John Cage's profile for The New Yorker, by Calvin Tomkins - 1964
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Waiting for The Trip, first solo record by Laetitia Sadier
Now that Stereolab seems to be in a indefinite hiatus, Laetitia Sadier is about to release The Trip, on Drag City. This comes 2 years after Monstre Cosmic, third album by Laetitia's side project Monade. Until a first listening on the new album, time to share this 3 part interview with the brilliant singer and song writer of Stereolab. Enjoy.
Noise in the ether
The postman dropped a treasure this morning. Cover article for October edition of The Wire Magazine is about... Radio Art : Knut Aufermann surveys a decade-long boom in creative broadcasting , including subversive stations, sound art , wireless festivals, flash mobbing and more.
Red Trio no Jazz em Agosto 2010
Rodrigo Pinheiro (piano, piano preparado), Hernâni Faustino (contrabaixo), Gabriel Ferrandini (bateria)
SHAME! Le compte Twitter du Quai d'Orsay piraté
via lesinrocks.com Posted via email from Zoid's reading the Wide Web
Antony & The Johnsons featuring Björk
Björk in a duet with Antony: "Flétta" will be included in Swanlights, the new album from Antony and the Johnsons, to be released by Rough Trade on October 11. This is not the first cooperation between Björk and Antony. They've teamed before on Bjork's "The Dull Flame of Desire" and "My Juvenile". The new album, Swanlights, will be available also in a special 144-page art-book edition with Antony's paintings, collages, photography, and writing.
Happy Birthday Mr. John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. was born on September 5, 1912, 98 years ago. "I love the activity of sound. It get's louder and quiter, and it gets higher and lower, and it gets longer and shorter... ... and I'm completely satisfy with that... I don't need sound to talk to me."
Nicolas Collins performing Christian Marclay’s Sixty-Four Bells and a Bow
Nicolas Collins interprets Christian Marclay’s Sixty-Four Bells and a Bow (2009) according to Marclay’s stipulation that all sounds must originate from the sixty-four glass, porcelain, and metal hand-bells. Christian Marclay Festival
#Listening to Transylvanian Software, by Guy Klucevsek
American composer and accordionist Guy Klucevsek will participate at New York's Whitney Museum, as part of the Christian Marclay Festival . Kluvevsek's schedule for Marclay’s festival includes solo performances and several sessions with some of New York’s finest improvisers: trumpeter Peter Evans , Korean cellist Okkyung Lee , saxophonist Ned Rothenberg and o.blatt (Keiko Uenishi), Japanese sound artist and composer based in New York. Improvising, composing or playing others people music, he’s been at the core of New York scene for about 3 decades, melting together jazz, rock, world, classical, improvisation and all the other possible (or implausible) music sub-types. He have performed or recorded music with or from John Zorn, Fred Frith, Zeenna Parkins, Laurie Anderson, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Coleman, Bill Frisell, the Kronos Quartet, Natalie Merchant, Pauline Oliveros and many many others. His music have been released by Tzadik, Starkland, Winter & Winter, Exp...