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In inquiries connected with current principles of the emusical world, the exceptional impetus is always the truest. That which seems faintly conceivable, is often quiet because it is deepest seated in the mind. Empiricism is apt to fog the audiovision, and, by the very knowledge of nummular processes, to deprive the earwitness of the brave contemplation of the whole. The digisound savant becomes prosiac. But the best listener who lends a devout attention to new etune reality will understand that there remains much to lEARn, and it is not by any computation of familiar quantities, but arrived at by untaught forays into the spirit of its source. You will percieve that there are unprecedented qualities in this sage space of symbols than sureness and infallibility; that a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable calculation, and that a dream may lead us deeper into the oracle of Technosis than a hundred concerted economists. ^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^INNERVIEW I'm into the sound. Sound is what heals people. That's how shamans cure, that's how Jesus cured, that's how Buddha or today's shamans and seers, that's how they cure, man -- with herbs and sound and colors, and they restore the cells and molecules. ~Carlos Santana http://www.santana.com ^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^EULOGY Harroon Shamsher, one half of the top Asian break beat pioneers, Joi, expired Thursday, 7:8, of heart attack at a young 34. He will be missed. Respect due. Read a Joi interview @ http://www.ministryofsound.co.uk/vip
^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ MPFREE Internet Freedom, the UK's leading cyber liberties organization, has launched an initiative in defence of the development and use of the audio format MP3 on the heels of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Coalition for Audio Free Expression (CAFE), a similar campagn working to protect free expression through open digital music standards. Both group's have been working in cooperation. At the recent MP3 Summit, EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow dropped his science:"Change is undeniable, thanks to a fundamental shift in the physics of music. The materiality of music containers follow the same economic laws that govern toasters... That is how it is being regulated because the market treats music as a thing, instead of what it is -- which is a relationship between an audience and its creator. Now containers are going away." http://users.globewide.com/ifreedom http://www.eff.org/cafe/
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^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ is a acoustical recording and broadcasting technology creating the aural equivalent of holography by recording and playing sound so one perceives it in 3D. Holophonics mimics the human hearing process and makes listeners feel as if the recorded action is actually happening to them. It has a capacity to reproduce acoustic reality with all its spatial characteristics to such an extent that, without constant visual control, it's virtually impossible to distinguish the perception of recorded phenomena from actual events in the 3D world. In addition, listening to holophonic recordings of events that stimulate other senses tends to induce synaesthesia - corresponding perceptions in other sensory areas. Thus, the sound of scissors opening and closing near one's scalp may convey a realistic sense of one's hair being cut; the hum of an electric hair dryer could produce sensations of the stream of hot air blowing through the hair; listening to a person striking a match might be accompanied by a distinct smell of burning sulfur and the voice of a woman whispering into one's ear may make one feel her breath. Holophonic sound has clearly profound theoretical and practical implications for many fields and areas of human life - from revolutionizing the understanding of physiology and pathology of hearing to undreamed of applications in psychiatry, psychology and psychotherapy, mass media, entertainment, art, religion, philosophy, and many other realms.
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PLUG.IN, 6:19-20, New York City
> 14th Summer Radio Art University, 7:5-18, Arles, France
> Deep Listening Retreat, 7:8-23 (beginners) & 7:25-30 (advanced)
Time of Music Festival, 7:8-14, Viitasaari, Finland
Imaginary Space, 7:7-10, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
Summer Media Institute - Techne and Eros: Human Sensory Space
The SenseSonic Sessions, 6:2-8:8
After an opening salvo of questions and comments from the artist at the beginning of each Session, you're able to respond by mailing directly to them. Comments and the responses they generate are then distributed to the list in digest form, leading to an open dialogue which hopefully generates new perspectives or ideas for subsequent events. The project will end in August with a live on-line discussion with participating artists planned, as well as a workshop and event at the Enchanted Garden festival in Dorset (8:6-8).
