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Friday, July 25, 2003 R.I.P. John Schlesinger
Recent favorites of Marc Weidenbaum of DisquietOn "Horizons Endless," what seems to be a muted choir, as if heard through a thick church wall, reveals itself to be but a few seconds of sampled vocal sound. As the sample loops, its edge, the point at which the splice is evident, takes on a rhythmic purpose, as if like one of Michael Jackson's hiccups. And then, bizarrely, the sound is overlaid with what seems to be a Jew's harp, all bouncy fun, albeit minor-key. Inevitably the voices fade back in, just in time for the whole piece to fade out. Many of the pieces on [Rapoon's] I Am a Foreigner make similarly peculiar transitions; "Dusk Moon" starts out with reverberating piano, only to be transformed into a Tangerine Dream-style staccato movement. Even on repeated listenings, I Am a Foreigner challenges you to find your place in its mass of found voices and sounds. A background sample from one track becomes the core material of another; tracks change mood at midway points.I've been listening a lot (behind the latest releases, as usual) to Tleilaxu's genetherapy, Kenneth Kirschner & Taylor Deupree's post piano, and 833-45's Solar Cycle 23, a CD-R from a while back that you can download at autoplate or purchase on krebs' site, along with the rest of his work.
More tech
2 tech articles of note from the IHT Wednesday, July 23, 2003 Researching Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies (for this post), I found this neat site called Subterranean Cinema, which among other things has the complete screenplay for El Topo and also Rospo Pallenberg's (Excalibur) unrealized screenplay for a George Romero version of Stephen King's The Stand (available as a 277k zipped Word file) Tuesday, July 22, 2003 Bulwer-Lytton bad writing contest in full flower [Undernews]Mac was the crustiest ex-LAPD homicide detective with three ex-wives, two mortgages, a greedy daughter wasting time at college, a gay son playing acid-blues punk in some Sacramento dive, and a liver that had been bitch slapped by cheap vodka so many times it looked like a bag of yellow fat, who ever walked into my floral and gift shop. (Robert Salsbury, runner-up(!) in the detective fiction category
English forum for new artstuff: Pogogallery Monday, July 21, 2003 C|net overview of P2P & privacy in the wake of the RIAA's war on consumers, plus WiFi hotspots as a workaroundPopular peer-to-peer networks such as Kazaa, where the lion's share of online trading of music and other files takes place, are designed such that participants who wish to remain completely anonymous must pay a severe price in terms of convenience and usability, experts warn.
A number of people have been searching for Leida Finlayson, and the link for her interview on CBC's Richardson's Roundup (at previous post) is stale: go here instead Sunday, July 20, 2003 Music Mobsters in death thrash
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