Posts tagged music

Symphony For A Big City: Stenberg Brothers (Vladmir, 1899-1982 Georgi, 1900-1933) lithograph in colours, 1928 - Poster portrays a day in Berlin via kaleidoscopic visual impressions but without any lineal narrative content. Although a German film, the director, Walter Ruttmann, showed knowledge of Soviet montage theory. Ruttmann’s own description of the film suggests that his motives were predominantly aesthetic: ‘Since I began in the cinema, I had the idea of making something out of life, of creating a symphonic film out of the millions of energies that comprise the life of a big city.’ The film gained international praise and is now regarded as a unique ‘time-capsule’ of the city of Berlin in the mid to late 1920’s before Nazi influence. The Stenberg Brothers designed this poster for the Russian release of the film in 1928.

Symphony For A Big City: Stenberg Brothers (Vladmir, 1899-1982 Georgi, 1900-1933) lithograph in colours, 1928 - Poster portrays a day in Berlin via kaleidoscopic visual impressions but without any lineal narrative content. Although a German film, the director, Walter Ruttmann, showed knowledge of Soviet montage theory. Ruttmann’s own description of the film suggests that his motives were predominantly aesthetic: ‘Since I began in the cinema, I had the idea of making something out of life, of creating a symphonic film out of the millions of energies that comprise the life of a big city.’ The film gained international praise and is now regarded as a unique ‘time-capsule’ of the city of Berlin in the mid to late 1920’s before Nazi influence. The Stenberg Brothers designed this poster for the Russian release of the film in 1928.

A rather icy package, nice pairing of the clear vinyl with Robert Zandvliet’s 2010 painting “Winter bij Jouswier”.

A rather icy package, nice pairing of the clear vinyl with Robert Zandvliet’s 2010 painting “Winter bij Jouswier”.

A Very Young Marianne Faithfull Sings Her First Hit, ‘As Tears Go By’ (1965) - “The performance was broadcast on January 19, 1965 on the NBC program Hullabaloo, an American musical variety show that aired in 1965 and 1966. Each weekly episode was hosted by a guest artist who would at some point ask for the cameras to be switched over to London, where the Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein would introduce an artist from England. On this occasion Faithfull appeared nervous as she sang “As Tears Go By,” which had been released the previous summer in England but more recently in America.” More From Open Culture

Amon Tobin’s ISAM Live Show Comes To An End - “…It was an experience that took meticulous planning, was storyboarded like a film script and was the product of a 36 hour brainstorming session. The sci-fi psychedelia that resulted was projection mapped by V Squared Labs onto the giant cubic structure, which was conceived by Heather Shaw from Vita Motus Design. ‘I had this idea of let’s make the thing into a sort of weird, abstract spaceship—or some adolescent fantasy of being in a spaceship.’ Tobin notes. See videos and a wrap up of the tour on The Creators Project.

Amon Tobin’s ISAM Live Show Comes To An End - “…It was an experience that took meticulous planning, was storyboarded like a film script and was the product of a 36 hour brainstorming session. The sci-fi psychedelia that resulted was projection mapped by V Squared Labs onto the giant cubic structure, which was conceived by Heather Shaw from Vita Motus Design. ‘I had this idea of let’s make the thing into a sort of weird, abstract spaceship—or some adolescent fantasy of being in a spaceship.’ Tobin notes. See videos and a wrap up of the tour on The Creators Project.

Pete Swanson - Grounds For Arrest [Official Video]

Hear Atoms For Peace’s BBC Essential Mix, Featuring Unreleased Thom Yorke and Radiohead Material

On Saturday, Atoms For Peace aired their maiden BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix. elections include material from Shed, DOOM, Luke Abbott, Trim & Riko, Throwing Snow, Actress, Wishmountain and Oneohtrix Point Never. An unheard Yorke track, ‘Has Been’, makes the cut, and Yorke also tossed in some unreleased Radiohead material, ‘Harmonics Loop’ – although it’s less a fully-fledged track than, well, some looped guitar harmonics. Head here to listen.”

Q:Radio: A Music Sharing Platform In Public Space - Repudo is a smartphone app that allows you to leave or pick up ‘treasures’ such as text messages, pictures, videos and generally any digital object around the city. Berlin-based street artist Sweza took this concept a bit further with his street intervention project called QRadio. QRadio is an installation consisting of a real-scale boombox poster that has a QR code in the place where a cassette should be…your phone scans the QR code and ‘transforms’ into a cassette.

Q:Radio: A Music Sharing Platform In Public Space - Repudo is a smartphone app that allows you to leave or pick up ‘treasures’ such as text messages, pictures, videos and generally any digital object around the city. Berlin-based street artist Sweza took this concept a bit further with his street intervention project called QRadio. QRadio is an installation consisting of a real-scale boombox poster that has a QR code in the place where a cassette should be…your phone scans the QR code and ‘transforms’ into a cassette.

An oral history of one of my favorite records of all time, Belle and Sebastian’s seminal recording, If You’re Feeling Sinister. Genius.

Happy 80th Birthday Yoko Ono.

Happy 80th Birthday Yoko Ono.

The Beat Only Makes You Stronger

Something we knew all along, your playlist kicks your ass and makes you stronger, the New York Times says so, see: “But the scientists have found one signal that does seem effectively to override the body’s strong pull toward its preferred ways of moving: a strongly rhythmic beat. When Dr. Donelan and his colleagues fitted runners or walkers with headphones tuned to a metronome, they found that they could increase or decrease volunteers’ step frequency, even if that frequency was faster or slower than a person’s preferred step pattern. They would also maintain that pace for as long as the metronomic rhythm continued unaltered. The volunteers aligned their movement to the beat.

“London. 1977. Anarchy. Here are newly transplanted New Yorkers who came to London to be in the Anarchy in the UK Tour with the SexPistols and the Clash. They are, of course, Johnny Thunders’ Heartbreakers with Jerry Nolan, Walter Lure, and Billy Rath. This photo was in Camden Town for some reason. But there they are.” — Leee Black Childers

“London. 1977. Anarchy. Here are newly transplanted New Yorkers who came to London to be in the Anarchy in the UK Tour with the SexPistols and the Clash. They are, of course, Johnny Thunders’ Heartbreakers with Jerry Nolan, Walter Lure, and Billy Rath. This photo was in Camden Town for some reason. But there they are.” — Leee Black Childers

“There was an old nightclub the Club 82, on East 4th Street in New York that had been famous for decades as a transvestite showroom. As those shows eventually fell out of favor, the rock and early punk bands moved in. The New York Dolls, Manhattan Transfer, etc. And then, in a way, things came full circle. In came Wayne County, transvestite punk rocker. And what a night it was. The old lesbian bartenders from previous days were thrilled as well as the young punks. As we all know, Wayne became Jayne and went on to much fame.” — Leee Black Childers

“There was an old nightclub the Club 82, on East 4th Street in New York that had been famous for decades as a transvestite showroom. As those shows eventually fell out of favor, the rock and early punk bands moved in. The New York Dolls, Manhattan Transfer, etc. And then, in a way, things came full circle. In came Wayne County, transvestite punk rocker. And what a night it was. The old lesbian bartenders from previous days were thrilled as well as the young punks. As we all know, Wayne became Jayne and went on to much fame.” — Leee Black Childers