Moon River: Music

music for weekend

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:32:05 GMT

Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man live on KEXP with two beautiful acoustic tracks from their album 'Out Of Season'.
All of this album is sheer beauty!

Listen to 'Mysteries'
Listen to 'Resolve'

From songs:illinois A beautiful Lullaby song 'Oohuuh'
by Jana Hunter. and Dana Falconberry's 'Paper Sailboat'

via listenblog

The Tactical Sound Garden

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:44:19 GMT

The Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] Toolkit is an open source software platform for cultivating public "sound gardens" within contemporary cities. It draws on the culture of urban community gardening to posit a participatory environment where new spatial practices for social interaction within technologically mediated environments can be explored and evaluated. Addressing the impact of mobile audio devices like the iPod, the project examines gradations of privacy and publicity within contemporary public space.

The Toolkit enables anyone living within dense 802.11 wireless (WiFi) "hot zones" to install a "sound garden" for public use. Using a WiFi enabled mobile device (PDA, laptop, mobile phone), participants "plant" sounds within a positional audio environment. These plantings are mapped onto the coordinates of a physical location by a 3D audio engine common to gaming environments - overlaying a publicly constructed soundscape onto a specific urban space. Wearing headphones connected to a WiFi enabled device, participants drift though virtual sound gardens as they move throughout the city.

wifi proliferation by city - data source

via rhizome

Music Drawings

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:42:42 GMT

As A Humument could be said to be the poetry of a non-poet
so the pieces of music that I have written could be called
the compositions of a non-composer.

Tom Phillips

Six of Hearts: no. 1
Opus 16, collage and ink, 1991.

via thingsmagazine

This works do reminds me of illuminated manuscripts of music

The Map Is Not the Territory

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 07:28:47 GMT

Dragonfly-The Map Is Not the Territory Mp3 (clip)

And this time
I have seen
On the outside
Of my sleep
Underneath this skin
Underneath this stone
Inside the eyes of lost life
Behind the loss of my eyes

Some hope is not broken down...

And if we fall from grace
Out of silence
Out of place
Please remember me
Please remember me
And if we live in fear
We'll fall away from here
Please remember me
Please remember me

(The map is not the territory)

Empty visions pass the time
Throughout history of mind
The map is not the territory
The map is not the territory

When the wind whips through the sky
Blow the land across my I
The map is not the territory
The map is not the territory

Into the hollow we have known
And we find no place to go
The map is not the territory
The map is not the territory

Create the truth after the lie
Finally cross the bridge of sighs
The map is not the territory
The map is not the territory...

Map of Mozart

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 10:03:03 GMT

Mozart's complete works analyzed. By using a novel type of Self-Organizing Maps (MnemonicSOM-an unsupervised learning algorithm, for organizing the pieces of music). The computer is able to detect the main acoustic characteristics of each piece and attempts to organize the works by musical similarity.

The result is a map with different regions showing distinct categories of Mozart's music, with similar pieces being grouped close to each other. The map's shape has been chosen to resemble the shape of Mozart's head. The outcome is - a Map of Mozart.

The map arranges the operas written by Mozart in one specific area, while placing piano pieces in an opposite area. String ensembles, violin sonatas, serenades - each region of the Map of Mozart contains a group of works with specific characteristics, with smooth transitions between the groups. This visualization provides an immediate and intuitive overview of the complete works of Mozart. Furthermore, it enables interactive browsing of the Mozart archive and retrieval of additional information about the works of the world-famous artist.

This website contains an Online-Demo of the Map of Mozart.

via thenonist

I See A Darkness

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 08:38:03 GMT

Will Oldham LYRICS

"I See A Darkness"

[FIRST VERSE:]
Well, you're my friend
And can you see
Many times we've been out drinking
Many times we've shared our thoughts
Did you ever, ever notice, the kind of thoughts I got
Well you know I have a love, for everyone I know
And you know I have a drive, for life I won't let go
But sometimes this opposition, comes rising up in me
This terrible imposition, comes blacking through my mind

[CHORUS:]
And then I see a darkness
Oh no, I see a darkness
Do you know how much I love you
Cause I'm hoping some day soon
You'll save me from this darkness

