1   | The rise of Beijing experimental music scene submited by grrow in Culture |
The definition of “experimental music” differs as much between the community as the sounds constructed within its parameters. Experiments are operated through hypothesis, application, verification and conclusion. Can`t say it is a good or bad music, but there are many successful or failing experiments.Noise, sound and melody are all equal, While you can never be sure of the end result, it’s always fresh, vital and ultimately defines itself.
Source: http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/album-rewievs/428-b...
Album-a-Day - Instant art movement, Crap Art project
What are those rock stars doing wlth their months long reoordmg sessrons ln the Bahamas anyway? The bedroom genluses who partrcrpate m the Crap Art websrte Album a Day project (crapart spaoebar org/aad) wnte record and mrx an entue album (well at least 20 minutes ) worth of songs m 24 hours and upload the results for others to hear (usually at mp3 com) The site’s motto IS A bad song iS better than no song…..
How to break iTunes for lawful purposes (copying for back-up, transcoding into different devices)
A lot of people complain about the DRM found on music bought at the iTunes Music Store. This is quite natural, since iTunes is by far the biggest supplier of music files, and the only legal place to buy files that play on iPods. iTunes only allows you to upload the files to a few iPods, burn them to a few CDs, and play them on a few computers. And you can only upload files to YOUR iPods; If someone else’s iPod is set to play music from their account, the only way to put music from YOUR account into their iPod is to re-set that iPod to your account (which requires erasing all the music in it). And if you want to get music DOWN from an iPod, then this is basically impossible. So, what to do?......
Lightning Bolt - 'Don't Give A Fuck About Tinnitus' tour + 'Lightning Bolt: The Power of Salad and M
Possessing one of contemporary music’s most incendiary live shows and a clutch of critically acclaimed albums, Rhode Island duo Lightning Bolt have earned wild praise from some of music’s bigwigs (the likes of Steve Albini, John Peel). Their drum/bass set-up might sound limiting, but the uncompromising music and textures they create are anything but. They have just recently released Earthly Delights, their fifth album, and first since 2005’s lauded Hypermagic Mountain, and is further example of their unclassifiable sound. Their music straddles genres such as metal, noise, punk, prog, and favours textures, rhythms, and riffs over easy listening.
China's dark side: Body fishing job
Wei Jinpeng is a fisher of dead people. He scans the river about 18 miles from Lanzhou, China, for cadavers, drags them to shore with a small boat and then charges grieving families to recover their relatives’ corpses. It is a thriving business. From his perch on an overhang above the Yellow River, Wei Jinpeng pointed to a fisherman’s cove below and began counting his latest catch. He stopped after six and guessed that perhaps a dozen human corpses were bobbing in the murky waters.
The Oldest Written Melody in History c.1400 BC
This unique video, features my arrangement of the 3400 year old “Hurrian Hymn no.6”, which was discovered in Ugarit ,ancient northern Canaan (now modern Syria) in the early 1950s, and was preserved for 3400 years on a clay tablet, written in the Cuneiform text of the ancient Hurrian language – it is THE oldest written song yet known! Respect, to the amazing ancient culture of Syria
Temporary Hegemonic Zones + First NSK Citizen's Congress + *Victory Under the Sun (1988)* documentar
Attending a sprawling congress for Neue Slowenische Kunst’s imaginary state proved to be a worthwhile exercise in traumatic participation. While it is almost impossible to encapsulate what the Slovenian art movement Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) has undertaken, in all its manifestations, since forming in 1983, we could perhaps describe it best as an aesthetic apparatus for collective diagnosis. Its work – spanning music, theatre, philosophy, and statecraft – has served to diagnose multiple forms of repressed and sublimated desires lingering in the collective imagination: from the continuing but unacknowledged appeal of totalitarianism operating within the Yugoslav state, to the fascist dynamics found within the dynamics of pop culture….
Black Punk Time: Blacks in Punk, New Wave and Hardcore 1976-1984 + free albums
The true relationship really comes down to early punk and early Hip Hop both being D.I.Y. movements with independent spirits. When Black Hip Hop artists began exploring (and creating) their underground, culminating in obscure, unbelievably NEW sounding vinyl spinning out of NYC, this was not entirely untread ground. So in addition to the African griots, the signifying toasters, the comedic Jump Blues vocalists, the chitlin circuit standups, the political poets, the fusion Jazz experimenters and the countless other pioneers that can lay legit claim to the roots of Hip Hop, leave a tiny space for the handful of Black punk rockers who dared to refuse to accept that they had to dig the music they were supposed to dig and wear the clothes they were supposed to wear.
