Probably more like 52: ah well.
– I am trying to only listen to music written by female artists or by groups that are at least 50% female; this is called “All The Ladies’ Singles”. If I have time, I will do something with The Echo Nest’s API to help me with this…
– The first instance of this is Ellen Allien’s LIsm, which is amazing: it covers all the academic electronic cliches, does them better than most people in academia do, and then adds electro and techno,
– I accidentally went to see James Blake on Wednesday night: he’s still a monster. I can’t think of very many artists that appeal to ballad-loving girls, serious bro / bass dudes, techno heads, and jazz cats. I also loved how his loops would catch crowd noise at the start, as people cheered the start of a new song.
– Then, I went to see the Boston Pops play parts of Fantasia: Symphony Hall still sounds luscious. It makes me wonder how much of how we think of ‘classical’ string and brass sounds was affected by that hall, and by the importance of the BSO in the last century.
More importantly, I got to hear a member of a major orchestra screw up: a certain percussionist was late late late in an entrance. I never knew that the Gone With The Wind theme was that funky.
They played a first half of film music. Sigh. Beethoven 6 was just wonderful though, as was Rhapsody in Blue. I don’t care much for much of the Pops rep, but man, the hall sounds glorious
I’m in Cambridgeport, slowly unpacking things at Brambleberry: I have a million things I want to do over the next eight months:
- Re-build this website
- Fix all my passwords
- Write my thesis proposal
- Hack up a draft of my thesis project.
- Keep making martinis
- Make What We Talk About When We Talk About Beethoven, a piece for human and chatbot.
- Make my ISMIR music submission with Ryan Groves.
- Start and maintain a group-blog about how to learn about the future of music. (First part is done!)
- Finish my third Mario 1 quartet.
- Finish my time-stretched Brian Ferneyhough thing: got that done already too.
- Finish a mixtape in honour of my friend’s wedding.
- Papers and documentiation for: my algorithmic Xenakis project, my Tonnetz, the Ultimate Machine, remix.js, and Kenzie’s NYPD mix
- And go outside!
Download here, and thanks for listening. This one is for Ray Bradbury, and you.
1: God Within – Raincry [Hardkiss]
2: Leftfield – Left of Life [DDB]
3: Hybrid – Burnin’ (Breaks) [Y4K]
4: Beber & Tamra – You Wonder (Starecase Vocal Remix) [MOb]
5: Katcha – Touched by God (The Light Remix) [Hooj]
– School is done. The last classes of my Master’s degree, which is a weird thought. Now I just have to make & write a thesis.
Speaking of school, this is what I made:
It’s a realization of Euler’s Tonnetz, with some topographical dodgery: it is equal tempered, but not a torus, because making a cylinder is easier than making a torus. There’s a speaker in one end, so it can be played as a stand-alone controller, or as a midi controller: just press a note to play it.
I’ll do a full write-up about it soon, with gory details of how it works, how it didn’t work, and so on.
One more to go! I’m as surprised as you are:
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Download here. There’s a direct connection, for me, between old dance music and old science fiction – and this set has touches of both.
1: Man With No Name – From Within The Mind Of My 909 [Strut]
2: This Ain’t Chicago – Ride The Rhythm (Acid Not Placid) [Strut]
3: Raudive – Traffic [Running Back]
4: Storm Queen – Let’s Make Mistakes (Club) [Environ]
5: Virgo – In A Vision [Rush Hour]
6: Virgo – Do You Know Who We Are? [Rush Hour]
7: Pachanga Boys – Time [Hippie Dance]
– I mentioned school, right?
– All I need to do is point you towards Aaron Diaz’s masterful Zelda cover: Clockwork Empire.
– I think this is actually week 50 or so, but so it goes. School has been schooling at me of late.
– I saw the McGill Digital Composition Studio concert last night, featuring a saxophone and glitch-noise free jazz apocalypse by my friend Teagan Schultz. Keep a weather eye out for him.
– There’s this thing called Bronze, which is a format for generative compositions. Relevant to my interests.
– This is the Super Mario Spacetime Organ. What more do I need to say?
Download here. Neo-soul meets old ‘trap’ meets older post-dubstep, with lots of flashing lights all ’round.
1: Jamie Lidell – What A Shame [Warp]
2: Hudson Mohawke – Thunder Bay [Warp]
3: Baauer – Buble Rap [LuckyMe]
4: Jamie Lidell – Why_ya_why [Warp]
5: Tessela – Hackney Parrot [Poly Kicks]
6: DJ Yolo Bear – Make You Touch My [LuckyMe]
7: Samoyed – Sloe Eyes [Vase]
8: Mount Kimbie – Sketch on Glass [Hotflush]
9: Jam City – How We Relate To The Body [Night Slugs]
Download here. Starts sinister, gets sparse.
1: Tim Hecker – Utropics [Kranky]
2: El Perro Del Mar – Hold Off the Dawn (Vessel Remix) []
3: Andy Stott – Sleepless [Love]
4: Andy Stott – Luxury Problems [Love]
5: Herbert – It’s Only (Dj Koze Remix) [Pampa]
6: Seams – The Glow [Full Time Hobby]
7: C79 – 16 Bit Lullaby []
8: Dntel – Soft Alarm [Sub Pop]
Download here. I thought I had made this pun and recorded a set like this years ago.
1: Alban Berg – Lyric Suite – I [Deustche Grammophon]
2: Anton von Webern – 6 Bagatelles [Deustche Grammophon]
3: Thor Kell – String Quartet No. 3 [Quatuor Bozzini]
4: Zoe Keating – Frozen Angels [Zoe Keating]
5: Julia Kent – Kingdom [Leaf]
6: Norah Lorway – Fiddle Music [Earthrid]
7: Julia Kent – Nina & Oscar [Leaf]
8: Richard Wagner – Lohengrin – I [Deustche Grammophon]
