Month: March 2014
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Suzanne Ciani on Xenon
Wonderful clip of Suzanne Ciani working on the pinball game Xenon from the OMNI television show. ‘Sound chips in their ears listening to Beethoven’ – not quite, but close. This was posted on International Women’s Day yesterday as part of a great post celebrating female electronic music composers. Pauline Oliveros and especially her ‘Bye Bye…
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London on film
I’m on a local history kick at the moment, so watched the London on Film series from 2012, recently repeated. Love The Suburbs and East End ones, and West End for a view into am older Soho, long gone…funny to hear Jeffrey Bernard complain about advertising executives and film people spoiling the place, because they…
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You can do it funk or do it disco
Not posted about The Coup in a while, a much missed political hip hop group, and worth repeating or reposting because the message is so sharp and still current…and I love this video by Tim O’Brien for ‘5 Million Ways To Kill A CEO’.
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Dolly in Poplar 1977
Soundhog said that the other videos on the person who uploaded the Shoreditch Experimental Music School were worth checking out, and he wasn’t wrong. A veritable trove of London history. Here Dolly Scannell talks about how Poplar has changed in 1977. It’s the YouTube site of Chris Dorley-Brown who apparently did a BBC In The…
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Reality Engine TX 4: Found Unsound (Remnants)
TX 4: Found Unsound (Remnants) by Reality Engine The last Reality Engine TX release, and this is a collection of experimental ‘found sound’ pieces, ones that didn’t fit on any of the other TX series. Introducing the album and interspersed across it is my old modul-8 radio (mod.radio) jingles I did for the rudimentary Real…