I suppose my appreciation for this is somewhat related to my current loopyness due to spending the last week doing 15 hour days editing dialogue.

Posted by Clinton McClung to WFMU's Beware of the Blog.

No matter how hard you try, there is just no way to get cassette editing to sound perfect and crisp, and that again is one of the joys of the process. There is a point where the sound of the editing becomes a part of the edit itself, and making the listener aware of it somehow feels okay. Pesky limitations and happy accidents can sometimes yeild the best results.

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I wish the production values had been a little higher, as this could have been amazing, rather than just cool.

Via MAKE: Blog.

A 5min bit on BBC's The World, reporting on the [corporate] censorship of Jonathan Hexner's video art piece "I Like America and America Likes Me" which was to be displayed on the Axel Springer building in Berlin. You can view the video piece on The World's website (you might want to download that and play in quicktime unless you have a browser window wider than 2016px).

Via David Post at Volokh.

Thomas Fehlmann shakes his cute German booty during a live dub set: one, two.
One of the best shows of my life, the energy he brought was great.

The whole Decibel weekend was awesome, check out more videos by basicsounds here, or his blog post where he says Decibel was better then Mutek (he is Canadian even!).

Make sure to watch the Ryoichi Kurokawa videos one, two. That shit blew my mind.

Also Andreas Tilliander at the after-party Sunday morning. I felt like I was back in Berlin, Seattle still partying at 7am? This was regarded as the best set of the weekend but I was too fucking dog tired to enjoy it.

Posted by JESSE GREEN to NYT > Arts.

Traditional Broadway overtures -- several minutes long, made up of melodies heard later in the show and played by an orchestra before the curtain goes up -- are disappearing.

Producers and directors say they doubt the audience’s ability to perceive useful information encoded in orchestral sound. Decoding that information depends on the habit of listening to music for its own inherent expressiveness, without words, pictures or action: a habit that disappeared from mainstream American culture.

Read more at NYT > Arts.

Great films, kind of like Gondry's stuff. I recommend Off The Beaten Track. Link.

Via MAKE: Blog.

Posted by philliptorrone to MAKE: Blog.

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