music

“You’ll hear clouds of minutely detailed orchestral sonority wrap around the solo part, like flocks of small birds mobbing an avaricious raptor; and you’ll hear a near-continuous rhythmic intensity and textural violence that takes your breath away.”

Posted on February 21, 2020February 21, 2020 by tundranaut

Xenakis resisted the label of being a mere mathematician in music just as surely as he refused the idea of his music’s political or social message, and it was of course how he used those scientific principles (outlined in his book, Formalized Music) to create pieces of shattering visceral power. SOURCE (author: Tom Service) —…

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Threshold Songs Trapped in Time

Posted on September 17, 2019September 17, 2019 by tundranaut

what’s the adjective for decade? Decadal? Because I would like to note the decadal ambiguity of the Alan Parsons Project. Are their songs from the 70s? Or the 80s? You can never really tell, they have elements of both decades. https://t.co/oqUvahketu — ᵗ ᵘ ⁿ ᵈ ʳ ᵃ ⁿ ᵃ ᵘ ᵗ (@tundranaut) September 17,…

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Strange Midnight Prayers

Posted on August 23, 2019 by tundranaut

Latest YouTube obsession that I have been fixating on pic.twitter.com/cnidL0e3Oq — ᵗ ᵘ ⁿ ᵈ ʳ ᵃ ⁿ ᵃ ᵘ ᵗ (@tundranaut) August 23, 2019 geeking out on UNKLEhttps://t.co/ZJx2HlTVeL — ᵗ ᵘ ⁿ ᵈ ʳ ᵃ ⁿ ᵃ ᵘ ᵗ (@tundranaut) August 12, 2019

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s u m m e r

Posted on June 23, 2019 by tundranaut

View this post on Instagram summer vibes Music by Brett Van Donsel A post shared by MC (@tundra__michael) on Jun 23, 2019 at 12:52pm PDT

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Air Vandenberg

Posted on March 29, 2019 by tundranaut

View this post on Instagram One of my mutant powers is the ability to identify album covers (from completely different eras and genres) that are spiritual cousins. In this case, 80s metal band Vandenberg and hipster French band Air. A post shared by MC (@tundra__michael) on Mar 27, 2019 at 10:38pm PDT

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Beclouded

Posted on March 9, 2019 by tundranaut

#beclouded music by ⁦@BVanDonsel⁩ pic.twitter.com/VyYnCrrjz8 — T U N D R A N A U T (@tundranaut) March 9, 2019

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Brand Tundranaut on the Internet

Posted on March 7, 2019March 7, 2019 by tundranaut

“Brand Tundranaut” has made its way onto pal Brett‘s YouTube page, where images from this site grace some of Brett’s YouTube musical offerings. Relatedly: check out Brett’s music set to the backdrop of a Jordan Peterson lecture:

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Audio and Visual Ephemera

Posted on February 18, 2019February 18, 2019 by tundranaut

View this post on Instagram Goofing with a free film app. Music by pal Brett A post shared by MC (@tundra__michael) on Jan 4, 2019 at 8:42am PST View this post on Instagram cityscape jazz fun. Drums by Brett Van Donsel A post shared by MC (@tundra__michael) on Jan 11, 2019…

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Rest in Peace, Ken Nordine

Posted on February 16, 2019February 16, 2019 by tundranaut

Ken Nordine, 98, dies

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Asphalt & Catechisms

Posted on January 31, 2019January 31, 2019 by tundranaut

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Light That Kills as Well as Illumines

Posted on December 24, 2018February 22, 2020 by tundranaut

“If we can’t hear people screaming in agony, how can we hear at all?” — Henry Miller Edgard Varèse I was digging through old blog posts recently and found a post that deserves a reboot. The topic of the post in question was Henry Miller’s book The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, which features some really great music…

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