Word The Cat

empty streets on Bernie Krause’s concept of Biophony:

“Many animals, he argues, have evolved to squeeze their vocalizations into available niches of the soundscape in order to be heard by others of their kind. Evolution isn’t just about the competition for space or food but also for bandwidth. If a species cannot find a sonic niche of its own, it will not survive.” [link]

Unmixed electromagnetic field recordings for all those who ticket-dodge on Connex South Eastern.

Disinformation – Bexleyheath to Dartford 320k 15mb [info]

anyone got any recordings of solar flares?

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“The master has disappeared. Only the serfs and servility remain. Now, what is a slave without a master? A person who has devoured his master and internalized him, to the point of becoming his own master. He has not killed him in order to become master (that is Revolution); he has absorbed him while remaining a slave – indeed more slavish than a slave, more servile than a serf: his own serf.” (Baudrillard 2001: 55-56)

Tessa Jowell on Ms Dynamite: “it’s fine to be anti-war when you’re 25.” (London Paper 19/2/07 available here)

demonstrate

some possible reasons:

Against the creation of a fortress state whose miserable ramparts are patrolled by spectres of apocalyptic threat. Against the creation of a panopticon state whose citizens are disected constantly by each others’ conditioned gaze (try travelling on a CCTV & passenger-screen equipped 67 bus sometime). Against the historical arrogance of interventionism. Against a next wave of colonial deployment which could see occupying forces stretch from Syria to India (not to mention Arabia).

For a samba rave in every available public space.

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PS// if you’re lucky enough to own one, bring digi cameras – they can be useful. On the subject of video try this for youtubegrabs (cheers w&w)

Re:alism vs Re:processing. Chris Watson records things. Archived and stored. He releases through Touch. Here are some things he’s recorded.

mozambique nightjar singing in sandy scrub on banks of zambezi, zimbabwe 256k 5.4mb

deathwatch beetles, advertising display in oak beam, edingthorpe, norfolk 256k 3mb

Among my favourites is taken from this record with BJ Nilsen. Spliced storms in the North Sea and night sounds off North East England and Scotland. Rise and Fall. Birds and Seals. Rigarous Attention.

Chris Watson & BJ Nilsen – No Man’s Land 192k 21.7mb

Chris Watson at Bleep

In another take on field recordings, Rafael Flores & Lezrod use the real/referential as a foundation stone. Full release here. also elsewhere…

Rafael Flores & Lezrod – 3am 224k 8.7mb

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Ergo Phizmiz’s nose points in different directions. He makes radio here and here. He releases here. This is a cover of Get UR Freak On – it’s on the ‘arff & beef’ CD-r

Ergo Phizmiz – Get UR Freak On 224k 8.8mb

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A splurt of posts at ANAblog. Recent highlights include this collage of Brecht’s Hildegard’s Symphony and 700 Hobo Names

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Central Asia/China-by-state: things to be seen and the forgotten link to Uighur pop.

e.g. unknown – Dutarim 192k 5.7mb

February: Winter office monosyllables: New mixes. This post powers installations.

February 2007 mix proper:

Word The Cat – February 2007 224k 58mb

Tracklist:

TV on the Radio – Don’t Love You (dm mix)
Dinosaur L – Go Bang (Kevorkian mix)
Damiao Experienca – Cheirando Alho No Planeta Lamma
Son Sventa N’ahual San Lorenzo (from Nonesuch: Chiapas and Oaxaca)
Conrad Schitzler – Blau [1972] CD bonus track 1
Uusitalo – Lumimies
Dimlite – Now Walk
Senor Coconut – ElectroLatina (Villalobos lecktro carino mix)
Mira Calix – The Stockholm Syndrome
Ghedalia Tazartes – Une Eclipse Totale de Soleil 2

bonus soca mix:

soca for february 2007 224k 28mb

tracklist:

alison hinds – caution
denise belfon & macka diamond – what girls like
george iwer – fete after fete
machel montano – higher than high
shurwayne winchester – open the gate
candy hoyte – forget your man
bunji garlin – pan and soca

Kerwin Du Bois – Party Rocker 219k 5.5mb

Shurwayne Winchester – Open The Gate (New Mix) 160k 5.75mb

carnival
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“I’m trying to take a bass bomb and drop it on the history of Western philosophy. Like how philosophy deals with music, if you go back to Plato. Everything he wrote was completely in fear. Music, and particularly rhythm, was a dangerous thing that would come and disturb his rational republic of democratic reasoning; men coming together to aspire towards truth, beauty and the good, and music is a threat to that, because it’s not reasonable; it plays to your emotions. So right through the history of philosophy it’s seen as a threat ‘cos it’s not rational, it’s structured to affect. So when philosophers deal with music they’ve traditionally talked about classical music, as a cerebral experience or the modern avant garde. The minute you put the body and dance at the heart of a philosophy then you have to turn Western philosophy upside down ‘cos it’s dominated by truth and rationality, the mind over the body. The body is a danger. Western philosophy is like series of glass jars with brains in them. The minute you introduce bass, which is so physical but also intangible, then it does put a spanner in the works. But the secret is not just to celebrate the body instead of the mind, but to get past that distinction in the first place.” Kode 9 interview.

Rapidly share free jazz from Church Number 9. Millenial nostalgia as post-rock at Postapocalyptic Vanguard.

Donate to Resonance FM. Get Alan Moore podcasts from them here and here.

Vortex Jazz Bar (Stoke Newington) squatted as a social centre to prevent another Starbucks… Bailiffs approach.

“I am very curious how the university has been turned into what seems an almost pure machine for the production of surplus value, notably through the device of intellectual property. I think that art collaborates very intensely with science on this, providing ‘innovation power’ within the larger frame of what some of my colleagues theorize as ‘cognitive capitalism’. I would like to know a lot more about this in the hopes that by describing it accurately and I strikingly, I can help convince people to help convince other people to increasingly and publicly ask why it is we consent to being part of this system. Creativity, that magical thing everybody loves, is really now driving a death machine. Very sorry to say so, I know it’s offensive and all, but it’s also a massive fact, as you know from looking at and listening to the majority content of the media with which you deal professionally. We have a emergency situation in the world, on the social, political, economic, diplomatic and ecological levels, and our governing mechanisms want us to think in terms of making a profit or balancing the budget.”

Brian Holmes from the iDC list.