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1. Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners

I’m planning to attend “Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners“ tonight, part of the Performa biennial. For the event, composer Luciano Chessa reconstructed “intonarumori“ or instruments originally devised by noted Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo in 1913. During the evening, a number of musicians will perform original compositions using the instruments. You can view a quick teaser video below.

2. Mi Or and the Pedestals at NY Eye and Ear II


Image above by Andrew Chee of RxRF on East Village Radio.

3. Lubomyr Melnyk Live in Toronto 1985

In the early ’70s Melnyk developed a unique approach to the piano called Continuous Music, a physical and mental technique that allowed Melnyk to play an incredible amount of notes at an incredible speed. In fact he holds two world records, one as the fastest pianist in the world, sustaining speeds of over 19.5 notes per second in each hand, simultaneously! And two, for the most number of notes played in one hour! In 60 minutes, Melnyk sustained an average speed of over 13 notes per second in each hand, yielding a total of 93,650 INDIVIDUAL notes. Holy shit!! But don’t be mislead, this is not some Yngwie bullshit, where songs and composition are sacrificed for mere shredding. No, there is a method to Melnyk’s madness, and the result says all that needs to be said. Continuous Music as you might have surmised, involves generating an extremely rapid flow of notes, with the pedal sustained non stop, patterns, broken chords, the sound is dense and dizzying, like glimpsing the inner workings of some tiny lifeform and watching atoms and molecules spin and swirl. The result of so many notes, played so quickly and so close together, with the overtones drifting and bleeding into each other, is some of the most breathtaking music we’ve ever heard. It’s almost like a waterfall of piano notes, a frothy cascade of tinkling sparkling melody, or a laying beneath a perfectly black night sky, watching a million fireflies dance and flit, a sky full of tiny little streaks of light.

– From a review of the album “Wave Lox” by Aquarius Records




(Originally from the Unseen Worlds Records blog)

4. Snatch/Judy Nylon Live

This just in, from the Typical Girls mailing list.


Snatch Live in NYC


Judy Nylon – Jailhouse Rock, 1979
(From PAUL TSCHINKEL’S INNERTUBE filmed by PAUL TSCHINKEL at Max’s Kansas City, NYC in 1979.)

5. Taj Mahal Travellers on Tour

I watched this film for this first time while I was sick and delirious last week. It endeared me even more to this band, especially the beach scene around 1:10.




TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS ON TOUR
Filmmaker: Matsuo Ohno
Running time: 102 minutes
Year: 1973
16mm.

6. Soundings (1978) - Gary Hill


1978, 18:03 min, color, sound

7. Die Tödliche Doris, Über-Mutti, Konzert 1983


I love how Die Tödliche Doris choreographed the audience in this clip. Amazing.

8. Sad In Country

9. Official Tourist

My friend Jon sent these videos over yesterday. Official Tourist is a side project of artist Kamau Amu Patton, whose work I’ve been hunting for online ever since I read about his show at Machine Project last year. (They’re actually still hosting one of his videos, which you can view here. ) Patton does the video work and designs the costumes for Official Tourist. I’m amped to see his creations, but I’m still waiting for the day when more of his cult-inspired low budget infomercials go online. Official Tourist also produce a line of hoodies.




Official Tourist with Shingo2

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10. Interview with Jessica Rylan/Can't

11. Boredoms // 77 BOA DRUM

Whoa.