The rain is buried in “Rainfall,” lost in the thick mix of limpid synthesis and apparent manipulated field recordings. “Rainfall” is the title of an hour-long, single-track release by the prolific young Polish musician Marcin Drabot under one of his several pseudonyms, Aairria. By the time the rain becomes evident in the mix — the […]
The Rain netlabel gets true to its name with The Sixth Dreaming, a virtual torrent, file-sharing jokes aside, of audio from the prolific figure Aairria. Working with field recordings of waves — that is waves as in water, not waves as in sonic waveforms — produced by freesound.org contributor digifishmusic, Aairria has produced an enormous […]
Of the top 10 most popular posts of the past month, October 2011, eight were drawn from the Downstream department of freely and legally downloadable MP3s: (1) a consideration of Richard Devine’s collection of field recordings of consumer technology such as printers and so forth (“An Alan Lomax of Lost Technology”), (2) a gloss on […]
The top 10 posts of December 2010, out of a total 49 posts, were: (1) Lowlands: A Sigh Collective, a compilation of responses-in-sound to a nasty rant by the Daily Telegraph’s art critic, Richard Dorment, on the occasion of Susan Philipsz winning the Turner Prize for her sound work “Lowlands Away.” Two posts regarding the […]
By far, the most viewed story this month was (1) a piece I wrote about the acoustemological memory of John Lurie, drawing from Tad Friend‘s story about the Lounge Lizard jazz musician from the New Yorker (“Incident Far From South Street: John Lurie’s Tragic Acoustemology”). Also among the most read, non-free-download entries were (2) the […]
