read post »

“In summer 2011 The Flaming Lips released collaborative vinyl EPs with Lightning Bolt, Neon Indian and Prefuse 73. The ‘starter blob’ of vinyl for each disc was assembled by hand using random amounts of different vinyl colors, ensuring that every record would be unique. Here are a couple of Flickr photosets of the finished products (and a bit of the process) as they came off the presses.”
(via)

read post »

Laurie Spiegel Playing the Bell Labs Digital Synthesizer, better known as the Alles Machine or Alice, an experimental additive synthesizer designed by Harold G. Alles and Douglas Bayer at Bell Labs in 1977-78.
(via WFMU’s Beware of the Blog)

read post »

In 1888, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche coined a phrase that would inspire lazy musicians for more than 100 years…
(via Driveby Blogging)

read post »

Hey Mister, music video by the Magic Machines, is entirely made of animated gifs…

read post »

“
(via Dangerous Minds)

read post »

“In Moon Score (1975-1979), Hitoshi Nomura photographed the moon on film marked with five lines (like staff paper). The project was supposedly inspired by Nomura spotting the moon moving behind telephone wires. In an early exhibition of the piece, visitors began to hum the “score”, and later exhibitions featured a CD with a string quartet or chorus performing the score. Later Nomura made a similar series called ‘birds’ photographing just birds.” You can listen to the music here.
(via TRIANGULATION BLOG)

read post »

Lara Warman and Kellyn Loehr made this amazing Browser Sequencer:
Hypertext Remix is a browser-sequencer created by Lara Warman and Kellyn Loehr. The system generates systems sounds when the browser hits the edge of the screen. The speed of each box is set by the scroll bar and the sounds that are generated are all from the OS.
(via Nerdcore)

read post »

Yung Jake singing about datamoshing and making animated gifs…
“you think it’s connection you think it’s your bandwidth but its me. i’ll steal your bitch like a bandit see me on YouTube. fucking with video find me on world star. find me on Vimeo im not on PhotoBooth. that shit’s different cuz dey told me to step out of the frame but i didnt”
[via kottke]

read post »

“Sewing machine orchestra is the first version of a performance created by Martin Messier. The basic sounds used in this performance consist entirely of the acoustic noises produced by 8 sewing machines, amplified by means of microcontacts and process by a computer.”
(Via TRIANGULATION BLOG)

read post »

Boy George hosts this documentary on the 1980s New Romantic music and fashion scene. Made in 2001 for Britain’s Channel 4…
(Via Dangerous Minds)

“
 
 

read post »