David Soldier‘s American Most Unwanted Song is a horribly good piece of work that brings together everything that Americans hate musically, and combines them into one long song, frequently to hysterical effect. By using market research with hundreds of people, Soldier determined that: The most unwanted music is over 25 minutes long, veers wildly between… Read More Are You One Of The 200? American Most Unwanted Song
Moby talks about his new album, Last Night, and talks about MobyGratis, his free music project for filmmakers.
The Avant Garde Project has a large collection of free music that you can download, including digitized LPs of long out-of-print electronic music works: The Avant Garde Project is a series of recordings of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively… Read More Free Music From The Avant Garde Project
Arnaud van Beek doing some Vangelis-style live improv, using a Yamaha HS7 as master keyboard, Roland D70 synthesizer and a computer with V-stack, Hypersonic 2, Nexus, The Grand. van Beek’s music is retro-esque synth music. You can preview some of his tracks below. More info at van Beek’s site.
Here’s something I never would have imagined – a big band dedicated to reinventing the music of Björk – Bjorkestra: “The initial impetus was I love Björk’s music and really wanted to get inside it and learn more about it,” says Travis Sullivan, who opens SFJazz’s ninth annual Spring Season with Bjorkestra tonight at the… Read More Bjorkestra: Big Band Björk
Nine Inch Nails is offering its latest CD, Ghosts I, as a free download from its site. The collection is a teaser to promote their Ghosts I-IV, a new collection of instrumental tracks.The official download requires email registration at the site to get a download link. You can also download the collection officially via BitTorrent.… Read More Nine Inch Nails Offers Latest Album, Ghosts, As Free Download
Electro-acoustic composer and author Allen Strange died last week at the age of 64.While Strange was probably best known to a generation of musicians as the author of one of the definitive books on electronic music – Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques, and Controls – he also was very active as a composer and performer of… Read More Allen Strange, 1942-2008
Carl Stone is one gurus of live computer music in the classical tradition, having worked with computers in live performance since 1986. I remember picking up a copy of his Woo Lae Oak – a sort of minimal ambient work – in Lawrence, KS. This was back in the vinyl days, and I hadn’t heard… Read More Free Music From Composer Carl Stone
Dave Cornutt, an aerospace software engineer based in Huntsville, AL, is also an experimental electronic musician, as Source Code. He blogs at Sequence 15, and has an interesting collection of free tracks that you can download from his site. With each of his pieces, he provides some information on the process and gear that he… Read More Free Experimental Electronic Music Downloads
WM Recordings is serving up Volume 2 of Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka – Porn Music For The Masses. Yep – it’s a massive download of free porn music. The 2004 release of Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka – Porn Music For The Masses Vol. 1 was downloaded over 232,900 times. Here’s what they have to say… Read More Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka
