Category: music

Agosto

August
is the coldest month of the year
winter moves six months forward
and this is not the South Pole
here is not the South Pole

August
The alarm clock breaks the silence
Someone is on vacation
and she sounds for hours
How cold it is

August
you look out on a sick heart
five o’clock in the evening
and it’s already pitch dark
winter in August

The ice
settles and covers things
the waiting for the warm freezes also the dead
How cold it is

If it is not true that you’re afraid
it’s not true that you feel alone
it’s not true that it’s cold
then why are you trembling in this August?

August
is written on your calendar
maybe you slept six months
but you’re so tired
so tired

August
is the coldest month of the year
in the other hemisphere they call it winter
August

Agosto (August): a song* of Perturbazione (2002).
Video: Paroles en l’air (1995) by Sylvain Vincendeau**.

*Text in Italian **Text in French

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21/02/2010

The Loudness War

“…You listen to these modern records,
they’re atrocious, they have sound all over them.
There’s no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just like … static.”.
(Bob Dylan, interviewed by Rolling Stone, 1996)

The Loudness War, or “the practice of digitally mastering albums with progressively increasing levels of loudness and reduced dynamic range.”.

11/01/2010
Hiromi Uehara

Hiromi Uehara: Jazz, experimental, progressive.
Listen : The Tom and Jerry Show and Time Difference.

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23/07/2009
Efdemin

Efdemin.
Techno/House/Experimental. From Berlin.

Listen: Bergwein.

Above: Phillip Sollmann (photo by Yasmina Haddad).

26/12/2008
AudioBody

And now, a cup of Diet Coke + Mentos: AudioBody.
Listen : You Gotta Tap, Not Easy, Going to Michigan, Bass Aquatic, Fireflys.

Techno / Rock / Electronica.

20/09/2008
Alphabeat

And now a cup of Alphabeat. Listen and see: Fascination.
Pop, from Denmark.
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25/04/2008
Ezekiel Honig

“Sounds like: bumping into a chair while humming.
Influences: musique concrete, film, everyday life, randomness, the artists on Anticipate and Microcosm.”.
Ezekiel Honig. Listen: Concrete and Plastic.

07/04/2008
Paperplain

Paperplain. Helen Page, a 19 years old from Maidenhead, near London.
Listen: 11:30. Acoustic, alternative, indie.

Above: Helen, detail. Photo by Amie Haines, courtesy of Helen Page.

16/03/2008

Scott Hansen

“My name is Scott Hansen and I am a San Francisco, California based musician (Tycho) and artist (ISO50).

My music can be found at tychomusic.com or you can listen to it while browsing the ISO50 Portfolio.”.

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21/02/2008

Jozin z Bazin

Jozin z Bazin (Jozin from the bog, by Ivan Mládek for Czech Television, 1978).
The ultimate ringtone for your cell phone. From YouTube.

13/01/2008