Friday, 11 June 2010
What happened in the Gulf of Mexico
" These wells have the potential of an uncontrolled
release of hydrocarbons to the environment."
Sound in Technicolor
Now that digital technology allows rapid creation of new interfaces for music and sound, the question of how to represent those elements visually has new life. But whether digital or not, practitioners of music have long been interested in applying further descriptions to music, from the Baroque Doctrine of Affectations to the involuntary association of color in Synesthesia.
Applying colors to the notes of a musical scale is one particularly common idea, but the late master composer/orchestrator Arthur Lange had a different idea: why not give colors to range? Building on ideas from orchestrators Francois Auguste Geveart and Rimsky-Korsakov, he applied colors to registers of tone across each instrument. This way, it’s possible to see, in livid color, how ranges are applied in orchestrations, even down to unisons and harmonic density.
Lange wasn’t just any composer/orchestrator: he was a four-time Academy Award nominee, head of MGM’s Music Department, a Tin Pan Alley mainstay, a bandstand and studio regular from the 1920s, and an orchestrator on everything from 20s dance band numbers to MGM’s “The Maltese Falcon.” Seeing his creative and more-than-a-bit idiosyncratic approach says a lot about the ingenuity of America’s musical Renaissance at the time.
Contnue reading
Peter Kirn @'Create Digital Music'
Thursday, 10 June 2010
Jive Records blocks Outkast collaboration
Sony division Jive Records is blocking Universal's Def Jam from releasing three tracks on the new solo album from Big Boi because they feature guest vocals from his Outkast partner Andre 3000. Although Def Jam are handling the release of 'Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty', Outkast remain under contract to Jive, who claim that the three tracks in question - because they feature both halves of the Outkast enterprise - fall under their deal.
It's extra frustrating for Big Boi because Jive were given first refusal on the whole album (they have first dibs on any solo work by the Outkast boys under their contract with the duo) but knocked the project back. Big Boi explained to GQ: "It's plain stupidity. It's stupid business and it's stupid politics. Jive Records told me my album [was] a piece of art, and they didn't know what to do with it. So, I moved it over to Def Jam. And now Jive is trying to block Dre from being on my record. We can't be on songs together now".
The three tracks featuring Andre 3000's vocals have now been removed from the final version of the album, due for release next month, though a track produced by him, 'You Ain't No DJ', does remain. Explained Big Boi: "We tried to get everything solidified but Jive said, 'Naw'. Then I was going to take Dre off and make my own version, but then I thought, 'No. Fuck that. If he can't be on it, then I'm not using it'".
Of course, none of this means the world at large will miss out on the new Big Boi/Andre 3000 collaborations, it just means Outkast fans will justifiably access the new tracks via illegal routes, meaning Jive won't have stopped the new songs from going public, they just won't earn any money from them (presumably there could have been some sort of licensing deal between the Sony and Universal divisions had the will been there).
One of the collaborations, 'Royal Flush', actually leaked back in 2008, while another, 'Looking For Ya', found its way online this week. Big Boi certainly won't be keeping the missing tracks from his solo album locked up in a vault. He added in his interview with GQ: "They can't stop us, man. For these people that we don't even know [to block these songs - people] that haven't even had a hand in our career at all - that's fucking blasphemy. Either they're going to do it the right way, or they're going to do it my way. I'm no stranger to that internet, baby".
Record companies - don't you just love 'em?
Taliban allegedly executes 7 year old boy for spying
Suspected Taliban militants have executed a 7-year-old boy, accusing him of spying for the government, officials in southern Afghanistan said Thursday.
The execution took place Tuesday in the Sangin district of Helmand province, said Dawoud Ahmadi -- the provincial governor's spokesman.
In the past, militants have carried out similar killings of those accused of spying, Ahmadi said.
Three years ago, a 70-year-old woman and a child in the Musa Qala district of the province were executed following the same allegations, he said.
During a news conference Thursday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said officials were looking into reports of the execution and said he condemned the act if it is confirmed to be true.
"I don't think there's a crime bigger than that that even the most inhuman forces on earth can commit," Karzai said. "A 7-year-old boy cannot be a spy. A 7-year-old boy cannot be anything but a 7-year-old boy, and therefore hanging or shooting to kill a 7-year-old boy ... is a crime against humanity."
