Post - cell rave , Monolake interview , “ The Headphonist . ” This would be close to the week of January 6 through January 12 .
5 Years Ago ( 2009 ): I write about the 246 and Counting exhbit , which had come together the previous Sunday at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art . By my rough estimation , precisely one of those 246 piece had sound . It was by Diller + Scofidio . … I wrote aboutmy experience at a Richie Hawtin concert in Chiba outside Tokyothe month prior , and I reflected on how cellphones had change rave . ( The exposure here was shot at an out-of-door center near the Makuhari Messe , where the concert was held . ) … I made a list of 11 thing I wished at the fourth dimension that my fifth - coevals ( “ Greco-Roman ” ) iPod could do . It’skinda sadhow few of them were ever implemented . … There was a review of Monolake’sAtom / Documentalbum . … The figure of speech of the week was of a“recording studio as artistic production installation”by Robert Kusmirowski . … The quote of the week wasRZA speak about the late Isaac Hayes : “ One Isaac Hayes strain has made over 20 articulatio coxae - hop songs . Look at ‘ take the air On By . ’ It ’s a nice three - minute birdsong by Dionne Warwick , but when Isaac get ahold of it , it became soulful , pimp - daddy , ride - in - your - motorcar , lean - back , 12 - minute song , restructured with organs and a flute . ” … And the Downstream entryway for the week includedone - Sung hip - hop / r&b mash - upsby Y?Arcka , funk enshroud by Hiroshi Kumakiriin squelchy noise , cello - tronic wondermentby Ted Laderas ( aka the Ooray ) , stuff from Taylor Deupree’s“one sound each day ” project , andquiet noise from Baraclough .
10 Years Ago ( 2004 ): This week I posted a drawn-out interview ( “ The Organization Musician ” ) with Robert Henke , aka Monolake . I postedthe transcriptalong with the profile article , write for the magazine e|i , that had resulted from it . … The citation of the calendar week was from a lyrical sung - spoke by Cake ’s John McCrea on“The Headphonist,”a song off the Mexican rock band Kinky ’s then new record album , Atlas :
At this minute , I ’m listening to a very , very quiet birdcall / I ’m walking alone again , with my headphones on again … sometimes it seems like everything I see has a sound and if it does — what is the shape of secretiveness ?
And these were the Downstream entries of the calendar week : music on guitar for picture shot out train windowpane byKeith Fullerton Whitman ( aka Hrvatski ) , a lovelyreworked Parisian field recordingby Soundvial ( aka Ken Reisman and Matt Simon — if anyone knows what came of them , please let me know ) , video ofBrian Eno speak about the Long Now Foundation(which marks its 10th anniversary in 2014 ) , Robert Willim ( aka Selko ) making much of noises froma sugar refinery in Sweden , and electronica fromAlexander Wendt .
15 Years Ago ( 1999 ): Nothing this workweek .
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