entries Tagged as [music]
SALM
‘Electro-strings with Cello/Violin Duo’
Karl Largerfield discovered SomethingALaMode (SALM) and this past spring invited them to perform at the 2009 Chanel Runway Show in Venice. Video (above) documents SALM’s trip to the show.
SALM’s debut album is now available, go here. Article here. MySpace here.
Asbestos Press
‘It all started with a screen printing kit from an art store and a dingy asbestos filled basement’
I first ran into Laura Edmisten at a DIY thing a few years back. She had just started silkscreening notecards and other ephemera. Today she’s conquered the local band scene and expanding outward (her business, not her). She does super cool, limited run screened cards, notebooks, tote bags. And posters. With more to come.
Check out her Etsy store here. Website here. MySpace here.
N-N-N-Neutra Face
I’m going gaga over the Poker Neutra Face video (above).
Neutraface in use in the Quantum of Solace (2008) logo (below).
The Neutraface fonts are a product of House Industries.
Click on the above images to jump to places/articles.
Jack Marchment: Electroacoustic audioprose
Classical Roman poet Ovid, bauhaus tinkerer Albers, provocative Futurist Marinetti . . . .
Right now I’m enjoying the electronic music of UK-based Jack Marchment.
Having studied literary classics, Marchment has rechanneled his academic intensity into sound. ‘The whole idea of creating a music super-rich in intertexts is really a product of that approach.’
Consequently, Albers and Marinetti tracks appear on his latest release, the multi-dimensional Who’s Afraid Of Iannis Xenakis.
Aside from ear, the album’s cover (above) caught my eye. Designed by Joanna Lowndes, Marchment admits, ‘I had given her a fairly oppressive brief (with Marinetti at its core), but she delivered a sumptuous result.’
For more, here’s a great album review. One can also snag Marchment’s albums here.
Plus,
MySpace page here. His new label is on MySpace here. Video from his previous album, Corydon and Manjrekar, is below:
From Weimar: Pentatones
Video for Hidden by Pentatones (above). Inshallah (below). Plus, ‘Documentation of the preEnter project of Pentatones and YouAreWatchungUs’ (below below).
Myspace here. The Pentatones are hooked up with the bauhaus label, collaborating with Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
The bauhaus label: bringing sound design into the fold
Out of Weimar, the first home to the bauhaus, is marcel & wassily: the bauhaus label.
The original bauhaus’ manifesto advocated the union of fine, applied and performing arts. This included architecture, civil engineering, design and media. Today, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar has incorporated the next logical step, the dimension of sound.
Music, radio plays, sound art, experimental radio, electroacoustic constructs. First step: this past summer, a collection of music was distributed at the school on a concrete-cast USB stick via gumball machines. Very bauhaus in its thinking.
The label doesn’t stop with student work. And like the original school, is working with outside resources, bands and artists.
Check out the label’s cool site. Click around, see what pops up.
And here’s some of the USB hosted bands (with links to their MySpace spaces):
More artists listed here
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