"If this is true, it is an absolutely hiorrific crime," British Prime Minister David Cameron said during the news conference on an unannounced stop in Kabul. "If true, I think it says more about the Taliban than any book, than any article, than any speech could ever say."
♪♫ Sage Francis - The Best Of Times
Sage Francis will be touring Australia towards the end of the year
Only $378.80 (!)
Although it's actually a female pelvis and two fetal heads designed to demonstrate the birth process (here).
I reckon with a bit of fiddling it would make the best bedside light!
Terry Southern on 'Time On The Scows' with Alex Trocchi
Photo by Steve Shapiro
"We were barge “Captains,” as they called themselves—rather euphemistically since it was a job so lowly that it was ordinarily held by guys who had been kicked out of the Longshoreman’s Union—old winos and the like, being replaced now by this new breed, the dopehead writer. It was one of those classic writer’s jobs, like hotel clerk, night watchman, fire-tower guy, with practically no duties (“Just keep her tied up and pumped out”). Alex Trocchi found it by chance, wandering around the West Side docks after a few hours at the White Horse Tavern. The guy who did the hiring happened to be Scottish, a Scotsman called Scotty, in fact. So he took a fancy to Alex, Alex being a Ludgate Scholar from Glasgow, who had boss charm besides. (Scottish accent; “Have ye had any experience at sea, lad?” “Only with small craft, sir—punting on the Clyde and the like.” “Good enough, lad, I like the cut of yer jib.” So Alex was in. And about a half a dozen of us—of similar stamp and kidney—were quick to follow … under auspices of The Great Troc."
Full interview
The Killing of Furkan Dogan? (The Freedom Flotilla)
If this film is genuine - what does it tell you about the 'most moral army in the world' and their claims of self defence?
Ambush Journalism
Do we really want to live in a world where you can get fired because some guy comes up to you unannounced, launches questions for which you haven’t prepared, forces you to say things you had no plans to say, then edits the video down into the most damning soundbite before hanging you with it?MORE
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Ezikiel Ch 47: V 13
13: And it came to pass in the city of Jabeth that a dog did bismirch itself in the tavern.
14: Seth, a shepherd, was taken with a mighty thirst and did enter the tavern.
15: A great misfortune befell Seth as he bestrode the cur's befoulment.
16: Seth beslid into the wall with a mighty crash.
17; And Seth did wail and make great lamantations.
18: Jethro, a moneylender, did moments later enter the tavern. For he too was taken with a mighty thirst.
19: Jethro did also bestride the befoulment.
20: And once more there was a mighty crash and Jethro was filled with sorrow.
21: "Verily", quoth Seth, "I just did that".
22: And Jethro did smite Seth.
14: Seth, a shepherd, was taken with a mighty thirst and did enter the tavern.
15: A great misfortune befell Seth as he bestrode the cur's befoulment.
16: Seth beslid into the wall with a mighty crash.
17; And Seth did wail and make great lamantations.
18: Jethro, a moneylender, did moments later enter the tavern. For he too was taken with a mighty thirst.
19: Jethro did also bestride the befoulment.
20: And once more there was a mighty crash and Jethro was filled with sorrow.
21: "Verily", quoth Seth, "I just did that".
22: And Jethro did smite Seth.
One of the funniest blogs out there...
Pierre Littbarski declares his desire to takeover from Pim Verbeek
World Cup winner Pierre Littbarski fears Germany will be at its most vulnerable against a Socceroos side set to revel in their underdog status in Monday's group D showdown in Durban.
The Berlin-born former midfield general who played in two World Cup deciders, including the then West Germany's 1-0 final win over Argentina in 1990, rates Australia as his nation's hardest group opponents from Ghana and Serbia.
Littbarski, 50, admits to having a soft spot for Australia, having coached Sydney FC to the inaugural A-League crown in the 2005-06 season.
"Physically they can cope with the Germans, so that will be for us the most difficult game in the first round, when you're not yet in a rhythm," Littbarski said from Switzerland. "It will be a very good test of German strength.
"If you play high-speed football and pressure a team, Ghana and Serbia will fall apart, but Australia won't."
