[listen] - added a list of podcasts to the music page (at right, middle). radiolab, sound opinions, this american life, quirks & quarks, ideas, definitely not the opera, and others. further suggestions welcome.
[nsfw] - When Lily Allen originally wrote the song, she had in mind the far-right-wing British National Party and George W. Bush (which the ignorable official video addresses). Then this year, after some random folks made The Big Fat Gay Collab video mashup, and Lily saw and liked it live on French Television, other groups have been joining in, from England, France, and Brazil, to Hungararian celebrities and more. [Potential intercultural overgeneralisation comparison fun! Which country's scene has the best fashion?] A friendly little earworm!
Also good ditties by her, with official videos, are LDN, The Fear, and Not Fair.
[music] - YouTube - Battle of The Bands
FM3: Buddha Machine - PopMatters, Pitchfork, Wikipedia, Cool Tool
How to DJ your first set without knowing how.
YouTube - Helsinki Complaints Choir
[music] - The Visual Context of Music
Pitchfork Feature: 100 Awesome Music Videos. YouTube is almost as dangerous as Wikipedia, for timesinkness.
also Stylus Magazine’s Top 100 Music Videos of All Time
whitney music box, try 2,6,7, and 11.
Atlas of Plucked Instruments and Gallery of Ceramic Musical Instruments
2 new stations from SomaFM. Those added, and other changes, at my music page.
[music] - Free MP3: 1961 record of computer speaking and singing
Interview with Björk and Sigur Ros
The Awesome Godfried-Willem Raes and A Short History of the Ocular Harpsichord and its Progeny
Gnarls Barkley "Crazy": Live on Top of the Pops and Official Video
Four clips from Taxidermia (scroll), featuring a score by Amon Tobin.
[music] - Jazz and Blues Figurine's Gallery (via)
Music thing: How to sync a 16-tonne steam engine to your laptop
Top 50 Music Videos Of 2005 (be advised, #1 is quite disturbing)
Sound Wave Sculpture - Experiment with Parabolic Flight (download/watch the movie)
Trashy vintage novels as iPod cases (no, i dont have an ipod, yet..)
Wikipedia:Sound/list - a list of full length copyleft/public domain songs available on Wikipedia. free classical by the barrel.
[music] - Ishkur updated his Guide to Electronic Music. (now with 1189 samples. quite often horrifying)
brainwashed updated their musiczine.
and i updated my list of streaming radio stations...
due to, the "CBC is [still] currently experiencing a labour disruption." (walkout/lockout/strike). stupid bureaucrats. tons to read from all sides. none of which brings back my radio contentment.
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Oscar Peterson gets a Canadian Stamp (via)
Yma Sumac "will sing 2 songs of her choosing which have yet to be determined. She will be available for autographs on 8x10's that span her career or will gladly sign your memorabilia" at Hukilau 2005, this October. (via)
nipper - the dog and trumpet logo, �his masters voice�, HMV, die stimme des herrn, la voce del padrone ...
[music] - cover art
Dana's Virtual Museum of Unusual LP Cover Art - 2 pages
Odd Records "Inexplicable Recordings: Saved from Entropy" - 11 pages
show and tell music - 23 pages
The Sight of Music - 1 page
Xtabay Music (part1 part2 part3) - 4 pages
Album Cover Art Gallery - 26 pages
Taboo Tunes Gallery - Music Censorship - 1 page
Album Cover Artists - 18 pages
Psychedelic Music-Rare Records - 12 pages
PopCult Magazine/Odd Glimpses/Album Cover Art - 6 pages
Museum of bad album covers - 36 pages
Pitchfork: The Worst Record Covers of All Time - 10 pages
and some erotic album covers: Cocktail.se - 11 pages , & Sexy album covers - 1 page
[music] - Ambient environmental recordings.
no new-age crap here; just adventurous nuts wandering deep into the nowhere with high quality microphones, leaving the gear to record for hours and days, then editing it down to cd-length. (most links to Earthear, which has samples. though many are out of print.)
(these are the albums i own/recommend)
Douglas Quin - Caratinga: Soundscapes from Brazil's Atlantic Rainforest.
Francisco Lopez: La Selva: the Costa Rican rainforest (a single 71min track. he's a purist)
Rainforest Requiem. more Brazilian rainforest, from the British Library of Natural Sounds.
Chris Watson: Stepping into the Dark: "from wind to a rookery, forest to mangrove swamps, Africa to England.". a smorgasbord.
also Chris Watson: Weather Report, with two tracks from Kenya and Scotland, and ends with recordings of a glacier shuddering and chattering as it slides past itself in Iceland.
Rainstorm. one storm. one shower.
junglescapes and weathersounds. more in the earthear Naturalist Realm section. "straightforward field recordings of nature."
I also find these recordings to be an Excellent test of a stereo-system's soundstage depth/quality.
[music] - Phantom Words, and Other Curiosities, auditory illusions and curiosities of sound perception, by Diana Deutsch.
and some simplified examples of her work
explanations of other Auditory illusions
The Highest Note illusion
other examples of Auditory Illusions (most require headphones)
Auditory Illusions (more complex/academic)
unrelated, but tangential: Musical hallucinations
[music] - minimalist ambient suggestions.
Zammuto: Willscher. the pinnacle of glitch? my daily soundtrack, along with the earlier albums from his other band, The Books.
Takagi Masakatsu. foundsound soundscapes and music with toys.
Ogurusu Norihide. sparse and beautiful piano stroking.
music for airports (notation on reverse)
Eric Satie - Gymnopédies and Gnossienne No. 4
streaming radio: Sleepbot Environmental Broadcast and somaFM's Dronezone
[mixmashsample] - Raiding the 20th Century, 60 min long samplefest & exposition. download mp3 here or here or torrent.
See also the last 3 volumes of concretetv, video mashup extraordinaire
[music] - to avoid.
Learn: What a Crappy Present - CD Gift Advice, Parents and Kids
Search: RIAA Radar
Preach & link & blog: Downhill Battle - music activism
I'm bathing in the dreamy rhetoric of reviews.
i really love the idea that you can conduct music at one speed using one hand (eg 3/3), and conduct at a different speed using the other hand (eg 4/4). It takes some training and some fierce concentration, but it is possible. Trying it without knowing how, the mind explodes at trying to conceive what kind of state of mind would have to be possible in order to achieve it. What other completely different states of mind can I achieve without straying from the realm of "sane man" (using whatever definition you please)?
I think this is the huge attraction of both books and drugs. This is also the thrill of languages, games, activities and every type of art.