tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57955402012-01-04T12:00:55.639-05:00Music Is Free Now is the blog of composer César Alvarez. He posts music, articles, and rants mostly about sound, technology, musicals, and the music industry.Césarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281606467556897332noreply@blogger.comBlogger1831100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5795540.post-68295664097241915142011-12-03T10:10:00.001-05:002011-12-06T11:13:57.506-05:00

Hedwig Illustration by Alex Kittle "It is nonsense to say what a musical should or should not be. It should be anything it wants to be, and if you don't like it you don't have to go to it. There is only one absolutely indispensable element that a musical must have. It must have music. And there is only one thing that it has to be – it has to be good."  - Oscar Hammerstein II*  Musicals

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I listened to all of these cast albums in about a month. Here's a 6-word observation about each one. 1. Sweeney Todd - (Angela Lansbury, Len Cariou) - This musical is a masterpiece. Period. 2. Sweeney Todd - (Michael Cerveris, Patti LuPone) - Stripping it down is often best. 3. Urinetown - Songs should approach narrative more obliquely. 4. Avenue Q - The most obvious things are hilarious.

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FUTURITY at HERE by Sam Hough Dear Friends, Family, and Readers, Since 2007 I've been working on a musical called FUTURITY. Some of you have seen it and many of you have heard me yammering on about it. In a few months it will World Premiere and run for 5 weeks at American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA. This is a HUMUNGOUS deal for me, my band, and everyone that's been working on the

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Photo Cred This is a podcast by Marcus Schmickler "Is it possible to approach developments in music by its relationships with money? Can we gain insight into societies by means of their relationship to music? Music serves as a mirror, as a prophecy for society because it reflects developments faster than anything that materializes.  There is an obvious simultaneity between music and

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photo of Via Galactica by John Michael Cox Musicals: Rocky Horror Show by Richard O'Brien (1972) Via Galactica by Christopher Gore, Judith Ross and Galt MacDermot (1972) Time by Dave Clark, David Soames, Jeff Daniels, and David Pomeranz (1986) Starmites by Barry Keating and Stuart Ross (1987) Return to the Forbidden Planet by Bob Carlton (1989) Metropolis by Joe Brooks and Dusty Hughes (

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Student group - Fara Enclave (photo by César Alvarez) In 2008 I was asked to teach a single course in the Music Tech division of the Creative Arts and Technology Department at Bloomfield College called "Digital Audio Engineering 1." I approached the class as a composer, producer and sound artist assuming that most of my students would be primarily interested in figuring out the studio

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From friend and mastering engineer in Oakland Myles Boisen: "I first noticed the constant whine of helicopters at about 4 pm today. Checking the news I learned that the Occupy Oakland camp in downtown Oakland had been cleared by police in the middle of the night, and a series of afternoon protests had been called in the nearby area. With plans in place to go downtown later that night, I

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Help us make the FUTURITY concept album by pre-ordering:

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I am not a reviewer I am a musician. And it was as a musician that I went to see Karen O's new opera "Stop the Virgens" that debuted last night at St. Ann's Warehouse. Anyone who is taking non-mainstream popular music and putting it in a theatrical setting has my attention and I applaud the work for walking that very tricky and unfriendly territory. The biggest critique that I anticipate

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I found this song in an old Pete Seeger songbook that belonged to my Dad. I love how the shape of the melody mirrors the topography of a valley. I rewrote some of the words and added a bridge so that it would fit into my musical, which coincidentally is set right near the Cumberland Gap in and around Whythe County, VA. Cumberland Gap (DEMO) by musicisfreenowIMAGE CREDIT: Hunt, S. V. D. (Samuel

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I've been collaborating on a piece with Mac Wellman and director Meghan Finn. This has been a wild ride. Part japanese tinged puppet theater, part philosophical absurdist performance art, and then I added the childlike musical theater earnestness. Devil's Butthole (DEMO) by musicisfreenow "His script is a meditation on Heidegger’s Dialogue on Language Between a Japanese and an Inquirer. The

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Thank you to all the protesters occupying Wall St. right now. We are a country built on shared sacrifice and civic duty. We are a nation of immigrants. We are a nation which, at our best, thinks flexibly about problems as they happen and works through them with the messy and slow process of democracy. These protests are voicing the myriad arguments for equitable economic reform and against the

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Here's an improvisation I did on the very clumsy little beast that is Suzuki's Omnichord. This instrument is absurd, but a really fun to play...

