An interview with Rick Falkvinge

More screens! If I get to dream freely, I’d like a four-by-three setup of screens, for twelve in total from today’s six. The mounting starts to get pricey at that point, though, costing as much as or more than the monitors themselves.

via An interview with Rick Falkvinge.

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 10:51 am GMT -4

‘Toward The Low Sun’

Right off the top, “Furnace Skies” forgoes the soaring beauty of Dirty Three’s ballads in favor of a kind of low, foreboding, vaguely ugly rumble. From there, Toward the Low Sun works for its moments of cathartic beauty instead of letting them come easily in each track. But when they do arrive, as in the gorgeous pairing of “The Pier” and “Rain Song,” they hit harder for the troubled-sounding textures that surround them. Ellis and Turner each lend a bit of piano work, in “Ashen Snow” and elsewhere, and it only adds to the moody beauty throughout.

Monday, February 20th, 2012 01:57 pm GMT -4

In Your Ear

Thursday, February 16th, 2012 07:52 am GMT -4

Alan Lomax Archive to be Digitized

A decade after his death technology has finally caught up to Lomax’s imagination. Just as he dreamed, his vast archive — some 5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 feet of film, 3,000 videotapes, 5,000 photographs and piles of manuscripts, much of it tucked away in forgotten or inaccessible corners — is being digitized so that the collection can be accessed online. About 17,000 music tracks will be available for free streaming by the end of February, and later some of that music may be for sale as CDs or digital downloads.

via ‘The Alan Lomax Collection From the American Folklife Center’ – NYTimes.com.

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 07:44 pm GMT -4

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Friday, January 27th, 2012 11:26 am GMT -4