Pylon

Pylon guitarist Randy Bewley RIP Randy Bewely died yesterday after suffering a heart attack. Pylon was an american new wave / post punk band based in Athens, Georgia. They started in 1978 and they have released 5 albums and some eps and singles. They were one of a few important (and great) american post punk [...]

Khoda animated short film

This short animated film is actually a student project by Reza Dolatabadi. He’s made it together with Mark Szalos Farkas (story), Adam Thomson (animation). Music by Hamed Mafakheri. The film has won several prizes: Winner of the Best Animation Canary Wharf Film Festival (London) Aug, 2008 Winner of the Best Student Animation Flip Festival (Birmingham) [...]

Nude baby playing synth

This cool baby has already started to play synth, and he’s so into it he didn’t have time to put on his pants!

Doves new album

One of my favourite Manchester bands, Doves, has a new album to be released april 6. That’s my birthday! The album is called Kingdom of Rust, and the first single goes by the same name. Here’s the video of the song: Another song is already released, its called Jetstream: You can download it from Doves [...]

My favourite youtube cat

I’m allergic to cats, so I’m not a big fan of them, but this one is so cute!

The history of multitouch

Bill Buxton of Microsoft research has made an overview of what has happened in multi-touch research. For those of you who thought multi-touch first came with Jeff Han or the Iphone, have a look at this page. The picture on top here is from the Multi-Touch Tablet developed at Toronto University in 1985. By the [...]

Scott Walker DVD

Have you seen the music documentary 30 Century Man about Scott Walker? It’s a must see, a really good documentary about the legendary artist that started out in The Walker Brother but has gone experimental on his later records. The movie has interviews with among others David Bowie, Radiohead, Brian Eno, Allison Goldfrapp, Rob Ellis [...]

Gibson Dark Fire Update

MusicRadar.com now has a review of the Gibson Dark Fire. There I found this video from Guitarist magazine. Some of Dark Fires tuning possibilities and sound options are demonstrated briefly.

Physical Heart, Virtual Body

New guitar deisgned at MIT Media Lab This guitar represents something very new in guitar design. By using a small woodplate with five piezo microphones coupled with a dsp audio chip that simulates a guitars body the researchers at MIT Media Lab has made an instrument that is capable of a wide range of inspiring [...]

The Letter U and the Numeral 2

“Yeah, you’re the fat one, and I wanna be with you” Does anybody remember the Negativland / U2 controversy? Negativland, the british experimental/plunderphonic band released the The letter U and the Numeral 2 in 1992. This was a 25 minute CD and booklet pressed in 4000 copies as a response to them being sued by [...]