This scene is a whole world unto itself – I am completely captivated by it.
I especially like the small deer, seemingly ready to fight or play (it’s a fine line between the two).
(photo by a friend of a friend of a friend in Missoula)
Singing Science Records is a collection of six records that illustrate science through song. They were produced in the 1950s and early 60s by Hy Zaret and Lou Singer; they were preformed by Tom Glazer, the 1940s folk musician who wrote “On top of Spaghetti.” Our Singing Science selections start with a song covered by They Might Be Giants:
Space Songs
Energy and Motion Songs
Nature Songs
For complete mp3 albums visit Singing Science Records and explore science in a fun and inventive way.
Hi, my name is Max Darham. I am at present the Hearing Voices intern. I am 18 years old and from Bozeman, Montana. I am a freshman at Bennington College and currently participating in the college’s annual Field Work Term. The point is to intregrate your academic learning with real life work experience. In my case it’s working for Barrett and Hearing Voices. I grew up in Bozeman MT skiing, hiking and having fun. I will be producing an audio-slideshow movie, designing photo-journalism web-pages, archiving HV’s online audio collection, and writing several blog-posts over the next few weeks.
Frazer Lake, Summer 2007
Graham Smith (aka, the athenian), one of NPR’s Iraq inquisitors, observes a disturbing “journalistic tic” wherein the newscaster segues from bloody-to-bloody story with “In other violence….” Next, it’ll be “In Ultra Violence….”
The latest in David Schulman’s Musicians in Their Own Words features vocals by Brazilian Flora Purim, soprano Cecilia Bartoli, folk-singer Gillian Welch, and Tuvan rocker Albert Kuvezin — not in performance but pre-performance, “A Musician’s Guide to the Pre-Concert Warm-Up” (4:25 mp3):
Chesty Calls Dog Breath Boat People, Episode Seven of Chesty Morgan’s Forbidden Love! (7:50 mp3):
Now here’s how to sell some stuff: HEMA – online winkelen. Takes about a minute for the party to start, so give it a little time.
Jason Cady and the Artificials experiment with opera. The following piece is in five parts, Overture, Recitative, Aria, Recitative II, and Finale. The two Recitatives are priceless: they are operatic renditions of everyday conversations, recorded by the composer. “Recitative” (at 2:10 into piece) is about how folk from Michigan say “m’Bye.” Recitative II (at 6:10) dialogs on the dictionary definition of “resplendent.” Jason Cady and the Artificials, “Post-Madonna Prima Donna” (9:35 mp3):
Jason Cady talks about his compositions on the podcast Sound Speaks for Itself.
Was just looking at North and South Korea because I picked up David
Halbersham’s The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War today and saw this:
Massive Baitoushan stratovolcano, also known as Changbaishan and by the Korean names of Baegdu or P’aektu-san, is a relatively unknown, but volcanologically significant volcano straddling the China/Korea border.
A 5-km-wide, 850-m-deep summit caldera is filled by scenic Lake Tianchi (Sky Lake). A large Korean-speaking population resides near the volcano on both sides of the border. The 60-km-diameter dominantly trachytic and rhyolitic volcano was constructed over the Changbaishan (Laoheidingzi) shield volcano. Satellitic cinder cones are aligned along a NNE trend. One of the world’s largest known Holocene explosive eruptions took place from Baitoushan about 1000 AD, depositing rhyolitic and trachytic tephra as far away as northern Japan and forming in part the present caldera. Four historical eruptions have been recorded since the 15th century.
Poet Amiri Baraka (mp3 from his Media section) performs with The Roots (their Phrenology CD), “Something in the Way of Things” (7:16 mp3):
David Goren of Shortwaveology produced this “series of [shortwave radio] sound chunks” as part of a sound art workshop at Harvestworks studio. From May 2007, “Mercy, So Much Noise” (5:37 mp3):
Annie Leonard spent a decade researching where our consumer stuff comes from, how its made, who it effects, and where it ends up. Among the results is a 20min. video, The Story of Stuff (also in chapters on YouTube), made by Free Range Studios, the same folk who exposed The Meatrix.
via Puddles of Thought.
From the PBS American Masters doc, “I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It” (1990), John Cage prepares for a 1982 performance his 1955 composition for twirling radio dials, “Speech:”
Intricate Etch-A-Sketches by George Vlosich at ETCHED IN TIME.
Others’ Etch Art at etchasketchist.blogspot.com and ohioart.com/etch.
via NYTimes.
