NONALIGNMENT PACT

Apologies all around.
—–Hi Conor – here’s something (from cherry blossom)…
One of my colleagues at the media lab and his friend built a robotic music machine called Quartet (sponsored by Absolut vodka). A human user enters a short musical theme on the internet, and the machine creates a three minute piece based on the theme [...]

Although I had of course heard bits and pieces of it, before my freshman year at Rice I had never heard Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech in its entirety. There wasn’t a dry eye in the class after my humanities professor played a cassette of it. If you’ve never [...]

I apologize, I’ve got nothing for you today, apart from a link to a post on MetaFilter about the notorious Hungarian song, “Gloomy Sunday“.
Edit: Just watched an episode of Flight of the Conchords and am now heavily digging “Doggy Bounce” by the Crazy Dogggz.

I will be up in the air today, so I give you a song from The Telescopes self-titled album, one of my favorites of all time. I fondly remember listening to it in particular while driving along the river canyon on the way out of Taos, as well as when driving up the California [...]

It was a New Year’s tradition in our house to play ABBA’s “Happy New Year”, from 1980, just after midnight.

For a few years I also liked to put on radio station WWV, broadcasting on internationally allocated standard carrier frequencies of 2.5, 5, 10, 15, and 20 MHz in the shortwave band.

I’ve always found top ten lists, or top anything lists for that matter, a bit suspect. For one thing, the title seems to presume a wider purview (the year in music, for example) than could possibly be surveyed by one individual, or even one organization. Even for the music you do hear in [...]

Sometimes people introduce me to other people as a “musician”. It always makes me feel a little weird, considering the paucity of my output and the infrequent rate at which I play shows, which can easily be measured in terms of SPD (shows per decade). I like to say that I’m a theoretical [...]

Been listening to the Sundazed reissue of Moby Grape’s Truly Fine Citizen, supposedly one of their worst albums, over and over on repeat. Some albums just work that way, I’m not sure why. “Looper” will be on the next ConorMix. There’s not much footage of the Grape out there. Here’s some [...]

Sorry, not really feeling it today. Have been listening to Drop Nineteens Delaware all day long. They do a great cover of Madonna’s “Angel”:Here’s a silly video they made for another song:

A cool place called the Wulf, across the street from a strip club with neon signage, in a neighborhood that very much reminded me of Houston’s warehouse district. I was one of three audience members.Photocell equipped audio installation art on the wall.After the muzak, we hung out on the roof, which was decked out [...]