Otomata is a generative sequencer. It employs a cellular automaton type logic I’ve devised to produce sound events.

Fun little game of life esq music app, also on the web here.

6 days till I hit the tropics

Auditorium is about the process of discovery and play.

Via kottke.org.

Boy those DJ's sure look happy don't they?

Here you can see a good example of the dutch "tekno" dance.

Check the girl rocking out at 4:10.

End of June - every year the same procedure… On a former Russian military airfield in the middle of nowhere in the fields of northern Germany FUSION arises, the biggest holiday and party camp all over the place. 4 days of holiday communism is the motto and as such the programme covers it all.

Where’s Waldo?:

Good overview of the camp and my favorite stage:

Rumor was 40k people by sunday.

Remute midnight friday:

Whoa:

Sunday morning, DJ Koze:

Posted by Marcus Estes to WFMU's Beware of the Blog.

The Scene was a television show aired in Detroit on WGPR, the first black-owned TV station in America. From 1975 to 1987 the show served as black culture's reinvention of the "dance show" format - and looking back on these amazing tapes now it hurts to understand why it remained a purely local phenomenon.

While white America was up to god knows what on American Bandstand aired Saturday mornings across America, The Scene was publicizing and helping give birth to Detroit Techno

Check the clip.

Posted by Scott McDowell to WFMU's Beware of the Blog.

In the last ten years or so the trumpet has been enjoying a renaissance. There are a number of gifted and innovative trumpet players the world over deconstructing, reinventing and rethinking the instrument in myriad ways. In the '80s when John Zorn was doing mouthpiece-only duck calls and blowing his sax into a bucket of water, the trumpeters were still playing somewhat straight. I suppose it was only a matter of time. What follows is a sample of the breadth of solo trumpet sounds percolating away.

I hate "new jazz". This is not new jazz, this is some great experimental music. Be sure to check the Mazen Kerbaj as well as Peter Evans.

No, there are no speakers.

Via Beyond the Beyond.

Some excerpts from "When I Sold My Soul to the Machine" a documentary on the dutch electro/techno scene around Bunker Records in The Hague during the 90's

part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
part 5

See also Slices dvdmag on Legowelt and Guy Tavares:
part 1
part 2

Via Leyburn at someplace special.

Some hick gets his hands on a Rock-afire Explosion kit, and programs it to perform Huey - Pop, Lock, and Drop It.

For more check his other videos particularly Programming details, or those of fechter1.

Via cityofsound.

On the Edge: Derek Bailey [U B U W E B]
A series of four 55 minute films shown on Channel 4 TV in the UK in early 1992. To say this was the best and most intelligent analysis of improvisation to be screened on UK television is probably unnecessary.

Via Paul Kedrosky’s Infectious Greed.

The story of John Lennon’s jukebox and his 40 favorite songs therein

Via Kenny G at WFMU’s Beware of the Blog.

Vanity Fair article by by David Kamp on Sly Stone’s reappearance.

“There’s one that’s called ‘We’re Sick Like That,’” he continues. “It says, ‘Give a boy a flag and teach him to salute / Give the same boy a gun and teach him how to shoot / And then one night, the boy in the bushes, he starts to cry / ‘Cause nobody ever really taught him how to die.’”

The obvious allusion to the current war jars me, and I soon realize why: Stone has been absent from the scene for such a duration that it’s hard to imagine that he was with us all along, experiencing all the things we experienced over the years—the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, the rise of the World Wide Web, the attacks on ⁹⁄₁₁, the invasion of Iraq. It’s almost as if he went into a decades-long deep freeze, like Austin Powers or the astronauts in Planet of the Apes. Except he didn’t.

Posted by Kenny G to WFMU's Beware of the Blog.

Composer Thomas Dimuzio has taken this classic rock tune, reversed it, cut it up into quarter-notes and then reassembled it in forward order to retain the melody.

Seems like this would be a good headfuck when you are tripping.

There is nothing more to read, but you can go read it at WFMU's Beware of the Blog.

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.