holidays are things that you earn after long periods of working really hard doing unfulfilling tasks, which is why the idea of me going on holiday right now seems somewhat farcical. but thats exactly what i’m doing.
when i return in a couple of weeks, i’ll be starting an 18-part series of posts (for real!) where i’m gonna go track-by-track through a sixty minute set i’ve recently assembled for the good folks at funky web periodical
research and development - my mix is going to be featured as part of their next issue, and for numerous reasons i’ve decided to get jiggy with a full-on track-by-track rundown. there’s gonna be a bucketload of mp3s and a lot of me talking shit, because if you ask me, there hasn’t been enough of that around here in the last couple of months. a lot of youtube greatness, but not enough of me talking shit.
in the meantime head over to
r&d and check out their last issue before they update it with the new one - and while you are there have a dig around the
mixes section to find hidden gems from mountains in the sky, hey convict! and will holland aka quantic among many many others. these guys is good guys.
while i’m gone, you have homework. get your hands on
mccartney ii:
apply liberally to effected areas twice daily. if problem persists, please see a doctor in the seventh dimension.
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something that i’ve completely neglected to mention in the last couple of weeks is that via a fortuitous and confusing chain of events, a friend and i have started a weekly radio show on melbourne’s esteemed community radio institution
3RRR.
the show is called “to and fro” and we play lots of different things. check the
website for our playlists. the show airs on tuesday nights - thats tonight - from midnight til 2AM on 102.7 FM. if you are not in melbourne, you can stream it online
here.
the weekly mp3 experiment is, perhaps predictably, over until further notice - if you’ve been downloading and enjoying the demos and remixes i’ve been featuring the last few months, thankyou for listening, and thanks for the feedback.
playing zork on commodore 64 was one of the most exhilarating and frustrating experiences of my childhood. calling zork an “interactive fiction computer game” is really just a lame way of trying to sexy up what is on paper a very bland and simple concept - its a text game. it reminds me of those early computer psychologist programs, where they tricked people into thinking that their computer-facilitated therapy was being conducted by a real person when it was actually just an evil computer program called
eliza.
hands down the best thing about this game is that there were very limited instructions that came with it - you weren’t given an exhaustive list of text commands, so most of the fun in the game came from trying out different verbs and seeing what it did and didn’t respond to. i never got very far with zork, i didn’t have the patience for it. but the concept excited me so much. i wanted to design my own text adventures.
you can play it online
here, or (if you want to get serious) you can download it to your computer
here so you can play it anytime, save your game etc. you know i think i had eliza on my commodore 64 too, actually… she warped me, i guess
if you are at all interested in doctor who, delia derbyshire, tape manipulation, experimental electronic music, musique concrete, or hell, just music in general, you will get a kick out of watching this doco which you can watch in its entirety on youtube. “alchemists of sound” tells the story of the bbc radiophonic workshop - creators of the ubiquitous dr who theme as well as countless other pieces of tv & radio incidental music.
the radiophonic workshop pioneered pre-synthesiser electronic music, using found sounds & musique concrete style recording married with highly experimental (and precise) tape editing. i’d love to find out more about some of the personalities involved with the workshop, john baker, delia derbyshire, walter/wendy carlos. this doco is a good introduction - and like me, you’ll mourn when it gets to the 70s when their idiosyncratic practices are ’superseded’ by daggy unreliable synthesisers.