Chesty Covers Up– Afghan Style, Episode Six of Chesty Morgan’s Forbidden Love! (8:50 mp3):
A new video for a new book by Willy Vlautin (sing/song/git for the band Richmond Fontaine). WV’s first book, The Motel Life, had critics shedding streams of shimmering ink. Northline is his new novel:
Attached to an email from a friend from Panama, Blake Simpson of Juventud Con Una Misión, was the following file. Blake sez:
“In ’84 Dr. Demento aired someone’s tape montage of ‘Stairway to Heaven,’ with many key words borrowed from other songs. I thought “American Pie” would have make a better victim, so with digital advances (i.e., no more razor blades, online music, etc.) I was able, over several months and two countries, to make it happen.”
So with all due respect to Don McLean, here’s a heapin’ helpin’ of Blake Simpson’s “American Spliced Pie” (8:59 mp3):
Following along with this list of artists spliced:
Don McLean
Boston
Barry Manilow
Waylon Jennings
Steely Dan
Morrisey
The Carpenters
Johnny Cash
Peter, Paul and Mary
Madonna
Beach Boys
David Bowie
The Beatles
Carly Simon
Traffic
Styx
Neil Sedaka
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Dire Straits
Bing Crosby
Pink Floyd
Leslie Gore
Louis Armstrong
The Police
The Rolling Stones
Barbra Streisand
The Who
Buddy Holly
The Doobie Brothers
Neil Young
The Everly Brothers
Nazareth
The Guess Who
Elton John
Led Zeppelin
Byrds, The
Memphis Minnie
Cooper, Alice
Kelly, Gene
Ronstadt, Linda
Monotones, The
Frampton, Peter
Michael, George
Lovett, Lyle
Paycheck, Johnny
Lovin’ Spoonful, The
Jewel
Donald Fagen
Golden Earring
Proclaimers, The
Howard Keel
Jackson, Joe
ABBA
Bad Company
Berry, Chuck
Kinks, The
Robbins, Marty
Coe, David Allen
Mitchell, Joni
U2
Paper Lace
Reddy, Helen
Larry Groce
Isley Brothers
C.W. McCall
Moe Bandy and Joe Stampley
Lynard Skynard
Yankovic, “Weird” Al
Price, Ray
Yardbirds, The
Eagles, The
Dylan, Bob
REM
Joplin, Janis
James Gang, The
Queen
Essex, David
Wonder, Stevie
Mothers of Invention, The
Miller, Roger
Jethro Tull
Townshend, Pete
Page, Patti
Simon, Paul
Merman, Ethel
Newman, Randy
Mike Sammes Singers, The
Springsteen, Bruce
Foghat
Grant, Amy
B-52s, The
Krause, Allison
Siouxie and the Banshees
Kansas
Devo
Cray, Robert
Fleetwood Mac
ZZ Top
Sting
Kingston Trio
Manfred Mann
Fitzgerald, Ella
Mountain
Nystrom, Marty
Gene Autry
Green Day
Williams, Hank
Anderson, Lynn
Talking Heads, The
Cheap Trick
Zappa, Frank
Idol, Billy
Bob McGrath
Marshall Tucker Band, The
Shannon, Del
Rogers, Kenny
Toto
Eminem
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Mormon Tabernacle Choir, The
Rundgren, Todd
Justo Almario
Zevon, Warren
Black Sabbath
Starland Vocal Band, The
Merle Haggard
Julie Andrews
Hall, Tom T.
Roberta Flack
Margaret, Anne
Greenwood, Lee
Diamond, Neil
Band, The
Travolta, John
Left Banke, The
Men At Work
Huey Lewis and the News
Free
Martha and the Vandellas
Lennon, John
Blondie
Thin Lizzie
Stevens, Cat
O’Connor, Donald
Monkees, The
Procol Harum
Band of Gypsys
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
This week’s HV cast — When the last school bell rings, Pastor Mike Cummings stands in front of Jordan High School in Watts, Los Angeles. Jordan High is next door to the gang-ridden Jordan Downs projects, which students have to pass through to go home — sometimes with Pastor Mike at their side. A story by Queena Kim, “Pastor Mike at Jordan High” (3:22 mp3):
The Vegetable Orchestra “performs music solely on instruments made of vegetables. Using carrot flutes, pumpkin basses, leek violins, leek-zucchini-vibrators, cucumberophones and celery bongos:”
via Mountain Music Project.
Lesbos, Survivor Slumber Party, and Serbo-Croatian Tongue Twisters, Episode Five of Chesty Morgan’s Forbidden Love! (7:31 mp3):