[SECOND VERSE:]
Well I hope that someday soon
We'll find peace in our lives
Together or apart
Alone or with our wives
And we can stop our whoring
And draw the smiles inside
And light it up forever
And never go to sleep
My best unbeaten brother
That isn't all I see

[CHORUS:]
And then I see a darkness
Oh no, I see a darkness
Do you know how much I love you
Cause I'm hoping some day soon
You'll save me from this darkness
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Fragile

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 17:14:38 GMT

Sting - Fragile lyrics. Art by Ana Bella Geiger

If blood will flow when fresh and steel are one
Drying in the colour of the evening sun
Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away
But something in our minds will always stay
Perhaps this final act was meant
To clinch a lifetime's argument
That nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could
For all those born beneath an angry star
Lest we forget how fragile we are

On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are how fragile we are

On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are how fragile we are
How fragile we are how fragile we are

100 Music Videos

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 06:34:35 GMT

Pitchfork presents 100 Awesome Music Videos

All complete with embedded YouTube links so you can actually watch it.

I enjoyed mostly from stuff of the 80's such as Bronski beat, Cyndi Lauper, The Eurythmics, Frankie goes to Hollywoodas, The go-go's, Grace Jones, Herbie Hancock "Rockit", well as 90's such as Daft Punk, The Prodigy, and recent music which most of it is new to me, had also it's charms such as rap band, Ludacris, Outkast and many many others...

Grace Jones (from strange i've seen this face before)

also recommanded the beautiful Sigur Rós video

via plasticbag

Moonlight Drive

Sun, 21 May 2006 00:23:48 GMT

THE DOORS - "Moonlight Drive" lyrics

Let's swim to the moon, uh huh
Let's climb through the tide
Penetrate the evenin' that the
City sleeps to hide
Let's swim out tonight, love
It's our turn to try
Parked beside the ocean
On our moonlight drive

photo credit: Moonlight

Let's swim to the moon, uh huh
Let's climb through the tide
Surrender to the waiting worlds
That lap against our side

Nothin' left open
And no time to decide
We've stepped into a river
On our moonlight drive

Let's swim to the moon
Let's climb through the tide
You reach your hand to hold me
But I can't be your guide

Easy, I love you
As I watch you glide
Falling through wet forests
On our moonlight drive, baby
Moonlight drive

Come on, baby, gonna take a little ride
Down, down by the ocean side
Gonna get real close
Get real tight
Baby gonna drown tonight
Goin' down, down, down

why birds sing?

Wed, 03 May 2006 13:45:25 GMT

David Rothenberg is a clarinetist and philosopher. His latest book/CD combo is called Why Birds Sing. David began to play live with birds in captivity and explored the literature and science of bird songs. in his site, some wonderful birds singing recordings as well as insightful explanations...
here are some samples *, *, *, *, *

via interspecies

The Shape of Song

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:35:35 GMT

What does music look like? The Shape of Song is an attempt to answer this seemingly paradoxical question.

Madonna. Express your self

Bach. Goldberg Variation

The custom software in this work draws musical patterns in the form of translucent arches, allowing viewers to see--literally--the shape of any composition available on the Web. The resulting images reflect the full range of musical forms, from the deep structure of Bach to the crystalline beauty of Philip Glass. (one can listen as well to each and every piece introduced visually)

Copland. Appalachian Spring

via coudal

Twin Suns

Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:19:04 GMT

From George Crumb's manuscript pages, Makrokosmos Volume I (1972) and Makrokosmos Volume II (1973), both of which are for amplified piano. . The first image is a composition called "Twin Suns," which is part of Makrokosmos Volume II. I rotated the image about 100 degrees clockwise so it would fit in this column:

on this page you can listen to sound samples and download cropped PDFs of some Crumb scores.

