As I scan around for interesting things to listen to on-line, I often find myself returning to Fällt Publishing’s invalidObject Series (2000), a thoughtful collection of recent electronic music ranging in style from glitch to ambient to degree-zero sound.
Tagged: electronic music, internet resource, microsound
A word to the (shortwave radio) wise: The Conet Project, a fascinating 4-CD compilation of 150 recordings of “numbers stations” put out by Irdial-Discs in 1997 and which is unfortunately long out of print, is available for either listening or download on-line.
Tagged: numbers stations, shortwave radio, the conet project
A complete run of the seminal 1960s counter-culture paper the International Times or IT is available for perusing on-line at the International Times Archive. The archive is a time capsule as fascinating for the topics it presents as for what it has to say about them, and what in turn that says about the times, society, and readership of which it was a reflection.
Categories: Internet, Print Culture
Tagged: counter-culture, International Times, On-line Archive, ’60s London
Peter Schmidt’s watercolor still-lifes and landscapes embody what I find most interesting about his work: its indifference to the monumental and the superlative, and its focus on the quiet, the “insignificant,” the intimate.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Internet
Tagged: Brian Eno, interesting blog, Oblique Strategies, painting, Peter Schmidt, watercolor
The radioheads among us may wish to know about ShortWaveMusic, Myke Dodge Weiskopf’s paean to the random poetry and intermittent static of short wave radio.
Categories: Internet, Music, Radio
Tagged: interesting blog, short wave radio, sound collage