Zombo.com!

I dare all of you who work day jobs to leave this running on your computer in the background while you step away from your desk. See what happens...

Yip-Yip

These boys give me great hope for the future...

...a gift for... (°!°)

Just found out about this totally bitchin' new double-CD compilation you can download for free. I caught the link while I was over for a quick visit at ioioi's website What a cool bunch of tracks in this comp. I'm downloading as I type this...

As soon as I get my new earphones to replace those Sony earbuds from HELL (god I just hate those things- caused me major inner-ear pain all day today, so much that I just threw them AWAY!) --this one's going to be in heavy rotation on the 'pod...

...a gift for... (°!°) NEW compilation from Grey Sparkle

DOWNLOAD ENTIRE DOUBLE-ALBUM FOR FREE !

featuring: Pleo, Nicola Ratti, Sparkle in Grey, OvO, Sinistri, 3/4HadBeenEliminated, Cria Cuervos, Andrea Belfi, (etre), Giuseppe Ielasi, Fabio Orsi, Norm, Kar, IOIOI, Elio Martusciello, I/O, A. Marutti, Pirandèlo, Mugen, Talk Show Host, Logoplasm and more...

Muses or Musicians?

"Many believe music composed and performed by women contains an aesthetic different from men's. Drawing from the belief that women maintain certain traits because of their innate child-bearing ability, some musicologists persist that nurturing, caring, and even enveloping feelings are inherent in their compositions. Furthermore, some suggest women's music differs for sociological reasons." LINK

The above text was snipped from a one-page article (circa 1993) found at random from the website of an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based radio station, WCBN. The writer raises some good points, and believe me, once you initiate topics like these in conversations with other artists and musicians, male or female, things can get pretty heated and become quite political very quickly, which I personally find to be a bore and huge turn-off. Better to just continue the conversation and enjoy it while continuing to have an open mind...

Equilibrium...

This is an interesting little essay I just found, posted by an artsy little couple from New York (now Barcelona) who were pondering back in 2001 about why there just aren't a lot of women making experimental sounds (um.... maybe they just haven't looked hard enough?)

There Are Not Enough Women in Electronic Music

By Alejandra Salinas, Aeron Bergman and Klaus Oldanberg.

We were in a pub in Glasgow having a few pints. Alejandra brought up how frustrating it is that there are so few women making sounds compared to women making visual art. Since we feel the visual and audio arts are virtually one and the some, this seems puzzling. While some think that electronic music eliminated the figure of the artist, therefore eliminating any gender problematic, Klaus thinks the lack of women in electronic music is a big problem that needs some discussion.

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No Other Radio audio archives (8/15)

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

SPOTLIGHT: THOMAS DIMUZIO & JOSEPH HAMMER aka DIMMER
On-air performance in the KPFA live studio.



Audio archive:
20060816-Wed0000.mp3

Playlist is available at the No Other Radio blog

More photos HERE

Technology Insight

This is quite a fun little blog jam-packed and overflowing with uber-techie-goodness (circuit-bending, weird science experiments and such...) Found it the other day when I saw they posted a link to WTBTN that they snagged from Get Lofi (another great one to go visit if you haven't seen it already.)

My brain is on overload at the moment just taking in the amount of cool creative stuff everyone's doing these days--love it!

Women Take Back The Noise (VIDEO!)

One of the folks who recently purchased a WOMEN TAKE BACK THE NOISE compilation just uploaded a kick-ass little video to YouTube where you can watch the circuit-bent packaging in action (woot!) plus hear samples of the "noise-cookie" and some audio clips of some of the tracks on the discs!

I am so very blown away it feels like my heart will explode...



Also many thanks so much to the Make:zine blog for posting the excellent write-up on WTBTN, which is where I found this video link in the comments (like finding the toy surprise inside a Cracker Jacks box...)

Are we feelin' the LOVE? oh yeah...

Women Take Back The Noise on RADIO 8/19

Dear Friends,

BCO Women's Auxiliary bandmate Melissa Margolis and I will be doing a 1-hour radio spotlight featuring the newly-released
WOMEN TAKE BACK THE NOISE CD compilation (plus a mini-interview), tomorrow afternoon (Saturday, August 19th) on one of our favorite local bay area radio stations, KFJC.

