Flightpath (redux)

Bridge

Rockaway

See ya later, buddy...

RIP Dash Snow 1981-2009

Deeper and deeper we go (Ruins of the Second Gilded Age pt 2)

New York Times Magazine Withdraws Altered Photo Essay

In relation to my earlier post about a photo essay on The New York Times, which has been pulled from the website now

Joakim "Milky Ways"

""The basic inspiration for the album was the idea of youth and teen spirit in our consumer-based society," explains Joakim, "put in parallel with the idea of wilderness, or lost paradise. As if these two things - wilderness & youth - were mythical states." But the album - eager, starry-eyed, a little impish, stubborn and shy in equal measure - hangs delicately between nostalgia and its refusal. With his grounding in post-punk and disco, Joakim's music has always made clear its debt to the past. Still, Joakim's approach is almost curatorial, sifting through the archives to find inspiration in false starts and detours, outmoded methods and outdated technology.


"I think that most (young) artists today are like archaeologists, especially in graphics and contemporary art," says Joakim. "You can't compete with history, with what's been done. You need to use that, in a more or less disrespectful way, to make new things. You can't just say, let's do something new and forget everything before, it's impossible and very pretentious. Especially when all that music is available everywhere all the time. I'm addicted to music and I listen to a lot of very different things, and whenever I hear something interesting in a song I think, Let's try it, put it with something completely different and see what it does, like a mad scientist...""

Interview with Joakim Bouaziz


I've heard the entire album, and it looks like it is my favorite of the year so far. Amazing and diverse, true artists album. Post Punk, Disco, New Wave, Psychedelia all mixed into a coherent whole.


shhhh

Harrowdown Hill

David Kelly's potential book

Dr Kelly said that "should the Army invade Iraq he would be found dead under a hedge"



Also read the comments at the bottom of the article, some very interesting stuff, indeed...

Future Vision Banished to the Past

In relation to my previous post on Tokyo's Nakagin Towers, Nicolai Ouroussoff's new article in the NYT of the fate of the Modernist icon.
NYT

Previous post

Nighttime

Mobile#7

Avenue Canyon

EnoV(HS)erse

Ruins of the Second Gilded Age

Via The NYT

You'll either love this or hate this

Autechre "Gantz Graf" flash frame remixed

Same guy who did the Satie on the modular

Totally sublime

Rare interview with Ralf Hutter of Kraftwerk

'I got a new head, and I'm fine'

Related to the Stasi post from earlier

Satie's Gymnopédie No 1 for Modular Synthesizer

By The River#2

Everyone is a Stasi agent

""Everybody is becoming like ... a Stasi agent, constantly observing himself or his friends."

Stasi Everywhere

Nakagin Capsule Tower

Nakagin Capsule Tower




I've never seen the interior shots before...

Mobile#6

List of Synths Used on Michael Jackson "Thriller"

Yamaha CS-80
Roland Jupiter 8 (x3)
NED Synclavier II
DK Synergy
Roland Jupiter 4
Roland MC-4 microcomposer/sequencer
Yamaha GS-1 FM synth
Oberheim Four-Voice
SCI Prophet 5 (x2)
Yamaha CE20 FM preset synth
Yamaha portasound keyboard
Roland VP-330 vocoder/strings
Bode Vocoder
E-mu Emulator I
plus a couple of Minimoogs

Linn LM-1 (mostly doubled with a TR-808)
Linndrum (LM-2)

Sealand

Atlantic

Storm

By the River

Untitled

Sunset

Mobile#5

Audience of One...

NYT article on how bloggers thought they would become rich and famous from blogging

Everything Must Go

Mesmerizing

Making music with Haskell functional programming language

Way over my head, but here you go

Also Related

Photo: Sean Dack for Sarah Morris "Beijing" © Parallax

Sarah Morris Gemini Dressage at MMK, Frankfurt©

Behind Glass

Videos on Liam Gillick

Related to this earlier post

Some videos on Liam Gillick

Opening next week is Liam's installation for the 2009 Venice Bienalle at the German Pavillion.

Deutcher Pavillion Bienalle de Venizia

Video from the Munchen Kunstverein w interview.

Eclipse

I'm really at a loss as what to call this...

All signs point to yes.

The Coming Superbrain Via NYT

American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse

via wired magazine

Mobile#4

Artists and the Recession

Artists and the Recession

London pirate radio documentary 1995

Film Still#2

tDR R.I.P.

The Designers Republic

I don't know why I'm just learning about this now, but apparently Sheffield, UK based design firm The Designers Republic have shut their doors.

tDR were immensely influential in the design world. During my brief stint in the graphic world in the late 90's/early 00's, they we're the top of the heap and were the ones we looked towards for experimental cues. You could probably see traces of their aesthetic within the work or yours truly. To me they were basically a visualization or electronic music during that time and not just because they designed the covers of many of the canonical releases of that time. It was a visualization of sound and space.

wiki

tDR

Oldish/New (not really +2)

Autechre interview


Found by simple searches...

Ae Quadrange EP pt 1

Ae Quadrange EP pt 2

One of my longest obsessions..

Wrought with complications and misadventures, been left for dead to spend eternity dormant with lenses shut off, been given numerous new leases on life and finally has given us some of the most breathtaking images of The Universe when it felt up to it: Hubble

This album is excellent...

Tim Hecker "An Imaginary Country"


Pitchfork Review


.. and really captures something I'm feeling right now.

P.S. I did not upload this, I simply did a basic Google search.