Way more kitschy moog LPs than you ever knew existed….

ok, I know, this one is actually an ARP…

36 15 Moog

Synchronization of 5 coupled metronomes in Lancaster University.

James Brown & Pavarotti performing This is a Man’s World.

Plus, check out these dancing lessons from JB:

My buddy VJ Fader (Wen Cui) and I got invited to push our mobile video projection cart around during the Coachella music festival.  The cart is about 10 feet tall and made out of PVC pipe bent into five-fold symmetry with spandex covering.  Four 20 watt fluorescent bulbs hang on the inside to light it.  The power is a small gas generator or a battery system.  People loved it… a great response… lots of people came up to it and touched it or hugged it.  We’d like to go back next year with a grant… and perhaps build four of these:

More here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/74206512@N00/tags/coachella2008/

And here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XsUfsWE4wA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_fpaYmkzfo&feature=related

As a side note: I built a parabolic solar cooker out of a square meter of cardboard, some aluminum foil and two coat hangers… cooked a stew on it one day… got too hot to touch.

I’ve been going through my iTunes music collection and adding cover art to all my tracks. Some things, mostly originals and custom compilations, don’t have cover art – so I’ve been making some. Here’s one I did for a recording of DJ Pussywillow’s set at Tribal Groove in 2006:

The NYT talks with the producers of Bjork’s new video, from the SF-based production company Encyclopedia Pictura:

“We basically went into a ritual artistic psychosis mode where we just went to nature and tried to invoke this thing… it involved using psilocybin mushrooms and going out into Nature in a perturbed state.”

See the video on the NYTimes Online.

They built their own stereoscopic camera.

Fellow Glitchie, Sean Stevens, helped create this amazing remote-control, robotic, music system.

ABSOLUT QUARTET
(2008)
Jeff Lieberman and Dan Paluska
Part of the Absolut Machines campaign.

Visit http://absolutmachines.com to interact with the machine. As seen in the beginning of the video, the visitor to the site enters a melody on their computer keyboard. The machine then uses this melody to generate an original and unique 2 1/2 minute piece of music. The web visitor also recieves a link to a webcam video of their piece being played.

You can also visit the machine in person. It is on display @
186 Orchard st
(between Stanton and Houston)
NY NY 10002

until April 25th, 2008.

Find more information at http://bea.st/sight/absolutQuartet/.

A hard-working guy at the Voice of America’s Africa service has started a blog called “African Music Treasures” that publishes unreleased recordings of African music from the Voice of America archives.  Check it out!

See also: Voodoo Funk, Calabash Music, and Matsuli Music