We'll be chatting a bit about the project, but most of all playing tracks from some of the WTBTN CD's
plus a few extra surprises...

Show begins at 3:00PM (PST) until 4:00PM
with DJ Nozmo King / PSYCHO-ACOUSTIC SOUNDCLASH

You can tune in online at
http://www.kfjc.org/netcast/index.php

beeg-noizy-hugs from the land of 'warm noise milk',
ninah px.e

TONITE: KPFA 'No Other Radio': DIMMER

TUNE IN TO KPFA ::: 11:59PM (PST) ::: RADIO: 94.1 FM ::: BERKELEY

:::: NO OTHER RADIO NETWORK ::::

TONITE'S SPOTLIGHT: THOMAS DIMUZIO & JOSEPH HAMMER aka 'DIMMER'
On-air performance in the KPFA live studio.

hosted by dAS (co-host Ninah Pixie)



DIMMER is a duo comprising sonic extremist Thomas Dimuzio and tape-loop maestro Joseph Hammer. Captivating audiences with their dark explorations of sound, Dimmer specializes in a symbiotic sound process as they continually loop, reloop, sample and resample within an interactive feedback circuit linking both artists.

"Perhaps the only living musicians whose musical instrument is simply the Cross-Fade, low-fi tape-loop manipulator Joseph Hammer is a legendary member of the eerie entity known as L.A.F.M.S. (the Los Angeles Free Music Society) and a living, breathing ball of sensibility. Wearing a white cotton glove, Hammer subliminally "gooses" the position of his well-worn circular recording media in and out of proximity to the fields of oscillating magnetism. This interface, in combination with his fevered imagination, acts as a kind of Dali-esque-soft-cheese-grater to his sentimental musical source material, revealing or creating a psychiatrist's bedside drawer of crawling sonic subtexts through a process that can only be considered SOUND CELL GRAFTING. Hammer is also a co-founder of many influential and cryptic groups, including Dinosaurs with Horns, Points of Friction, Steaming Coils, and the active unit Solid Eye--none of whom really sound like anything else." (from the High Zero Festival notes)

"Thomas Dimuzio is one of those unsung artistic figures whose influence and abilities have substantially outstripped his visibility. Composer, multi-instrumentalist, sound designer, experimental electronic musician, sideman and recording studio owner-Dimuzio has been busy doing his thing(s) since the late 1980's, but is still only known to a small circle of electronic music enthusiasts. A true sonic alchemist who can seemingly create music events out of almost anything, Dimuzio's listed sound sources on his various CDs include everything from 'modified 10 speed bicycle' and 'resonating water pipe' to short-wave radios, loops, samplers and even normal instruments such as clarinet and trumpet. And while his wide range of musical interests make it impossible to pin a label on him, Dimuzio clearly has an insider's knowledge of older experimental musical forms such as musique concrete and electroacoustic, and well as more current ambient industrial styles as promoted by artists/groups such as Lustmord, Lull and Main." (from All Music Guide)

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT DIMMER, PLEASE VISIT: www.thomasdimuzio.com

Listen to KPFA ONLINE (live internet stream)

CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF 'NO OTHER RADIO' ON KPFA!

Since 1981, KPFA's NO OTHER RADIO NETWORK has pioneered and provided a forum for underground, noise, electronic, industrial, psycho acoustic and many other genres of music, in addition to featuring live interviews and performance over the airwaves.

We welcome artists to send us their works.

Archived playlists from all UBUIBI-hosted N.O.R.N. shows are available at the No Other Radio Network blog

MP3 Archives NOW AVAILABLE (in case you can't listen live)

Station call line: (510) 848-4425

Ready-To-Wear...

Just plug and play!

I've been incredibly busy over the last few days with the release of WTBTN. Things are zooming and the noise-cookies are finding homes all around the world. We've been getting some nice write-ups and mentions from lots of folks we know. Thanks so much you guys!

People have already been sending in their exhuberant comments via email after receiving their packages in the mail. It's been a busy couple of days keeping up with it all. I'll be posting a REVIEWS section at the WTBTN site where you can read what folks have to say about the comp, plus reviews and scans from some upcoming magazine articles very soon.

