Yearly Archives: 2007

Snippet: Neil Young – A Perfect Echo Vol. I Pt 2 (mp3s)

04-Jun-07

Neil Young – A Perfect Echo Vol. I Pt 2 [MP3s]
This is the second half of the Neil Young soundboard-derived live collection A Perfect Echo Vol. I. capturing the years 1974 – 1976.

Flowing Lines: Alberto Seveso

04-Jun-07
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Seveso takes the lines creating our the female body, and continues them. His work doesn’t only follow an aesthetic concept, it also follows a strong logical reasoning, one that claims to find magic in beauty. After all, it’s all very logical and simple.
Links:
Official website
Seveso’s Shop

Snippet: Neil Young – A Perfect Echo Vol II Pt 2 (mp3s)

04-Jun-07

Neil Young – A Perfect Echo Vol II Pt 2 [MP3s]
A compilation of live recordings of Neil Young from 1986 to 1989. Free to download.

Snippet: The Strokes – You Live Only Once (video promo)

03-Jun-07

The Strokes – You Live Only Once [FLASH VIDEO]
This wonderful video to the Strokes’ new album is a great tribute to the Kubrick, the man and the legend.

Podcast: HarpyListens – A Tribute to the Electronic Pioneers in Europe

01-Jun-07

A Tribute to the Electronic Pioneers in Europe [62:38m]

Podcast: HarpyListens   A Tribute to the Electronic Pioneers in Europe :: harpylistens podcast electronicThe emergence of the technology and the music genre gives an applause to Leon Scott de Martinville (first recorded sound outlines onto cylinders coated with carbon), the famous Thomas A.Edison ( phonograph), Thaddeus Cahill (Telharmonium), Lee Deforest (Audion) and others.
This was led into a break through in classical music. They began to experiment with this new fascinating existence that expanded their horizons. Leon Theremin made his Etherphone, Luigi Russolo held his first ‘art of noise’ concert based on the Futurist Manifesto. Capturing the ‘real world’ sounds was possible by then; hence, the emergence of electroacoustics music or music concrete. Pierre Schaeffer began to manipulate sounds around him through recordings.
People would go beyond the bounds of what was once defined as music with technology. Nevertheless classical music can never be forgotten. Therefore, it still leaves an influence in the new music genres.

Links:
HarpyListens.com
Original Post @ HarpyListens.com

Snippet: A Quick Review of Women as Seen in Art

31-May-07

Women in Art [YouTube]
500 years of female portraits in Western art, from DaVinci to Picasso.