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Car on the Moon's self-titled debut is Extropian Records' 2nd release. I feel very lucky to have gotten the chance to mix this album and help with some of the production. COTM's music has a surreal quality to the lyrics and orchestrations that I find to be really compelling. Stream the album here. And if you like come to the release show September 3rd at Rock Shop. Car On The Moon by Car

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My dad blew my mind last night with what's called a Dual-Bottom-Line Matrix. This is a table that typically helps non-profits evaluate their various activities and develop their sustainability. It works great for artists too though. Because as artists we are mostly pursuing a mission (fulfilling career) rather than a bottom line, and we do a million different things in pursuit of that mission.

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I recently heard a radio show about Son House on NPR. This song just killed me so I went ahead and did my own updated version. Hope you like.

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Try is one of the most ridiculous songs I've ever written. But it is pretty fun to perform if we can remember all the words. Here's a video from our CD Release on May 20, 2011. Lyrics below.Thanks to Paul Snyder (edit) and Ben Chace (camera)Buy the song Here.Studio Recording HereLyrics:Try to tell the truth about how you feelTry to take responsibility for your crappy lifeTry to eat the seedsTry

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Instruments is a series of 20 instrumental cut-ups which explore the finest grains of sound from a variety of sources. (Full Free download HERE) Instruments by musicisfreenow Laura Goldhamer – Banjo Lily Gottlieb-McHale – Cello Jeremy Hoevenaar – Electric Bass Jessica Feldman – Flute Marylea Madiman - Horn Marina Rosenfeld - Piano All other instruments played by César AlvarezThe set "

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The Fancy opened for The Lisps last week at Rock Shop. They have killer basson and viola arrangements. Video below:

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I wrote a short essays about every track on "Are We at the Movies?" for InDigest Magazine. Read the full text at Indigest...“Wear and Tear”I wrote this song while watching a video on Facebook of a friend of a friend, someone who I had never met. In the video these kids were all picking up their friend from the airport. It was spring break or some kind of special trip. They are all in the car

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Are We at the Movies?Release Date: May 17, 2011 (Extropian Records)thelisps.comfacebook.com/​thelispsextropian.orgDirected by The Lisps & Pamela RomanowskyArt Direction by Emily OrlingEdited by Nick PattenCameras - Pamela Romanowsky and Ben ChacePAs - Stephanie Eiss, Conrad Kluck and Mark RutanThe Lisps: César Alvarez, Lorenzo Wolff, Eric Farber, Sammy TunisHuman Theremin - Lady RizoBurlesque -

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The Lisps played with John Muther twice in Milwaukee this year. Both times it was a joy. His songwriting is crafted so brilliantly. And he manages to talk about all the things I'm interested in just the way that seems to make sense. When I first heard is song Space Race, I was a believer.Lyrics:As kids, on our hands and knees Around the warm glow of the radio,We wondered if the space men will

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by Jeremy Hoevenaar p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; What's on the table today is what we've put on the table.We come to the table as experiencers trained and partially equipped.Sound drips down from a fountain of proposals to fill our cups.Our cups become plates. Spinning,

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photo credThis is a question that I've been asking myself a lot lately. It seems clear that musicians have more access than ever before to all of the resources that record labels traditionally offer (distribution, marketing, recording facilities, design, replication). But for some reason when you look at the CMJ Charts, the new releases in Rolling Stone and Spin, on "subculture" magazines

