Processed: Hello, Things.

November 16, 2008

Hello, Things.

Thank you to the good soul at thingsmagazine.net who posted a link to Processed as part of their Friday round-up. The site was a real inspiration when Processed first began, and remains a favorite portal for discovering hidden riches of the Web. Hello, too, to Things readers who may be discovering Processed for the first time. Please stay in touch.

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My Second Half - Dot Earth Blog
Andy Revkin's sign-off from the Times peeks at a world post-journalism, and not just his own.
From Pocket to Stage, Music in the Key of iPhone (NYT)
"Professor Wang said he would like to democratize the process of making music, so that anyone with a cellphone could become a musician."
Microphones Gone, Natural Sound Returns to City Opera (NYT)
If electronics can achieve the desired balances in Mr. Adams’s “Doctor Atomic,” why not give a lift to the light voices of a young, attractive cast in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”?
THE AGE OF THE INFORMAVORE (Edge)
"What is important, what is not important, what is important to know? Is this information important? Can we still decide what is important?"
One Million Years of Isolation: (BLDGBLOG)
Geoff Manaugh interviews geoscientist Abraham Van Luik about the Yucca Mountain nuclear storage facility.
Thomas Demand [Monocle]
Interview with the artist on the occasion of his solo exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
One Reporter’s Lonely Beat, Witnessing Executions
"Of all the consequences of shrinking newsrooms, one of the oddest is this: Fewer journalists are available to watch people die."
Becoming Screen Literate (NYT)
"[R]ich databases of component images form a new grammar for moving images... What we do now with words, we’ll soon do with images."
Xenakis Music Realised by Computer
"Thus the conductor Daniel Grossman's attempt with this new release to realise these five keyboard works using MIDI technology with a degree of accuracy previously unattainable by the means of physical dexterity alone."
Symphony Told to Keep It Down (NYT)
“I know conductors who have hundreds of shades of fortissimo, but not many in the lower levels. Maybe the whole world is just becoming louder.”

Heavy Rotation

Josef Anton Riedl: Klangregionen 1951-2007
Lots of great electroacoustic compositions here on a beautiful pressing from Edition RZ.
Nmperign: Ommatidia
The liner notes say this is a saxophone and trumpet duo but you will be stumped to identify what you are hearing. Like nothing else.
Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza: Azioni
Another incredible '60s era improvising group of composers from Italy. Lots of deep communication going on here. Beautiful packaging, too. There's video online here.
The Anchiskhati Choir: Polyphonic Voices of Georgia
Gorgeous and moving medieval choral group
Shed: Shedding the Past
"Slow Motion Replay" hits me in all the right places.
John Wiese & C. Spencer Yeh: Cincinnati
Constantly surprising outing from two top noise-niks. The interplay is much more subtle, engaging, and playful than you might expect from harsh electronics.
Cornelius Cardew: Four Principles on Ireland & Other Pieces (1974)
Fight songs for piano.
Brotzmann/ Bennink: Schwartzwaldfahrt (1977)
Two giants of the Euro improv scene bang on rocks and blow saxophones underwater in the Black Forest.
Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet: The Breadwinner
Beautiful record assembled from field recordings around a house in Upstate NY.
Musica Elettronica Viva: Musica Elettronica Viva - MEV 40 (1967-2007)
Frederic Rzewski et al were whacking contact mic'ed found objects 40 years ago. Astonishing.

Reading

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky: Memories of the Future (New York Review Books Classics)
Uneven, but filled with many brilliant, fantastical, absurd moments.
Tom Vanderbilt: Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
Well-researched and -written study of how our brains, technology, city planning, etc. conspire to make drivers much more dangerous on the road than we think we are.
George Saunders: In Persuasion Nation
Pathetic and hilarious missives from a parallel universe that looks a lot like our own.
Thomas Bernhard: Das Kalkwerk
A man buys a chalk factory, puts heavy bars on the windows, and murders his disabled wife. What happened?
Denis Johnson: Tree of Smoke: A Novel
Feeling increasing dread the farther I get into it.
Brandon Labelle: Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art
For Labelle, sound art is fundamentally an issue of understanding how sound interacts with space.
(magazine): Dot Dot Dot 18
Hoaxes of Swiss design, Buckminster Fuller and the Challenger disaster, Randall McLeod on "unediting"

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