jon panther 10032010

met with jon panther for a bit today in NICAI courtyard to dissect possible collaboration / performance / action around internet as input into sound composition. harvesting urls containing sound extensions as input into live manipulations; audience control over input variants, tagging, nexts, similar artists. Last.fm radio playlists. audiences controlling networked clients creating on-the-fly station for input. even with global corporate media's licensing restrictions the 30 second song burst is a perfect metaphor for networked limitations of the antipodes. latency of cultural and economic dependencies.

http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/user/pumicehead/topartists.xml

Finches + electric guitar

Melvins : The Kicking Machine

Plants and Animals

Great CD that got delivered to the station ... and which I picked up. Canada! There's something in the water up there that makes great indie-pop-country bands. And whistling ... someone in this band can whistle which is always a plus in my book.

Halloween Mix 2009 from FMA

Little mix i've put together for the Halloween 2009 Rock on the Rock on Waiheke Radio. Enjoy!

Special Moments, Eric: The Falklands Follies

Bill Direen & the Bilders

Picked this up just casually in passing today at the radio station Bill Direen & the Bilders "Chrysanthemum Storm".

Wow!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Direen

Grab a couple of tracks here: http://william.direen.free.fr/