Archive for September, 2008

music

hymn for a sunday evening

A pile up at work and an addiction to political blogs has me way behind in posting on some shows coming and going. But instead of catching up, I’m just in the mood for something easy, so I’m throwing out some ‘tubes that have crossed my path and are helping me do some much needed [...]

thought

i’ll be watching you


thought

i’m tired of listening to myself


gear, music, technology

positive vibration yeah!

The 2008 MacArthur grants were announced today. Instead of seeing turntable vibration as something to be suppressed, Walter Kitundu sees it as a musical resource. Let the sensitive buggers vibrate to all sorts of stimulus and amplify it to its heart content.

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thought

success or significance

Something different, only related to music in that art is related to life:
Right now, it’s not just natural, it’s necessary that we’re all looking at what’s wrong in the world. As we try to take intelligent action with respect to the financial crisis, as we formulate our opinions regarding the upcoming elections, we have to [...]

downloads, live, music

sweeter than the rest

The last couple of weeks have been an interesting combination: a lot of good live music coming my way, perfect fall weather of warm sunny days and cold nights, and a very annoying but fascinating string of political events. All conspiring to keep me elsewhere. So I’m going to toss up some things here over [...]

music

when the levee breaks


biz, music

i wanna play my harmonica