Ghosts/Memory

Poem and photo by A. Sønju Track: Marin Marais, 1717: Rondeau le Bijou (This is an mp3 of Hille Perl and Lee Santana palying Marin’s ‘Rondeau le Bijou’ which is track 10 on their CD ‘Marin Marais: Les Vox Humaines’; it’s a little over 2.5mins long; one of their shorter pieces, which fits the tone.) [...]

lab interview: taber maine

An interview with Taber Maine by High Con Lab Specialist Shan Driscoll with three previews from El Nudo se Deshace. Track: Drinkin on home “For those of us confident that the human condition is boundless, that it strives moves and grows only with the strivings, movements, and growth of those individuals that comprise its global [...]

Brushfield Spots

An interview with Nathan St. Onge of Brushfield Spots by Austin Valley Brushfield Spots of Portland, OR, should be in your CD player, your record player, tape deck, me-pod, ringtones; your kids shoes should light up in tempo with their drum tracks. They’re that good. I mean it. They’re that good. Their music should consume [...]

Dist by the Hype, Man

An Interview with Das Racist by Austin Valley Hip hop conveys all sorts of life’s truths – truths that run the gamut from “More money, more problems,” to “Hey shorty, it’s your birthday,” to the general observation that one in three people are assholes. Das Racist, of Brooklyn, NY, champions as an absurdist hip hop [...]

Toast is not white bread.

by S. Ray Do you know any thugs that have bled for six days without even dying?  Well you’re lookin’ at her, bitch. -From Heavy Flow by Toast Since the word underground went mainstream, we all know rappers.   And that’s a good thing.  Verse is verse, it’s healthy to write it, read it, or bounce [...]

Finding Sound #3

by Craig Muderlak, Western Editor of Transience I tensioned piano strings across a room with wine bottles strung on them. The wine bottles worked to tune the strings by sliding them along the strings.  I made handmade paper sculptures that were attached to the wine bottles and worked as amplifying apparatus.  The strings were played [...]