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The cover of March/April’s Tape Op magazine, illustrating various sonic concepts with drawings of bunnies.
The Blog
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All Hail The Beat by Nelson George
A short film overview of the highly beloved Roland TR-808 drum machine.
“It’s kick drum sound is legendary.”
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Great music slumbered in him, but it never came to such an awakening as he himself dreamed of and heard in his soul.Anton Prokesch, friend of Schubert. (via schubertiade)
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In the rush to “clean up” the images of classic cinema, to remove every speck and splice digitally, etc., are we not also losing something? What about the blurry, hazy artifact-ridden images of yesterday, the streaky bad-tracking VHS blurs and statics? Was there really no “point” to that “accidental” art you spent so much time looking at but never “seeing”? Before CGI there was something called imagination…and whiskey.
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Consider the top picture[…] It’s from a scene in TOMORROW where people are walking around outside, doing something. What they are doing is impossible to tell, but the screen is a brilliant composition of white and dark squares, a gray market VHS Mondrian, ditto the checkered wallpaper in the second shot (below) which shows the results of a fire in the Ghost’s office. The smoke bleeds the whole right half of the frame a pure white, like the film is being forgotten by Jim Carrey in ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, or bleached by some experimental filmmaker like Stan Brakhage. Note too the vertical reflection at left, which indicates that these checkered walls are in fact shower curtains, or some other sort of wondrously flea-bitten 1940′s sound stage free-hanging wallpaper.
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Oh ghost of Edgar G., forgive us our dread of the decay which so wants to set us free.
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Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.Holger Czukay (via slangking)
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Aleph Null - Rocket 303 to Cosmos 808
In lieu of anyone more qualified stepping forward, it fell to me to contribute this April’s pattern to the SoundCloud monthly acid group. (A high-resolution transcription of the pattern can be seen here for better legibility and easier programming.)
My version has - at least to my ears - an early 90s spaced-out techno-trance vibe to it; the blame for which I place on finding my folder of miscellaneous astronaut transmission recordings. Also, I’m pretty sure Pete Namlook is partially responsible somehow.
I’m really looking forward to hearing how other folks in the group interpret the pattern. DyLABs has already taken it to a very cool and crazy place.
