Pop Music
The KLF were two British chaps who exposed the mass sphexishness of the music world, fired machine gun blanks at award show audiences, made and set alight a million quid, and wrote a wonderful book to...
View ArticleKeeping a Diary
Through this post on MetaFilter Music I discovered the tale of Reverend Robert Shields, which seems too perfectly allegorical to have actually happened. Here is an interview with the man and his NYT...
View ArticleMusic Animation Machine
Youtube user smalin posts these great animations, the result of several decades of experimentation, that portray the structure western art music tunes. It’s hard to say what makes a mapping from one...
View ArticleThe Wobbulator
An implementation of an idea of Nam Jun Paik’s. If you’re in DC, you should really see the installations of his work at the American Art Museum. They’re intense.
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Davidope
Davidope produces animated gifs, often with an op-art feel, and curates pretty sweet examples of the same.
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Slit-Scan
Artist Golan Levin maintains “An Informal Catalogue of Slit-Scan Video Artworks and Research”. Popular uses of the effect include the stargate sequence at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey and (if...
View ArticleYou are listening to Los Angeles
A stream of the Los Angeles police scanner feed and dramatic ambient music, via Metafilter Projects. Reminds me of this KLF track. I’m impressed and confused by how evocative even prosaic spoken word...
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90’s Rave Piano
Last year I asked Metafilter where I could find more music like Doctor P’s Sweet Shop, a rave nostalgia track that seemed to be mandatory play during the months I’d been going to shows in England....
View ArticleThe Bjorklund Algorithm
The following problem is considered by Bjorklund, in connection with the operation of certain components (such as high voltage power supplies) of spallation neutron source (SNS) accelerators used in...
View ArticleAgainst Capitalism
Here is a really succinct summary of the most popular criticisms of capitalism, by G.A. Cohen, who identified as a analytical marxist (“marxism without the bullshit”) and had a really weird sense of...
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