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Kristin Lucas 2007 – 6 sections: newspaper announcement, two pencil drawings by Joe McKay, two court transcripts, and decree-changing nameI'm honored to have been invited to perform at The New Museum Saturday 12/11/10 for the phenomenal Artist Kristin Lucas. Her Refresh Project has to do with multiplication of identities in the internet age. She chose me to read because of the specific

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A Conversation with Dan Fishback@musicisfreenow: Not feeling bad about yourself is a revolutionary act @dangerfishback: @musicisfreenow keep lowering the bar for revolution and we’ll never have a real one! @musicisfreenow: @dangerfishback that’s the exact misconception. We all create this oppressive society by hating ourselves and then one another. @musicisfreenow: @dangerfishback Facism,

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Reposted from Adam Szymkowski's Blog. This is a nice interview with FUTURITY Collaborator and spiritual super-genius Molly RiceMolly RiceHometown: Born in Houston, TX, but Austin is home.Current Town: New York CityQ: Tell me about the Saints Tour and Futurity the Musical.A: SAINTS TOUR means a lot to me. I wrote the play in 2009 for Ray Rizzo's live arts exchange MOTHERLODGE, to take place in

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New video From Zoe Boekbinder's Album Artichoke Perfume.You can buy it HEREThe song is produced and co-written by yours truly.

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Image by Maggie ZanderVision:Extropian Records is a nonprofit record label that offers artists the benefits and support of a label without seeking profit or ownership of copyright. What we offer is an alternative model for enabling musicians to sustain their careers and gain exposure for their music. Any profit that Extropian makes beyond its initial investment will by law be funneled back into

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The Table of Drops is a performance environment designed by César Alvarez in which an electric guitar and a bass guitar are suspended face down over a large amplifier. Within a structured improvisation the performers use feedback, gravity, a variety of tools, and found materials to manipulate and excite the strings. I highly recommend listening to these on headphones, they work much better that

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So I just finished Scott McMillin's very amazing book, The Musical as Drama, on what was my first venture into a critical analysis of musical theater. One of McMillin's main points is that musicals have a subversive multiplicity to them because they operate on two orders of time: number time and book time. Which is to say that the time that passes during song is almost like a parallel dimension

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We have Salons because venues aren't fun anymore. They are too loud, too expensive and too impersonal. Come somewhere special and really listen. You are going to have a great time.When: Saturday September 18, 8pmWhere: Secret! RSVP to: the lisps at gmail dot com (fix the spaces)FEATURING:11pm The Lisps www.facebook.com/thelisps10pm Agent Ribbons www.facebook.com/agentribbonsband9pm Art

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Other universes can get intoxicating, but ours is the one we are stuck with.Many universes had to be tested to arrive at this one.The specific qualities which ensure the possibility of life are unique and hard earned.Multiple universes had to be tried on, stretched, re-purposed, folded, printed, rolled, curled, expanded, and imploded in order to know precisely which kind of universe could

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Reposted from LightSpeed Magazineby Desirina Boskovich Brooklyn-based band The Lisps definitely bring a unique element to New York’s indie rock scene. Quirky performances and eclectic sounds, influenced by folk and bluegrass, lend playful charm to lyrics-driven songs that are cerebral and wistful by turns. Their first full-length album, Country Doctor Museum, was released in

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This article in h+ Magazine gives a nice middle of the road argument about a technological singularity. Without spilling into technocalypse fantasy, it manages to state some good frameworks for thinking about the future.'If a singularity ever happens, it would have two future outcomes. It would make tomorrow “fast” and “strange.” The physicist Michio Kaku divides “impossibilities” into three

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I don't know what got in to me...but i remixed this T Pain song.I tried to embed some commentary. Enjoy!Take Your Shirt Off - César Alvarez Remix [mp3]

