Sunday 4 December 2011

Bob Ostertag - 'Say No More' Volumes 1 - 4

I began the Say No More project by asking each player to record solo improvisations, separately, with no communication with each other nor instruction from me. I then took the resulting tapes and, using a digital editing system, broke the solos into fragments and assembled a "band" piece by piece from the splinters. The resulting tape became the first Say No More cd (1993), including the compositions Say No More and Tongue-Tied. This is probably the first group in the history of music to release a cd without having played a note together, or even met.
I then created a highly unorthodox score of these compositions I had created on the computer using the solo improvisations as sources. I gave both the parts and the computer-generated tape back to the musicians, instructing them to learn their parts. The result was Say No More as a performance ensemble, and the Say No More in Person cd, recorded in October 1993 at ORF-Vienna. It features the compositions from the first cd, but in their transformed, concert rendition.
- Bob Ostertag
With Joey Baron (percussion), Mark Dresser (bass), Gerry Hemingway (percussion) and Phil Minton (voice). Assembled on computer from fragments of solo improvisations.
Vols 1-2
Vols 3-4

State of Surveillance - The Data

Einstürzende Neubauten, Wire, Caspar Brötzmann Massaker - Live in Berlin 12/03/2011
Videostream

Jack Kerouac (November 1942)

Via
(Thanx!)

♪♫ Damo Suzuki and The Holy Soul with Gareth Liddiard (Live Sept 2011)

Damo Suzuki (from Can) and The Holy Soul with Gareth Liddiard (from The Drones) and Cec Condon (The Mess Hall, Machete Moon) dropping a 42 minute jam at Goodgod Small club on Saturday the 17th of September 2011. Sorry it is so dark that it is often hard to make people out but the sound came out well. An mp3 can be downloaded at http://www.mediafire.com/?2yjad1q11xyjasn
(Thanx Reinhard!)

Allen Ginsberg reading 'Personals Ad'

♪♫ Fehlfarben - WWW

...thanks to the band for the great concert yesterday @ Röhre in Stuttgart
www.fehlfarben.com

Japan's youth turn to rural areas seeking a slower life

Naomi Wolf - The crackdown on Occupy controversy: a rebuttal

Friday 2 December 2011

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Proof that Michael Bloomberg and the #NYPD does care what @policeleak has to say on policeleak.com. See their IP below pic.twitter.com/FoKKPBI9