Audio Entropy (with dl!)

Same post from the other day, now with a download link :)

early morning mix for the G-spot camp @ Burning Man

This is a mix I created for my friends at the G-spot camp, at Burning Man. It starts off very quiet, designed for the pre-dawn hour, for people who aren't really awake (or who aren't quite asleep). Moving through the mix, tracks were selected with the intention of escorting people from sleep, through the waking moments, to the savory scents of bacon.

What was a solid idea on paper turned out to have a fatal flaw----I completely forgot that generators are needed to power our sound system. As you'll hear, this mix does not go with gas generators. So, after a year, I've put this up here for other sleepy heads around the world, who can play music without a generator. This may lend itself nicely to other situations such as reading, nursing, working, yoga'ing, and so on.

Huge thanks and much respect to DJ Olive for his excitement and support in this effort (the first 20 min or so are parts from DJ Olive's 'sleeping pill' works), and for the amazing music he makes for the world. And, to my friends at the G-Spot. I'll be thinking of you this week.

Anticipate Mix 2

Here's a great mix (the 2nd one) of tracks from the Anticipate Recordings label.

The Commute, Part 2: To Work

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In the third installment of The Commute Series, here are some more tunes deemed appropriate for the pre-dawn commute to work. Keep your eyes out for soft purple skys coming, as well an occasional morning star. But, most importantly, when you finally get to work, don't sweat the smalls.

• Sawako - Purple Sky Coming
• Klimek - For Jim Hall & Kurt Kirkwood
• Andrew Thomas - A Dream of a Spider
• Bill Frisell - Outlaw
• Ekekiel Honig & Morgan Packard - Balm
• Bobby Previte - Morning Star
• Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet - A Remembrance...An Afterthought...
• Ezekiel Honig - Material Instrument 2
• Mint - Hindemith
• Marc Ribot - Noise #2
• John Zorn - Yellow
• Ches Smith - Don't Sweat the Smalls

Room40: Various Artists Airport Symphony -Virtual Terminal

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As with a lot of my posts, this is best heard with a nice pair of headphones. Here's a free release from Room40 that came out last year.

From Room40.com:
The virtual terminal is a freely downloadable companion edition to the Airport Symphony 2CD. It is available from the QMF website.

As Alain De Botton suggests in his book ‘The Art Of Travel’, the act of transit between social, cultural and geographic circumstance is far more than mere bodily movement. Language, architecture, food, gesture, landscape and sound all play a part in travel and ultimately contribute to the sensations of excitement, exoticism, disorientation and even fear that occupy the daily life of the traveller.

At points of departure and arrival on these journeys increasingly lies an airport. Like business hotels across the globe, the airport acts as a uniform presence – rotating gates, the clunk of baggage, the vague chatter of tourist and traveller alike and the occasional interruption of muffled announcements. Vast halls echoing with the shifting of bodies intent on exodus and return.

As Socrates wrote, ‘Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives [sic]’. Indeed, as the choreography of pre-flight checks is conducted following the gentle rock of the plane leaving the air bridge to a soundtrack of gentle pressurised drone and air conditioned hiss, a meditation commences. This moment of consideration is heightened, as the reflected sound of the engines scorching the tarmac surface is vacuumed into the void of open air and as the plane leaves the earth there is (in every traveller no matter how experienced) still a sense of silent awe at the marvels of the physics of flight.

Airport Symphony, commissioned by the Queensland Music Festival and Brisbane Airport Corporation, documents and synthesises the experiences of travel. Each piece represents a personal meditation on aspects of travel in the modern age and suggests ways in which we control, augment and ultimately exists in a time where almost no part of the face of the planet is inaccessible. Each of the pieces features a source recording made in and around Brisbane Airport between March and June 2007 –in a raw form or transformed by processing.

Audio diary entries cataloguing the epic possibilities of flight, aero-passage and human bodies in motion and even at rest.

The Commute, Part 1: To Work

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Compiled with the pre-sunrise, groggy commuter in mind. In sequence, this podcast includes:
Ezekiel Honig "Going Sailing Refrain 1" from Scattered Practices, Microcosm Records
Ezekiel Honig "Oceans and Living Rooms" from Scattered Practices, Microcosm Records
Antiguo Automata Mexicano "Extirpe" from Kraut Slut, Static Disco
DB "December 75" from Background Records [mnlv07]
Dave Miller "Down the Line From Harvey" from Mitchells Raccolta, Background Records
Ezekiel Honig, "The Breeze of Hibernation" from It's Getting Cold Outside, Unfoundsound
Morgan Packard "Dappled" from Airships Fill the Sky, Anticipate Records