Friday 5 December 2014

Joshua Scott Albert


Rhys Chatham - Merci, Chopin


I'm getting into making music for film. But alas, for the moment I have no film score commissions on my desk, so I thought I'd make my own movie and add music to it.. I recently obtained a copy of Final Cut Pro, so I made a movie. It's a 3-minute minimalist movie, influenced, I suspect, by Michael Snow's early work, but that is for the critics to decide!
The music in this video is a rendering of a recent version of my composition, "Merci, Chopin", for four electric guitars, el. bass and drums. The sounds come from Sibelius, but the guitars ended up sounding more like a harpsichord than guitar. Oh well, never mind, you'll get the idea, anyway.
Rhys Chatham

Thursday 4 December 2014

William S. Burroughs: Can You All Hear Me? (October Gallery London)

Including works by Brion Gysin
Liliane Lijn, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
Shezad Dawood & Cerith Wyn Evans
4 December 2014 - 7 February 2015

Yorke & Greenwood in the studio

Via

Joel Betancourt: Katsushika Hokusai Electronic Circuit Board

Via

Bez: we need housing not 'sugar-coated promises'

Chrissie Hynde's advice to chick rockers or 'how I did it'

Via

Lucrecia Dalt - Esotro (William Basinski Remix)

The lonesome death of Eric Garner

Jeff Bridges narrates Bob Dylan's road to Big Pink and 'Basement Tapes'




NYPD cop who choked Eric Garner wasn’t indicted-but man who recorded the incident was

Nick Lowe Embraces the Christmas Spirit

Wednesday 3 December 2014

Masosadism

The Making of 'Dogs In Space'



Dogs In Space

Ecco Homo - Motorcycle Baby/New York New York (1988/90)



Troy Davis alongside some familiar names from Max Q (Bill McDonald/Michael Sheridan/Gus Till/Ollie Olsen and Michael Hutchence) The Edge and Bono appeared on NY NY which was also mixed by Todd Terry. Sherine from the very wonderful Big Pig also appears
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