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Sculpture: "The Great Indoors" by Aurora Robson Photo CredQuestions from my student Alberto De Icaza and Jaime ArreolaWhat's consumer culture for you?Consumer Culture is a process by which people only interact with the creative dimension of human activity through purchases, marketing, and consumption. It is the fusing of the traditional act of experiencing creativity by humans with the

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So I was visiting my friend George Raggett at his delightful and commericial/non-commercial hybrid art/charity/kiosk/installation called The Museum of Commerce. It was spectacular to just be so confused by the purpose of a place of business. I was lucky enough to see someone else come by and be confused too. In a gallery, I get to experience art but I feel the constant (and threatening) hum

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Bruce Sterling's talk on atemporality deals with the internet's dismantling of our relationship to time and problem solving. In FUTURITY we've been thinking so much about presenting the past as future. This is helpful and brain-squeezing.

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Especially with the recent economic downturn, music venues seem to have become more and more anxiety ridden. People feel obligated to buy expensive drinks that they can't afford, venues feel obligated to create bills that have nothing to do with music and everything to do with the head count. The net result is that venues become uncomfortable Karaoke Dens and culture seekers/makers stay home,

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If you aren't familiar with Mutant Sounds it is definitely worth a visit. It is a wonderful site dedicated to unearthing rare recordings and making them available to curious ears everywhere. I just downloaded this V.A. sounds compilation and I'm loving it.

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Anne Stewart who writes The Buzz for GigHive asked for my thoughts about the future of the Indie Music Scene.. The feature is here: Indie Music 2020 Here's what i wrote... "One thing that really caught my attention in the last week is that Apple purchased lala.com, which says to me that the biggest online music retailer will be moving to a more subscription-based model and will start allowing

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After a few years of trying I finally got out a song about the technological singularity. Here's the demo (Recorded and mixed on an iPhone): Singularity [mp3]UPDATE: Hear the Studio Recording HERELyrics:SingularityI’ll live to see a million things That men were never meant to seeMy senses and my faculties are super-computing factoriesAuditory mesmerizers Touch and taste olfactoryDigitized into

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1. Stop listening to what everything/everyone seems to be saying. 2. Then start listening again whenever. 3. Spend lots of time doing whatever you like doing. 4. Forget about everything you learned sometimes. 5. Make music that only your cat likes. 6. Music can be the wrong place to look sometimes. 7. You are very powerful. 8. You are very tiny. 9. You are perfect. 10. You are making a

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My Proposals for the Future of Sounds were published in Digital Artifact Magazine Issue 3: We Made This For You Out Of Nothing. The proposals were originally posted on the blog HERE.

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Artichoke PerfumeSo I labored all summer producing Zoe Boekbinder's debut solo album. It was really an interesting journey and ultimately a really great time. Zoe is a very talented individual and has a formidable career ahead of her. I was sufficiently happy to get my fingerprints all over her first solo effort. I contributed lyrics some of the songs and Typewriter Girl is a song I wrote for Zoe

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TasksWhy not re-structure and more closely examine various philosophical and linguistic approaches to sound. Below are a set of incomplete tasks and unanswered questions that might arise in relation to that re-structuring: Examine the ways of hearing. Discover rhythm (and secondarily melody) as sources of mimetic/empathetic experience. These musical elements engage the most primal ways of

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A Machine That Creates PeaceDear Friends,The run of FUTURITY that is ending this weekend has been a really major development for my band and for me as an artist. The experience of collaborating with so many wonderful performers, designers, directors, and talented people has been an unbelievable blessing that has brought forth a really original piece of performance.I came up with the idea for a

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Part of an Essay by Ada LovelaceTuesday, 5 January 1841...What is Imagination? We talk much of Imagination. We talk of Imagination of Poets, the Imagination of Artists &c; I am inclined to think that in general we don't know very exactly what we are talking about. Imagination I think especially two fold.First: it is the Combining Faculty. It brings together things, facts, ideas, conceptions, in

