I'm getting my music on PeerTube, and here's the next one! It's for 2 pianists, 2 percussionists & "no-input mixer." The outputs of the mixer are connected back to various inputs, and I can unmute various channels to get feedback. The percussionists are playing a homemade speaker instrument, megaphone & more.
soit John Oswald qui a utilisé plus de 100h d'enregistrement live de Dark Star de Grateful Dead, pour en faire un mix double-album... c'est ... je ne sais pas, je vous laisse avec ça moi je vais me faire un thé et allumer des bougies, je crois ...🤫 🙃 🚀 🌜 🍃
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How Meshuggah redefined tech-metal for the 21st century
Swedish tech-metal icons Meshuggah released their landmark 2008 album obZen in the US on this day in 2008
Our next spotlight is on number 2 from The List, submitted by MetalheadDana.
Tanya Tagaq is a woman of immense talent. She’s the bestselling author of Split Tooth, a stunning piece of fiction/memoir set in 1970s Nunavut, written in both poetry and prose. Her English/Inuktitut picture book for children, It Bears Repeating, is set to come out in August this year. She’s an activist and overall exceptional human being, not afraid to speak her mind and call people, corporations, and governments out for the crimes they have committed against her people, others, and the environment. She co-directed and -wrote the documentary Ever Deadly, about her own life and career. And, more recently, she’s an actor, appearing in season 4 of True Detective, which she also provided the soundtrack for.
Which brings us to what she’s most known for, and why we’re here. Tanya Tagaq – often performing under the name “Tagaq” – is an award-winning experimental musician and composer, combining Inuit throat singing with improvisational vocals and various backdrops such as avant-garde classical violin, jazz, electronic beats, or nothing else at all. She’s collaborated with artists such as the Kronos Quartet, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Björk. While she often performs at folk festivals, Tagaq’s music is truly the most metal thing you could possibly hear.
The first I heard Tagaq’s voice was on the first track of Björk’s 2004 vocal album and utter masterpiece, Medúlla. From day 1, Medúlla was instantly my favorite Björk album, not in small part due to Tagaq’s incredible guest vocals (especially on the track “Ancestors”, which reappears on Tagaq’s first LP, the 2005 Sinaa, co-produced by Björk). It would be nearly 10 years before we (myself and MetalheadDana) finally got to see Tagaq live, in an old movie theatre, improvising a soundtrack to the 1922 silent film Nanook of the North with the film playing on the screen behind. There we picked up copies of Sinaa and the 2008 Aux / Blood (or ᐊᐅᒃ, in Inuktitut syllabics). We got to chat with her for a few minutes while she signed our CDs, and she was giddy to mention that she was thinking about doing some covers for future albums, Pixies’ “Caribou” and possibly also some Iron Maiden. Soon after that performance, she released the 2014 Animism (which we’ll come back to another day since it also appears on The List).
While I typically listen to Tagaq’s later work, going back to Aux / Blood, I think this is perhaps her most accessible album in her discography. If you’re not familiar with Tagaq’s gripping music and/or Inuit throat singing in general, this is a great introduction. Fans of Faith No More will be happy to pick out Mike Patton’s guest vocals on the album. And, for Canadian folks from Edmonton/Calgary/Vancouver, make sure you check out “Force”, “Burst”, and “Construction”, which feature the brilliant beat-boxer Shamik (also of Too Attached, Shamik’s duo with his sister – another woman of immense talent – Vivek Shraya; the duo has also performed alongside Tagaq).
For #BandcampFriday three more purchases, including my 1st #vinyl purchase from them, the Shadows of Tomorrow 12" by Mats Gustafsson & Joachim Nordwall.
Somatic Suspension by Hara Alonso is exquisitely beautiful, and Modulisme Session 084 is a two-hour celebration of everything Serge.
One of my favorite musicians and humans, violinist #JessicaMoss (of #SilverMtZion, #OiseauxTempete, etc.), has put up a 42-minute live performance as a name-your-price, with all proceeds going to UNRWA. Check it out for #BandcampFriday, along with her other solo work (I highly recommend her 2021 album, Phosphenes).
Am 12.06.1988 ist der "#Intercity#Experimental", der spätere ICE-V, mit einer Publikumsfahrt zwischen #Hamburg und #Bremen unterwegs und passiert gerade den Bahnhof #Hittfeld. Anlass ist die Internationale Verkehrsausstellung in Hamburg.
Damit das Licht auf den ganzen Zug fällt, verzichtete ich auf das komplett sichtbare Stellwerk.
The image of the day is Waiting for instructions, an in-camera double exposure on film.
One of the challenges of working with these electronic textures is model direction. There has to be some meaning of sorts to the poses. In this sequence I asked the models to look a bit blank, and I think it worked well with this one, conveying this impression of waiting for instructions.
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Suis-je assez fou pour claquer 85$ + taxe + frais de port + emmerdements à la douane + emmerdements à La Poste pour un bouquin qui ne se lit pas, constitué de 1024 de chiffres aléatoires, qui est la source d'une musique aléatoire, sachant que j'ai l'intégrale des oeuvres de cet artiste et sachant que j'ai la première édition du premier bouquin '0.01s' qui n'a en soit déjà aucun intérêt (à part de pouvoir frimer dans les dîner de cons sur le merchandising musical qu'on peut avoir chez soi) ?
I bookmarked this artist years ago simply because my doggo’s name is also Kira, and because they’re from Iceland. New album dropped and I’m very glad I bookmarked them, lovely music for when I don’t want to leave bed just yet on a Saturday.
I have recently had a number of opportunities to shoot more images from my "one and more" project, multiple exposures of the same model. I'm quite pleased with this attempt. While I'm not getting the perfect curve of the backs that would make this truly special, I like the fact that the buttocks are only faintly in the image, leading the viewer to question what they are seeing.
Hi everyone! I'm a composer & audio developer. I also like fountain pens, mechanical keyboards, software-defined radio, leftist politics & learning new things.
My music tends toward the glitchy, noisy, microtonal side of things, and I like to use Max/MSP and incorporate audio samples from my software-defined radio hobby. You can find my music at my site, SoundCloud & YouTube:
Here's one of my compositions I'm particularly proud of. It's for trumpet, trombone, percussion, and MIDI keyboard. There are cheesy Yamaha DX7 synth sounds, microtonal brass, and glitchy, distorted noise.