On the flipside to Soft Cinema, try get your hands on the rare ‘minidisc’ from Gescom (Autechre side project) on Warp Records. The first ever minidisc only release, it was designed to take advantage of the format’s zero seek time: … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, September 15, 2005 0 comments
Lev Manovich is brimming with ideas about ‘new media’ – he wrote the seminal ‘Language of New Media’ academic best-seller after all. But is the electronic arts emperor wearing no clothes? Let’s take his latest DVD offering for a spin, … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, September 15, 2005 4 Comments
Tangent trigger from the ‘Made In Sheffield’ disc just reviewed, but seems relevant enough given the low scores most of us city-dwellers would get in the ‘bioregional quiz’ recently posted online by author Kevin Kelly. What’s a Bioregion? – ‘An … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, September 14, 2005 0 comments
Music from small industrial towns ( eg Newcastle 2300 ) often cuts it’s own path – in response to the local smear of haze, to the ‘giant steelworks as metronome for a city’, and in defiant juxtaposition to the music … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, September 14, 2005 1 Comment
Monday: Rolf Harris crying on TV about his parents. Tuesday: Drunken graves and mortality chat with one of my own parents. Wednesday Morning: A call from Alice Springs tells me a friend has died. After an hour of solid outpouring … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, September 12, 2005 1 Comment