Tag: 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.”
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) —…
Threshold Songs Trapped in Time
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,…
Strange Midnight Prayers
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
s u m m e r
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
Air Vandenberg
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
Brand Tundranaut on the Internet
“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:
Audio and Visual Ephemera
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…
Rest in Peace, Ken Nordine
Ken Nordine, 98, dies
Asphalt & Catechisms
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Light That Kills as Well as Illumines
“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…