Brilliant.