Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Monday, April 23, 2018
Sunday, April 22, 2018
Saturday, April 21, 2018
Friday, April 20, 2018
mouth music (voice snow, voice wind)
"The text consists of inuit words for various kinds of snow : apingaut , first snowfall; mauyk, soft snow; akelrorak , drifting snow ; pokaktok , snow like salt"
performers: Elektra Women's Choir
alternate version
more elemental music by R. Murray Schafer
"The wind, like the sea, possesses an infinite number of vocal variations...The wind is an element that grasps the ears forcefully. The sensation is tactile as well as aural. How curious and almost supernatural it is to hear the wind in the distance without feeling it, as one does on a calm day in the Swiss Alps, where the faint, soft whistling of the wind over a glacier miles away can be heard across the intervening stillness of the valleys. " - R. Murray Schafer
"All modern languages have colourful words to describe sound qualities. Numerous exercises could be devised to explore language onomatopoeia, starting by simply making lists of words in your own language that illustrate in sound the notion or object they are describing (gurgle, splash, bubble, smack, pop, etc.). But an exercise I prefer is to invent words in your own private language with onomatopoeic qualities. Try inventing some to illustrate the following: bell sneeze a bomb exploding a cat purring moonlight Here, for example are some onomatopoeic inventions for 'moonlight' given to me by 11-year-olds..."
- R. Murray Schafer
voicescape as chimescape
voicescape as chimescape #2
glowfi for the eyes
Video by Synopsis Music by Steve Roach Graphics by Denise Gallant/Brian Samuels from California Images:HiFi For The Eyes
Thursday, April 19, 2018
beak music (bonanza!)
As written about in the new issue of The Wire by Francis Gooding, a massive public archive - anyone can upload or download - of bird song from all around the world: Xeno-Canto
396735 recordings! 9830 species! Nearly 6200 hours worth!
I reckon they should start a special subsection for musical compositions based on bird song - samples or transcribed melodies.
That's my excuse to post this again:
Would dearly love to get the rest of this cassette by Ron Nagorcka - Lovregana: Music From A Tasmanian Forest - anybody got it?
396735 recordings! 9830 species! Nearly 6200 hours worth!
I reckon they should start a special subsection for musical compositions based on bird song - samples or transcribed melodies.
That's my excuse to post this again:
Would dearly love to get the rest of this cassette by Ron Nagorcka - Lovregana: Music From A Tasmanian Forest - anybody got it?
cosmic twee
one of my favorite songs, whose existence i had quite forgotten about until revisiting the psych section of an earlier work
this is not one of my favorite songs, but I admire the "on point" era-chiming name, presumably a reference to the children's favorite
the children's favorite later desecrated by hairy counterculturalists (you may wish not to click, it's hard to unsee)
a fost mâine
it's a good story but i must say i don't love this stuff - it's a bit brash and well, grating
still it does hit the "lost future" meets Ostalgia sweet spot
shatire more like
no twit like a twit who thinks he's cleverer than
it would be almost listenable, in patches, if not for his awful personality suffusing every fibre of the sound
that voice!
concrete and colour separation
more on Cantrill - sorry, on Cantrills
artists influenced by Arthur and Corrine - not sonically but visually
Pink and White Terraces by Nova Paul from bob stein on Vimeo.
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
psychotic reactions
always thought this was the best version (off of Pebbles Vol 1)
never knew that Positively Thirteenth O'Clock = Mouse and the Traps in disguise
Here's a not great version by The Fire Escape, who also nicked the song title as their album title
(i like that scoundrelly Sixties practice of rushing out a cover version in the hopes that confused consumers would buy the wrong version)
the original
this got to #5 in the US charts! exciting days
the guys look like they can't believe their luck
there's been a shitload of cover versions - at the time and then later
hard to go wrong with it in some ways
then again
that involved an early JJ Cale
Much better is this groovy soul version
punk-era
Eighties psych-redux and nu-garage
we'll skip the Cramps shall we?