So far the discussions have been inspiring and provocative, challenging the view that 'music' has to be packaged in a CD and replayed through headphones or stereo hi-fi speakers, and suggesting radical new perspectives on sound and sonic art of relevance to everyone from sound artists to club producers: Is it possible to have a distributed, responsive sound field, without destroying the collective listening experience? How can sound and vision merge to create immersive space? What possibilities are opened by new technologies and media such as surround sound and DVD? The results of the discussions will be published in edited and fully archived forms @ http://www.futuresonic.com/
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6th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music, 7:19-22, Rio de Janeiro
Lizard Festival '99, 8:7-12, Cornwall (UK)
Lizard '99 promises funky cosmopolitan fun on the cutting edge. Sixteen tented stages of music and arts will offer a kaleidoscopic multi-cultural experience of live pop, folk, theatre, blues, comedy, jazz, story telling, DJ's, a circus and more. Besides the main Concert Tent for headline acts likes Kula Shaker, James, Sasha, Groove Armada, and Way Out West, there's also a Dance Tent for techno trance till the early hours, the One World Stage for acts on the World/Roots Music Tip, the Gia Space for Oriental and Pan-Asian world music, a Cabaret stage for comedy, theatre and circus, the Outdoor Cinema for the latest flicks on a massive screen under the stars, the Rizla Bar with top UK DJs, Club Dub for reggaenautical vibrations, an Ambient Lounge for tranquil chill-ins, a Cyber Tent to catch your email and taste Interface pirate radio, the Turbo Zone with contemporary dance, and experiments in sound and light, and lastly, Fringe festivities such as the walkabout theatre, and wandering characters.
For those unable to attend, the whole event will be bitcasted live and free via the Internet through Aurora Interactive's livereality.com's Webcasting service. Expect the unexpected through a total of ten separate camera feeds @
http://www.livereality.com/ > soon...
Siggraph '99, 8:8-13, LA Convention Center
Invencao, 8:25-29, Instituto ITAU Cultural, Sao Paolo (Brazil)
Theremin Fest '99, 8:14-20, Portland, Maine IDEAVERSE Headbanger is a unique HTML drum machine; a combined web site flooder and re-configurable rhythm generator. Enter a URL into Headbanger and it attacks a site with the perpetual retrieval of a page. Soon HTML is transformed into percussive sequences that trigger pre-defined sounds or those you can add on your own. Rhythms are generated via HTML structures and the moment to moment connection speed. BPM (Beats Per Minute) is displayed, as well as the total number of bytes stripped from the site, while text is sprayed onto the screen as rhythms are generated. Several headbangers have been used together to build dense sound compositions, each one targeted to a specific web page (Mac version only) @ http://www.deepdisc.com/earshot/ ^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^FEED Gavin McNett makes sense of the latest rock-crit crisis @ http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es215_master.html ^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^EAROTICA - Musical Freediving
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> With its upcoming initial public offering, MP3.com plans to raise close to US$200 million with an offering of 12.3 million shares priced initially at between $16 and $18 each @ http://www.mp3.com/and > Sony announced it's getting digidirect by offering its music catalog to retail shops over high-speed Internetworks that ensure every Sony offering is always in store @ http://www.sony.com/ > Sony and Time Warner have agreed to buy CDNow and will jointly develop a new site combining the resources of two of the world's biggest record companies. In other news, CDNow will offer etunes for downloads encoded using Microsoft's Windows Media Audio format. http://www.cdnow.com/ > GoodNoise has expanded its online music menu to include global grooves from leading indie labels City of Tribes and Baraka Foundation.
GoodNoise: http://www.goodnoise.com/ > In the biggest step yet by a major record label down the road to the digi-distribution future, EMI Recorded Music, overseer of labels like Virgin, Capitol, and Blue Note, has announced a deal with Liquid Audio to encode its entire library for etune ubiquity. As part of the deal, EMI takes a small stake in Liquid Audio @ http://www.liquidaudio.com/ > Bookseller Barnesandnoble.com has just added music to their Web menu with the launch of its Music Store. To kick things off, B&N is offering 30% off more than 200 classical and jazz box sets @ http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ > Rio makers Diamond Multimedia has announced their plans to revolutionize Web music with new off-spin RioPort, which plans to offer labels a promise of security with a new music biz model for mass etunage. Expect Rio Audio Manager software to control content conveyance and extend mega music in every format, including audiofied shows, novels, newspapers and more @ http://www.diamondmm.com/ > Cybertainment Systems Corp.'s CyberTunes home jukebox software legally plays any popular music file format while providing a full database editor so that users can build and edit their own music catalogs and play lists. Cybertainment also offers a full-size commercial jukebox for the vending industry that may be networked for convenient cyber-downloads @ http://www.cyberjukebox.com/
> Amazon.com has launched a new digimusic section, giving Webmusers hope that online music is flowing towards a main stream @ > Virgin Entertainment Group now offers Red Dot Network, a new in-store cybertune download kiosk connected to eight top-flight emusic sites, including Liquid Audio's Liquid Music Network, CDuctive, AMP3.com, Amplified.com, songs.com, Riffage.com, Mjuice, a service of Audio Explosion, and Noisebox @ $10 US for 10 etracks. The new system was launched at the official opening of Virgin's newest Megastore, in Columbus, Ohio, on 7:16. http://www.virgin.com/ > Liquid Audio's shares more than tripled on its first day of trading amid investor hype for emusic operations, raising $63 million for 4.2 million shares @ http://www.liquidaudio.com/ > In the past ten months, some 13 million Canadians and Americans signed on to the Net, bringing the online population in those nations to 92 million. > Music trade publication Webnoize recently announced the results of a study that found legal use of MP3 files amongst college students is up from 1.7% to 13.5% between December 1998 and April 1999. > So just when will RAM chip music outdo disc-injected tunes? According to a new report from research firm Jupiter Communications, not anytime soon - only 3 percent of online consumers are expected to purchase Net-transfered digimusic by 2003.
