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Amazing

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Death Grips - Full Moon (Death Classic). Amazing.

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Event Locations No. 2 (excerpt) (by Ellen Fullman, via @mapsadaisical)

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The Dual Primate Console: “judicious monkeying” indeed…

Each side of this instrument is operated by one primate. Each side has identical controls, except for a single tempo control on the side.

It is the responsibility of each primate to encourage or restrain the instrument. Rhythmic complexity can be arrived at with little difficulty without comprehension. Rhythmic simplicity may be just as easily arrived at. The sounds themselves must be shaped by means of judicious monkeying, while the upper manual uses concrete sounds (often the recorded sound of human voices) recorded onto eight track tape cartridges as a sound source. At the touch of a button, voices and noises may be introduced to complement electronically generated sounds..

The built-in two-channel amplifier and speakers make the Dual Primate Console an ideal parlor instrument suitable for electronic chamber concerts at nighttime, and musicales in the daytime. It weighs far less than a piano and will fit easily in a small station wagon. Two 1/4 inch outputs provide line level signal for any school or auditorium public address system, and has proven safe for outdoor use..

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The Music of the Wires

Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson is captivated by the extraordinary sounds of the wind and the weather as they play on vast lengths of fencing wire stretched across the Australian landscape.

Alan Lamb is an artist, biomedical research scientist and composer who has long been fascinated by the vibrating qualities of telegraph wires. As a young boy he was introduced to the music of the wires during walks with his sister and their nanny, who showed the children how to press their ears against a telegraph pole to 'hear the sound of the world'.

Years later, when he was a student on a camping holiday in Mull, Alan pulled into the side of the road and fell asleep in his van. He was woken by an extraordinary sound. It was produced by the telegraph wires overhead as they waxed and waned in the wind. Alan was transported by the sounds and became determined to record their music. Since then, he has worked with abandoned telegraph wires on several sites across Australia and installed new structures in order to produce and record music from them. Alan has also completed extensive research into auditory perception and developed theories relating to the wire music and its behaviour.

In this programme, wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, who has long been interested in the sounds of the wind, travels to Australia to meet Alan Lamb and some of his colleagues at The Wired Lab Project. He discusses their work and its evolution and records for himself some of the extraordinary music of the wires.

27:43 / 36mb / MP3 / 169kbps

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A real life Christopher Robin! (via @TheFagCasanova)

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Judee Sill - The Kiss. Incredibly beautiful.

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Internal CCTV footage of Pacific Sun Cruise liner in very heavy seas.

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Kooky, via Russell.

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OOO, OOO, OOOO

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Goodness! (enlightenment by Jim)

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"Miniature masterpieces carved into graphite by Dalton Ghetti"

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Die Erde ist ein Paradies mit Afri Cola (via @alexispetridis)

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I begin each day like this.