Archive for the ‘emusic’ Category
starting today, i’m going to post irregular fragments of my “work in progress” on my other, emusic-related domain. for now it’s going to be a non-public link. if any friends want the URL, let me know by mail or comment. caveat: the stuff there will be tedious, unpolished, repetitive and just generally scruffy. but just getting the tinkering rendered will help motivate me toward follow-through.
on my way to work this morning, i passed a man playing a homemade theremin in front of my apartment building.
he was actually pretty good.
“On German television, there was a popular ongoing cooking show in which musicians were invited to make their favorite foods. For one episode, Blixa Bargeld of Einsturzende Neubauten dourly constructed an entire meal in black, centered on a squid-ink pasta with squid-ink sauce. This tells me more about him as a person than his most recent record did.”
- geeta dayal, via warren ellis
yesterday, at the age of 71, bob moog died.
moog was the substrate of much of what has been most important to me for the last thirty-five years, ever since i first heard switched-on bach… not just with respect to electronic music itself, but as an exemplar of a certain mindset, fiddling with idiosyncratic technologies in the service of art. his name is a touchstone, and his legacy – diffused as it now is over so much of underground, academic, and popular culture – is a true ghost in the machine.
let there be a moment of silence, followed by a massive chorus of fat, sweeping filters, to sing him away.
blessed be, bob.