Littbarski revealed he would like to become Australia's coach as Pim Verbeek's contract ends after the World Cup.
Without a job after being sacked by Liechtenstein-based Swiss second division club FC Vaduz, German legend Littbarski appears long odds to have a genuine shot at coaching Australia.
"I'm absolutely interested in the Socceroos job," he said.
"Because I know the coach (Verbeek) is finishing, it's very enticing for me, but it depends what the federation (Football Federation Australia) thinks."
Littbarski dismissed Australia's 3-1 loss to the United States at Roodepoort Athletics Stadium on Saturday, saying warm-up matches counted for little.
"I don't give much thought to these games . . . some teams are still training hard and they're trying different things out," he said.
But if there is a weakness in Australia, according to Littbarski, it is their pace at the back, which could play into hands of German midfield prodigy Mesut Ozil.
Mona says:
Well it is going to be an interesting game as I think if Australia gets a good result (and that would include a draw) then they will have confidence going into the next games. The major stumbling block as far as I can see is that Verbeek seems to always play for a draw!
I also think that Littbarski could be a good choice as the 'Socceroos' coach as he knows the Australian
A-League. If Australia do well in this World Cup it will only help soccer in this country as was shown by events four years ago...
WTF???
LimeWire owes $1.5T http://is.gd/cI8wa. BP, $69M. So music sharing is 200,000x more damaging than catastrophic oil spill
Niels van Nimwegen - Once upon a time in Utrecht....
Tracklisting:
1. Axel Bartsch - Daight (Sven Tasnadi & Juno6 Remix)
2. Midland - More Than You Know
3. Afefe Iku - Bodydrummin'
4. Sonarpilot - Osaka
5. Space Dimension Controller - Journey To The Centre of The Unknown Sphere (Kyle Hall's I'm Only Breathing Remix)
6. Flying Lotus - Do The Astral Plane
7. Floating Points - Shark Chase
8. Echologist - Hustle
9. Sigha - Shake
10. Martyn - Is This Insanity? (Ben Klock Mix)
11. Herman - Prototype
12. Steve Rachmad - Electronic Afternoon
13. Marcel Dettmann - Captivate
14. Oni Ayhun - OAR4 - A
15. Mount Kimbie - Vertical (SCB Edit)
16. Basic Soul Unit - Jak'd Freq (A Made Up Sound Acid Bonus)
17. T Williams - Afric
18. Altered Natives - Oh My Zipper
19. Cosmin TRG - Groove Control
20. A Made Up Sound - Alarm
21. Geiom - Luna
22. MJ Cole - Thekla Riddim
23. Deadbeat - Grounation (Berghain Drum Jack)
24. Grievous Angel - Move Down Low V.I.P
25. Schuurman - Nu Ga Je Danse
26. Aaliyah - R U That Somebody (Brenmar Windy City Remix)
27. Doc Daneeka - Swine Flu
28. Mosca - Gold Bricks, I See You
29. YTAC - Switchism
30. Blawan - Iddy
31. Joe - Claptrap
32. Spatial - 90807
33. Mala - Lean Forward
34. James Blake - CMYK
35. I.D. & Baobinga - Still Tippin'
36. Zwart Licht - Dubtrip (FS Green Remix)
37. Kavsrave - Pclart
(For Son #1!)
Norwegian Boy saves Sister from Moose Attack using World of Warcraft Skills
Hans Jørgen Olsen, a 12-year-old Norwegian boy, saved himself and his sister from a moose attack using skills he picked up playing the online role playing game World of Warcraft.
Hans and his sister got into trouble after they had trespassed the territory of the moose during a walk in the forest near their home. When the moose attacked them, Hans knew the first thing he had to do was ‘taunt’ and provoke the animal so that it would leave his sister alone and she could run to safety. ‘Taunting’ is a move one uses in World of Warcraft to get monsters off of the less-well-armored team members.
Once Hans was a target, he remembered another skill he had picked up at level 30 in ‘World of Warcraft’ – he feigned death. The moose lost interest in the inanimate boy and wandered off into the woods. When he was safely alone Hans ran back home to share his tale of video game-inspired survival.
