The brain of a jazz musician

Statescapes and the theory of long-period delays

Well, it’s not new “news”, but these two fine labels are splitting and birthing 2 new sublabels. APK will continue with DataObscura / Blue Oasis and Dennis Knopper will move on with Databloem and Practicing Nature. A plethora of good music (ambient/groove-ambient in general) can be found within the archives…

DataObscura / Blue Oasis
Databloem / Practicing Nature

This place is amazing…

BBC Article

Apparently the darkest material ever has been created. Scroll to the bottom of that page to see an interesting list of potential uses.

The previous post made me think of this website….another fun one to browse. And it’s 100% solar powered… =)

SHAPEVENT

I think it’s well worth the time to sit and browse this one for a little while….weird and fun. I found out about this from the Audiobulb site (a wonderful experimental/avant-garde label).

Microrelease

You might of heard tracks from OEM or Magnatune, but this is a site where all of his stuff can be downloaded (or purchased for $10/cd). Generally speaking, the Psychetropic sound is tasty beat-driven ambient with warm (and often busy) percussion balanced with lush atmospheres, chords and melodies. It reminds me of Vir Unis and a lot of the Ultimae sound….

This page has some great images of the still-life illusions by Johan Lorbeer…

Rudy Rucker was recently a guest on neofiles / 10zm.tv talking about “natural computation” (interviews). I love how he argues that digital is indeed analogue, and refers to it as a “red herring”.

Neofiles (podcast)
R.U. Sirius Show (podcast)
10ZenMonkeys (webzine)

The SETI podcast is a good one, indeed. This week the history and future are discussed with various guests. I recommend checking out previous episodes as well, as they are thought-provoking and the hosts are pretty sarcastic. =)

This weeks podcast (March 29, 2007)
SETI Institute (home)