Instagr/am/bient is a really cool project by the online music magazine Disquiet which took 25 images from the photo app/social network, and gave them to ambient musicians to inspire pieces of music. Disquiet explains: The project involves 25 musicians with ambient inclinations. Each of the musicians contributed an Instagram photo, and in turn each of [...]
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Record Player Drawings
There are a number of synaesthesia-themes art installations and the like popping up lately. This may be one of the more subtle iterations of the trend, but I quite like how simple the idea is. Basically, the installation attaches articulated arms and markers to records to draw geometric forms based on the spinning of the [...]
Tree Turntable
I tweeted about this device yesterday, but I decided that it deserved a post on its own. It’s by the Netherlands based artist Barthalomäus Traubeck, and is essentially a specialised instrument that lets you hear what a tree “sounds like.” With old-school vinyl as a key reference point, the outcome is a Philip Glass-esque piece [...]
Dreamy French-Inflected Electro: Air x Beach House
Just a quick one today on a great new track. It seems the new Air album – Le Voyage Dans La Lune – is out in February next year, and as a pre-album teaser, a single done in collaboration with Beach House’s Victoria Legrand has been released. Both great artists in their own right, this [...]
Hazy Summer Vibes: Tennis
I’d heard a few tracks from Denver band Tennis on various blog mixes, but hadn’t really paid too much attention to them until I heard their killer cover of the Brenda Lee song “Is It True?” That’s why when I saw this new track on Gorilla vs Bear. Called “Origins,” the song has all the [...]
Youth Lagoon
A friend recently turned me on to Youth Lagoon, the musical venture of one Trevor Powers, and I’ve been listening to the debut album The Year of Hibernation on heavy rotation ever since. The album was recorded in Powers’ bedroom, and has all the requisite distortion drenched introspection that you’d expect. It’s a bit of [...]
Analogue Vinyl Sampling
Cut/Paste culture is an interesting trend to watch. As people’s online and offline presences become more and more integrated, the techniques used in the digital world eventually cross over to the physical world, and visa versa. That’s why I found this Analogue Vinyl sampling so interesting. Instead of digitally sampling music, or using traditional DJ [...]
Mountain Man
I’m an enormous music nerd. There’s no two ways about it. One of my perennially favourite artists is Leslie Feist, and I’ve been looking forward to her latest album Metals for a while. When looking for some live performances of her new stuff online, I found this video with her performing a new single on [...]
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