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FUTURITYA Musical by The LispsJanuary 9th and 10th at the Zipper Factory in Manhattan.Buy TIXFUTURITYTHEMUSICAL.COM

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The Lisps on MyspaceThe Lisps on FacebookThe Lisps dot Com

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Dear Sarah Palin,Thanks for reigniting a culture war. Thanks for turning this presidential contest into a spiraling race to the bottom. Thanks for lying to the American people over and over and over. Thanks for showing us that you don't care if it's a lie as long as it serves your purpose. Thanks for being demeaning and sarcastic, and setting a new tone of vindictiveness. Thanks for refusing to

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Dog Under PorchDog Under Porch is an anthology of work from members and friends of the Bard College MFA community. It was published by Little Socks Press 2008Download it HERE.It features work by:Dorothy AlbertiniCesar AlvarezAlisa BaremboymSylvie BaumgartelAnselm BerriganLinh DinhCecilia DoughertyAmit DwibedyCorrine FitzpatrickMarley FreemanLucas GeronimasJeremy HoevenaarDavid HorvitzJulia

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The remote stun bracelets in this gizmodo post are exactly like what Octavia Butler describes in her book Parable of the Talents. In the novel "collars" are used to enable modern day slavers to subjugate their victims. The slavers are able to remotely "lash" their victims and inflict brutal pain. Very creepy.

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Audio Surveillance and the Phono-Centric Fabulousness of Tom Levinphoto cred1. "Audio-Surveillance in Narrative Film manifests as a narrative excess"Which as I understand it means that the depiction of surveillance in film, creates a network of possibilities for the viewer/characters. The collection, storing, manipulation, use, misuse, and erasure of the collected data becomes an undepicted but

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Notes for a Talk on Technological Singularity1. On Wikipedia: "The technological singularity is a theoretical point in the future of unprecedented technological progress, caused in part by the ability of machines to improve themselves using artificial intelligence.""Statistician I. J. Good first wrote of an 'intelligence explosion', suggesting that if machines could even slightly surpass human

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"Music is more than an object of study: It is a way of perceiving the world. A tool of understanding. Today, no theorizing accomplished through language or mathematics can suffice any longer; it is incapable of accounting for what is essential in time- the qualitative and the fluid, threats and violence. In the face of the growing ambiguity of the signs being used and exchanged, the most

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Thoughts on CyberneticsCyborg Lincoln By annihilist1. Humans have a hard time imagining post-linguistic civilization.2. Cybernetics have a popular myth: a. Metal (cold, hard, sharp, dangerous, sterile, durable, unbreakable) b. Unfeeling (computer) c. Destructive/Facist (weapons oriented) d. Viral/Power Hungry (human) e. Dualistic (hardware/software) f. Digital3. Robots made of wood

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Rodney McMillian, Untitled, 2007.When computers begin to feel it will be delusion alone that is uniquely human. There are so many layers to this. Here's a fake map for the development of intelligence from the beginning of life to the materialization of intelligence. We're at about 7.8:0. Void1. Animation of Life2. Multiplication of Life3. Complification4. Relationship5. Linguistic Stucture (

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riverplatetectonicsI just discovered Chris Leo's new blog which is re-inventing the english language."Numenous thoughts can’t see the fours through the threes. Their nebulous numeric looming just as easily gives way to numinous luminescent leaps as it does to breaches with faith. Never forget, neither Darwin, nor Galileo, nor Copernicus, nor Hawking ever renounced God. It’s God’s frenzied vocal

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Kodwo Eshun on Rhythm (in modern music)from: Swarm 3 "Abducted by Audio (Live)"Thank you Mr. Eshun. I've been grasping at the Rhythm question a lot in the last few years and I was so elated to have happened upon some real insight."Part of the assumption that still exists in music is that futuristic music will somehow be beatless, somehow there won't be many rhythms, somehow

