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tarkovsky’s cinema

March 6, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Andrei Tarkovsky on the set of Stalker

“Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”

🔗 → Tarkovsky’s Cinema (BBC Arena documentary, 1987

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: Andrei Tarkovsky, Documentary, Film

every statement about the past is a powerful statement about the present

March 5, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Ancient Aliens Are Bullshit

The past is alive. It is political, it is ever-changing, and it influences our daily lives in meaningful ways … every statement about the past is a powerful statement about the present.

🔗 → You don’t need aliens to make history interesting

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: archaeology, history, racism, Ted Talk

the lounge lizards perform the voice of chunk

March 5, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Even knowing that there are eight men onstage in this clip, the densely textured sound they achieve seems to belong to a much larger band. There is a relentless quality to the song, as Lurie, Fowlkes, and Nathanson build phrases into a frenzy, pausing only to let Ribot wail on guitar like an atonal Chuck Berry.

🔗 → A Guide to the Music of John Lurie

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: Jazz, John Lurie, Lounge Lizards

brian eno’s thursday afternoon

February 25, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Brian Eno’s 1984 video + music installation Thursday Afternoon is currently on display in the window of London’s Paul Stolper Gallery. It’s also available to stream from the gallery’s site — and in the correct aspect ratio.

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: Art, Brian Eno, Video

intimate immensity

February 22, 2021 · Leave a Comment

This remix/reinterpretation of Tomaga’s “Intimate Immensity” by Floating Points is the loveliest thing I’ve heard in a long while.

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: Floating Points, Tomaga

edo funk explosion vol. 1

February 20, 2021 · Leave a Comment

I’m a big fan of the Analog Africa label and the upcoming compilation, Edo Funk Explosion Vol. 1, looks fantastic. Immediately added to the want list.

Unlike the rather polished 1980s Nigerian disco productions coming out of the international metropolis of Lagos ‘Edo Funk’ was raw and reduced to its bare minimum … What unites these diverse musicians is their ability to strip funk down to its primal essence and use it as the foundation for their own excursions inward to the heart of Edo culture and outward to the furthest limits of sonic alchemy.

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: African Music, Analog Africa

metallica vs. twitch

February 20, 2021 · Leave a Comment

There are problems with the DMCA, and big corporations do have too much power in the music industry. But Amazon alone is 20 times the size of the entire recorded music business. When people are encouraged to direct all their ire at the DMCA (not at Amazon’s failure to implement it correctly) or at the music biz, it improves Amazon’s bargaining position in licensing negotiations, and imperils Congress’s ability to achieve needed reforms.

— @future_of_music

the current state of Twitch: the official Twitch Gaming channel cut off the live Metallica concert to play 8bit folk music to avoid DMCA pic.twitter.com/sCn56So8Ee

— Rod Breslau (@Slasher) February 19, 2021

lmao blizzcon muted metallica's live virtual concert and is just playing random low-key music over the whole thing pic.twitter.com/UqKnJf24VS

— RickyFTW (@rickyftw) February 19, 2021

This whole thread is worth a read:

Much of the chatter about Twitch and Metallica and copyright is getting the facts and the history wrong. Quick thread.

— Future of Music Coalition (@future_of_music) February 20, 2021

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: Amazon, DMCA, Metallica, Twitch

angel tears in sunlight

February 19, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Angel Tears in Sunlight is the first album in over 30 years from Pauline Anna Strom. Sadly, it’s also her last. The album is lovely — ambient electronics with a healing intention.

Here’s a recent profile (and obituary) on Strom in The New York Times.

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA

craig mod’s new newsletter – huh

February 19, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Looking closely + deliberately is more difficult than it sounds. It’s a deceptive skill, but one that accrues huge dividends in small quantities. The closer you look, the more details you notice, and with each detail, a little: huh.

🔗 → Huh, A Cafe with a View of the Waterfall

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: Craig Mod, Email Newsletters, noticing, Photography

return of the silver records

February 18, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Status: 2021-02-18 22.47.58

The patterns etched in the covers are achieved by minute differences in the angles of the foil coating which then reflects the light and appears to animate when moved …

🔗 → Héliophoria! (return of the silver records)

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: Cover Art

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