what are y'all listening to?

May check out "Music from the ONCE Festival" next.

Very much worth listening to, esp. for the early R. Ashley

I didn't get around to it. I was getting real zoned out on early electronics. Shit!

http://i42.tinypic.com/10ojvys.jpg

Le Corps Mince de Francoise - Love & Nature
2011 debut from a trio of Helsinki women that has the sense of fun and energy I last felt in the CSS debut. Hopelessly obscure to nominate in the 2011 poll, but I think they'd find some fans around here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPcRewaY6V4

From the track nominations list, this is surprisingly awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UuHrVkuRV8

Though never a house fan, I've always really liked that particular type of keyboard/synth sound.

The National, live from the Beacon

I've been working through these:

Stan Getz - Complete 1950's Recordings
Ernest Tubb - 5 Bear Box sets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeS-9aS3FpA

The Original 7ven, whole album but "Sick" takes it to the cabaret

Streaming El Viaje from WRTI out of Philadelphia--so much better than the salsa show on Albuquerque's KUNM, it's kind of sad.

jimi hendrix - blues

Michael Rother = Flammende Herzen

barn owl - lost in the glare

Ill Blu Mixtape for "Breaks of 10."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhBROrVAirc

Bitchin' Bajas - Water Wrackets

Big thanks to the league of women voters for pointing this out. Side project by Cooper Crain from CAVE. It's great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skNz1u9DUhI

:)

Thank you Matt DC for pointing this out to me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksIallh52iE

I got to see Cooper perform Water Wrackets live with the movie at the indie theater in town. It was intense. He's got more film collaboration work coming up in 2012. http://vimeo.com/21068882

Ooh thanks for the heads up Mr. Farmer, I really would have loved to have seen him accompany the film.

these are all short experimental films, right? i'm interested in the divide between "score to short experimental film" and "music video"
one definitely sounds fancier than the other, no?

doesn't seem the same as the relationship between herzog and fricke, for instance (because that is what everything drifts to when i think about these things)

Yes, you are right. Cooper has been collaborating with Olivia Wyatt on short experimental films. Some are animations. They are usually made independent of each other, as well. Like, Cooper will send Olivia some music and she'll make a film, or vice versa. I know that with Water Wrackets, Cooper composed all the music before ever seeing any film. He made it all during the big midwestern blizzard last winter, he said that music will always make him think of snow. Which is appropriate, I guess.

ok, then imo that is not a score -- a score takes into consideration what is happening with the images, and if the images haven't been seen yet, it's not a score? also wasn't water wrackets a remake of an older experimental film? maybe he saw the older one and knew it or something.

i dunno. i guess the visual element is a lovely accompaniment to the music, but in this case i don't really think about it the other way around. sort of like how watching stop motion nature videos is something that's fun to do while listening to cluster, but it's not like one was inspired by the other in any way. they're simply complementary pictures and sounds.

watching stop motion nature videos is something that's fun to do while listening to cluster
recommended btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igkjcuw_n_U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdM5bzmZTY4

I don't think of it as a score, either. Water Wrackets is a remake of a Peter Greenaway film. I'm not one hundred percent sure of the creative processes that went into the making of the project or the chronology in which they unfolded. I'm not trying to put words into Cooper's mouth.
Sorry!

Anyway...I love pairing music with film regardless of the intentions of either author. I wholeheartedly agree with your last comment and do stuff like that a lot. Like, I know Stan Brakhage intended for his films to be watched in a silent dark room, but they work so well with Circle (or whatever) playing at the same time!

Claps - Wreck

super amazing synth pop from mpls, riyl human league, older OMD...vinyl is sweet, clear icy blue vinyl

xp - ooh good rec! will do!!

claps myspace

http://www.myspace.com/clapsus

Staple Singers 1962 Xmas album

*pedant alert*

watching stop motion nature videos is something that's fun to do while listening to cluster

time-lapse animation /= stop motion animation

(claps album produced by ryan olcott of 12 rods if that piques anyone's interest)

! family grapevine has failed me again

I am listening to one of my Spotify playlists:

http://open.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/2JSosmzA72ClTGzNryqTa8

currently on "Back To Life" - Soul II Soul

http://open.spotify.com/track/2Vmx2DvAcNmixJT55KHXzT

REQUIRED LISTENING FOR EVERYONE

Oh man, that's what I meant -- time lapse. I couldn't remember the right name and also my brain is made of cheese.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AqbLGHqsTg&ob=av2e

Cheap vinyls scored during recent Berlin sojourn. Something about finding good stuff while digging in an open air flea market in the pouring rain:

YOU - timecode
Vanity Records Finest selection comp
Tangerine Dream "Tatort" maxi single
Neue dimensionen comp
Bruce Gilbert "Monad" 7"

Big Star - #1 Album and Radio City is about to start.
This is my kind of Christmas music tbh

I'm not saying it's the greatest song in the world, but it could have been on a Superchunk/Butterglory/Sammy/Sebadoh/etc. album or something pretty easily, and the video is very cute. Inspiring a lot of 90's nostalgia...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YySA6iYWuRY

Polica - Give You The Ghost

some friends of mine's band...with a little luck ilm should be either loving them or hating them by year's end, seem to have a lot of buzz going

Vanity Records Finest selection comp

wow

Listening to more of the ILM track nominations: for fuck's sake, 80s revival, DIE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5IvEPCzahc

thelonious monk's alone in san francisco, while reading a biography of his (interesting note: he apparently popularizd a seventh chord where you just play the root and the seventh, creating a dissonant sound).

also, this jazz piano trio album; not a genre i'm normally into, but there's an emotional heft to this (or at least that's what i'm hearing) that drawing me to it.

oh speed darlingtonpaws
http://nignoramus.tumblr.com/post/14088613439/atlced-roland-lmao-speed-darlington-bad
VERY NSFW

indie guitar bands with a wobbly-voiced singers are not the sort of thing i normally listen to, but over the last couple of months i've slowly become obsessed with Fukurouzu from Tokyo.
This song is called Mashumaro which translates as ... Marshmallow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yunzN3aZyo4

never really stopped listening to it tbh buy hey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh-od12FUfE

(should be "the rrabbitt" - the guy who posted it sucks at entering basic metadata)

BURN

Slave, Showtime
Slave, Just a Touch of Love
You, Electric Days
Cave, "On the Rise"

...now am slowly working my way thru Primordial Undermind's Beings of Game P-U