Droplets of Magma

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Enfants, the newest 12” from Ricardo Villalobos, reduces a fragment of Christian Vander’s zeuhl chants as voiced by children and played by teens into an extremely pure B-side mantra. More from Villalobos on reverb and culture.

Similar repetition with micro-variations to produce complex results: a lesson from Spirograph. Looking for the missing piece? Right here, though micro-house may have yielded different results.

Mapping the human ‘diseasome’ and botanical otology. Four questions for field recording artist Kiyoshi Mizutani, whose Scenery of the Border: Environment and Folklore of the Tanzawa Mountains double compact disc is worth taking the time to track down.

The graphics language/library/toolkit/bit paintbrush Processing has been reborn in Javascript, which could lead to very interesting experiments within your (newer) browser.

World War II all the time: a poster gallery. The intricate lettering of Alex Trochut. The portfolio of Jin Jung. The illustration of Jules Le Barazer.

Finally, joyous gutter news from the anchor state as Six Finger Satellite peel off another layer of the popular pigeon puzzle in reuniting (kind of). New and old recordings imminent.