Modcult

Long Road

2010-02-08T19:41:48Z

Download "Long Road" from Blowhole by Ramleh (1991)

Timepiece (for a Solo Performer)

2010-02-08T10:35:16Z

Symbolically, these scores for solo piano can be seen as Kasemets’ drawings, exploring the same implicit energy on the page as does Libeskind in his drawings, by focusing on specific designs of micro-detail with an intimacy of expression that suggests his vision of an “open and unknowable horizon” on the path towards discovering “the universal concepts embracing all life, not just music.” Timepiece is the oldest of these pieces, and the only totally graphic score. Consisting of 36 clusters of black and/or white circles of various sizes (resembling atomic nuclei) separated by dots and dashes, set into a square box intersected by straight lines, the score may be turned and read in any direction and performed by any instrument. This is Kasemets at his most Cagean, almost an homage to the indeterminate Variations sequence, and the two performances here by Stephen Clarke exemplify the unpredictability inherent in each performance-inspired realization.

Listen to a performance here.

The Two Worlds of Music

2010-02-08T10:20:59Z

(via airform)

Candle Aimed at the Sun #3

2010-02-08T10:15:49Z

Boeing

2010-02-08T10:14:00Z

Valediction

2010-02-08T10:12:54Z

Ramleh are active again.

Topor

2010-02-08T10:04:05Z

Bo-Bo's Hampton

2010-02-06T15:37:29Z

Download "Bo-Bo's Hampton" from Buzzard by Tucky Buzzard (1973)

Emoji Cats

2010-02-05T20:41:30Z

1F62A: CAT FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH
1F62D: CAT FACE KISSING
1F630: POUTING CAT FACE
1F62B: HAPPY CAT FACE WITH GRIN
1F62E: CAT FACE WITH HEART SHAPED EYES
1F631: CAT FACE WITH TIGHTLY CLOSED LIPS
1F62C: HAPPY AND CRYING CAT FACE
1F62F: CRYING CAT FACE
1F632: ANGUISHED CAT FACE

Proposed glyphs assembled from What’s new in Unicode 6.0?. Specifically, see the (very entertaining) PDFs n3583 and n3607.

(via null)

Jean Rhys

2010-02-05T16:24:03Z

Related: a discussion from this past summer of Jean Rhys, Ford Madox Ford, their affair, and their novels.

Haeckel, Animated

2010-02-04T22:05:14Z

Haeckel, Animated

Charlie Nothing and the Superfabulous Dingulators

2010-02-04T15:32:49Z

Pictured above, Charlie Nothing and the Superfabulous Dingulators in the mid-seventies.

I mentioned the impending reissue of The Psychedelic Saxophone of Charlie Nothing a couple of years ago, and it’s finally available. De Stijl has done a (more legit) reissue of his second album, Outside/Inside, from 1960.

Charlie Nothing has had many art shows in very established galleries which are no longer in existence. One of the first canvases he ever produced was purchased by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art circa 1963, after being featured in a show called New York Artists. He has performed in many places and times, including an official and very exclusive concert in the Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art. He has written many songs which were anthologized in the “Big Dingulator Song Book,” which is unavailable. He composed and produced records and tapes as far back as the late 60s. One of his LPs “The Psychedelic Saxophone of Charlie Nothing” was produced and released by Tacoma Records and achieved an infinitesimal degree of infamy in Europe under the category of New Jazz, which, of course, it was not.

Charlie Nothing quit performing in the 1980s, believing he had evolved past the entertaining-monkey-jumping-up-and-down-on-the-stage stage.

Charlie Nothing came back to performing in 2004, realizing he was in fact a monkey jumping up and down.

An Irishman's Protest

2010-02-04T15:23:52Z

I have not infrequently noted a disposition on the part of THE TIMES to go out of its way to show an unfriendliness, if not antipathy, to Irishmen, many of whom no doubt (including myself) are readers of your paper.

I think God might be real, because like a BOLT OF LIGHTNING two seconds ago the idea popped into my brain that if I searched for “Irishman” in the New York Times archive, I’d find gold. GOLD!

Worm Preach The Struggling Fire

2010-02-04T13:03:31Z

Download "Worm Preach The Struggling Fire" from Self Titled by Jonas Reinhardt (2008)

From the first album. New record out next month.

Again, Copeland

2010-02-04T12:30:37Z

Bjorn Copeland, Tiled, 2005 Collage on paper

(via old fecal face interview)