From last year’s Radio Labs episode Musical Language, check their segment “Behaves So Strangely” (mp3):
It’s an intervu w/ music-psych prof Diana Deutsch about the “series of striking auditory illusions and curiosities of sound perception” found on her CD Phantom Words and Other Curiosities.
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Loading ...Artist Scott Edmonds (my good bud) has a ceramics exhibit at MDH Fine Arts Gallery, 233 West 19th St NYC, thru Nov 21 2007. Opening is Oct 25 6-8pm.
Scott’s Pots | Early Dreamwave drawings
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Very nice piece on this past Weekend America by AnnH & KaraO on Burmese refugees in USA, “One Thing: From Burma to Indianapolis.” Features music and Burmese poet Sui Tluangneh.
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We’ve blogged Martinibomb and The Coconut Monkeyrocket before. Here they both are at Oddio Overplay with the Halloween happy “Munster Beat!” (3:17 mp3):
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Sound artist BJ Nilsen has a new CD (Touch Records) “based on field recordings and electronics, with mostly analogue equipment, using up to 50 year-old tapemachines, filters and generators.” From The Short Night here’s “Black Light” (4:16 mp3):
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This week’s HV cast is from the NEA book project, Operation Homecoming, writings of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Part 5 in our series: Sergeant Clint Douglas exchanges some bizarre cordialities between bitter enemies. Music: Jess Atkins. A story by Barrett Golding, “Lunch with Pirates” (5:47 mp3):
(no votes) Loading ...Painful & amusing video of NPR host (from new Bryant Park Project) trying unsuccessfully to melt the frozen Icelandic band Sigur Rós, repeatedly pursuing unpromising lines of questioning, which NPR titles “When Good Interviews Go Bad.”
This has inspired Stereogum to collect bad musician intervus. And while you’re wincing, here’s some Sigur Rós;, “Untitled 4″ (mp3):
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