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Martin Puryear “Plenty's Boast”1. A digital recording is a score, performed by trained and partially equipped experiencers.2. New bots inhabit the spaces between samples. They communicate to one another the absences and potentials alluded to by a moment of media.3. Inter–disciplinary gave way to anti-disciplinary fades into post-disciplinary erased by the inconceivable volume of communicative

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What are we working with? Memory (antiquity)Recording (depletion)Prediction (pleasure) Synthetics (authenticity) Energy (source) Waste (creation)Pulse (rhythm) Vibration (imaginary) Pain (stimuation) Pleasure (survival)

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Why I'm Voting for Obama.1. "I don't want to just end the war, I want to end the mind-set that got us into war in the first place." -Barack Obama2. When Hillary Clinton voted to authorize the war on Iraq I was devastated. Millions of people all over the country knew that she voted for an unjust and unnecessary war. The fact that she said "If I knew what I knew then I never would have voted to

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Hillary & Barack, I'm Sorry.Vote on Tuesday! For Obama!love, César

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Country Doctor MuseumRelease Show January 5th 2008, Joe's Pub 11:30pmI'm very pleased to announce the release of The Lisps' debut full length album, Country Doctor Museum. We've been working on this for a while and I'm very pleased with how it came out. Here's what I have to say about it:1. The album puts on display the anatomy of relationships while using the distorted understanding of science

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Luke Winslow-King Thursday @ Union Hallso my dear friend (and former lisp) luke is playing at 9:30 on thursday the 30th at union hall, followed by the brilliant Mia Riddle. I'll be there. You should be too.Luke's songwriting is quite literary and exceptionally moving. His knowledge of the old ways is unending. He's the only actual rambling man I know.These are two videos I took of him in

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Savoir Faire...It will be a night of sublime musical moments.Friday August 10thwe'll start at 8pm @ Fontanas 105 Eldridge btwn Grand and Broome8pmMattison9pmEl Jezel10pmVermillion Lies11pmThe LispsAll nightDj Ladybyrd

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Cyberpunk & The Cybernetic Culture Research UnitSo I've taken to trying to understand the bizarre stylings of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU). While many of the words and connections elude my attempts to parse them into familiar modes of cognition there is something about the blurring of thought space science culture and fiction that makes the most perfect sense. (verbal technobatics

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Savoir Faire (part deux)I'm very pleased to announce the second installment of Savoir Faire.Savoir Faire is a magical event which features 4 brilliant female fronted bands.We Lisps will perform along with Mattison, El Jezel, and Vermillion Lies (who will be on tour from california)And DJ Ladybyrd from WhoNeedsRadio.com will spin throughout the eveningFriday August 10thwe'll start at 8pm @

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Red and BlueComposer Zeljko McMullen just posted his new double album Red and Blue.It's a formidable amount of music, and wonderfully crafted. The recordings are binaural and best listened to on headphones. However I got a chance to listen to Blue in a 10.2 ( i think) speaker arrangement. I haven't listened to every track but here are some things it makes my think about.1. Hypnosis2. Mental

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Moving Beyond KyotoAl Gore's op-ed in the New York Times, is chilling. He is definitely trying to invoke a sci-fi-esque global call to arms which perhaps will resonate with our nation of "Armageddon" fans. I don't know if people will catch on until the sky actually catches on fire and you need a scuba tank to get to your wall street job."In the last 150 years, in an accelerating frenzy, we have

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Animal Feet, Infra-Sound, and The Destruction of Humanity?I had a wonderful discussion w/ James Rouvelle about his ideas on human disconnection from the earth.1. Animals communicate w/ infrasound using the bottom of their feet.2. Amphibians and other low lying creatures use their jaws as we use the tympanum in our ear.3. Humans (w/ shoes, buildings, pavement) systematically disconnect ourselves