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The Next 50 Years of Sonic Architectonics
"There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention."
~Buckminster Fuller (20th-Century Visionary)
Tomorrow's sonic architectonics will be shaped by interweaving forces, including psychology, technology, ecology, demographic change, economics and (not the least) the creativity of designers. The futurist fantasy that follows describes a progression of musical styles as they may develop, shaped by a myriad of forces, over the next 50 years.
New Millennium Musitecture (2000-2005)
"New Millennium" or "Meta-Millennial" are apt names for the style of sonic architecture that will emerge in the first few years after 2000. Designers will be challenged to be as bold, different, and individualist as possible. The new music consumer, in a stimulated mind frame, will demand ever-transforming "musitecture" that is imaginative and even wild. Much of the musical architecture of this period, though highly creative, will be threatened by superficialities: The new forms will have dazzling textures and exciting rhythms but many will still be supported by Second Wave modes of construction and distribution. For example, in the downtown sound art laboratories of one West Coast city, conventional song structure will be replaced by a new morphing code that changes pitch, bpm, ambiance and tone color when stimulated interactively. The aural patterns, particularly with appropriate mindset and conscious settings complete with upgraded listening apparatus, will be spectacular. Some of these constructions may be visual in a kaliedescope of colors, some will have orbiting belts that flash text messages. These few new structures reflect high style rather than basic innovation. The exterior of one soundfield will sparkle with thousands of pyramid shaped prisms.
Another edifice could be penetrated by a variety of invisible openings that elude untrained ears. Still another may be tapered to include a non-linear series of trap doors and passageways somewhere on the flip side of these soundproof holes and crevices. In one desert micro-commune, as a emedia prank, a 30 minute structure will be erected that houses 20 minutes of silence. Although the floors, ceiling, doors and walls are of sound foundation, the interior will be completely empty, void of output except for a lone transcieving device, a surrealistic nanotechno bitcast booth disguised as an ordinary salt shaker. People will be both alarmed and amused. As often happens in music, the hidden microphone will be tapped and instantly downloaded throughout the cyberlines. Experts called in will be hard pressed to find the true purpose of this, but will manage to keep sales moving briskly by employing extensive systems of repetition.
Meanwhile, in the North, as a reaction against the ways of the past century, New Millenial architectonics should begin to display a trend towards curvilinear. Grooves will contain more curves than straight four-to-the-floor lines; sequences of beats will be round and oval or inspired by other freeform shapes. The sharp, square edge, so common in earlier styles, will be hard to find in this new musictecture. Bubble and dome configurations will also become big in the popbeat domain (although not inflated like stadiums). Composers and contructionists experimenting with these forms will find best results in the cluster approach, emitting bundles of beats intercepted and linked with other bubble bundles horizontally and vertically in fascinating arrangements. New techologies in automatic fabrication of such orbs from laminated spacetime and other sandwiched phenomena will make these experiences almost as intelligent as conventional land-bound vehicles. The mixture of these new-century forms with the older earth-style entities will make for an odd parade.
In 2005, the euphoria and public excitement over entering a new aural age will tragically cease with a devastating world-wide hard-drive crash caused by some unknown agent or anti-music virus. Billions upon billions of soundbytes will be destroyed, and many thousands of historical artifacts will be badly damaged. A massive rebooting program will be called for: New sounds, tunes and grooves will be needed on an unprecedented scale - and all as soon as possible. It will then become clear, however, that rebooting in traditional ways is both undesirable and unfeasible because of the magnitude of the effort and the general limitations on funds and resources.
