MetaFilter posts tagged with MP3 and art

"No, Miss Vega. Consider the Black Box theory!"

Blazecock Pileon — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:04:09 -0800

"So, that’s my long and winding history of a little postcard from the Upper West Side of Manhattan!" Suzanne Vega writes about writing the hit song Tom's Diner, coping with its numerous remixes, and its part in the birth of the MP3 music compression format.

You're not like the others. You like the same things I do: Wax paper. Boiled football leather. Dog breath.

Blazecock Pileon — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:31:25 -0800

Ren + Stimpy Production Music: 109 Instrumental Tracks!

Woe is me, my life hard-fated!

klangklangston — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:03:54 -0800

Anglo-Finnish artist Sanna Annukka's vibrant, flat design work (especially her Icons series) got me curious about her, well, iconography.

She mentioned The Kalevala previously, the Finnish national epic poem (in Finnish here), a tale of creation and heroism that arguably spurred the Finns to independence from the Russians.

Like so much else epic and awesome, it spawned a '70s prog band, with three albums.

A xylowave occurs everytime an effect has no cause, or a cause has no effect.

tellurian — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:32:17 -0800

GX Jupitter-Larsen - noise maker, video artist [some NSFW] and inventor of the TNU.

praise the lord and give thanks

Peter H — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:22:27 -0800

SPREE: An Escape from Reality - music by Ethan Persoff, made from old records, bizarre noise instruments, circuit bent toys and other unusual sounds.