Aye, the annual gathering of media-mutants returns. From Sep29-Oct3, Newcastle again hosts several thousand artists, writers, MCs, zine-makers, hackers, musicians, film-makers, eco-thinkers, gadget tweakers and trouble makers. ( Such as Doddodo from Japan pictured left) www.thisisnot.art.org has the full multi-festival … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, September 21, 2005 0 comments
Sun Ra’s classic Space is The Place is now a director’s cut DVD, so you can watch an extra 20 minutes of afro-psychedelia from the 1970’s via the evergrowing Plexifilm DVD label. Don’t know Sun Ra? A few hints in … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, September 20, 2005 0 comments
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
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
If synthesizer’s were superheroes, Captain Moog would be fluffy, shapeshifting and beanie-clad, with secret powers no doubt including close-range lightning and other forms of wobbly terror. With an impressive Moog breeding program in place since 1963, an eventual documentary film … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, September 12, 2005 0 comments