via panopticist

You Make My Heart Sing

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 13:58:03 GMT

David Rothenberg - Musician, composer, author and philosopher-naturalist David Rothenberg plays clarinet with a band of birds and crickets and writes thoughtfully on the deep connections between humans and the natural world. His highly regarded albums and work as founding Editor of MIT Press's Terra Nova book series, have earned him a unique place in the landscape of thoughtful creative humans wrestling with (and honoring) the kinship ties which bind us to the earth and its creatures. Listen (more audio file of this wonderful artist, can be found here)

more sounds of nature at soundscape art

You Make Me Feel

Sun, 05 Feb 2006 18:37:52 GMT

The Unseen Video,
a weather controlled, dynamic music video for Mike Milosh's - You Make Me

see screen shots

Musical healing

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:50:48 GMT

TÜMATA (The Group for the Research and Promotion of Turkish Music) was founded by Asst. Prof. Dr. Rahmi Oruc Guvenc in 1976, and research in theory and application is being carried out, comprising the subjects of Turkish music history, its instruments and their manufacturing techniques and specialties, repertory elements and execution methods within the scope of comperative music history (Ethnomusicology).

According to the view of experts who have done research on music; music existed before language. Abstract concepts, memory, symbols, associations, analogical relations necessary for conversation and speech have evolved and matured with humanity. Together with this, there is in every particle in nature, a unity of melody and rhythm which continues with great order and harmony. In the harmony and rhythm perfection of bird sounds, in the movement of atoms, electrons and galaxies and in the amplified sounds of the fluids of our body, we can observe the relation and association of music with the created world at large. more

Musical healing and movement therapy tradition, which uses ethnomusical elements within the environment of modern medical science, has an important place in Turkish history and culture. TUMATA, has united the residue of knowledge in musical healing and movement therapy that has reached our time, with clinical and laboratory experiments. in their site beautiful music sampels

via time is art

Future Music

Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:49:40 GMT

close up of one of the light-beam piano disks

This article start with colorful examination of the development of modern - electronic - comlex music instruments, as a way to trying to predict, how the futur of music will look like, and the End of the article, finishs with a great Crescendo..(and i love his ironic -Jewish like writtings always with a little Cheshire cat smile).here is some of it...

"Talking about the music of the future is an exercise in pure frustration because what you are dealing with, in essence, is the future of art."

"It wasn't that long ago that we had a future. I mean, we have one now; the world isn't going to crash into the Sun or anything like that. What I mean is that we had a future that we could clearly imagine. The future wasn't tomorrow, next week, next year, or next century. It was a place with a form, a structure, a style. True, we didn't know exactly what the future would be like, but we knew that it had to be one of a few alternatives; some good, some very bad. The future was a world with a distinct architecture. It had its own way of speaking. It had its own technology. It was for all intents and purposes a different land where people dressed differently, talked differently, ate differently, and even thought differently. It was where scientists were wizards, where machines were magically effective and efficient, where tyrants were at least romantically evil rather than banal, and where the heavens were fairyland where dreams could literally come true.
A few years ago, people talked about building a bridge to the 21st century. Now that we're there, the phrase seems as odd as building a causeway to five o'clock. As Midnight brought in the year 2000 (or 2001 if you prefer), something odd began to sink in. For people of my generation, who had lived through the tarnished promises of the Atomic Age, the Space Age, the Computer Age, and the This That and Another Age, the year 2001 was a gateway. We waited to pass though that gate into a time when spaceships the size of ocean liners plied between colonised planets, where cities were colourful collections of brand new towers without a single old building or blade of grass, where people wore jumpsuits like they were the togas of a technocratic Rome, where robots were our powerful and obedient servants, and where jetpacks were as common as galoshes.

Assuming that we dodged the 1984, Brave New World bullet, our future was supposed to be a sort of technocratic, atomic-powered, computer-controlled, antiseptic, space-travelling Jerusalem that would at last free us from the curse of Eden and original sin. We expected some how, some way that we would be on the road to being freed from the human condition. We expected a sort of bloodless, benign French Revolution with Hugo Gernsback as our Voltaire and Carl Sagan as our Robespierre. And what did we get? The City of Man with Tivo. The fact is, science fiction and popular science had set the bar so high that only the Second Coming with ray guns would have satisfied..."

Tales of Future Past via Gravity Lens