In the meantime, now that I'm no longer glued (literally, in some cases) to my worktable, I've had time to daydream again about things I'd like to do next with circuit-bending. I'm thinking of something along the lines of bent costumes that you can play and make noise with for a performance. A few months ago I began surfing around and stashing idea links aside for moments like now, and among them was this amazing ELECTRIC DRESS designed by Japanese avant-garde artist Atsuko Tanaka in the mid 1950's. It's got me inspired, but it's a bit heavier than what I'm thinking of doing with the bent costume idea, not to mention a fall from the stage could be fatal if one were wearing such a thing (how the hell did she move in that get-up?)

More on this idea as things develop...

WOMEN TAKE BACK THE NOISE Now Available!

Ladies, Gents, we have lift-off!!



UBUIBI is now offering a very small mailorder online for a limited time. (A list of distributors will be posted very soon...)

PRICING and ORDERING INFO NOW AVAILABLE AT THE WTBTN WEBSITE: http:// www.ubuibi.org/wtbtn/

Superthunderstingcar!

Dudley Moore and Peter Cook circa mid 1960's doing a parody of Thunderbirds and other Sylvia and Gerry Anderson puppet shows (snippet from their BBC show "Not Only... But Also"):



Thanks to JM for spotting this one!

I'm the internet, you're the internet...

and we can prove it!

Thanks to brother univac for this lovely little "gem"!

Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue

I must have had my head under a rock or sumpthin'-- just found out about Moondog and now my head feels like it's exploded. Wow, this guy was out of this world. Can someone please loan me their time machine?

LISTEN TO OO DEBUT and VOICES OF SPRING by MOONDOG
I loved his music so much I had to share it here--- if it causes "problems" these two files may have to disappear, so cherish it whilst you may...

Born 26th May 1916 in Maryville, Kansas, Moondog wrote all his music in braille having lost his sight in an accident involving a dynamite cap at the age of 17. He studied music at the Iowa School for the Blind and later at Memphis. He was mostly self-taught determining chord structures by ear and developing his skills and theory from books. Initially he was drawn to the percussion element of music citing that his first drum kit at the age of five was nothing more than a cardboard box. His father, a minister had once taken the young Louis to the Arapaho Sun Dance whereupon he met Chief Yellow Calf and played the buffalo skin tom-tom, and rhythmical device that would reappear in his later work.

Perhaps to some degree the legend of Moondog supersedes his music, if that is at all possible, for in 1943 he came to New York in order to be closer to the 20thC classical scene. The name Moondog didn´t occur until 1947, reflecting on how he came by the title he remembered fondly a dog he owned way back in Missouri:
"We used to howl at the moon."

Arriving with no contacts and only one month´s rent, for the next 30 years he became something of a cultural enigma. It was during this period of flirtation with the Big Apple that the Moondog legend began...

CONTINUE READING AT THE OFFICIAL MOONDOG WEBSITE

No Other Radio audio archives (8/1)

Tuesday, August 1, 2006

SPOTLIGHT:
SF ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL

Live performances in the KPFA studio:
ELISE BALDWIN
MATT DAVIGNON

Audio archive:
20060802-Wed0000.mp3

Playlist is available at the No Other Radio blog

More photos HERE

TONITE: KPFA 'No Other Radio': SF ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL

TUNE IN ::: 11:59PM (PST)
::: RADIO: 94.1 FM ::: BERKELEY

:::: NO OTHER RADIO NETWORK ::::

Listen to KPFA ONLINE
(live internet stream)

LIVE SPOTLIGHT:
SF ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL

Performances in the KPFA live studio by featured artists:
ELISE BALDWIN: http://www.clattertrap.com/
MATT DAVIGNON: http://myspace.com/mattdavignon

hosted by dAS (co-host Ninah Pixie)

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT THE SF ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL: www.sfemf.org/artists2006.html

Since 1981, KPFA's NO OTHER RADIO NETWORK has pioneered and provided a forum for underground, noise, electronic, industrial, psycho acoustic and many other genres of music, in addition to featuring live interviews and performance over the airwaves.

We welcome artists to send us their works.

Archived playlists from all UBUIBI-hosted N.O.R.N. shows are available at the No Other Radio Network blog

MP3 Archives NOW AVAILABLE (in case you can't listen live)

Station call line: (510) 848-4425

The Divine Dali

The folks at Gpod have been busy hoarding webby goodness again...
Huge stashpile of Dali nuggets over there-- check it.