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Women in Sound
Sleepy Brain has interviews and an online gallery of sound/video works from 360 Degrees: Women In Sound, part of this year’s Liquid Architecture, the Australian sound art festival.
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80s reject quiz
Urgh, obviously spending far too much time writing my thesis and not enough connecting with my heritage: Via artmachine.
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Post-Digital Music
Interesting article by Kim Cascone called The Aesthetics of Failure: “Post-Digital” Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music (pdf). From the introduction: […]the revolutionary period of the digital information age has surely passed. The tendrils of digital technology have in some way touched everyone. With electronic commerce now a natural part of the business fabric of the…
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EFF: MP3 Caper
Who says the EFF is humourless? As part of their mp3 sharing awareness campaign they have produced a cool flash movie called The MP3 Caper.
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emusic assortment
Yet another online electronic music mag: igloo::magazine – found via William Fields (team techno) who by the way makes beautifully squishy and squelchy downtempo electronica. He has several tracks available for preview or download. Linking from there I found the website for DI (DigImpro), which I heard about a while back and then promptly forgot…
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Wired Hypes Magnatune
Via Creative Commons, I notice that Wired, perhaps unsurprisingly, is hyping the latest mp3 distribution revolutionary Magnatune to the hilt. There are areas where Magnatune is innovative (particularly in its synergy between filesharing, activist culture and artist promotion), but in other ways the model and the rhetoric have an eerily familiar ring – with amp3.com,…
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Digital Music Symposium
I will be at this with bells on: The QUT Faculties of Law, Creative Industries & Information Technology are presenting a FREE seminar on Wednesday 26 November which will investigate the current issues facing the digital distribution of music. Keynote Speaker Fred von Lohmann is a Senior staff attorney with Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), specialising…
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more retro chic: the lofi mixtape network
Via esoteric linkhound extraordinaire metal machine music, I draw your attention to the lofi mixtape network – an audiovisual presentation and ongoing collection project by Visual Stereo. Listen or upload your own for others to hear. There is also a nice little essay on the affective dimensions of the mixtape.
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know your “techno”
ishkur’s guide to electronic music v2.0 is online. It’s a Flash presentation with 100+ genres well mapped out according to stylistic affinities as well as chronological “development”. You have to question the linear evolution model, but once you get past the long-winded intro animation, it’s all good fun, and there are multiple audio examples for…
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MP3.com: The Company Without a Past
Further to the mp3.com thing, I thought I’d link to their artists’ page from about 1997 or so through the brilliant Internet Archive Wayback Machine. No luck, though – mp3.com has blocked robots. Very interesting, especially as I have previously accessed their archived pages this way (only a couple of months ago I think). I…