New Seaworthy CD + Book from 12k

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b1897 "Coming soon on 12k is the new CD by Australia’s Seaworthy. Recorded an an abandoned ammunitions depot outside of Sydney, “1897″ is a stark and haunting work of minimalist guitar and field recording. Along with the CD, 12k will be producing a 64-page book of photographs taken by Seaworthy’s Cameron Webb shot in and around the military installation during the recording of the album. Only 50, numbered, copies of this book will be printed and sold together with the CD."

More at the 12k blog

Absolute Minimum

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Anyone who has followed this site for a while knows it comes and goes, that I tend to take a few weeks here and there and not post anything. And that's mostly because I don't have much of an interest in posting during those times. I feel a touch bad about it, because I know how it is to follow sites and want to consistently get new stuff from them. But, in the long term, it's better for me, and therefore better for the site and hopefully for you if I follow my interests and not get caught up in the weight of expectation or guilt. So, in the meantime, hey, have a look at this new site:

Absolute Minimum: A blog of minimalist art, music, and literature

I've got a new podcast and some posts queued up, and they'll be along shortly. Thanks for reading.

Max Neuhaus NYTimes.com Obituary

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"Mr. Neuhaus himself preferred the term “sound installations” for the nonvisual artworks he created from electronically generated sounds emanating from an invisible source at a particular location. He worked, he said, from the premise that a person’s sense of place is determined by what he hears as well as by what he sees, and his art argued that a place can be denoted and described as definitively by the sound that fills it up as by a set of walls." Max Neuhaus, Who Made Aural Artwork, Dies at 69 Max Neuhaus Wikipedia.org entry