I’m not as thrilled with this one as I was with the unusual editon last week, but it’ll do. You might recognize the opener from the 28 Days Later soundtrack.
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≡Weekly muxtape, unusual edition
Monday, August 11, 2008
The only reason I put together the unusual edition is because of the first track “Strange Overtones”. I’ve been repeating that religiously since I heard it earlier this weekend. I haven’t had a track get such heavy play since “Weird Fishes”. Other highlights include Victor Wooten’s sick bass solo around the 2-minute mark in “Oddity,” […]
≡Weekly muxtape, daybreak edition
Monday, August 4, 2008
Highlights in my fifth Monday muxtape include a more relaxed, non-heavy-metallic Judas Priest; my good friend and brilliant jazz vocalist Kat Edmonson; an obscenely catchy tune from Peter, Paul & Mary; a quiet little number for percussion ensemble; and some Yeasayer—the bass just kills me. Can’t sit still when that one comes up.
≡Weekly muxtape, inclement weather edition
Sunday, July 27, 2008
My fourth muxtape is ready for your aural pleasure.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Simply Noise generates white noise and pink noise. I was surprised by how nice it is.
≡Weekly muxtape, never edition
Sunday, July 20, 2008
This week’s installment at mlarson.muxtape.com.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
András Schiff did an 8-part series of lectures on all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas.
≡Weekly muxtape, citrus edition
Sunday, July 13, 2008
My second muxtape in an ongoing series of indeterminate length. Some static hiss on the last track, but it’s a hot performance.
≡Weekly muxtape, dream edition
Saturday, July 12, 2008
The first in a series of themed weekly amusements. Get your fix while you can at mlarson.muxtape.com; I forgot to post earlier this week and I’ve got a new edition coming in a few days.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
An audio slideshow about competing in the Barkley Marathon. Over the 22 years of the 100-mile race, only 7 have finished. It’s fondly called “the race that eats its young.” [via trails and tribulations]
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Sunday, May 18, 2008
“David Rakoff, who swore off TV in college, returns to it in dramatic fashion: he attempts to watch the same amount of television as the average American—29 hours in one week.“
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Thursday, March 20, 2008
You Are Not Dead: A Guide to Modern Living, an online essay + soundtrack, “was born out of fraughtful observations of the state of our States and the repetitive, empty monotony of consumer culture and electronic music.” [via waxy]
≡Koyaanisqatsi
Sunday, March 16, 2008
I watched Koyaanisqatsi this weekend. It’s got a lot of cool footage and overall it was worth watching. But part of the problem with the message (that we live a “crazy life,” a “life out of balance”) is that it’s so dependent on the soundtrack.
A lot of it made me think of those time-lapse videos […]
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Friday, February 29, 2008
A recording of Tony Danza reading “The Barber’s Unhappiness,” a funny story from George Saunders‘ collection in Pastoralia. The book was quite good, but hearing a story like this makes it even better. [thanks, austin]
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Monday, January 21, 2008
On NPR, a conversation about Holden Caulfield, protagonist of The Catcher in the Rye. The literary remembrance has some interesting segues into how you read the book differently as you grow older, the beginnings of a teenage culture in the ’50s, and whether or not you can imagine Holden as an adult.
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Monday, October 22, 2007
A short NPR story on the names on paper bags by Barbara Klein: “One of the names, ‘Alan Rumbo,’ intrigues her. She traces the bag back to its maker, and actually gets to talk to the line worker at the paper bag plant, Rumbo himself, who explains how the name on the millions of bags […]
≡The letters of Flannery O’Connor and Betty Hester
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Emory University held a Flannery O’Connor celebration this week. The highlight was the first public exhibition of the nearly 300 letters between Flannery O’Connor and Betty Hester, which had been under seal for the past 20 years. Brenda Bynum gave a dramatic reading of O’Connor’s letters. I was late for it, unfortunately, but what I […]
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Sunday, September 23, 2007
There is a ton of recordings from the 2007 Singularity Summit, featuring all the speakers and panels. [via justin, of course]
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
I was doing a little reading on William Carlos Williams and stumbled on the PennSound archives. They feature a page full of recordings from Williams’ poetry readings, as well as many other writers. I don’t claim to recognize more than a handful of the names, but they’ve got volume. At the very least, their manifesto […]
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Wednesday, September 5, 2007
I would very much like to own a Monome 256. It looks like just the kind of wonderful toy I need* these days. They mentioned the beautiful woodwork was from Atlanta—I wonder if that’s Matt Soorikian’s craftmanship?
*i.e., want
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Saturday, August 25, 2007
Something to listen to this weekend: This American Life, “Blame It on Art”. “The darker side of the art world: petty jealousies, competitiveness, failure.”
Listen also: every other episode. I’m not sure how they keep the show so consistently good.
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
A photo collection of handmade, miniaturized synthesizers from yesteryear. Those are some incredibly detailed models.
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Monday, August 13, 2007
The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface. And I want one.
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Monday, July 30, 2007
Mises University is happening this week at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Tune in to the webcasts for some of the best economics learnin’ you’ll find anywhere.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
I’m pretty much fascinated with the Whitney Music Box, which explores some of the ideas in John Whitney’s 1959 book Digital Harmony. I like the microtonal variation, and the sine wave harmonics are cool because harmonics are inherently cool. Jim Bumgardner wrote more about this project and some of the mathematics of the patterns in […]
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Friday, March 9, 2007
Here’s the not-horrible music video for Midlake’s song Roscoe, perhaps one of the most catchy tunes I’ve heard in a couple years.
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Kottke points to the audio and video for a talk that Chris Ware recently gave at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
BackpackingLight has a podcast with Scott Williamson, who was the first hiker to yo-yo the Pacific Crest Trail. A PCT yo-yo entails walking from the Mexico-California border northward to the Washington-Canada border, and back south to Mexico again, 2650 miles each way. He was also the first to yo-yo the PCT a second time—that one […]
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Sunday, February 18, 2007
The latest album from Feist is due out on May 1—which is far too long to wait. In the meanwhile, the album cover is absolutely incredible, and a single has surfaced: “My Moon, My Man”. Go look for it on the Hype Machine.
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Friday, February 16, 2007
On NPR, Terry Gross interviews cartoonist couple Robert and Aline Crumb.
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Saturday, February 10, 2007
Here’s a cool animated interpretation of John Coltrane’s tune, Giant Steps. “The musical theme defines a space and the musical improvisation is like someone drifting in that imaginary space.” Pretty darn cool. I wish there were a full length version—where’s the piano solo?
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Tuesday, February 6, 2007
I wish I knew about the Hype Machine 10 years ago. Not that I care about hot new music that much, but it’s made it much easier to stumble across some old and rare recordings.
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Monday, February 5, 2007
Pretty cool to see that Lasse Gjertsen was featured in the Wall Street Journal back in December for his music videos on YouTube, Amateur and the earlier Hyperactive.
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
The BBC has a four-part podcast series on our increasingly noisy world.
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