Ambient Music Links, May 19th
Posted on | May 19, 2008 | No Comments
- tokafi - 15 Questions to Sawako
“What I offer to my audiences in real time and in the same physical space tends toward no drama and no catharsis. Something empty.”
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“Sleep-Rocking: Stars of the Lid”
Posted on | May 1, 2008 | No Comments
“Sleep-Rocking: Stars of the Lid”
“I’m a really big sports fan,” says Wiltzie, causing the reporter to cough up Diet Coke from surprise. Wiltzie reels off his teams: the Cubs, the Spurs, the Dallas Stars (hockey = very macho). There’s tennis, which he played competitively. And English Premier League football — soccer to you. Wiltzie likes that “there’s a finality to it. We could always have two different opinions about music but in sports there’s a winner and a loser.”
What I want to know is, which EPL team does he support? If it’s Tottenham, I may have to boo him at the show tomorrow night.
Quiet resolution at Hour.ca
Posted on | April 25, 2008 | No Comments
“The enduring enigma that is Stars Of The Lid finds an appropriate home in Montreal”
Adam Wiltzie Interview
Posted on | April 24, 2008 | No Comments
Pittzburgh City Paper talks to Adam Wiltzie from Stars of the Lid: Stars of the Lid brings elegant soundscapes to the Warhol.
Robert Rich on Making a Living
Posted on | April 23, 2008 | No Comments
I’ve never really been much a fan of his work, but Kevin Kelly has posted an interesting email from Robert Rich discussing how he’s been able to make a living as a “microcelebrity.”
So let’s look a bit at the finances. If I can make about $5-$10 per download or directly sold CD, and I sell 1000, I clear a maximum of $10,000 for that year’s effort. That’s not a living. Let’s say, after 20 concerts I net about $10,000 for three to four months worth of full time effort. That’s not a living.
Ambient Music Links, April 17th
Posted on | April 17, 2008 | No Comments
- My Formica Table
“The aim is to try to help and nurture a growing community of experimentally minded musicians and artists. I think, along with many others, that Free Music is the way forward, so that’s what is being provided here.”
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28 Hours in Jyväskylä
Posted on | April 17, 2008 | 3 Comments
A bit off-topic, and the music isn’t particularly good to boot, but I thought people might find this video worth watching.
“Stars of the Lid kills the EchoPlex. Slowly.”
Posted on | April 16, 2008 | No Comments
“It’s so beautiful,” a beaming young girl clad in the requisite librarian chic said to the fellow manning the Stars of the Lid merch table. “I don’t even know what it is, but isn’t it beautiful?”
Nice review of an LA Stars of the Lid show. Looking forward to seeing them in a few weeks here in New York City.
Ambient Music Links, April 2nd
Posted on | April 2, 2008 | No Comments
- Better branding through music: Original airport theme songs - USATODAY.com
“They wrote on-hold music for the telephones, special elevator music and an airport “gong,” a four-second piece of music called Happy Sky played before every overhead announcement in the airport.” - The Wire: Bang On A Can All-Stars: Music For Airports
“From the June 1998 issue of The Wire - Adventures In Modern Music, kindly supplied and typed by Robert Phan”
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Ambient Music Links, March 24th
Posted on | March 24, 2008 | No Comments
- Sounds Are Active
- WILLITS + SAKAMOTO AVAILABLE « 12k
“the Willits + Sakamoto cd ?Ocean Fire? is now available in 12k?s online shop and starting to creep into stores.” - INTERVIEWING GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS « 12k
“Tony writes beautiful and haunting ambient folk and makes arguably the best music i?ve heard in a few years.” - 12K2008 AUDIO SAMPLES NOW AVAILABLE « 12k
“excerpts from the SOLO ANDATA - SEAWORTHY - TAYLOR DEUPREE ?LIVE IN MELBOURNE? cd (12k2008) have now been posted on the release page on the website.” - NORTHERN RE-MIXING « 12k
“instead of just pressing more of the same cd and cover, however, i decided to take a slightly different approach.” - JODI CAVE: 15 QUESTIONS FROM TOKAFI « 12k
“When does a term like ?unobtrusive? turn into a compliment? With Jodi Caves ?For Myria?, it has happened quite naturally. The result of years of studying and experimenting, this fragile and tender work is as short as it was amazing…” - The Echoes Blog » Blog Archive » The Academy Awards Soundtrack Rejects
“Year after year, the Academy Awards selects bombast, sentimentality and faux classicism over innovation, atmosphere, and inventive instrumentation.” - Fennesz/Jeck/Matthews | Amoroso | Limited 7″ ::: fennesz.com
Side a: Fennesz/Matthews 3′ 34″ Side b: Jeck/Matthews 3′ 24″
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