Matmos: Needle Exchange 24 Mix
Not to kiss Matmos‘ collective ass or anything, but we’re beyond honored to present the following collection of pause-button edits. (Yep, a mix of cassettes entitled “Rewind the Crystal Shells.”) We’d be surprised by the duo’s unconventional approach if they hadn’t spent the last 15 years stitching together samples of surgeries (A Chance To Cut Is a Chance to Cure), folky/frosty field recordings (The Civil War, Björk’s Vespertine era), a mighty mouse (Rat Location Program) and, well, the list goes on. Hell, Drew Daniel and Martin Schmidt’s last record, 2008’s Supreme Balloon LP, was special because it was rather ordinary—an “ALL synthesizer” album according to their longtime label Matador.
Daniel is tearing through his tenure bid at John Hopkins University (he’s an English professor there) at the moment, but he still found the time to write us a little commentary below. He also had this to say about Matmos’ upcoming release schedule:
“There is another collaborative 12-inch LP by Matmos/Wobbly/Jay Lesser called Simultaneous Quodlibet, which will be coming out really soon on Important Records, and Martin’s other band Instant Coffee! just put out their debut vinyl only LP on the Algha Marghen/Planam label from Italy…We are working on a new Matmos album proper for Matador, but it’s going to take years to finish because it’s kind of elaborate.”
Hmmm, sounds like they’re up to…something. For now, there’s always Treasure State, a freshly-pressed collaboration with So Percussion. (Le) Poisson Rouge hosts a record release show for its special brand of madness tonight.
Thinking about how to approach this, we scrapped the idea of beatmatching techno with laptops and instead decided to do a mix that was sourced entirely from cassettes. Some songs and sounds are from new tapes made by our friends (mostly people based in Baltimore) and some are thrift store finds and some were loaned to us by family members, or made for us as mixtapes years ago. Sometimes it is hissy and quiet and sometimes it is really loud and harsh; some people get a full song and some people just provide a little glue between songs. Sometimes we get fancy and layer several tapes at once. We hope you enjoy it, and thanks for listening. — Drew Daniel
1. Dan Higgs, “Devotional Songs of . . .”
Dan was our neighbor, and one of the nicest things about living on our block is that sometimes we could hear him singing in his apartment if we sat quietly on our back deck and just listened. This whole tape rules but we just used a teaser from it as an introduction.
Dan was our neighbor, and one of the nicest things about living on our block is that sometimes we could hear him singing in his apartment if we sat quietly on our back deck and just listened. This whole tape rules but we just used a teaser from it as an introduction.
2. Drugs Bunny, “Weight Control”
A short sharp taste of real deal noise bros. Their set at the International Noise Conference was ridiculous: Beau [Crawley] was just flailing his hair around while clutching circuit-bent toys and NothingBerryPlasma was kind of haplessly laying on top of his equipment, seemingly trying to swim across his own gear.
A short sharp taste of real deal noise bros. Their set at the International Noise Conference was ridiculous: Beau [Crawley] was just flailing his hair around while clutching circuit-bent toys and NothingBerryPlasma was kind of haplessly laying on top of his equipment, seemingly trying to swim across his own gear.
3. Gem Vision, “Ants”
This guy has been blowing our minds at shows lately. He does beat-ier stuff as Kid Crusher, but he also brings the gentle tropical psyche-new age underwater muzak thing, and he makes really good video art too. One of those shy, talented people we like.
This guy has been blowing our minds at shows lately. He does beat-ier stuff as Kid Crusher, but he also brings the gentle tropical psyche-new age underwater muzak thing, and he makes really good video art too. One of those shy, talented people we like.
4. Sick Llama & Tree Tops, “Light Infection”
Honestly, you can only hear a wee twenty seconds of drone off this bad boy.
Honestly, you can only hear a wee twenty seconds of drone off this bad boy.
5. Black Vatican, “Now You’ve Been Told”
Owen (O.G. Teeth Mountain member, cellist, bachelor about town) is one half of Black Vatican, and he handed us this tape when we told him about our idea for a tape-based mix and we trusted him and now you can hear the results. Jangly and gentle, it’s the total opposite of Owen’s other band Janitor (who are quickly becoming the Birthday-Party-jams-with-Throbbing-Gristle-and-Omar-Souleyman of Baltimore).
