free as in beer
free as in freedom
free as in mattress
free as in puppy
(not new but new to me)
aphrodite's child - aegian sea (1971)
jo johnson - orbit (2023)
deerhoof - giga dance (2004)
[mp3] - 14:07
snow melt underwater meadow
my dear friends, wait no longer. [behold!]
enya's carribean blue (1991) [wikipedia], the first few intro bars, looped for ten minutes.
if you find yourself disappointed upon arriving it's conclusion, i highly recommend downloading the file and using mplayer [1]. run from the command line you can use the left bracket key to slow it down. 0.83x really lands. but you'll still likely be sad when it ends.
[1] [wikipedia]. you can also use mpv with the --audio-pitch-correction=no option. or maybe i should just upload the slow version. [2]
[2] update: [ok here] via sox input.mp3 output.mp3 speed 0.83
operating theatre - eighties rampwalk (fanning session) (1982)
múm - the land between solar systems (2002)
burial - forgive (2014)
[mp3] - 18:36
tape 230321 [mp3] - 1:41
again visiting the church in the video game looking for clues. repetitive seven eight SQ-80 organ through BBD (thanks ezra!)
about a decade ago, visiting alpine lakes in the high sierras. eight thousand foot elevation, snow melt runoff, still the coldest body of water i swam. and a profound encounter with mosquitos. when overwhelmed, running as fast as possible hoping they could not catch up. but they do eventually.
n-so - count to ten (2022)
björk - unravel (1997)
arthur russell - home away from home (1993)
[mp3] - 14:16
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
ross from friends - pale blue dot (2018)
floating points and marta salogni - intimate intensity (remix) (2021)
depeche mode - waiting for the night (1990)
[mp3] - 16:00
today's research subject ping-pong
"For the holiday weekend they're doing the top 200 songs. By request, I think. So it's the top 200. Depeche Mode had more songs in the top 200 than any other bands."
"What is this weekend about?"
"It's to remember the people who were killed in the war, isn't it?"
"Which war?"
"Any war. People who have..."
(interrupting) "I hope it's not to celebrate the War of Independence, come on!"
"All the wars."
"There were fights that would break out in food co-ops—they were called the “Twinkie wars.” People wanted the food co-op to carry the highly processed, no-doubt-bad-for-you foods that they could get in the supermarket, and the more PMC types did not want that."
saturday march 4 1pm EST on NTS 2 [web]
an assemblage of sounds, old and new and forgotten together.
thank you to beau beaumont for the invitation. NTS is a gem.
(archive and elaboration forthcoming)
cool maritime - temporal dryft (2022)
aki tsuyuko - solitary tiger (2019)
oneohtrix point never - chrome country (2013)
[mp3] - 19:28
reading old text, recognizing oneself but not remembering writing it
"i needed more hands, i made very specialized virtual hands. i did not make a virtual hand training facility or virtual hand factory or virtual hand playground."
hold that thought
for a billion years
(brilliantly improvised not by me at band practice this evening)
tropic of cancer - i woke up and the storm was over (2015)
autechre - yulquen (1994)
dead can dance - the carnival is over (1993)
[mp3] - 18:36
unfamiliar territory: i've written a piano composition that i cannot play.
it's a strange reversal in that i'm used to writing code that effortlessly executes the humanly impossible. but physically playing this piece is what brings it to life, so now i'm into month two of dexterity training.
the cleaners from venus - only a shadow (1982)
the psychedelic furs - sister europe (1980)
tears for fears - the hurting (1983)
[mp3] - 12:06
after numerous failed attempts at transcribing upon waking, my dream-self concocted a brilliant idea: record these brilliant melodies and chords and articulations to tape. which i did, in dream-world.
now to transport those tapes from that place to this place.
options when encountering a problem:
trying to stay awake and not fight various alluring nonexistent battles
lunar new year ceremony
drum groups colliding out of time
rumble through several panes of glass
renew day spa 2
keeping phased time against
the less metered
new age solo flute record
short delay medium reverb
maybe eighties but remarkably
chromatic at times
mid range tastefully overdriven
through cheap ceiling speaker cones
steady hazy wash from heating vent
whose mechanics discovered a resonance
and rattle and relax and slowly repeat
distant unknown conversation and
electronic timers declare beginnings and endings
and my time is over but this perfect
composition continues
"If technology advances, if it is, as they say, progress, why does so much of it regress, ending up broken and dead in landfills? (...)
The objective should not be to extract economic value from objects and materials we consider to be waste, but to reimagine what we consider waste to be."
software - island sunrise (1988)
dam funk - galactic fun (2009)
art of noise - moments of love (1985)
[mp3] - 16:20
sky, hazy blue fading to mauve
water, silvery green
snow, pink and grey
investigating the territory between ambivalence and acceptance
millennia of the same
"The basic principle was that the client depended on his patron for protection and assistance, financial and otherwise, in return for a variety of services rendered, including votes in elections. Later Roman writing is full of rather high-flown rhetoric from the patron class on the virtues of the relationship, and miserable complaints from the side of the client about the humiliations they have to go through, all for a second-rate meal. In the Twelve Tables, the rule simply states: 'If a patron has done harm to his client, he is to be cursed'-- whatever that meant."
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