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Judging from the youtube videos I've seen the perfomance job in the band of the guy with the hat seems to be: head nodding beer drinking.:D

These in the pictures collapsed because they were turned on the sides. If built correctly you should be quite safe with Expedits.

What I don't get are these places that are these hybrid between pub/bar and club/disco - no dancefloor, so people are just standing around drinking, music at almost club/disco volume, so you're forced to scream at each other, and you have to pay to get in. Hey I work in Bonn... haven't been in...

I find it kind of heart warming, that with all the processing power depicted in the video, the speech synthesis is still imagined as being quite rubbish.

cupidtino.com :eek:

http://ihatemusic.noquam.com/ The board has a reputation of being very opinionated and a bit dogmatic when it comes to EAI. But it's a good resource, I have found a lot of really great music just by lurking there.

Maybe production values play a part in that? The loudness war debate is usually about ear fatigue and such things, but not mood (at least i haven't seen it). When everything is sonically maxed out, even a song that could be a happy tune sounds heavy. I really miss playfulness and a sense of...

all questions are answered here: http://www.zero-books.net/books/sacred-and-the-profane-the (maybe, haven't read it of course :rolleyes:)

I don't think you can compare pop music with conceptual art. I'd rather say that contemporary art is much more accepted than its equivalent in music, there are certainly a lot more people walking through Tate Modern, Guggenheim, MOMA etc. than attending Wandelweiser performances. Of course, you...

I bought Building Stories today and so far haven't regret it. It's a really gorgeous thing, obviously I haven't read it, but just unpacking the box creates a sense of exploration and the desire to figure out how all these parts could fit together. Can't say how much of it was published...

In this interview he says "Building Stories actually has more unpublished pages and stories than anything I've ever released" I plan to go by the comic shop today after work and have a look.

Bulbs were a lot less straight and nearer to improv/noise than this, but in a way they indeed sound related. Maybe the move of (american) noise towards dance music is sort of the reverse circle of techno looking back to (post-) industrial (Surgeon, Sandwell Distract, Pansonic etc.)?

Dilloway as techno? Don't know, just because he's loopy... I really like the Bulbs album that came out on Swanson's (defunct?) label some years back, it has a sort of unstable Basic Channel thing going together with hazy guitar feedback noise. And there's Carlos Giffonis excursions into acid...

It is! But don't forget to praise Eddie Campbells art! I find what he does really touching and convincing. And his writing is often hilarious, I love all the Alec stuff.

Can't remember that one. But speaking of Hugo Pratt, I recently found a cheap copy of Indian Summer, written by him and drawn (very well) by Manara. A very ambivalent comic. It deals with sex and violence in Puritan New England, all quite unpleasant and ends in catastrophe. But it's also...