Category Archives: Music
one sentence travel writing contest winner: Adam Roy
bigups to Adam Roy for winning the ‘one-sentence travel writing contest.’ his sentence can be read here. notes on contest: 1. there were nearly two dozen entries from people in the US, UK, India, Mexico, Malaysia, and Australia. 2. most of the sentences made me feel as if i knew the narrator somehow–or at least [...]
Sonic Postcard: Cumbia
There were these kids from Bogota playing Cumbia in the plaza today. They played one song called “La Carrudu” that I recorded and then came home and mixed it with a synth wave. I’m not really even sure what you call this. If it had more elements, voices, ppl talking at the plaza, traffic-sounds, it [...]
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Micromix by Atlas Sound
Blogged about this micromix by Atlas Sound. Notes: favorite part starts @ 29:40 when Bradford sings “Sing to the coffin that awaits you, sing to the coffin in you mind, sing to praise yourself, ” and then has this ill break that goes into harmonics and harmonica and sad hard chords.
florida ambient sketch 2 [120 bpm]
swfobject.registerObject("ssg_gplayer_object-0", "9.0.0", "http://www.miller-david.com/wp-content/plugins/ssg-wordpress-google-audio-player/swfobject/expressInstall.swf"); florida ambient sketch 2 [120] bpm no waves to surf [where are the hurricanes?] and i had to start messing around with beats and synths again. something to add a different soundtrack. if i can’t go to the woods or the ocean i can go inside beats. this one’s a sketch really. [...]
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juana molina
wrote this brief post today at Wend about Juana Molina. i think she’s one of the most relevant musicians today. she spoke once about having this one aunt she loved to visit. the aunt lived in a building with an old school open elevator. when she rode it she could sing and harmonize with the [...]
yo tengo tantos hermanos que no los puedo contar
Lau just told me that Mercedes Sosa died. Thinking back to a road trip. can’t remember exactly where. Colorado. Maybe coming back from the Sand Dunes. Summertime. Lau pregnant with Layla then. We listened to a disc of Mercedes Sosa. One track–yo tengo tantos hermanos. She sang “yo tengo tantos hermanos que no los puedo [...]
Springtime Instrumental by Atlas Sound
Almost sounds like Fall too. Please visit Atlas Sound / Deerhunter blog. Bigups to Aaron Powell for making this vid.
notes on the Faulkner Mixtape Writing Contest