Owen (O.G. Teeth Mountain member, cellist, bachelor about town) is one half of Black Vatican, and he handed us this tape when we told him about our idea for a tape-based mix and we trusted him and now you can hear the results. Jangly and gentle, it’s the total opposite of Owen’s other band Janitor (who are quickly becoming the Birthday-Party-jams-with-Throbbing-Gristle-and-Omar-Souleyman of Baltimore).
6. Night Porter, “untitled”
Night Porter is Ravi Binning, a tall, dark ‘n’ handsome goth-synth-noise dude who rattles between Brooklyn and Baltimore. We hope he comes back to Bmore for art history grad school so we can hear him throw down.
Night Porter is Ravi Binning, a tall, dark ‘n’ handsome goth-synth-noise dude who rattles between Brooklyn and Baltimore. We hope he comes back to Bmore for art history grad school so we can hear him throw down.
7. DJ Dog Dick, “Weird Lakeside”
DJ Dog Dick is Max Eisenberg, an alum of Nautical Almanac and a grand wizard of The Bank (deep West Baltimore ghetto noise party house and nerve central of good times). With his trusty Dog Synth he makes modular tones and groans, and this is one of his more melodic and floaty numbers. Can’t remember if one of the Wolf Eyes folks is also guesting on this tape? Help us out here.
DJ Dog Dick is Max Eisenberg, an alum of Nautical Almanac and a grand wizard of The Bank (deep West Baltimore ghetto noise party house and nerve central of good times). With his trusty Dog Synth he makes modular tones and groans, and this is one of his more melodic and floaty numbers. Can’t remember if one of the Wolf Eyes folks is also guesting on this tape? Help us out here.
8. Vangelis, “Memories of Green”
This is from his album See You Later; the whole thing’s great, but you know this one because, duh, it was used in the love scenes in the film Blade Runner. We bought our tape at a Goodwill in the Tenderloin in San Francisco for two dollars and it has that warbly sound that de-tunes some already wiggly synths. Just pretty.
This is from his album See You Later; the whole thing’s great, but you know this one because, duh, it was used in the love scenes in the film Blade Runner. We bought our tape at a Goodwill in the Tenderloin in San Francisco for two dollars and it has that warbly sound that de-tunes some already wiggly synths. Just pretty.
9. Lionel Davis, “Candy Pants”
This was put on a mixtape by my friend Erika Clowes; it was a thing of comedy gold and great savoir faire, so it was hard to play favorites, but this is a sentimental fave for both of us. You can track down the video for it on YouTube. The lyrics are the high point.
This was put on a mixtape by my friend Erika Clowes; it was a thing of comedy gold and great savoir faire, so it was hard to play favorites, but this is a sentimental fave for both of us. You can track down the video for it on YouTube. The lyrics are the high point.
10. Warren G, “St. Ides Sampler 94”
My friends Katie and Lecie got these tapes from liquor stores back in the ’90s; it’s an all-star cast of early ’90s rap dudes, smooth R&B dudes and G-Funk folk, singing and rapping about malt liquor. The whole tape is great, but this one is our favorite.
My friends Katie and Lecie got these tapes from liquor stores back in the ’90s; it’s an all-star cast of early ’90s rap dudes, smooth R&B dudes and G-Funk folk, singing and rapping about malt liquor. The whole tape is great, but this one is our favorite.
11. Chris and Cosey, “Jink Jive (Version)”
We have a small mountain of classic noise tapes. This is from a really amazing series of cassette compilations of industrial, proto-coldwave and experimental music called Rising From the Red Sands. This is C&C in minimal electro mode. Just amazing.
We have a small mountain of classic noise tapes. This is from a really amazing series of cassette compilations of industrial, proto-coldwave and experimental music called Rising From the Red Sands. This is C&C in minimal electro mode. Just amazing.
12. SV’s Discoji, “Dil Mein Toohi”
Owen from Black Vatican said that this was great Vietnamese (?) disco music, but that he didn’t know much more than that about it. I started to play some noise tapes on top of it for fun, so you will hear some of the following on there…
Owen from Black Vatican said that this was great Vietnamese (?) disco music, but that he didn’t know much more than that about it. I started to play some noise tapes on top of it for fun, so you will hear some of the following on there…
13. G. Lucas Crane, “Nonhorse”
This guy is a mysterious tape-manipulator who is a fiend with the pause button and the startling use of EQ. If you like, say, Phil Milstein’s Tapeworm album or Luc Ferrari, then you need to know more about this dude.
