Nicolas Jaar and His Friends
A little while ago I wrote a bit about Valentin Stip, an electronic musician who was signed to the Clown and Sunset record label, founded by Nicolas Jaar as a home for himself and his fellow...
View ArticleNicolas Jaar and His Friends: An Update
While carrying out some routine maintenance here, I noticed that the audio tracks I had included in the post on “Nicolas Jaar and His Friends” had gone dead, as a consequence of a reorganization at the...
View ArticleA New Discovery at the New Museum in New York
In the Rosemarie Trockel retrospective at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, a short film of thirteen minutes from 1912 is included, The Cameraman’s Revenge, by the animator and amateur entomologist...
View ArticleSweet Random
From Russia – the city of Saratov, on the Volga, to be exact – comes an EP, Love, by someone about whom one is given very little to know other than his first name and his age and the fact that under...
View ArticlePak0
Improbable though it might sound, some memorable dubstep and house music is being created in the very far north, in Russia’s port city of Arkhangelsk, by the artist known only as Pak0 – apart from this...
View ArticleSweet Random’s New EP: “Untold”
Around a week and a half ago, the Russian sound artist known as Sweet Random issued a new EP, Untold, which, following by a few months his first, Love, and constituting just as much of a unity as it...
View ArticleFuturist Music and Its Future Today: About Leo Ornstein
With this significant centenary year well under way, while, across the Atlantic, the comprehensive exhibition devoted to that milestone in the history of modern art in the United States, the 1913...
View ArticleThis Week’s Tracks from Soundcloud
Well, another Sunday evening has come, while the world at large looks to be in no better state than was the case two weeks ago – in the interval I was quite under the weather and had no chance to post...
View ArticleA Youtube Miscellany
By way of showing some attention to Youtube, which I may have neglected a bit of late, here is a short miscellany of some videos more or less recently uploaded there, from three artists whom thus far...
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