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1 | 2 | 3 | NextSonic Withdrawal by Shinobu Nemoto (MP3) 1 Citation Some of the best remixes are incidental, accidental, chance. Think of the way a favorite song sounds on an unfamiliar stereo system. Or when a specific moment of a CD (an ever so brief segment) chooses to go, anarchically, into manic loop mode on a restaurant?s creaky stereo system. Or how inadequate radio reception can transform an innocuous pop hit into something clandestine. All of the seven pieces that comprise Bird Requiem , by Summons of Shining Ruins (aka Shinobu Nemoto ), are heavily, technorati.com
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Ubuntu Improves User Experience Via ?Paper Cut? Campaign 1 Citation Ubuntu developers recently announced their intention to fix a number of minor but noticeable usability bugs, which they?ve termed ?Paper Cuts,? in time for the release of Ubuntu 9.10 next October. This is a huge step in the right direction for Ubuntu, and reflects the kind of usability-oriented thinking that is central to making it a success. The ten bugs slated for correction so far mostly involve ambiguous user dialogues or interface inconsistencies. None of them on its own is enough to, technorati.com
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Four Film Cues by Kent Sparling (MP3s) 1 Citation The sound designer and musician Kent Sparling may make some of the best music about which I have the opportunity to read the least often. Albums like Route Canal Diary and Under New Manna , their punny titles aside, are some of the richest contemporary explorations of electro-environmental ambience, close in spirit to Brian Eno?s Thursday Afternoon , yet with their own inner coherence and language. Sparling composes film music, as well, and there are up on his kentsparling.com website,, technorati.com
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Holzkopf Covers Soft Cell, Breaks Sound Barrier (MP3s) 1 Citation The group Soft Cell is best remembered for its languorous, metronomic pop, a precursor not only to minimal techno, but more broadly to the giddily presumptuous nonchalance that infuses much of the Internet?s amateur musicianship. There was always something in the musical rudimentaries of Soft Cell songs that suggested a flouting of traditional pop categories of quality ? like, say, instrumental facility. Holzkopf opens its Credit Card Ache , a short album of hard noise, with a cover ( MP3 ) o, technorati.com
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1 Citation Last week?s Beat Battle at stonesthrow.com/messageboard yielded a victory for a newcomer to the ongoing audio-mixing throwdowns. The participant named biz20 had only joined the boards on June 17, a few days after the battle began. Nonetheless, his slurry, loping entry won best in class. Perhaps he got extra credit for having done what so few other beatmakers do, especially in contests such as this one, which is that he crafted an opening and a close to the track: it begins like a piece of vi, technorati.com
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8-bit MP3 Michael Jackson Tributes 1 Citation No better way to close the week than with some 8-bit renditions of hits by suddenly deceased, long troubled pop legend Michael Jackson , who passed away on Thursday at the age of 50. There?s a handful of such covers floating around, and no doubt more will surface in the coming weeks and months. 8bit versions turn anything into a video game, which is to say, in the case of a dead public figure like Michael Jackson, they turn the subject into a video-game character. This seems particularly fit, technorati.com
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1 Citation Major props to Cox for cranking up my speeds to 18Mb/s downstream and 4Mb/s upstream. That totally rocks. I?m getting that speed now. Here?s what Cox?s local diagnostic tool says: TCP/Web100 Network Diagnostic Tool v5.4.12 click START to begin Connected to: speedtest.sbcox.net ? Using IPv4 address Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done checking for firewalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done running 10s outbound test (client-to-server ), technorati.com
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1 Citation He may have taken a break, but he?s returned twofold. Over at alanmorsedavies.wordpress.com , Alan Morse Davies has begun, anew, his occasional audio postings, having uploaded today a pair, his first new additions to the site since early May. ?The Beauty of a Place When Everyone Cruel Is Still Sleeping? is an exercise in what he describes as ?abstract slowness,? a haunting wall of moan that, it turns out, was originally birdsong ? rendered eminently ghostly when Davies reduced the tape s, technorati.com
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The Queen Is Ready: Zenobia in Chains at the Huntington 1 Citation The Queen Is Ready The newly expanded the Huntington Library?s Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art is proof that American art is world class and that women have a place in art history: Harriet Hosmer?s recently rediscovered marble statue, ?Zenobia in Chains,? is holding court at the new galleries. The expansion and re-design of the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries doubles the exhibition space for American art by the construction of the Lois and Robert F. Erburu Gallery that adjoin, technorati.com
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Super-Subtle Guitar Quintet MP3s 1 Citation The guitar quintet Family Tapes aims to make what it calls ?anti-wanking? music ? music, the terminology suggests, that takes the guitar as something other than a tool for showmanship, for heavy riffing, for complex leads, for vocalizing-like melodies, for all the things that make the guitar synonymous with ego and strong-willed self-expression, rather than with subtlety and atmosphere. The result is something that?s both less and more than the sum of its parts. Less, because to hear ?Th, technorati.com
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