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blue and moody music

February 18, 2021 · Leave a Comment

[Hiroshi Sato’s music] takes a leap to a place beyond our understanding. It’s a durable piece of art; you get the sense that only future generations will truly understand it. It contains something unresolvable.

🔗 → Hiroshi Sato’s immaculate “Blue and Moody Music”

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: Hiroshi Sato, Kyle Chayka, pop music

Seth Godin on publishers, curation, and algorithms

February 18, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Sites that only obey the Long Tail and the primacy of the algorithm have fewer standards. They view curation as a last resort, and if mass is the standard, then mass is all that will be rewarded.

🔗 → Seth Godin on Publishers, Curation, and Algorithms

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: Algorithms, Seth Godin, the Long Tail

The KLF – The Manual

February 16, 2021 · Leave a Comment

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  • The KLF - The Manual

The Manual, the KLF’s fabled 1988 book that’s a “step-by-step guide to achieving a No.1 single with no money or musical skills” has been uploaded to Github as a markdown-enriched text file.

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: Github, The KLF

SpaceHey is the New MySpace

February 16, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Status: 2021-02-16 13.57.47

Myspace isn’t the only 2000s site being resurrected. Geocities already has a spiritual successor in Neocities, and now Bebo (arguably the Blur to Myspace’s Oasis) is also getting a reboot …

🔗 → A Teenager Has Remade Myspace and Everyone Is Loving It

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: MySpace, Social Media

I miss my bar

February 15, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Status: 2021-02-15 23.09.11

🔗 → I Miss My Bar

Another excellent site that provides background ambiance for your work-at-home activities. It’s also easy to imagine this is a coffeehouse if that’s more your flavor.

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: Nightclubs, Remote Working, Sound Design

electronic music experimentation in the films of Alfred Hitchcock

February 15, 2021 · Leave a Comment

🔗 → Electronic Music Experimentation In The Films Of Alfred Hitchcock

… and here’s some more on the Trautonium, a trippy early electronic instrument used extensively for sound design in The Birds.

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: Alfred Hitchcock, electronic music, Film Scores, Music History

what’s all this then?

February 14, 2021 · Leave a Comment

What’s all this then? I took a few months off from micro-blogging while I contemplated what I wanted to get out of it — and to develop a better system. As for the first bit, I want a rolling log of what I’m doing and things I find interesting which I can easily search and reference. These micro-posts might become topics that I expand upon in the blog proper and my email newsletter. As for the system, it’s important that this log exists on a platform that’s semi-permanent and that I own. I was in the process of creating a separate WordPress install on the blog’s sub-domain (which would’ve added a layer of resistance to my process) when I discovered this post. Violà! After some simple PHP tweaks, I now have a ‘status’ feed that’s separate from the main blog feed. This status feed auto-magically posts on micro.blog. I set it up yesterday — relatively painless with only a couple of easily squashed bugs — and it seems like it’s working fine. That means I’m back to micro-blogging. I look forward to using this as a tool to capture what’s happening and inspire more long-form blogging action. It’ll also be nice to re-enter the micro-blogging community and contribute to the exchange of ideas. 

BTW – these status updates are on a separate RSS feed than the main blog. So, if you want to follow this in your handy RSS reader then you’ll want to follow this feed.

it's me — calling from the grave

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: micro.blog, Wordpress

Jon Savage and the music that “cut the knees off punk”

February 14, 2021 · Leave a Comment

In this fantastic 2-hour radio show, writer Jon Savage spotlights the influential music that “cut the knees off punk.” Meaning: the synthesizer and electronic music hybrids emerging in 1976, opening the door to the oncoming post-punk explosion. Listen.

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: Jon Savage, Music History, Post-Punk, radio show

an eno valentine

February 14, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Status: 2021-02-14 14.36.58

via @mindtheimage on Twitter for Valentine’s Day

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: Brian Eno, Valentine's Day

Remapping Cultural Hauntology: An American Perspective

February 13, 2021 · Leave a Comment

… as early as 1970, a native spirit of sonic experimentation in broadcasting, complete with mini-Moog, was flourishing in the US just as it was in Britain, perhaps just a bit further below the mainstream radar.

🔗 → Remapping Cultural Hauntology: An American Perspective

Filed Under: MEMORA8ILIA Tagged With: hauntology

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