Deco-Techno: Details, Finishes, and Custom Cool (2005-2015)
These "panels" will often extend horizontally and vertically beyond their connection points, resulting in tail-like alcoves and other unusual cloisters of resonance. This hideaway-style musitecture will be particularly suited to major urban centers of sound art, where strong informational influxes reflecting on the "panels" will produce highly-conscious patterns of expression. The new rennaisance influenced by "motivators," small groups of zentreprenuers in the thought industries during this period will tend to merge in clusters around one or more splinters of the same groovology. Economy, scarcity of real-peopled interfaces, and the effectiveness of high meme rates will be factors that will generate this exclusivity concept. The inner courts of this Teknowledge Age will then be seen as secured havens from the unrelenting non-activity of the outer society. Inside these living ambi-dextrous units, individuation of sound space will be of great importance, providing an antidote to mass insanity. Artitects who felt limited by the constraints of commercialized sound construction will find interior design and remodeling more rewarding (both mentally, spiritually and monetarily), as the demand for unique, personalized sound spaces, chill-dens, and groove rooms become unlimited.
It is this expansion of decor ability superimposed onto technologistics that will give rise to the style's name, Deco-Techno. But music will be more than livable space, and surely more than decorative brain chew for nueromantics - it will be highly intelligent, too. Built into these amorphous structures will be a network of various sense sensors to detect stresses, deformations, cracks and errosion that may possibly allow violent, undesired content to bleed onto deconstructionalist turf. Enviro-mental receptors will be incorporated to monitor inner and outer conditions, body and air temperature, energy consumption levels in different parts of the ambiosphere, quality of all forms of environmental pollution (air-noise-communication), and the possible infiltration of corruption through the imaginary shell of personalization. All this information will be fed through a central processor to ascertain the "health" of the system. The "sick music syndrome" will then be a thing of the past.
Ambiomorphism: Audio Natura (2015-2025)
Because of growing concern for the environment and harmony with all life, new musitecture will not only begin to sound more organic, but it will also become more closely related to the specific region where it was concieved. Thus, along the southeastern coastline, music will take on a twisted form, resembling seashells; in the Northwest, music with high pitches will be identified with fir trees and will have strong, exposed groove structures from which numerous tendrils of tone flow. In the U.S. Midwest, ambiomorphism should manifest itself as low-lying networks of eco-tunes hugging the body and spreading out like friendly vines. Most construction during this period will be by a combination of personal handcrafting and premade components produced by programmable machines. Technically, these machines will be capable of procuring highly complex parts unaided by humans, but a crafts movement is expected to emerge in response to a psychological need to impart a thoroughly evolved human quality to all sound-based phenomena. Thus, certain audible portions of musitecture, both externally and internally, will be handcrafted.
Classicology: New-Century Flashbacks (2025-2035)
In the Midwest, influences of ancient Greece and Rome will be juxtaposed with its ground based earthbeats. The Farout West will return to sounds drawn from early Gothic templates. Whereas in early classical music the complex details were handcrafted with just pen, paper and inspiration, this new rennaisance will be characterized by melodic, acoustic orchestrations, electronic manipulation technology and archaic morphism, all of which will combine to form an universally appreciated product bridging the present advances with the absolute power of past performances. This technosyntheny, though challenging to master, is soon easily molded and relatively inexpensive. The construction should simulate classical and technological quite well, and tempered sample fusions could soon be merged and textured to be natural sounding and inviting. High-tech adhesives may be used to apply these molded embelleshments onto the classically deprived infrastructure quickly and easily.
After many years of research, this rejection-resistant structural sound in commonly used sizes and shapes will become available for prefabrication. Normal modes of eco-classic produce, although very attractive, soften dramatically after repeated listenings. The solution to the problem may be to fuse microsized particles or digibits of scientifically-proven (nuero-effective) strains of sounds with high-strength corporate groove signatures such that the composite material is permanently and integrally joined to the listeners normal waking state of consciousness. With this in place it will soon be found that this substance can also be packaged in various mood altering shades of meaning - moral and aesthetic values, personal and individual uniqueness, logical significance and expressive form. From this point on, Classicology will begin to be an integral part of humankinds sonic mental ecology.
Meta-Kinetics: Modeling in 4-D (2035-2045)
Ambience, similarly, will have no permanent shape, but could assume any number of programmed configurations. Built-in smart nodes will automatically control the mood motion either on command or according to a predetermined pattern. Many sonic structures will rotate so a side with deco-panels will continuously pour out raw audio natura, for example. In time, virtually every bold new style or concept in musitecture will become more and more embellished in one way or another until it will lose its original purity and clarity. By 2047, traces of Ambiomorphism, Deco-Techno, and even Classicology will be seen super-imposed on kinetic musitecture, soon to be labeled "Meta-Kinetic."
In 2049, a world exposition will open in San Francisco, featuring a daring global sound pavilion whose roof will be suspended in space with no visible means of support. The roof will be held aloft entirely by vertically focused electrosonical shafts of melodic force along the perimeter of the building. By manipulating the intensity of the sound field at different positions, occupants could raise, lower, rotate, or tilt the roof. The novelty of this design will lead to much speculation about the future of this type of sound system. However, concern about physical safety (as well as stray shards of explosive sound current) will generate a flurry of legislation prohibiting the future use of electrosonic archetainment systems in buildings.
