Styles: dreampunk, muzak, mallsoft
Others: 2814, Vektroid, Golden Living Room
“The world becomes shadow… A glowing aquarium.”
– Rimbaud
Vaporwave, a.k.a. the symbiotic real, where everything is what it is, yet nothing coincides exactly with itself. There are no palm trees, Greek statues, or modern cuboid sofas, because everything consists of cyber-void & digital-mass. It’s a paradox. As the sound outside of itself emotes, a signifier finally, almost vainly, appears.
More about: Origami Girl
How long do frogs typically live, anyway? Vancouver-based indie rock foursome Frog Eyes have been keepin’ it cold-blooded since like 2001 (it’s amazing that they haven’t been stepped on by now!) — so it’s probably only fittingly humane that the band has announced that they’ll be putting themselves to sleep after the release of their 11th and final full-length studio album Violet Palms — which is due May 18 on Paper Bag Records.
More about: Frog Eyes
“I haven’t sat idle through my grief and anger, and let the shitty things eat holes in me and ruin me for the rest of my life. My whole adult life I’ve taken a really aggressive attack against falling prey to my own experiences, and to my own reaction to things, and I feel like it’s paying off.”
– Carla Bozulich, FACT
More about: Carla Bozulich
If you think you can count on Canadian sound curator Mark Templeton to deliver the mundane, predictable, straight-forward goods, you would be (thankfully) wrong. This is a man who insists on following his heart into fantastic spheres to create sounds that massage the mind and soothe the ear. This time around, Templeton traveled physically into industrial and commercial neighborhoods close to home for inspiration.
More about: Mark Templeton
Styles: deep house
Others: Mr. Fingers, Pantha du Prince, The Other People Place, DJ Sprinkles
Styles: anachronistic nostalgia, unsuccessfully moving a piano down five flights of stairs by yourself, belief in mystic
Others: Seth Graham, Far Side, Bruce Smear, JE M’EN TAPE, Puppet Master
There’ll come a day when:
…someone zooms in on Terry Crews’s nipple SO FAR [via virtual reality and ultra-K-degrees] that the areola begins to look like a planet elsewhere, in a far-off galaxy. Sweaty pockets of lakes hiding secrets of new life and technologies.
More about: Noah Creshevsky
Styles: painting, listening, becoming
Others: HIRS Collective, Aye Nako, Agnes Martin, William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams wrote: “There is a constant barrier between the reader and his consciousness of immediate contact with the world.” To break a barrier, a loss for words, a body turns to painting turns to poetry.
More about: Screaming Females
10 films that owned SXSW 2018
This year’s South By Southwest marks my fifth time attending the film festival and, broadly speaking, was the strongest selection of movies so far. SXSW excelled at bringing in a lot of movies written and/or directed by women, and greatly promoted a lot of “outsider” voices that broadened the narrative scope and cinematic language employed.
Styles: noise, abrasion, obscurity, love
Others: Rinse FM, N.A.A.F.I, NON, Eco Futurism Corporation
“The dead horse of life we beat, all the wilder, all the harder and deader it gets.”
– Will Eno
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Chocolate Grinder
ShopLand World: Music for a Discovery Park of Miniature Supermarkets
Chocolate Grinder
These Carbon-Composite Poles Are Made For Walkin’
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Styles: Raster-Noton, microsound, glitch
Others: MS-DOS, oscilloscopes, dot matrix printers
Mutek’s 2017 Mexico City edition had some hiccups getting off the ground. The experimental electronic music and digital arts festival had been postponed for a month due to a pair of earthquakes striking within weeks of each other. The second, registering a 7.1 on the Richter scale, hit downtown, toppling dozens of buildings, causing hundreds of deaths and inconveniencing millions with power outages. Amazingly, Mutek organizers rescheduled artists and events for Thanksgiving weekend a mere few weeks later, no doubt a complicated logistical undertaking.
More about: Alva Noto
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