This guy is a mysterious tape-manipulator who is a fiend with the pause button and the startling use of EQ. If you like, say, Phil Milstein’s Tapeworm album or Luc Ferrari, then you need to know more about this dude.
14. Spykes, “untitled”
Spykes is John Olson from Wolf Eyes doing a solo trek to the center of the universe. His show at the Floristree was righteous, and so is this excerpt from his last double-cassette/box set thingie. That object is so heavily encrusted in collages and drawings that I have no idea what it is called.
Spykes is John Olson from Wolf Eyes doing a solo trek to the center of the universe. His show at the Floristree was righteous, and so is this excerpt from his last double-cassette/box set thingie. That object is so heavily encrusted in collages and drawings that I have no idea what it is called.
15. Sissy Spacek, “Norge EST”
These guys really need no introduction, but just in case you’ve stopped paying attention: noise/grindcore heroes from Los Angeles and beyond, John Wiese and his cohorts know how to fuse musique concrete and powerviolence like literally no one else on this planet. Plus they have great taste in movies. John Wiese has never recommended a bad film to me.
These guys really need no introduction, but just in case you’ve stopped paying attention: noise/grindcore heroes from Los Angeles and beyond, John Wiese and his cohorts know how to fuse musique concrete and powerviolence like literally no one else on this planet. Plus they have great taste in movies. John Wiese has never recommended a bad film to me.
16. Kiowa Lodge Singers, “Looney Tunes”
Martin’s sister Victoria, who was a schoolteacher on a Native American reservation, loaned us this tape years ago. It’s a group of Sioux musicians who are making music for kids but using traditional drumming and singing styles. This song is about cartoons and it’s pretty much completely amazing. There isn’t another tape like this one.
Martin’s sister Victoria, who was a schoolteacher on a Native American reservation, loaned us this tape years ago. It’s a group of Sioux musicians who are making music for kids but using traditional drumming and singing styles. This song is about cartoons and it’s pretty much completely amazing. There isn’t another tape like this one.
17. Keith Fullerton Whitman, “A Bogan Apocalypse”
Keith is a powerful magic user and his control over the Doepfer modular synthesizer is just one manifestation of his skills. I layered some of him over the Kiowa Singers and it just seemed to click. Can’t wait to hear him play at the High Zero festival this September.
Keith is a powerful magic user and his control over the Doepfer modular synthesizer is just one manifestation of his skills. I layered some of him over the Kiowa Singers and it just seemed to click. Can’t wait to hear him play at the High Zero festival this September.
REpost: King Kenny!
(I once found a couple of day old kittens and named them Kenny & Dalglish - they turned out to be females!!! Ms Kenny & Ms Dalglish! Prompted my eldest son later to ask if I knew that there was a famous footballer named after our cats LOL!)
Bonus Audio:
The Barmy Army - Sharp As A Needle
The Barmy Army - Sharp As A Needle
John Oswald - Grayfolded
Taken from over 100 performances of the Grateful Dead's 'Dark Star' between 1968 and 1993. These are built, layered and 'folded' to produce one large, new re-composed Dark Star.
Oswald described it in the following way;
"It's not a performably possible version of 'Dark Star'. You can't have three generations of Jerry Garcias live on stage together - but there's this illusion of it being the Grateful Dead playing in concert"
"It's not a performably possible version of 'Dark Star'. You can't have three generations of Jerry Garcias live on stage together - but there's this illusion of it being the Grateful Dead playing in concert"
And on another occasion;
"I've made a very unorthodox 'Dark Star' but I haven't tried to submerge the performances under a lot of technique. I've tried to let the performances still speak for themselves"
"I've made a very unorthodox 'Dark Star' but I haven't tried to submerge the performances under a lot of technique. I've tried to let the performances still speak for themselves"
The CD booklet contains an extensive essay on Oswald, plunderphonics, Dark Star and Grayfolded. The booklet also contains a fold-out chronology of the contents of the discs indicating the source Dark Stars used throughout.
