December 2010
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“Patterns establish reality, so break all patterns. Do it one way today, and...”
– Alexander Shulgin (TiHKAL: 334-335)
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“I always want to write erotic music… Not only about the love between men and...”
– Toru Takemitsu
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“There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye;...”
– Charles Henry Parkhurst (via experientiadocetstultos)
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theimpulseresponse asked: excellent blog my friend
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“My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most...”
– - Sherlock Holmes
(via wheresthejeopardy)
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Buchla Christmas by Warner Jepson →
left-luggage:
Need tunes for your holiday party? Brooklyn-based experimental label SHINKOYO just released this little gem - a 1969 recording by Bay Area composer Warner Jepson of Christmas carols, recorded entirely on the Buchla 100 Analog Modular Synthesizer housed at the Mills College Electronic Music Studios. Jepson, in a description accompanying the track, recalls that he produced...
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The Roton
electronicmuze:
“Taking inspiration from Cornelius Cardew’s Treatise, the Roton is a graphical score for any number of performes and electronic instruments and devices. The score is a kit made of 23 (for now) circle shaped transparent plastic sheets that the performer can group and arrange in every way he/she wants.”
Mmmmm, circles. Giorgio Sancristoforo of Tobor Experiment sure knows...
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Regarding the seeming lack of 2000AD-related...
lincolnshirepoacher:
http://2000adonline.tumblr.com/
closest I’ve found ;)
Oooh, good find, sir - truly a seasonal miracle!
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Is Music for Wooing, Mothering, Bonding—or Is It... →
Discover Magazine:
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In many ways music appears to be hardwired in us. Anthropologists have yet to discover a single human culture without its own form of music. Children don’t need any formal training to learn how to sing and dance. And music existed long before modern civilization. In 2008 archaeologists in Germany discovered the remains of a 35,000-year-old flute. Music, in other...
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Anonymous asked: Hey, where did you get that fab Kate Bush pic? Love it!
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Music Fires Up Emotions in the Brain (Psych... →
psychotherapy:
In a new study using brain imaging, researchers have identified how key aspects of musical performance cause emotion-related brain activity.
Edward Large, Ph.D., the study’s principal investigator, and Heather Chapin, Ph.D., the lead author, believe that their study pinpoints how musical performances charge up the brain’s emotional centers, and said that their technique will lead...
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“Oh, I like all types of music…
except Rap”
– Morons (via lincolnshirepoacher)
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Isle of Tune - The Sound of Town Planning →
So this is damn awesome, right.
Isle of Tune - “a music sequencer for the modern colonial” - where you lay down roads in your browser for cars to follow. Town “stuff” like trees, houses, and lamp posts are placed alongside roads to be triggered by passing car(s) into making sounds.
The ability to have up to 3 cars, multiple road paths, loops or double-backs in the...
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“Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.”
– George Bernard Shaw (via electronicdancemuse)
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