[Musik] So., 26.10.03 - Mama
8-Bit Punk
Until recently, I was feeling stifled by the tyranny of the new. New corporate lifestyles for doing everything well. Too well. iPod this. PowerBook that. Listening to albums, like Madonna's latest, that were made using Pro Tools - software that reduces virtually every mixdown effect to a mouse click - left me with a depressing sense of sameness, like everything on TV. I had decided to make an album about the "look" of music: the visual gestalt of youth culture. For me, music has always been a bridge between art and fashion, the two realms I care about most. It's one of the most natural expressions of the youthful need for confrontation and rebellion. Now it was lost in the hearts and minds of a karaoke world. I couldn't find my place in it.
Then I discovered chip music.
[...]
The low light revealed the Frenchman's T-shirt. Emblazoned across his chest were the words FUCK PRO TOOLS. The phrase described perfectly what I'd been feeling for months. Like any fashion victim who comes across a new and stylish idea, I was smitten. Fashion is most easily used as a disguise - it allows you to be something you're not. It's much more difficult to use it to express who you are. I understood immediately that this was no facile fashion statement.
Sehr schöner Artikel aus der Wired: Malcolm McLaren on Chip Music
[Film] So., 26.10.03 - Mama
Lauren Bacall, Leonard Bernstein, Marlon Brando, Bertold Brecht, Charlie Chaplin, Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Elia Kazan, Fritz Lang, Gregory Peck, Sidney Poitier
Na, was haben diese Menschen gemeinsam?
Sie waren alle auf der Black List in der McCarthy-Ära.
McCarthy im Nacken - Artikel aus der Jungle World
[Nerdbla] Fr., 24.10.03 - Mama
Dimdidim. Dum dimdidimdidim.
Sehr schön: Peach, ein VSTi-Plugin° das den Nintendo-Sound nachbildet.
°für die, die in Musiksoftware nicht so firm sind: ein virtuelles Software-Instrument, das sich in Musikprogrammen als Plugin nutzen lässt.
