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Jul
Esquire Theme by Matthew Buchanan
Social icons by Tim van Damme
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Jun
This is one of my favorite site!
18
Jun
Brian Eno, Fullness of Wind
(Discreet Music, 1975)Eno’s concept of ambient music builds upon a concept composer Erik Satie called “furniture music”. The inspiration began when Eno was left bed-ridden by an accident and was given an album of eighteenth century harp music. After struggling to put the record on the turntable and returning to bed, he realized that it was turned down toward the threshold of inaudibility and he lacked the strength to get up from the bed again and turn it up.
This album is also an experiment in algorithmic, generative composition. The members of the Cockpit Ensemble were each given brief excerpts from the score of Johann Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major, which were repeated several times, along with instructions to gradually alter the tempo and other elements of the composition. In Fullness of Wind the tempo decreases relative to the pitch of the instrument: the violins have the fastest rate of decay, while the basses have the slowest.
God bless Jack Lord!
16
Jun
New video of OK Go from Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky album from 2010. Horrible song but very cool stop motion video work!
Japanese artist s Haroshi use old Skateboard decks to create amazing sculptures !
Amazing stop motion video!