January 2010
24 posts
Interactive Netball at the Now Now Festival
- Created & “facilitated” by Jon Rose, staged at the Now Now yesterday (Sunday 24th Jan). The yellow ball is connected wirelessly to Rose’s laptop and emits an ever-changing variety of sounds, related to its movement and velocity. In addition, four Now Now performers (two assigned to each team) play short stabs of improvised music when their team is in possession of the ball....
Brian Eno: "Recorded Music Equals Whale Blubber"
Back in the mid-80s, I was enamoured by The Art Of Noise. Aside from their innovative, early musical output, they were wrapped in wonderful mystique - with art and (mostly nonsense) text directed by journalist Paul Morley. Although he never played a note, I always thought that Morley was as much part of the (always faceless) band as anyone else. Here, Morley goes face to face to Brian Eno, and...
Throbbing Gristle's Chris Carter talks about...
The Quietus | Features | Throbbing Gristle Interview: Fill Your Stocking With Gristleism This Christmas
“The beauty of this concept is what we basically have here is a new TG album and yet it it’s our ONLY TG album that can’t be bootlegged or uploaded to a torrent. If you want it you HAVE to buy it… or steal it from a store. Throbbing Gristle are, relative to the larger...
New Discontent Mixtape - "In Teen Dreams"
Free download : Discontent | In Teen Dreams
My new mixtape for Discontent is up, titled “In Teen Dreams” featuring ancient crux, black vacation, blastcorp, brothers of the occult sisterhood, kharkov, lj kruzer, mokira, pina chulada, playboy tre, railcars, roj, salem, Shlohmo, syntaks, tan dollar and white rainbow.
M Squared 'Circa 1979' Mix + Gig
Free mix download celebrating the Circa 1979 events at this year’s Sydney Festival. Curated by Micheal Tee and Mitch Jones from M Squared, the mix features seminal Australian bands from the period, including Systematics, Ya Ya Choral, Makers of The Dead Travel Fast, Solipsik (a variant of the wonderful SPK), No Night Sweats, Scattered Order and more.
Circa 1979: Signal To Noise Podmag - M...
The Colour: Australian culture in pictures →
New site from the people that brought you Lost At E Minor.
The Art Of Photobombing – A Guest Post By A... →
"Australia’s 20 Worst Cases of Censorship and... →
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The Loudness Wars: Why Music Sounds Worse
“As we come to the end of the decade, we turn to one of the more dramatic changes we’ve heard in music over those 10 years: It seems to have gotten louder.”
Includes PDF of “A Visual History Of Loudness” graphing the peak levels of and RMS levels of three hit songs a year over the past three decades
The Loudness Wars: Why Music Sounds Worse : NPR
Christopher Lee to release 'symphonic metal' album
“The man who played Dracula and Saruman is to tell the story of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, through the universal language of metal”
Music | guardian.co.uk
New Music from The Knife: "Colouring Of Pigeons"
First listen (and free download) from THE KNIFE’s forthcoming opera soundtrack ‘Tomorrow, In A Year’.
“At first it was very difficult as we really didn’t know anything about opera. We’d never been to one. I didn’t even know what the word libretto meant. But after some studying, and just getting used to opera’s essence of pretentious and dramatic gestures, I found that...
Songs I Love But Probably Shouldn't Pt.1
t.A.T.u. - How Soon is Now ?
Morrissey channelled by fake lesbian Russian schoolgirls. The product of a truly twisted mind.
Lady Gaga DIY Barbie
Beijing ‘doll player’ Veik creates mini Gagas in a Barbie style.
Lady Gaga DIY Dolls : Glam Damn It New York
Mashable: 5 New Social Media Tools for Musicians →
“As we roll in to 2010, the selection of band-friendly social media tools is growing. Say goodbye to sporadic MySpace updates and incomplete tour information on Facebook. There are now more options for sharing your music with fans and empowering them to share it with others.
Since MySpace Music has failed to show much staying power, tools on other networking sites have risen to fill the...
We're Gonna Need A Wider Net: Interview On Throw...
“We asked Stu a couple of questions, questions that are on everybody’s lips, questions like Where Do You Even Find This Stuff, I’ve Never Heard Of Any Of It And I’m Ashamed.”
New Weird Australia Vol. 4 :: We’re Gonna Need A Wider Net « Throw Shapes :: Sydney
Lou Reed Designs iPhone App
“What do you do if you are an aging (but still awesome) psychedelic rocker and you’re having trouble reading the small type on your iPhone’s address book? If you are Lou Reed, you design and release your very own text-zooming app on the iTunes App Store.”
Lou Reed Designs iPhone App | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Terrace Industry: M Squared Box 1980 – 1983
“Ascension Records presents terrace industry, an extraordinary array of sonic material – 81 tracks over 4 CDs – originally released on vinyl or cassette by Sydney independent record label M Squared between 1980 and 1983 with the majority now appearing on CD for the first time.”
ANCD 036 Terrace Industry: M Squared Box 1980 – 1983
My Little Pony - Star Wars Style
Finnish artist Mari Kasurinen recreates the style of Star Wars with ponies. Little ones.
My Little Pony - Star Wars Style : SCI FI PI // SCI FI Channel