Grayfolded was originally released as a single CD, Transitive Axis, the first disc of this set. Purchasers of Transistive Axis were encouraged to pay for a second disc, Mirror Ashes, in advance, to be delivered when complete. Subsequently the two disc were released as a double CD set.
The term plunderphonics derives from a paper presented by Oswald to the Wired Society Electro-Acoustic Conference in Toronto in 1985, entitled, "Plunderphonics, or audio piracy as a compositional prerogative"
In an interview in 1995 Oswald described how the project came about;
"Phil Lesh called me up and talked me into doing it. At that point, I hadn't listened to any Grateful Dead music in about twenty years. I did think I was qualified, because I do think it's often a good idea to come into a project without a lot of prior knowledge and get kind of an alien's overview of what the music seems to be, and then put in your own two cents of what you think it should be. And I think that was the case for this. During the course of working on it, I went to a couple of Grateful Dead concerts, but other than that, I haven't listened to anything except these hundred versions of 'Dark Star' that I found in the vaults"
"Phil Lesh called me up and talked me into doing it. At that point, I hadn't listened to any Grateful Dead music in about twenty years. I did think I was qualified, because I do think it's often a good idea to come into a project without a lot of prior knowledge and get kind of an alien's overview of what the music seems to be, and then put in your own two cents of what you think it should be. And I think that was the case for this. During the course of working on it, I went to a couple of Grateful Dead concerts, but other than that, I haven't listened to anything except these hundred versions of 'Dark Star' that I found in the vaults"
On another occasion Oswald said that he had been asked (by David Gans) to produce something very short, he explained his response to this suggestion;
"What interested me most about the Grateful Dead was their extended playing style. I wrote a counter-proposal to David saying, 'Well, I've been thinking about it and all I can hear is the opposite - something very long."
"What interested me most about the Grateful Dead was their extended playing style. I wrote a counter-proposal to David saying, 'Well, I've been thinking about it and all I can hear is the opposite - something very long."
CD1 • "Transitive Axis"
1 Novature(Formless Nights Fall) (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
2 Pouring Velvet (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
3 In Revolving Ash Light (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
4 Clouds Cast (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
5 Through (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
6 Fault Forces (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
7 The Phil Zone (Lesh/Skjellyfetti)
8 La Estrella Oscura (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
9 Recedes(While We Can) (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
CD2 • "Mirror Ashes"
1 Transilience (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
2 73rd Star Bridge Sonata (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
3 Cease Tone Beam (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
4 The Speed Of Space (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
5 Dark Matter Problem / Every Leaf Is Turning (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
6 Foldback Time (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
The 'Dark Stars' on Grayfolded are taken from Grateful Dead shows between 1968 and 1993.
The musicians involved are therefore;
* Tom Constanten
* Jerry Garcia
* Keith Godchaux
* Mickey Hart
* Bruce Hornsby
* Bill Kreutzmann
* Phil Lesh
* Ron McKernan (Pigpen)
* Brent Mydland
* Bob Weir
* Vince Welnick
Performed by the Grateful Dead.
Produced, assembled, designed and compiled by John Oswald
1 Novature(Formless Nights Fall) (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
2 Pouring Velvet (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
3 In Revolving Ash Light (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
4 Clouds Cast (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
5 Through (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
6 Fault Forces (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
7 The Phil Zone (Lesh/Skjellyfetti)
8 La Estrella Oscura (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
9 Recedes(While We Can) (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
CD2 • "Mirror Ashes"
1 Transilience (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
2 73rd Star Bridge Sonata (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
3 Cease Tone Beam (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
4 The Speed Of Space (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
5 Dark Matter Problem / Every Leaf Is Turning (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
6 Foldback Time (Oswald/Skjellyfetti)
The 'Dark Stars' on Grayfolded are taken from Grateful Dead shows between 1968 and 1993.
The musicians involved are therefore;
* Tom Constanten
* Jerry Garcia
* Keith Godchaux
* Mickey Hart
* Bruce Hornsby
* Bill Kreutzmann
* Phil Lesh
* Ron McKernan (Pigpen)
* Brent Mydland
* Bob Weir
* Vince Welnick
Performed by the Grateful Dead.
Produced, assembled, designed and compiled by John Oswald
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