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November 16, 2008
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Articles of Note
- 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.” - Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison
"The audio excavation could give a new primacy to the phonautograph, once considered a curio." - Detroit Digital (CTheory)
At the annual Computers and Writing conference, one gets the sense ... that an urban metropolis might be built on Blogger and YouTube, and that Detroit might be reconstructed with XML tags. ... But if one wishes to be more than just a tourist in Detroit, it's necessary to resist this flight to the code.
Heavy Rotation
- 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. - Ashley Paul & Eli Keszler: Aster
Train wreck drumming & bowed cymbals meet way out sax work. - György Ligeti: Mechanical Music
Music written for player pianos. Includes his piece for 100 metronomes. - Morton Feldman: Rothko Chapel; Why Patterns?
Subtle, subtle, subtle. Feldman makes the dissonant delicate here. Haunting and beautiful.
Reading
- 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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