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Mon, 01 Aug 2005 13:54:56 -0800 Mon, 01 Aug 2005 13:54:56 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/43919/I-checked-but-oh-man-I-am-hoping-this-isnt-a-double-post <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/" title="After getting to the approved page, just wait a little bit and it'll forward you to the main page; that threw me the first time, too.">Comatonse Records</a> has <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/mission.html" title="Actually, since 1993, although Below Code was put out in 2004.">been around for a little over 10 years</a>, and to celebrate, the owner, <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/thaemlitz/discography.html" title="Terre's discography for all of the labels he's been on, including Records, Remixes and Films.">Terre Thaemlitz</a>, put out a <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/reviews/wire242.html" title="A review of it that originally ran in the Wire; there's another review available on the site but it's in Japanese.">free best-of</a> <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/reviews/fader8.html" title="Here's that Japanese review for those who can read Japanese and are so inclined.">CD</a>. The <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/releases/belowcode/cover.html" title="The original cover for those who want to burn and print their own copy -- designed for a DVD Amaray case.">physical copies</a> are all long-gone, but it's <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/releases/belowcode/soundfiles.html" title="Be sure to flip through the Next links for cool postcards that go with all of the tracks!">available for download</a> (along with a bonus track that didn't fit on the original disc). Most of the stuff is <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/releases/belowcode/03.html" title="This one sort of reminds me a little of Otomo Yoshihide's Filament project, with the static at the beginning; though it goes into a computer-voice doing a poem, which is kinda cool.">relatively</a> <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/releases/belowcode/10.html" title="This is some processed ambient recordings. Sort of a mix between found-sound and noise.">noisy</a> (and <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/releases/belowcode/13.html" title="About 10 minutes from the Seattle WTO Protests; much more interesting than you'd think, but still not something you really wanna listen to a whole bunch.">some</a> <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/releases/belowcode/04.html" title="A little girl singing a song that ends up being cut-up and processed, saving it from being cutesy and annoying.">found</a> <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/releases/belowcode/12.html" title="I think this is Terre's dad, maybe? It's a phoned-in song about Lincoln, though, and hey, how can you go wrong with either phoned-in songs or Abe Lincoln?">sound</a> <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/releases/belowcode/15.html" title="Another one of Terre's family members, covering a pretty song by Frankie Yankovic on the accordion.">stuff</a>), but there's some cool <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/releases/belowcode/16.html" title="Along with Up'n'Down and Rain, one of my three favorites -- it's a really cool, relatively-straightforward electronica piece. I'd be interested to hear the non-remixed version. I also tried looking around for info about SND, but couldn't find anything.">electronic</a> type pieces, <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/releases/belowcode/01.html" title="A sort-of off-kilter one; the vocals aren't great, but I kind of like it anyway.">rock</a> <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/releases/belowcode/05.html" title="This is called Bob Foxy/Midnight Sexy by Kuro Pipe. It's also sorta rockin'.">and</a> <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/releases/belowcode/06.html" title="Up'n'Down is probably my favorite on the CD; it's an avant-dance-pop song by Terre Thaemlitz and Haco. I am totally going to have to pick up the album this is from.">pop</a> <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/releases/belowcode/09.html" title="A sorta world-pop song by one of the guys from Hippocamp, who put out that Hippocamp Ruins Pet Sounds CD linked from MeFi a while ago. This guy wasn't on that, though, but it's still pretty cool.">songs</a> and <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/releases/belowcode/02.html" title="It starts with a sample of Lou Ferrigno calling to congratulate Comatonse on the anniversary, and then goes into a version of, as Family Guy put it, the Sad Walking-Away Theme from The Incredible Hulk.">solo</a> <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/releases/belowcode/07.html" title="A cool, short instrumental in a classical vein with a drum