I heard about this event recently. Music production, sound recording, Trinity Road (ex-)Church, sounds good.
"FAVE is a community event for people who are interested in free and open source creative software on Linux and other computer platforms. It's taking place on Saturday August 20th 2005 at the Trinity Community & Arts Centre in Bristol, UK." www.fave.org.uk
Although an instrument of war, the Sound Mirrors' harnessing of sound is an interesting phenomenon. …The mirror was shaped to form part of a sphere and a sound collector was mounted on a pivot at the focal point. The collector was usually a trumpet shaped cone connected to the ears of the listener with rubber tubes … He rotated the sound collector horizontally with a hand wheel and vertically by way of foot pedals…
Early warning sound mirrors
The Hythe sound mirror system
Related: Clock DVA Sound Mirror 12"
Lately I've been (re)discovering the appeal of 7" and 12" pieces of grooved, circular plastic – probably it is at least a little tinged with nostalgia. This (pictured) promo that I received recently, (Blueprint, Print Is Goin' Off/No Half Smokin', Rhymesayers BLPT-001), with its blue vinyl, brought back some memories of a handful of Dickies singles that I had as a kid, all of which were released on coloured vinyl, (as were several other A&M releases of the time). What a good feeling it seemed to give me watching it spinning on the turntable – kids can be so easily amused!
I sold my turntable a looooooooong time ago, but I'm considering getting another one soon – there are several good things coming out on vinyl-only releases, particularly instrumental versions of hiphop albums. Vinyl is Not Dead!
Currently listening to: Orchestre Régional de Kayes, "Sanjina" World Psychedelic Classics 3 (on CD!)
"The daWB must have slack" and a little boogie woogie with that is just the tonic: Freddie Slack, "House of Blue Lights" (streaming audio).
Also of note in the Mosaic Select series, Grachan Moncur III, "Hipnosis" (streaming audio).
If I had one of those amazonian want lists, these 2 would probably be on it.
The Stones Throw website has announced a Madlib and Melvin Van Peebles project, Brer Soul Meets Quasimoto, that should be hot!
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Roger Wells - Wretched Faces, Famine in Wartime England 1793-1801
[2011] |
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Ralph Anstis - Warren James and the Dean Forest Riots, The Disturbances of 1831
[2011] |
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Bob Bushaway - By Rite, Custom, Ceremony and Community in England 1700-1880
[2011] |
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Malcolm Chase - The People's Farm, English Radical Agrarianism 1775-1840
[2010] |
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Henry Snowstorm - The One Day House
[the Wild Beast Records 2009] |
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Madlib Medicine Show No. 11 - Low Budget High Fi Music
[Madlib Invazion 2011] |
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Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Heritage
[Choice Cuts 2010] |
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The Budos Band - III
[Daptone Records 2010] |
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The World Ends: Afro Rock & Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria
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Norman Douglas - Some Limericks
[Eclectics & Heteroclites 11 2009] |
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Georges Perec - Cantatrix Sopranica L., Scientific Papers
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Ferdinand Céline - Semmelweis
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Carlo Emilio Gadda - The Philosophers' Madonna
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