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I don’t know why it didn’t come as a surprise to hear that David Lynch also does music. When you have this immense power that forces you to create, you only have to find some means to put that creation into whatever form it needs to reach the world. This time, Lynch decided to use [...]
Dälek (pronounced ‘Die-a-leck’) is an experimental hip hop duo from Newark, NJ. The group comprises MC Dälek (vocals) and the Oktopus (production). They have often toured with artists from radically different genres, such as Godflesh, Isis, Prince Paul, The Melvins, De La Soul, and Lovage. Dälek’s music is dark, noisy and atmospheric, equally inspired by [...]
White Space was created as a variation on the theme of Creation. The work uses the Creation story of Adam as a guide (“formed man from the dust of the ground”). A human head appears as animated ‘dust’ as it emerges from and descends into a chalky white pool. While the non-narrative short film can [...]
Philip Glass (born 1937) is a four-time Academy Award-nominated American classical music composer. He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late-20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public. Aphex Twin — Icct Hedral (Philip Glass Orchestration)
Icct Hedral is the Aphex Twin / Philip [...]
Sleep becomes interrupted by the familiar touch of another body. A finger brushes across a back as a sigh sends the invitation for play. When viewed closely, everyday body movements are an extraordinary dance.
The music score is composed by Chalart58, an artist of Radiochango (we know them from the colaboration with Manu Chao. The movie [...]
Ballet Mécanique (1924) was a project by the American composer George Antheil and the filmmaker/artist Fernand Léger. Although the film was intended to use Antheil’s score as a soundtrack, the two parts were not brought together until the 1990s. In this film apear Kiki of Montparnasse as the woman with the weird lipstick smile. Kiki [...]
Etudes Schaefferiennes
Pierre Schaeffer (1910–1995) was a French composer, noted as the inventor of musique concrète. He is generally acknowledged as being the first composer to make music using magnetic tape. Accordind to Wikipedia, musique concrète (concrete music), is a style of avant-garde music that relies on recorded sounds, including natural environmental sounds and other non-inherently-musical [...]
“Poème électronique” (Electronic Poem) was composed in 1958 by Edgard Varèse, the father of electronic music, and Iannis Xénakis, one of the most important modernist composers of the 20th century, under the direction of Le Corbusier, one of the most important architects of the 20th century. This recording is only an approximation of the true nature [...]
A brilliant mix of Nude (Radiohead) by James Houston, played by old computer parts.
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Dosh is a musician and multi-instrumentalist. Is a percussionist who uses various electronics, often with a Fender Rhodes. Dosh has been characterized mostly as experimental and electronic-based due to his use of many samplers and looping machines and the rhythmic feel of much of his music, with songs often relying on Dosh alone on keyboards, [...]
