Good morning. It looks like Albie Thoms's film Marinetti, which has great music, is now streaming on Ubu. Psychedelic Austral...
Friday, September 30, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011
That rare thing, an interesting American/Canadian (?) sound effects record. Bugged-out microtronics mixed with field recordings, and an audiomontage composed entirely of clock sounds. I was going to just post the electronic cues, but as I listened to this the other day I thought how much it sounded like a mix-tape from the future. Nice record to cue up and then wander into the other room, make some tea, finish the chapter you're reading, etc. ...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
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Friday, September 16, 2011
A music and movement record for the classroom. I had forgotten how good the story of Persephone is. How she was kidnapped by Hades and dragged down to the underworld. How her mom Demeter holds the Olympic Games to find the fastest runner to save her. How the rescue is going well until Persephone eats three seeds of the pomegranate, so that she has to return to the underworld three months a year (I'm probably getting some of this wrong). That's a...
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Music education forever! On we go with Trevor Wishart's book/broadsheet Sun, which presents instructions for guerilla music projects meant to bring art-making out of the classroom and museum and into actual communities and lived environments. These games sound really fun. Some favorites: emerge from the city in all directions and dismount your bicycle at an agreed meeting place. Invert your bicycle, sit down behind the back-wheel and play delicate...
Monday, September 12, 2011
Simon Reynolds's recent piece on Ariel Pink has sent me in search of 80s and 90s Ethiopian pop videos, one of the many pieces in the Ariel Pink sonic puzzle. Totally fascinating article, which directed me among other places to DireTube, Ethiopia's version of Youtube. Treat yourself and spend some time perusing the "Ethiopian Oldies" section. Pretty much every video is great, but here are some of my faves.Speaking of Ariel Pink: I was thinking that...
Friday, September 9, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Rustic Estonian work songs and lullabies as imagined by a 1960s teenager with a guitar. I love this album. It's certainly sad enough. Each little wooden box of a song opens to reveal the story of a rural life lived rightly but tragically -- the lovelorn shepherd, the hayfield laborer under the heel of her feudal master, etc. The song lyrics read like scripts for miniature black & white allegorical films in the vein of Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors,...
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Richard Orton, Electronic Music For Schools. 1981. Free-thinking British music pedagogy out of York. Top photo shows Hugh Davies wearing cool sweater, playing the Springboard Mk III. It has magnetic pick-ups like a guitar. In the 2nd photo we have Linda playing a composition called "Creepy dance music" on the banjophone, intended for herself to dance ...
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