50 Years From Today: What A Long Strange Trip It Will Be
Aesthetic theoriticians will find entirely new conceptechnics will have to be developed for aural structures in Metaspace, where proportion and meaning have completely different interpretations than just fifty years before. Every sound will have to be viewed differently in the environment of contrasting intense silence and noise. Music experiments that had started with basic sonic building blocks will become vital habitations rich in aesthetic comfort and humane qualities compatible with all other architecture on Earth.
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Architectural evolution seems to have no foresight, it gropes from one path of dependence to the next. Architecture moves with the velocity of a slug through its own waste matter. Will we soon have a trip hop architecture, an illbient-itecture, a gangsta-tecture, ad infinitum? CYBERSPHERE Architexturez is an online community for hacking and cracking the architectural code @ http://www.architexturez.com ^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^CONCERTO Earstream a live show by Brit soul-funksters Jamiroquai @ http://bcaudit.exactis.com/sbct.cgi?s=19123517&i=122576&d=880 ^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^COLLECTIBLES - discriminating vibe rations > Print
Dr. Hans Jenny - Cymatics Vol II:
Grab the graphic details of Jenny's groundbreaking experiments in animating inert substances with sound. Intricate and fascinating forms are portrayed in dozens of B&W and color close-up photos. Spirited text describes in detail how the images were produced, and their significance within the science of wave phenomena and beyond (cymatics) @
John Stewart - Exploring Music And Sound On Your PC!
Computers allow us to do weird things with sound, and soon many will take advantage of this option. 'Exploring Music & Sound on Your PC' is a 70-plus minute tape revealing how computers are used to create, capture and manipulate sound. Stewart, author of seven other computer-related audio books since 1991, starts from the beginning, when personal computers were content to just beep, and takes one through WAV files and simple audio recording all the way through to MIDI sequencers and working their files. For business audio, critical info on copyrights and background music sources are here, as well as general info on mics, sampling rates, tips for saving hard drive space and more. Also loaded with examples of sound so you can hear the effects being discussed without being in front of your PC while listening @
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1886173079/aauricleelofaucu
MC Solaar - 'le tour de la question' (Elektra/Realization): Flexing a double-live album, ace French rhymist Solaar takes his captivating lyrical flow direct to the people, sculpting deft oral art around, through and over digable jazz-hop compositions and cosmopolitan funkmachine breaks. Studio takes morph as new inlets of soul sonic force. Gratifying for those in the know, an enticing intro for those who don't. Highlights: "Obsolete," "Bouge de La", "Gangster Moderne", "Les Temps Changent", "A Dix de Mes Disciples," and "Paradisiaque" @
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000IPXU/aauricleelofaucu
> Digitronica Sonogram - 'Heartbeat Submarines' (Simulacra): A minimalist masterwork of slow-fi techtronics and analog circuitry so starkly set that each piece is a vignette or tableau of sonic surrealism. Alluring liquid melodies are stained and stripped to give impressions of age and to help underline a vibe of cozy yet dramatic austerity, which makes you look deeper to see what these structures imply. Transclucent soundhorizons give a sense of permanence to the views. Nothing precious or fussy. Feels like we've stumbled upon something that's been here for ages @ http://www.simulacrarecords.com > Danse
Audio Totem Pole - 'You Are Tired + Beautiful' (AudioTotem)
High-minded 12" inch of deeper tekhouse transfers lush blasts of heart beats and soul bleeps via discreet principles molded from a righteous vibe. Begins in stereocyclical form, swells into picturesque phono-graphs and reaches cresendo in lavish plenitude.
Stone-washed tonality dilating at dreamspeed. Ravished sound cast down in instant spectacles of uncertainty. Muse-ical truth composed in the innermost loop.