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Marina Rosenfeld Interviewed by John Cage "Sheer Frost Orchestra" at Tate ModernJohn Cage: Marina... umm, are you comfortable with doing this interview now? Yes? Shall I state the date? January 1, 2007, my goodness. OK, let me start by saying that I... I love your work.MR: Really? But you wrote in Silence...JC: I’m trying to re-evaluate. I’ve been a bit... confused...MR: Don’t be so hard on

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The 10 Point Program of The Sonotronic Manifestoa nugget of genius weirdness from this interview with Kodwo Eshun1. SONICFICTION breaks with the obligation to the STREET by destroying the compulsory deference to BIOGRAPHY2. Pop RESCUES unpop from its admirers by defridgerating the CONCEPTECHNICS of the avant garde from the icebox of its admirers.3. Science fiction is theory on FASTFORWARD.4.

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Pulverizer of the PastMy friend Chris got some great NYT facetime with this article about his zany intermissions project. Some of the listening is really interesting, and the concept is a riot. Chris is someone that has a very unique relationship to sound, and I love him for it. The only thing weird about the article is that they put "sound-artist" in quotes as though that is a term which is

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The Ladybug TransistorMy dear friend Kyle, Lisps emeritus and current Ladybug member, informed us on the road us of the tragic passing of San Fadyl, the drummer for Ladybug. I've posted below his letter remembering San. Ladybug is performing tomorrow at Bowery, with Bowerbirds and Rosebuds, and their excellent new record is out June 5th on Merge.Hey,As some of you know, my friend and bandmate in

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The Lisps Homecoming Bash @ Luna Lunge 5/14/07Keith ZarrielloJeremy Double DutchingSalt and SamovarThe LispsSammy broke her tambourine...Salt and Samovar joined us for the finale..Lisps pictures by Jeri KeimigI didn't get pictures of DDWTYH because I got sacrificed again and then had to go set up!

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This is a Tour and We Went on itSo things have been quite hectic ever since landing back home to New York, but here's a shot at illustrating the utter joy that was the Lisps tour...From Las Vegas we went through Death Valley...and over the Sierra Nevadas...truly amazing....San FranSacramento was super wonderful. Kate Saturday from DeatHat painted my face, we were going for Darryl Hanna from

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Oh Man.

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The Lisps Homecoming Bash!!!!!This Monday, Doors at 7:30The LispsSalt and Samovar,The Shivers,Double Dutch Will Take You Higher!

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I Chipped My Fucking Tooth!Me and Jeremy were trying to yell each other down during pepper spray tonight at Scene Bar in LA and we hit tooth to tooth.while it may be rock n' roll to chip your tooth during a show, it's probably negated by posting it on your blog.

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This is A Tour and We're on It. Part IIIWe Lisps had a wonderful show in LA tonight. Great crowd, and a lot of love.Here's some shots by Chad Nicholson. San Fran, and Sacramento were amazing but I'll post those later.

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This is a Tour and We're on It, Part IIWhen I last posted we had just finished our show at emos Austin, this was a wonderful show, we liked Austin so much that we stayed an extra day and went to the Whole Foods mothership twice.we stayed with our lovely new friends Reena, Rico, and Ajay (not pictured)Our Mexicali show was cancelled and our Denton show got hit with a tornado (literally) so we had

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Beautiful Posters, Wonderful Music

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This is a Tour, and We're On It.DC: The Lisps tour started brilliantly. A humble but enthusiastic crowd.Winston-Salem: On our way to Winston we got stuck in a 4 hour traffic jam because a fuel truck blew up and melted the pavement on I 95. We started going crazy so we took some pictures and wrote these poems:Dear Molten Asphalt,It’s brilliant that you’re here.Waiting for us.Maybe your

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Dear Everybody,The Lisps are going on tour for a month. Without you there is nothing. No tacos, no cheerios, no heroes. You are everything to us. Be with us. Complete us. Come with us.Love, The LispsNational Tour Dates: Friday 4/6/07 @ Galapagos Artspace - Brooklyn, NY Thursday 4/12/07 @ Six Points Music Festival (Red & Black Bar) - Washington DC*Friday 4/13/07 @ The Werehouse -

