[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.
Seth Godin on publishers, curation, and algorithms
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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.
The KLF – The Manual
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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.
SpaceHey is the New MySpace
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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 …
I miss my bar
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🔗 → 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.
electronic music experimentation in the films of Alfred Hitchcock
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🔗 → 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.
what’s all this then?
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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.
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Jon Savage and the music that “cut the knees off punk”
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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.
an eno valentine
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Remapping Cultural Hauntology: An American Perspective
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… 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.