ditto Tom Petty + Heartbreakers
unclassifiable
briefly covered / defaced amid "Swastikas On Parade" from The Residents Third Reich N Roll
Ah almost forgot about this echo
A rave and hardcore compilation from 92 that I reviewed at the time
Quite a few of the tracks on it are "in the spirit" of the Count Five / Positively Thirteenth O'Clock
Like this immense tempest by Holy Ghost Inc, titled "Jihad" on Give Peace A Dance Vol 3 but "Psycho Missus" on their own 12 inch EP (one of the grrrrrrrreat H-core EPs, going for as low as $2 on discogs)
Holy Ghost = one of my hardcore heroes
Here's a review of Nuggets where I trace the spiritual affinity between garage punk and bedroom rave
More madness from Give Peace A Dance Vol 3 (madness enlisted versus M.A.D.-ness i.e. mutually assured destruction - all profits and royalties to CND)
And some slightly mellower madness
(where does that "it'll make you go ooh na na na" sample come from then, peeps?)
Mellower still
Madder again
Interesting that the compilers would go with the subtitle "Psychotic Reactions", wonder if they knew their Sixties garage punk. It's a good title and serves to differentiate from the previous volume of Give Peace A Dance, which was subtitled "The Ambient Collection"
Monday, April 16, 2018
beak music (música de pájaro)
a different kind of bird, warbling, in Latin America
i think there is bird song in this
bonus beaks
human mouths
Sohals
a musical family
Robert also on the soundtrack of this
better known as a mainstay of this outfit
Sunday, April 15, 2018
mouth music versus chimescape (1 of ?)
"June 21 (summer solstice) of 2012 in the maze of alcoves of Oakland's funeral home, crematory and columbarium Chapel of the Chimes"
Saturday, April 14, 2018
Friday, April 13, 2018
alt-hist
and this one I watched in 1978
SS-GB on TV is due soon, isn't it?
always think it's a bit lazy that so many "if Axis Powers won WW2 "novels involve detective or police based plots.... i suppose it's a way of having a narrative that cuts across many levels of society or the power structure, or exposes the nefarious inner doings... but it would be more interesting to have the perspective of more 'bystander' type figures... which is what Philip K. Dick did so brilliantly with The Man in the High Castle (although with more power-structure type plot lines worked in there as well). I have no idea if the TV version of Man in High Castle carries that across - I suspect not - because i stopped watching it after two episodes, just couldn't stand it - mostly the look of it, that obviously CGI-d look of buildings, cityscapes etc. And the cheap noir and action-orientation. How much more chilling and effective to show an altered world from its nondescript, backwater zones
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Monday, April 9, 2018
It's Different for Gils
jazzer who got the electronics bug big time resulting in this classic OST
and then this
here's Gil showing off his self-cobbled instrument the Percussotron
The Andromeda Strain vinyl was released in hexagonal form - a gimmick worthy of Underground Resistance
another OST
a TV theme tune?
more TV stuff
well he kept on doing stuff with synths and drum machines
rock 74
ah! i was puzzled why it was called All That Glitters, given that the no-hoper prog group is not exactly glittery
and it turns out that is part 2 of a doc, whose first bit is all about the very glittery (and successful) Sweet
and in odd appropriateness, the first glammer part is filmed in full-colour, and the second glummer part in black and white
blockhead(s)
be Stiff? - both were (at least for a moment, in Devo's case)
i feel a musical resemblance here:
well i have mooted a bunch of times now that Blockheads = best Brit groove band since the Stones
and in a sense Devo are perhaps the greatest antigroove band of all time... but to antigroove actually requires being able to groove in the first place (no surprise in a way that Casale was schooled in blues of every kind)
and that one just purely rocks immensely
rearranging the grammar of rock with a radical stringency as surely as Gang of Four or Television
the full EP on which "Blockhead" (Devo's) first appeared
well you learn something everyday, i did not know that EP even existed
Friday, April 6, 2018
apocalypses then
and a bonus one - via Andrew Parker - a New Zealand apocalyptic movie i never heard of that looks pretty interesting
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
the incineration loops
"Nostalgia", from the Hapax Legomena series
bonus exp. film
wonder if this is where Eno got the name of his experimental rock group of very-end-of-Sixties
biographer says it comes from a thought experiment of physicist James Clark Maxwell
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