A flexible plastic corrugated tube known as the Hummer was a popular sonic toy in the early 1970s. It produces pleasing sonorities when whirled in the air. In this article, we propose a physically informed model of a singing corrugated tube. The model was used in the composition Garden of the Dragon, which is also [...]
The Cad Factory is currently calling for readers for the next recording installment of their Bible Project:
The entire bible being read then cut up into 3 and a half minute segments and placed on top of each other, so the whole time you hear hundreds of voices. There will also be a 3 second version.
The [...]
If I rhymed about home and got descriptive, I’d make 50 Cent look like Limp Bizkit.
Somalian-born MC K’naan, from “What’s Hardcore?” (via Fat Planet).
“I was completely dumbfounded but I actually had this vision of … of Jesus, and I’m sure it was Jesus.” Anticipating a raised eyebrow, she adds quickly: “But it wasn’t this crazy theological thing; it was just this figure who was the most perfected human being – full of light and full of love. And [...]
Pleasurable recent searches that landed people at http://zuihitsu.org.
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Recently I bought a beautiful old copy of Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici from Berkelouw Books. I had been looking for a nice copy for some time, having been intrigued by William Sebald’s description of Browne’s life and work in his masterpiece Austerlitz. The copy was around AU$40, but I decided it was worth it. Having [...]
Brooklyn based record label Apestaartje have just added a series of tracks to their website, one per release. These can be found on their catalogue (strip the .m3u extension from the links to download the tracks rather than stream them). The underlying sound of the label is an organic, field-recording oriented minimalism, and taken together [...]
Lovely 45 minute mix just posted by Walkman from Sutemos, staying mostly within the confines of the Arovane sound. The tracklisting is:
Phonem – MainframeArovane – NacrathAutechre – Second ScepeGimmik – Powder PuffNautilis – Blix2Arovane – auBern vor [amx]Plaid – OlMum – On The Old Mountain Radio (Christian Kleine Mix)Kettel – Kinny The KowArovane/Phonem – (Fard) [...]
Once, nationality was something that an ambitious writer hoped to transcend. A novelist aspired to recognition not as a New Zealand writer or a Nigerian writer but as, simply, a writer. Now nationality is transcended downward. Recognition comes from having one’s work identified with a marginalized or “endangered” community within the larger national or global [...]
42. a track from an egyptian cassette with a monkey dressed up as a sailor on the cover, sorry, still can’t read arabic
From Mixed Live by Maga Bo in Fez, Morocco 2005. (Full tracklisting and download).
These days I don’t listen to too much music oriented around guitar and vocals, but these four tracks from Seaworthy (not the Australian band, but rather a one-man act from the US) blow me away. They have the low crunching guitar of Sebadoh, the tense looping structure, with excursuses, of Slint, and the subtle [...]
“9 Beet Stretch consists of Ludwig van Beethoven’s 9th Symphony stretched to 24 hours, leading it closer to eternity than ever”—the finished product is beautiful, cavernous, sprawling. Download it here.
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This evidence suggests that female beauty depends upon specific highly visible hormonal markers that indicate high fecundity. In other female primates, fecundity signals such as labial swelling, chest blisters, or face reddening are quite common and males who are attracted to such cues enjoy clear reproductive beneits. However, in contrast to the pronounced cyclical fecundity [...]
Leaf turned 10 in 2005, and the BBC celebrated by posting a lovely showcase mix [RAM] on their website. The tracklist and some other tracks for download are here.
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While on technical matters, I can’t recommend highly enough the Word Browser Plugin for Safari. People shouldn’t be encouraged to post Word files to the internet of course, but those files such as [...]
Steffen Ducheyne has just uploaded a fascinating paper to the PhilSci archive, “Galileo’s Interventionist Notion of “Cause””, forthcoming in The Journal of the History of Ideas. Ducheyne argues that Galileo’s view of causation was motivated by the same interventionist intuition developed most recently by James Woodward (see the NDPR review). With this piece of intellectual [...]
Via The Age:
Breast augmentation, at about $US2,000 ($A2,700), is a third of the price in the US. A nose can be sculpted for $US1,500 ($A2,000), as little as a tenth of the US price.
Which prompts the question, how long before there exists a vibrant sector of the travel industry—cosmetic tourism. Venezuela! Get a new tan, [...]
This afternoon Rob Hatch-Miller (formerly of Didjilution on WNYU) played a 2005 wrap-up show on WFMU, and among all the eclectic goodness were two tracks that I thought were phenomenal—the Tape track “Exuma”, and the Mountains track “Paper Windmill”. I would have bought the Tape album Rideau immediately, but Klicktrack is undergoing server [...]
So he was taken along on a hockey trip to France, where he probably got drunk but managed to conceal it, and in due jollity acquired the nickname “Ça Va”. Before the expedition I had tried to hammer in a few phrases of useful as distinct from merely grammatically accurate French. This, the colloquial equivalent [...]
Physics in Oxford will forever in my mind be associated with the motto, ‘We delight in physics’, emblazoned on the foot of departmental notepaper issued from the pen and the wit of Oxford University’s famed nuclear physics Professor Denys Haigh Wilkinson, now retired. Never mind that this Shakespearean quote from Macbeth II.iii was a pragmatically [...]