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April 5, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Bandcamp vs Streaming
What do Nils Frahm, Anne Mueller, Jeannie Schulz, Mary Lattimore and Atli Örvarsson have in common? They are among three dozen artists whose albums I bought last year from Bandcamp,…
Bandcamp vs Streaming
What do Nils Frahm, Anne Mueller, Jeannie Schulz, Mary Lattimore and Atli Örvarsson have in common? They are among three dozen artists whose albums I bought last year from Bandcamp,…

The reality is that we are all addicted to convenience — and streaming platforms make it damn convenient for us to not think about the artists and how they manage to survive. As streaming becomes more pervasive, the sad reality is that every track, every artist, every album is reduced to just data, served up by the algorithm. It only continues to devalue our emotional relationship with the creators.  

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: Algorithms, Bandcamp, Streaming Platforms

xenakis’s pithoprakta

April 5, 2021 · Leave a Comment

The best part is the anticipation:

An explanation (sort of):

comments of Iannis Xenakis

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: Experimental Music, Iannis Xenakis

nightmarish late-1800s automaton

April 4, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: 1800s, creepy stuff, history, robots

kevin shields in the new york times

March 31, 2021 · Leave a Comment

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Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine granted The New York Times a rare interview, published today, on the occasion of signing a deal with Domino Music. The back catalog is included, and the 2013 album m b v appeared on streaming platforms for the first time. That’s good, because everyone pretty much forgot about m b v, probably because it was never streaming (sad but true).

Kev also promises two new ‘back-to-back’ albums, a promise I’ll take with a grain of salt. There’s also this bit that gave me a chuckle:

“My nieces and nephews — they would complain to me, because when they would try and show their friends, they can’t find it anywhere,” Shields said. “They’re like, ‘Why are you so purposely obscure? You know, it seems stupid.’ That kind of stuff that made me think, ‘Yeah, I guess my perception of the world isn’t the world.’ There’s a whole world out there I know nothing about.”

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: Domino Music, My Bloody Valentine, New York Times

laurie anderson – smoke rings

March 25, 2021 · Leave a Comment

I watched Laurie Anderson’s Norton Lecture yesterday — the second in a series of six. She spoke on perception and memory, regular topics in Anderson’s oeuvre, and pushed the limits of a ‘Zoom lecture’ through shifting virtual spaces. At one point she became a creepy deep-fake John Cage. And, at another moment, she played the end of the concert clip above. That’s from the 1986 film Home of the Brave. There’s a trio of great artsy ’80s concert movies: Stop Making Sense, of course, but also Tom Waits’ Big Time and Home of the Brave. The first on that list is, of course, widely available. The second was missing until a couple of months ago when it unceremoniously appeared on Amazon Prime. Home of the Brave is sadly missing in action, only available in full via an illicit YouTube upload. I’d love someone like Criterion (who was involved with Anderson’s 2015 film Heart of a Dog) to step up to the plate and give a proper digital release of this gem.

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: 1980s, concert movies, Film, John Cage, Laurie Anderson, Tom Waits

duck box update

March 23, 2021 · 2 Comments

This morning we watched ten baby ducks jump out of the duck box. When I got up before sunrise I noticed the mama duck was out of her box and quacking repeatedly while looking up at the hole. I knew something was up so we were ready and waiting. Not long after, we started hearing a chorus of faint chirps coming from within the box. And then:

Since we were ready we were able to film the big reveal. Caroline flexed her Kitten School skills and edited the video for all to see (above). We wanted to be quiet and hidden to not scare the ducks so we watched from the screen porch — that’s why there’s an annoying screen grid through most of this. But that doesn’t dampen the cuteness in the least.

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: Lake Holden, Nature, Video

discovery in mom’s garage

March 22, 2021 · Leave a Comment

I hope I locate part three so I can find out what happens.

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desolation center

March 21, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Loose observations:

  • I’ve loved all these bands since around the time these shows were happening in the distance and this film somehow made me love them all a little bit more.
  • Bruce Licher’s been on fire for such a long time with his screenprinting and design. I’d love to have one of those tickets in a small frame.
  • Funny that the SRL guys come off here as some pre-Jackass bros with explosives.
  • I didn’t expect that the Minutemen were the heart and soul of Desolation Center (the organization and this movie). I knew the final part about D. Boon was coming but it still hit me like a ton of bricks.
  • The ‘festivals are huge nowadays’ montage at the end seemed unnecessarily tacked-on, but, overall, this movie is a really important document of the crafty independent music scenius in the US that grew out of Reagan’s ’80s.

Desolation Center is streaming now via Kanopy and available as a digital rental in the usual places.

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: Los Angeles, Minutemen, Movie Recommendations

duck box

March 20, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Duck Box

Installing a duck box in our backyard (yes, we’re in front of a lake) is one of the best things we’ve done in a while. These wood ducks are amazingly prompt — this sight has greeted us at 7:45 every morning the past couple of weeks (give or take several minutes) as the female is escorted back after searching for breakfast. We expect to see duck babies dropping out of the box any day now. (Spycam view through the screen porch grid.)

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA

buddy rich + photek

March 15, 2021 · Leave a Comment

via @frozenreeds on Twitter, here are Buddy Rich’s “Apples (AKA Gino)” and Photek’s “KJZ” back-to-back:

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: Buddy Rich, Drum N Bass, Jazz, Photek, Sampling

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