machine.">piano</a> <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/releases/belowcode/08.html" title="Another piano instrumental that ends up getting processed in cool ways.">pieces</a> as well. Also of note is <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/thaemlitz/" title="Be sure to click on the Tebbe Tubbitz! (Though you'll probably want to scroll all the way to the right to get the English Version...)">his own personal site</a>, which has links to <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/writings/cheaptrick.html" title="A good but sad piece about meeting a member of Cheap Trick on a plane as a child and being insulted by same.">a lot of</a> <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/writings/berg.html" title="As a Mad Magazine collector, I dug this one on the post-modernism in Dave Berg's The Lighter Side Of... feature.">cool</a> <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/writings/revolution.html" title="A piece on Music and Technology.">essays</a>, typically about <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/writings/iamnotalesbian.html" title="A pretty good piece about his own personal views on gender and his own gender-identity.">gender</a> <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/writings/rubato.html" title="The liner notes to his album of Kraftwerk covers in the solo piano Rubato style -- very beautiful music; I really recommend these albums.">issues</a> <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/writings/replicas.html" title="The liners to the album of Gary Numan/Tubeway Army songs in the same Rubato style. This is another good one -- I actually got this one before I was terribly familiar with much of Gary Numan's work -- a situation that has since been rectified -- and it's still really cool and interesting just as music. Lots of really beautiful piano rendtions on here.">and</a> <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/writings/ohnoitsrubato.html" title="And the notes from the third in the Rubato series, this one of DEVO songs. This one is actually, by far, my favorite of the three discs. But, then again, DEVO is probably my all-time favorite band and I know the songs backwards and forwards. The Kraftwerk one is excellent, though, but the original songs I find are already really close to being classical music, so the arrangements aren't quite as shocking as they are on this or the Numan disc. But still, this one is definitely worth picking up if you're a DEVO fan, or just a fan of solo piano, really.">music</a>. (There's also links to images of <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/thaemlitz/scores.html" title="I just thought this was cool, but then, I'm a music geek -- hard to tell, huh?">graphical scores</a> to some of his music.) <small>[Poking around these sites are pretty much <a href="http://www.comatonse.com/tsr/index.html" title="This is also a link to the transcript of Terre's new project, Trans-Sister Radio, a radio-documentary on Transgender and Travel. It's really interesting, but, as suggested by the link placement, Not Safe For Work.">NSFW</a> -- the only explicitly NSFW links are on "his own personal site" and "music", but there's quite a few naked people and suchlike around, including on one of the postcards that make up the main link, so, yeah -- take care!]</small> post:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.43919 Mon, 01 Aug 2005 13:08:36 -0800 Rev. Syung Myung Me music essays writing downloads mp3 transgender genderqueer somuchtitletext http://www.metafilter.com/43919/I-checked-but-oh-man-I-am-hoping-this-isnt-a-double-post#999784 <small><a href="http://www.autistici.com/petsounds.htm">The link to <i>Hippocamp Ruins Pet Sounds</i></a> alluded to in this post, and <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/42017">the Mefi thread on same</a>.)</small> comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.43919-999784 Mon, 01 Aug 2005 13:54:56 -0800 Rev. Syung Myung Me http://www.metafilter.com/43919/I-checked-but-oh-man-I-am-hoping-this-isnt-a-double-post#999820 Thanks for the Below Code link. I love almost all of Thaemlitz's work over the years and this is an unexpected treat. comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.43919-999820 Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:38:31 -0800 Rothko http://www.metafilter.com/43919/I-checked-but-oh-man-I-am-hoping-this-isnt-a-double-post#999821 Love the piano tracks (haven't listened to the others yet). comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.43919-999821 Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:40:00 -0800 Tlogmer http://www.metafilter.com/43919/I-checked-but-oh-man-I-am-hoping-this-isnt-a-double-post#1000273 Reverend, thanks for the links. I'm a big fan of Thaemlitz's ambient work, and I'm always looking forward to hear new things from artist that "click" in my brain. comment:www.metafilter.com,2008:site.43919-1000273 Mon, 01 Aug 2005 23:12:44 -0800 PROD_TPSL