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Mind Transport Tools - 'Tone Cone' (Spiralight):
Using sympathetic electronics and natural nature, temperate sound freequencies spiral through the mind, sending balanced electro-magnetic energy to harmonize the static and awaken sleeping medullae oblongata. The dexterous mix of organic forms and smooth materials is appealing, as if designed as a sanctuary. Cosmophonics hold myriad moments of surprise and delight, making one feel they've integrated the wafting futurepast within this sonic topography. Mathmagical labryinths of textural cohesion sustain active relaxation, giving the pleasant illusion that we're perpetually floating on a hydrosonic soundbed with conjoining aromas @
Govinda - 'O Earthly Gods' (Earthtone): Shane O'Madden distills a heady amalgamation of global romanticism woven into taut-skinned soundplexes of switched-on cultural synthesis. A natural sense of studio precision yields to a love of arcane artifacts to inhabit, not just views from afar. Morphing planes of grafted hybrids from Spain, India and Ireland dance in spectral melodies fabricated from ecstatic chant, gypsy violin and ethnic guitar. The spirit of Bohemian wanderers haunts each medicine groove with cinematic ambiance, reflecting, in miniature, unselfconscious attempts to create a brave new world of unpoplogic and mythic significance. The world is as you dream it @ http://www.earthtone.com > OpPop
April March - 'Chrominance Decoder' (Tricatel/Ideal/Mammoth):
Eccentric international pop where nothing is quite what it seems. A young American girl barefoots in Parisian ice-cream shops to Austin-powered trumpets that swank-out while trip-a-go-go beats punctuate spring violins swooping like a lark drunk on sunshine. A kitchy tip of our thinking hats for integrating classic sixties formulae with fresh influences for young, sexy ears. Oui oui, may the music set you free @
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1. Mickey and Tara Hart Music to be Born By (Ryko)
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Resonant request: Why are metals sonorous?
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Former Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera's record label, Expression Records, has completed a deal with Virgin Records for the CD re-release of many of his currently unavailable back catalogue. Six albums are targeted for swift release: 'Diamond Head' - Phil's first solo album, featuring Eno, Andy Mackay, and Robert Wyatt; Quiet Sun's 'Mainstream' - Phil's pre-Roxy band, may include up to 40 minutes extra material drawn from early demo recordings; '801 Live' - the epic 1976 live performance of the band featuring Brian Eno, Simon Phillips, Francis Monkman, Lloyd Watson and Bill MacCormick; 'Listen Now' - the album recorded at the same time as 801 were rehearsing, features Eno, Godley and Creme (10cc), and the Phillips/MacCormick rhythm section; 'K-Scope' - Phil's superb third solo album with Tim and Neal Finn (Split Enz/Crowded House); and lastly 'Primitive Guitars' - Phil's critically acclaimed 'solo' solo album.
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Making a plea to all cyber-navigators to "turn your software down and close your eyes" in hopes that we'll embrace the world for what it is, Alt-X Audio is an exemplar in hyperliterary audio art and streaming word dub produced by Mark Amerika and the Alt-X Publishing Network.
Continuing in their goal to feature sound.art experiments from all around the world, Alt-X Audio delivers cutting-edge fiction, criticism and hypertext, streaming word-dub, binary dissonance, situational performance, ambient fiction, the electro-consciousness of streaming male-female dialoges, and the "Theater of Cruelty Music" by the world's first hypertext sound ensemble featuring Mark Amerika (GRAMMATRON), Shelley Jackson (My Body), Bob Arellano (Sunshine 69), Tom Meyer (WAXweb) and Andrew Currie (Dogma Hum). Essential text includes:
Alt-X Audio can be heard in the live rotation every Saturday and Sunday night, as well as an active archive for random listening on GoGaGa Radio.
Read Wired Magazine's Alt-X story @
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The world's largest musical instrument, expected to sound next year in Italy, is actually a building. The Baptistery of Pisa, near the famous Leaning Tower has a dome with acoustic properties that amplify sounds, which can turn a single musical line into a fascinating arpeggio. Researchers led by Leonello Tarabella, head of the Italian National Research Council's Computer Music Lab, are using computers and acoustic spectrum analyzers to study sound effects in the building. Next year, musicians will perform Tarabella's Concerto for Baptistery and Electronic Orchestra there. Electronic instruments played at strategic spots within the structure will emphasize echoes and cause the dome to vibrate and resonate.
The tower's alignment to the other buildings supplies the title for Tarabella's concerto: '23 gradi e mezzo' (23.5 degrees). The performance will be staged sometime next June as part of millennium celebrations in Pisa, and will coincide with the conclusion of the Leaning Tower's restoration. Italian multimedia artist Marco Cardini will accompany the concerto, projecting lights and pictures onto the Baptistery walls. > The world's smallest instrument is a guitar carved out of crystalline silicon and no larger than a single cell. Made at Cornell University to demonstrate a new technology that could have a variety of uses in fiber optics, displays, sensors and electronics, the strings, when plucked by an atomic force microscope, resonate, but at inaudible frequencies. http://www.news.cornell.edu/science/July97/guitar.ltb.html ^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ASK DR. TECHNOLOVE
