January 2012
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So it seems that within a day of the city of Paris launching its AutoLib electric car hire scheme last month, a woman was knocked down by one because she didn’t hear the thing…
December 2011
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"A symbolic clock is as nourishing to the... →
The most preposterous thing about Zack Snyder’s bloated, flaccid big-screen adaptation of Alan Moore’s Watchmen comic is that it posits a world in which the doomsday clock is at a…
Santa's On His Way. . . →
Merry Christmas from The Pipettes! The above track can be downloaded free from Fortuna Pop! here. The Pipettes will be DJing tonight from 7 til 11 at the Snooty Fox in North London….
How Music Got Game (Or Game Got Music) →
” … Badges must be worn at all times … “
Read more about music apps, gamification and exploitationware in my “Wreath Lecture” for The Quietus here.
Merry Christmas from Darren Hayman, Fika... →
All this month, Fika Recordings have been giving away a track, or a few tracks, a day, in the form of a festive virtual advent calender in celebration of Darren Hayman’s new Christmas…
. . . have you hugged, kissed and respected your... →
“… The challenge for Robyn Orlin then becomes how to make a piece of theatre which re-tells the story of, and pays tribute to, Baartman, without in the process exacting the same…
Rock and Roll Vs. The American Federation of... →
“… Listening to rock & roll, then, is to cross a kind of sonic picket line… “
Read more at The Quietus.
The Atari Video Music and the Music Video →
“… There is a kind of whig history of the music video in which early performance based clips, such as Jan & Dean’s ‘Surf City’ on the Pacific Coast Highway and the minimalist cool…
November 2011
23 posts
Monster Bobby! Live! in Brighton! →
Just confirmed, I shall be playing a Monster Bobby gig in Brighton on Sunday December 4th at the Green Door Store, just by the station. I’m on at 7:30, playing for about half an…
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Black Rain - Music for the End of Time →
“Some three minutes of Shôhei Imamura’s Black Rain (1989) have elapsed before the first entrance of Toru Takemitsu’s original score. The credits have rolled, the principal characters…
Three sketches of Metropolis; from the current... →
In 1924, Fritz Lang and his producer, Erich Pommer, traveled to America by boat. Whilst they were there they picked up two Mitchell cameras, both of which would later be used to film …
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“We are on track to develop, test and make available to the public- within the...”
– Brain Computer Interfaces: Melding Man and Machine (via wildcat2030)
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Final Dandelion Radio jingle (I’m sure there...
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One more of my (probably never actually utilised)...
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A few years ago I created some jingles for...
“Yes, superorganisms are arising, some of them will be equivalent to flock...”
– now writing the next step..
Wildcat: The Substance of WE Polytopia
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“It would not be adequate even to say that the sterility of literary production...”
– Adorno (via neuesaltes)
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A Little Orchestra play Totally Acoustic with M.J.... →
Totally Acoustic takes place at the King & Queen, Foley Street, London, from 7pm. Entry is free. A Little Orchestra is a twelve piece chamber orchestra influenced by the Scratch Orchestra, the Portsmouth Sinfonia and the Boston Pops. The group will play their own material, and will also accompany the venerable Mr. Hibbett on several of his works.
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In case anyone were in any doubt of the regressive nature of current British policy, one of the more arresting images from today’s protests in London. What better image of the desperate…
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Music, Sound and Time in Bruno Dumont's Hors Satan →
Early on in the new film by former philosophy teacher, Bruno Dumont, Alexandra Lematre’s character (identified only as “elle”) takes an in-ear headphone from the pocket of her hoodie and…
October 2011
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Slavoj Zizek at Occupy Wall Street, 9th October... →
“In April 2011, the Chinese government prohibited on TV and films and in novels all stories that contain alternate reality or time travel. This is a good sign for China. It means that people still…
July 2011
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The Partisan - featuring Angelo Sorrenti for New York Times
with music by yours truly…
June 2011
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Last Night: A Little Orchestra perform with... →
Thanks to Ian from How Does It Feel, London’s premier indie club, here is a video from last night’s show featuring Shirley Lee of Spearmint backed by A Little Orchestra.
"Sounds like a woman. . . Or a monster!" : Voyage... →
Midway through watching the Roger Corman produced space adventure, Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965, dir. Curtis Harrington), one develops an increasingly odd sensation: the effects…
April 2011
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March 2011
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Monster Bobby's Heart is (also) a Drummer →
A few weeks ago, I met up with Allo Darlin’ as they breezed through Paris on their European mega-tour. You can read all about their trip here, on the band’s website. Now, they’re back home in…
February 2011
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Composition (2011): 'Duet' →
For a solo performer
Find a sound that is already audible in the room - the hum of the PA, the swoop of a fan, the noise from the air conditioner, or traffic sounds coming through the window,…
Composition (2011): 'Test' →
For a solo performer or a small ensemble Do as little as possible in order to make the total level of sound in the room as low as possible.
If the volume starts to increase, either due to…
January 2011
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Forthcoming Live Shows by A Little Orchestra →
Sunday 13 February – London
The Loves Retirement Party @ The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, London N1 9JB
The Loves + Comet Gain + The School + The Lovely Eggs + The…
A January Song: Darren Hayman with Monster Bobby →
Throughout January, singer-songwriter Darren Hayman, formerly of Hefner, latterly of The Secondary Modern, has been writing a song a day and charting his progress on a specially constructed …
Fresh Hell, Palais de Tokyo, Paris →
There is a utopian thread running through Adam McEwen’s Fresh Hell exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo. Is this to be understood in spite of its title, or in its spirit? After all, isn’t…
In C, live at the George Tavern →
On December 5th, 2010, A Little Orchestra brought some friends together to perform Terry Riley’s ‘In C’ for a second time, this time at the historic George Tavern in east London. The…
December 2010
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Composition (2010) No. 6 →
For a solo performer (any instrument)
Attach as many microphones, pickups, phonographic cartridges, and contact mics to your instrument as possible. Feed these transducers in turn to as many…
Getting Festive →
The above from David Shrigley.
The below from The Pipettes (can be downloaded free from here).
30 Pounds of Bone - Method →
In his (1637) Discourse on Method, Rene Descartes established doubt as the fundamental philosophical procedure. There is plenty of doubt to be found in the Method of 30 Pounds of Bone,…
November 2010
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Don't Look Up: Impostor and the Future →
“There wasn’t always a war with the Centauri, but in my lifetime it’s all I’ve ever known. By the year 2050, six years after the first attack, we’d lost so many things. We’d lost the sky…
Rendezvous With Elia: Cronhammar at Herning →
Ingvar Cronhammar has implied that his life’s work has been an attempt to get over the trauma of existential angst that struck him upon sneaking into a screening of Bergman’s The Silence…