The North American Vexillological Association and the Chesapeake Bay Flag Association invite you to join us in the Washington, D.C..

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Electronic Music and Films from the Middle Eastern Avant-Garde (1959-2001) In collaboration with Bidoun Magazine, UbuWeb is pleased to bring you the first installment of a trove of rarely heard and seen Middle Eastern culture. We begin by featuring six historic electronic musicians and sound poets: Dariush Dolat-Shahi Electronic music, Tar and Setar (1985) and Otashgah (1986) ; Halim El-Dabh Leiyla Visitations (1959) ; Forough Farrokhzad Radio Tehran Sessions (1962-1964) ; Ali Reza Mashayekhi Electronic Music (1970-2001) ; Bijan Mofid Shahreh Ghesseh (1967); and Ilhan Mimaroglu Electronic Music (1964-1983). We are also pleased to present three films: Forough Farrokhzad's The House is Black / Khaneh Siyah Ast (1962); Albert Lamorisse's Baadeh Sabah / The Lovers' Wind / Vent Des Amoureux (1970/1978); and Ali Akbar Sadeghi's Malek Khorshid (1975). Keep checking back for future installments: there's much more to come.

didn't even realize the DMT site was active

as presented around 1979/1980. Lambertz´ idea was to design a musical computer that automatically produced good music, without any faults that musicians would create. Later, Kurt "Pyrolator" Dahlke of Germany´s proto electro band Der Plan (The Plan) wanted another machine like that as he felt this was som

Just sing Osborne's lyrics, "What if God was one of us? Just a slob like one of us?" over the suspect four chords. If it fits, you've just spotted one in the wild. Once you're attuned to it, you'll hear it everywhere.

Informal chat transcript of me talking about Quartz

subtext of sociopolitical implications Kardashev scale; does capitalism require perpetual growth?

riced out yugo, wizardishungry & jodi.org

The image of HRC and Bald Watermelon Britney at the top of this "gonzo conspiracy blog" is soooo rad!

Problem is, Reed decided to give this particular photo a title—Gorgon—that makes it at least ten times worse. Reed employs the horseshit-generating powers unique to aging rock stars to turn it into a hacky cliché.

As you expand the tiling to cover greater areas, the ratio of the quantity of the one type of tile to the other always approaches phi, or 1.6180339..., the Golden Ratio.

In 'Cartridge Music' one inserts all kinds of small objects into the cartridges, such as pipe-cleaners, matches, feathers, wires etc. Furniture is used as well, with contact microphones connected to them.

Sachiko M, sine waves, sampler; Toshimaru Nakamura, no-input mixing board; Otomo Yoshihide, turntables, electronics.

been producing electronic music on self-named "no-input mixing board," after long unhappy years with the electric guitar. The name describes the method of his music. "No" external sound source is connected to "inputs" of the "mixing board."

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I'm putting Tim Ellison's book about psych rock on my blog as a pdf! Go read it now!