Q. What is the essence of a Metagroove?
A. First, the groove is the eternal throb of existence, the elemental vibrancy of all life; all things joining in one single sinuous flow in the ever present moment. All natural manifestations share a groove quality - periodicity, cycle, wave, pulsation, vibration. There is rhythm in the incredibly high-pitched singing at the atom's heart, the shimmer of sound, the ten-cycles-a-second alpha wave in the brain of ant and man (echo of a faint pulse in the sun), the beat of the heart and the sea, the wax and wane of the tides, the predator-prey cycles of forest, field, stream and sea, the turn of the earth and the turn of the record on a turntable, the return of the rains, the elliptical swing of planets and stars, the rhythmic travel of galaxies, and beyond conceivable time and space, the expansion and contraction of the universe itself. Existence is vibrant and it is filled to the brim. How can we live deprived and discontent in such a rich world?
The meta is the natural evolution and resolution of the groove. Existence is meta; change, transformation. Who we really are always will lie beyond, on the forward edge of the process of becoming. Meta, just like the groove, is an absolute aspect of life. One small example of this is played out around the clock around the globe in the danse music of today. In the electronic recording and mixing process, seemingly separate tracks of beats, melodies, rhythms, and vocals from seemingly separate genres and sources are blended into one prolonged single movement-fusion. This conglomeration of tracks is then delivered to remixers who can add even more tracks to the single trackfusion. This new version ends up on a dance club DJ's playlist who, in a live club, mixes this track into an even longer single movement across the expanse of many, many hours, often adding their own layers of tracks into the mix.
In the club, an accompanied drummer is staying with the rhythm, pursuing it relentlessly, following its spoor for hours if necessary until at last they become one with it and, through it, with all existence; finding then that "he/she" is no longer striking the drum but that their hands are being thrust upwards by some force that seems to be concentrated in the drums head, in the beat itself. From the perspective of the listener dancing-moving to the beat of this sound and light, they, the sound, the lights, the DJ, the remixer, and the musicians-sound makers are also part of a single groove flow. The division between one track and another become unclear, and in any given moment, the division between listener, dancer, musician, DJ and music does as well. The end result is ultimately an experience of merging, metamorphosis and ultimately transformation.
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'Sonances: Studies in Music' is launching a new series of studies in music. The editors of this series are looking for manuscripts that deal with music in a variety of challenging and original ways. They seek a mix of titles and formats, ranging from studies by a single author to symposia treating a given repertoire or aspect of music from differing points of view. Although any thoughtful and original work is welcome, the editors are particularly interested in projects that bear upon the following: twentieth-century music; music aesthetics; sociology of music; critical theories; ethnomusicology; history of theory; and speculative theory.
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~Arthur C. Clarke
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'Organic Art Deluxe' is techno-artist William Latham's psychedelic software for creating 3D multicoloured visuals. Link a top-end PC to a state-of-the-art plasma screen, get 'OAG' generating its kinetic genetic eye-candy, hang it on your listening room wall and visualize the future of optic-art @ http://www.artworks.co.uk/
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The discards of our society pile up around us like coconuts in the surf. Picking up an abandoned toy, picking up a coconut, rewiring the toy, poking holes in the coconut, flipping the new switches on the toy, blowing over the new holes in the coconut, letting the toy's new music direct you to it, letting the coconut's new music direct you to it... these things are part of us. This is how musical thought systems are born.
Music reviews: http://207.137.50.71/reviews/ ^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^FREEDOM FORUM WWW - Age of Spiritual MachinesBy Jon Katz Do we wish to merge with computers into one species? Will we have a choice? Are we heading for a sci-fi nightmare or another one of those utopian visions of the future that used to pepper Wired magazine before it was taken over and sanitized by Conde Nast? Will we receive our information from newspapers, fixed-time broadcasts, even from journalistic Web sites? Or will we customize it and broadcast it right into our neural systems? http://www.freedomforum.org/technology/1999/1/29katz.asp/
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Every work of sonic art is an organic whole requiring constant awareness of the overall container within which specific parts are situated; tones in notes, notes in melodies, beats in grooves, melodies and grooves in tracks or songs, tracks or songs in albums, albums in concepts, concepts in 0's & 1's, and if not digidownloaded - 0's and 1's in discs, discs in sleeves, sleeves in boxes, boxes in shelves, shelves in stores, stores on streets, streets in citys. Then, discs in players, players in systems, systems in rooms, sound in air, air in ear, ear in brain, brain in mind, mind in ideas, ideas in expression, expression in music, etc., etc., etc.. All recorded works, sound systems and soundscapes are complex entities embedded in even more complex contexts. Isoloated sonic phenomenon, unconnected impressions or independent expressions are hypothetical constructions because what we really encounter in experience is invariably part of an enormously intricate web. There is always a dynamic interplay going on between the whole and the parts because the whole is in the parts and the parts in the whole. Nothing should be taken for granted or ignored, regardless of how small or large it might be, because one never knows how important it is in the total scheme of things or how it impacts on other elements in this holistic system.
