A cute little pop song by Carl Stone

elektro80 · Last edited by elektro80 on Sun Aug 24, 2003 11:49 pm; edited 1 time in total

OK.. perhaps it is not pop. but it sure is damned close Very Happy

Get the file at:
http://www.sukothai.com/v.2/Music/Flints-ScanMix.mp3

And read more about Carl Stone at:
http://www.sukothai.com/v.2/CSBio2.html

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Corrected: go to the page http://www.sukothai.com/v.2/CSMusic.html and check out Flints ( 2000 )

( that site has a protection scheme.. file urls have to be refrerenced locally and not externally )

mosc · Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2003 7:28 pm Post subject:

Strange, I couldn't get to that mp3 link. It said essentially that the link wasn't from their site. I did stumble across this page.

http://bakery.detritus.net/archive/

Interesting stuff. Some might not think this is music. To me this is reason enough to enjoy it.

These cuts remind me of a performance for which I was one of the musicians. This piece was called Radio Music, by the late, great Phil Harmonic. It was in Berkeley in 1972. The piece consisted of 12 people playing radios. Most of the performers used AM and FM portables, but I had a shortwave ham receiver. It was a Drake 2A, state-of-the-art 1962, a tube set, best for the warm tone. In skilled hands, those boxes could make amazing organic heterodynes, modulated speech and music. It's a great instrument Wink

Some people in those days used the word "conceptual music" for this kind of thing, where the composer only set up the possibilities, and the actual music as spawned by an independent process. The use of the term may have been incorrect, but that was used. Phil Harmonic was working on talentless music. There was a lot of sarcasm in conceptual music. At this Radio Music concert, there was all kinds of music, talk radio, news, interstation distortion, and often percussive effects by musicians turning knobs rapidly. Very intense, but fascinating. You might think you can imagine what this concert sounded like - but you can't. The radios are a real time window of the culture. It is at that moment. There is no repetition, just now. Intense...

This stuff seems similar... but it seems to be based on computing technology, and the sonic material is less diverse.

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2003 12:08 am Post subject:

I corrected the URL - look at the bottom of the previous post.

mosc · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2003 4:38 pm Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2003 10:47 pm Post subject:

That one.. yes.. very amusing.