The Jonny Opinion Memorial Podcast
Don’t worry, he’s still with us. He’s just decided to start doing some podcasts. The first episode is up, and very thrilling it is too. Click here to listen to him selecting some music, talking about...
View ArticleNobody cares for me… pieces about work and crime
I’m making a collection of music about work and crime. There are some downloadable mp3s on my newly-made Soundcloud page (link below): including me doing an uncover version of G-Man Hoover – a song...
View ArticleAnimated Sound: Norman McLaren, Neighbours
Listen to the soundtrack to Scottish-Canadian Norman McLaren’s Oscar-winning short film Neighbours, from 1952 — if that’s not nice, then what is? McLaren made the soundtrack (and that for other films...
View ArticleThese ought to be our pop stars (part 1)
In the finest possible way, Vulnavia Vanity makes me feel like I’m sixteen again.
View ArticleMonster Momus Musical?
Sometimes a piece of news makes such good sense that it takes quite a while to mentally process the information. The word from Momus’s Tumblr site is that a “cinematic Momus musical” is being planned....
View ArticleHolly Herndon: Movement
I suppose a common prejudice against computer music – proper, fully digitally made electronic music – is that it’s not made to move, in any sense of the word: see the clichés about laptop performances...
View ArticleWrong artwork, clown
I’m not sure how usual these particular mistakes are, but here are some cases of [famous digital media library] trying to be clever and guess the right artwork for some fairly canonical albums I own,...
View ArticleDigital degradation
An update on my recent post where I was going on about how Holly Herndon’s Movement might be an intelligent response to the non-living and “non-degradable”problem of digital music: here’s a piece...
View ArticleBroadcast: Berberian Sound Studio (39 fragments)
I do like this kind of thing. Berberian Sound Studio, the new album by Broadcast, has more tracks than minutes. That’s 39 in 37, if you’re interested. The album is a soundtrack, and a...
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