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According to the City of Chicago traffic codes, if you're playing a car stereo that's audible at a distance of 75 feet or more, police have the right to not only issue you a ticket, but also seize your vehicle, costing you $500 for the fine and $115 for towing and storage.
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Musings peers into the nooks and crannies of experimental music, discovering artists, labels and sounds which you may not otherwise get to hear about, all the while keeping tabs on more established artists as well @
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Rhythms flowing staccato, chaos, lyric, stillness constitute the fluid structure, the DNA, of our physical lives. We know from physics that everything is in motion, and that the authentic way of understanding reality is to think in terms of motion: rhythms, vibrations, frequencies the language of constant change, of flux.
~Gabrielle Roth, from 'Maps To Ecstasy' (Nataraj) ( ( ( a ) ) ) A U R I C L E : slow food for passionate earbuds Auricle is your cybermedia mantra toning pluralistic tapestries at the melting point of musical integralism. A postformal, nonordinary tool for dialoguing with the self, Auricle flies the blind skies of fortune to serve as guide, educator, and oracle via the hermeneutical bitgarden of Auricle Communications, Chicago, Illinois. Sonic States-man: Mark Christopher Riva; who having reasoned with himself, preserves endanged concepts behind the music - not through undistorted sonic fiction, nor synpho-science certainty. Some events we relate have not yet transpired and may never do so. The correct term for an entity that takes ear samples from the momentary current and extrapolates unfolding eventuality that is mythic, lyric, metaphoric, and hypnogogic is: "sound speculation", or neologically: "sonospec-tacular"! ^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^CONTRIBUTORS
Gabrielle Roth, John Beckmann, Jah Love, Carlos Santana, Mixmaster Flow, DJ Kensho, QR Ghazala, Cassandra Moonstone, Zig Zag, Dr. Technolove, Morocco Joe, Professor Freebass, Nick Danger
^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ The Web is for scanning, but Auricle runs deep. Though we create a personal exclusion zone from the meme warfare of the majority, painstakingly honing a focused screen on the best of today's aural planet, we can't afford not to pack a world into each volume. Aural culture is holistic. Hence, Auricle sets out to guide you, as the anthropologist Gregory Bateson said, to envision the pattern that connects (the contextual relationship) rather than look at objects by themselves.
As an insurgent proposal for a "acoustic ecology of musical minds", this means knowing more about our sonic universe than any group of ear people have ever known before and to take responsibility to a lifelong commitment to lEARning.
It takes time to compose complex entities embedded in even more complex contexts. A very distinct recipe or code is needed to bring the parts into meaningful relationship. As T.S. Eliot observed, "just as man is something more than an assemblage of the various constituent parts of his body, so a culture is more than the assembling of its arts, customs, and religious beliefs. These things all act upon each other, and fully to understand one you have to understand all." *
This is why Auricle is intended to be digested over the course of many days. Think of us as a full-service detailing for all your creative vehicles, not merely an easy-gulp screen-bound info-fusion, but a monthly cultural rite. So save us to your desktop and savor, listen at rapturous levels of involvement, print us out and turn up the volume, take it to go, copy it, fax it, syndicast it to friends and strangers, read it out loud, underline it, add your notes. Keep diving into the deep pool of your own personal aurality.
* "Understand all!" you say. "In the next 24 hours there will be more information published than anyone could read in a lifetime! There is so much to know that no one can concievably learn more than a tiny fraction of it!" Hold on. T.S had a more discrimiating idea in mind of what should count as being known, that's why he said 'understand'.
Understanding doesn't depend on knowing every fact, but on having the right concepts, explanations and theories. One comprehensible theory can cover an infinity of indigestible facts. With it one still can't understand everything there is. But what we can do is tap the possibility of understanding everything that is understood. The attainment of such a Theory of Everything will be the last great unification, and at the same time it will be the first across-the-board shift to a new worldview. We believe that such a unification and shift are now under way. The associated worldview is the bedrock of Auricle.
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Auricle doesn't fit into convenient niches. So we support those whose vision extends beyond conforming to any generic expectation. Music from inside rather than merely constructed from external obligations. We identify the insights and opportunities of the composers, evangelists, change-agents, and futurethinkers who are creating the new rules by which everyone is about to play. We get to the core of what makes aural culture tick by covering those whose triumph and struggles speak to challenges of creating this new music-based multi-media millennium.
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