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Oh England.'Twill be back in less than a fortnight. I'm just pottering about in the Queen's land

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Who's your Daddy? Secret Mommy is.This video is so freaking amazing my brain is going to explode.Secret Mommy - Myspace - Website

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Very Nice 'End of Winter' Mixtapevia 3 pints and a towel"Fallen Snow" - Au Revoir Simone"The Winter That I Missed" - The Lisps"Hello Sunshine" - Super Furry Animals"The Gloating Sun" - The Shins"Another Sunny Day" - Belle and Sebastien"Jogging Gorgeous Summer" - Islands"Oslo in the Summertime" - Of Montreal

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Indie Rock Hueristics?Great essay on coolfer about the ridiculousness of SXSW.My wish for SXSW 2008 is for a trained economist or a consumer behavior expert -- or at least Malcolm Gladwell -- spend four days in Austin examining the competition for attention given scarce resources and even scarcer consumer attention. A marketing researcher would love attending parties at SXSW. The overkill of

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My Friends' ShowsThis is a new part of my blog where I randomly and undemocratically post my friends shows. I'll post my friends shows on a strictly irregular basis.Wednesday March 21st - Bell @ Rockwood Music hall 10pmFriday March 23rd - The Lisps + Breathing for the Whale @ Mopitkins 12amBreathing for the Whale is my friend Michael Turvin's new band which includes, among many other celebrities,

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8+ PleaseI just Discovered EarFarm's 8+ series...Which is another example of why i love earfarm.from the site:EAR FARM's 8+ is a weekly feature that showcases songs longer than 8 minutes. In the recent past these songs were featured on EF's 8+:Sleep - "Jerusalem (Pt. 4)"The Velvet Underground - "The Gift"Elton John - "Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding"Jenő Jandó - "Hungarian Rhapsody No.

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Arctic Monkeys: I'm convertedThis video is absolutely amazing. I'm not even going to try and speak intelligently about it. It's just really unbelievable. This is the complexity and crooked hyperactivity that I've been looking for all over my apartment, and it's completely consumable. And the dancers...indie rock needs more dancers. I'm working on that on my end.Oh and Olga Bell made me do

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NYT Music Roundup:Here's a bit on the wonderful Nico Muhly. I got to share a bill with Nico while I was hanging onto Corey Dargel's coattails last year at the New Yorker Festival. Brilliant, precocious, friendly, unpretentious, and quite attractive if I do say so. Some people got it all.Young Composer Finds His Fuel in RestlessnessTwo of my favorite guitar Goddesses Kaki King and Marnie Stern

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I want to like The Pipettes...it's just...um[pipettes at luna lounge 3/12/07]1. Let's be clear...I have no prejudice for bands which seek to invoke the sublime and ineffable musical past.2. I myself am in a band that does that very thing.3. Maybe it's that I couldn't put my finger on anything new about their music.4. costumes were great, hand motions and choreography was cute, but what's below

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The State of the ComposerThis is a brilliant and refreshingly optimistic take by Alvin Curran (in the nytimes music blog) on the massive garbage pile of modern music. "Contemporary humans have become pathological music junkies reduced to searching obsessively for the ultimate 'Ode to Joy' cell-phone ring."and this quote is going up on the wall:"I continue, as do so many musicians today, to

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Perhaps you should meet some of my new favorite artists.Senryu - Myspace - WebsiteSecret Mommy - Myspace - WebsiteAlison O'Daniel - WebsiteBen Kamen - Myspace - Website

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Elvis Perkins: Quite CharmingWhen we Lisps walked into the studio up at Bard to start work on our new full length in January we found the admirable and brilliant Bob Beleicki mixing a dark yet bouncy and intensely catchy live recording/video by Elvis Perkins. What's amazing about this video is that the sound Bob got completely live in a house (with nearly all his mics hidden) is so much more

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