Please Stand By

Hello experimental music friends. Yes, I've been out of touch lately, so sorry. There's lots of experimental news to report and I plan to get to it once I clear some other items from my desk. I do appreciate your patience.

In the meantime, please indulge yourself in this YouTube clip.


-z

Silophone correction

Correction: In my last post, I made the regrettable error of writing that the Silophone is located in France. In actuality, the Silophone is in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is an embarrassing mistake, but it gives me the opportunity to make mention once again that there will be a very special performance at the Silophone by Lee Rosovere this very Sunday July 16 at 9:30 EST. The performance will be broadcast over the internet and all the world is invited to participate by means of their telephones or their internet connection. You can get all the details at createdigitalmusic.com.

The mistake also gives me the opportunity to point out that blogging is a tremendous medium for allowing us all to publish ourselves worldwide and instantaneously, but there isn't a single one among us who couldn't benefit from a little editing. One can only wonder where the human conversation will be in five or ten years. Will all the gatekeepers have gone away? Will each of us have to independently verify every fact that we read on the internet? And how will we verify facts when credible information becomes almost impossible to find?

And what of our very language itself? It is actually a point of controversy whether the Gutenberg press instituted a standardization of spelling. Some say that before this seminal invention, people spelled words according to their whim. Whatever the case, it is possible that the internet might accelerate the evolution of language to a degree that the writers of dictionaries and grammar texts can no longer keep up. Honestly, it seems that we may be certain of nothing anymore, except for the occurrence of unintended consequences.

In the meantime, we can enjoy the phenomena that appear before us. We look forward to this evening's performance at the Silophone and all of the innovative uses of the internet that will undoubtedly occur as human progress marches on.

(A side note: I'm listening to the Silophone while I write this. It sounds like there's a soundcheck going on. Hello. Bonjour!)
-z

The internet is my effects rack

UPDATE: There will be a online performance at the Silophone by Lee Rosevere on July 16, with the opportunity for audience participation. Get more datafacts at this internet location.
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After the US pulls out of Iraq, and Iran takes over the Iraqi oil fields maybe we'll all start to realize that the American century is over.

When gasoline is $15 an ounce and the skies are as hot as fire, then maybe all of us in the US will relax a little bit and start to become interesting like our good friends in the nation of France, who have allowed some of their citizens to hook an old grain silo up to the internet so that everyone in the world can play sounds into it and listen to the reverb.

The US version of such a thing could of course be so much more vital.

Or maybe the United States will actually manage to pacify Iraq and turn it into farmland to grow hemp for bio-diesel. The Live Earth concerts got nine million internet streams in one day. That ought to be enough to solve all of our problems. Thanks Mr. Sting, or whoever came up with the stunningly novel idea to have a rock show to stop global warming. Your Live Earth concert gave me something to do while I stayed inside with the air conditioning on full blast.

Speaking of concerts, please allow me to toot my own horn: Hollow Tree's got free music. You don't have to listen to it. You just have to download it.

-z