hop: February 2015

"A flute player began one day to play only a single and unique continuous sound. After he had repeated this action for more than twenty years, his wife advised him to observe other flute players. They emitted several harmonious, melodious sounds, etc., which were ultimately perhaps more interesting and more varied. To this, the 'monotone' flute player responded that it was not his fault if 'he' had found the note that the others were still in the act of 'seeking'! (Yves Klein as quoted in exh. cat., op.cit. p. 81)

11.2.15

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Rain (I Want a Divorce) (1996)

10.2.15

Bob Dylan - Full Moon and Empty Arms (Shadows in the Night)

Bob Dylan: 'Critics have been giving me a hard time since day one'

“Critics have been giving me a hard time since day one,” he said. “Critics say I can’t sing. I croak. Sound like a frog. Why don’t critics say that same thing about Tom Waits? Critics say my voice is shot. That I have no voice. Why don’t they say those things about Leonard Cohen? Why do I get special treatment? Critics say I can’t carry a tune and I talk my way through a song. Really? I’ve never heard that said about Lou Reed. Why does he get to go scot-free?”

9.2.15

Ennio Morricone & Joan Baez - La Ballata Di Sacco E Vanzetti (Sacco e Vanzetti)

Thurston Moore & London London Sinfonietta @ White Cube 8.2.2015: a 30 minutes set exploring percussive sounds and a minimalist repetitive guitar coda.

Christian Marclay - White Cube exhibition: not as sparkling as The Clock, still a very good exhibition

A further set of onomatopoeia is put in motion for the first time in a large-scale video installation which projects across four walls. To make the work, the artist collated a lexicon of the sound effects made by characters in superhero stories. The scanned swatches were then animated using the software programme After Effects in a dynamic choreography that suggests the acoustic properties of each word. ‘Boom’, for example, is no longer static on the page, but bursts into life in a sequence of colourful explosions, while ‘Whooosh!’ and ‘Zoooom!’ travel at high speed around the walls. The work fuses the aural with the visual, and immerses the viewer in a silent musical composition.

8.2.15

Arab Strap - Soaps (Philophobia)

7.2.15

Friends of Dean Martinez - Landfall (Lost Horizon)

6.2.15

1995

Radiohead – Planet Telex
The Smashing Pumpkins – 1979
Pulp – Common People - Full Length Version; Album Version
PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love
Björk – Army of Me
Morphine – Honey White
Tindersticks – A Night In
Guided By Voices – Evil Speakers
Sparklehorse – Spirit Ditch
Spiritualized – Electric Mainline
Elliott Smith – Needle In The Hay
Oasis – Champagne Supernova - Remastered
Tricky – Overcome
Scott Walker – Tilt
Low – Shame
Slowdive – Rutti
The Flaming Lips – This Here Giraffe
Mr. Bungle – Everyone I Went To High School With Is Dead
The Young Gods – Kissing The Sun
Sonic Youth – Junkie's Promise
Red House Painters – Moments
David Bowie – Outside
The Magnetic Fields – All The Umbrellas in London
Yo La Tengo – The Hour Grows Late
Luna – Chinatown
The Sea and Cake – Nature Boy
Spain – Ten Nights
Madredeus – Maio Maduro Maio - 1995 Digital Remaster
Alice In Chains – Shame In You
Moondog Jr. – Ice Guitars
Aphex Twin – Wax The Nip
Neil Young – Peace And Love
Kronos Quartet – String Quartet No. 5: III.
Mojave 3 – Love Songs On The Radio
Mercury Rev – Racing The Tide
Vic Chesnutt – Gravity Of The Situation
Labradford – Banco
Blur – The Universal - 2012 Remastered Version
The Verve – This Is Music
The Chemical Brothers – Fuck Up Beats
Slobodan Salijevic – Kalasnjikov
Peter Murphy – Disappearing
Rachel's – Saccharin
Michael Gira – Where Does Your Body Begin?
Mick Harvey – Harley Davidson
Thurston Moore – Psychic Hearts
Marianne Faithfull – Love In The Afternoon
Passengers – Your Blue Room
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Aeroplane
Friends of Dean Martinez – Misty
Cul De Sac – Roses in the Wallpaper
Stars Of The Lid – Before Top Dead Center

The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)

5.2.15

Where did we see this before?

"When you form a band like Robert did,' suggests Caroline Coon, 'you are in love with your band, you are the band. It is your identity. And when the band fractures, your heart breaks and your identity is pulverised. It can feel like the most crucial, fecund years of your life are reduced to nothing."

In Different Every Time p.142

Moog making new synthesizers in 2015

Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding (Shipbuilding / Memories)

4.2.15

Noise Pop

My Bloody Valentine – Sometimes - Remastered Version
Pavement – Summer Babe (Winter Version)
Yo La Tengo – Sugarcube
The Jesus And Mary Chain – Just Like Honey
The Flaming Lips – Psychiatric Explorations Of The Fetus With Needles
Mercury Rev – Meth Of A Rockette's Kick
Disco Inferno – I'm Still In Love
Quickspace – The Lobbalong Song
Deerhoof – Dummy Discards a Heart
The Raveonettes – Hallucinations
The Microphones – Florida Beach
Film School – Meanmedian Mode
Film School – Sick Hipster Nursed By Suicide Girl
Joanna Gruesome – Anti-Parent Cowboy Killers
Morella's Forest – Hang Out
Hood – Hood Northern
Dum Dum Girls – It Only Takes One Night
Boyracer – Sarah and Sarah
A Sunny Day In Glasgow – Fall in love
Ponytail – G Shock
Crocodiles – I Like It in the Dark
Splashh – All I Wanna Do