Paulstretching
Musical pilates? Paulstretching is the latest meme sweeping the internet - high quality timestretching of well known tracks. Named after the paulstretch application, part of the HyperMammut suite by ZynAddSubFx, a Justin Bieber track timestretched to 800% started it all off on Soundcloud earlier this week. Paulstretch is available for Linux and Windows on the Hypermammut SourceForge page - and →
Beatbeatblog review of ‘in shadows and in light’
Beatbeatblog has just posted an awesome review of the first two parts of my series 'In shadows and in light' - check it out at http://beatbeatblog.com/posts/2010/8/1/art-installation-pt1.html ....this brings us nicely onto a piece of work that IriXx is developing at the moment - 'in shadow and in light' - a 4 track composition (parts i & ii have surfaced so →
In shadows and in light
Just completed the second part of my four part series 'In shadows and in light'. I'm building the pieces into a Set on soundcloud so you can hear the work in progress: http://soundcloud.com/irixx/sets/in-shadows-and-in-light
Remixing and rethinking
I've been busy with music over the last few months - firstly, I completed my remix of Nez Erok's haunting track 'Beautiful'. The original track is shortly to be released as a single on Ocean Drive Records. My dubstep remix is hosted on my soundcloud page: http://soundcloud.com/irixx/nez-erok-beautiful-irixx-remix - check out more remixes on Nez's soundcloud. I've also completed the first of a four →
Hitler parodies, Fair Use and Mashing up the Past
News this week that Constantin Film AG were issuing DMCA takedown orders claiming the Youtube Hitler parody meme, re-subtitling the climactic scenes of the movie 'Downfall', constituted copyright infringement, saddened the internet community. Of course none of the creators of the clips would have the funding or means to mount a legal challenge against the takedown orders. Except for one. Brad →
Ghosts
Trifonic are brothers Brian and Laurence Trifon, who, since receiving their first break via the Creative Commons remix website ccMixter, have committed to releasing stems of their tracks into the Commons for musicians to remix. I've very much enjoyed listening to their debut album Emergence and decided to create a remix from various tracks, featuring the haunting vocal by Amelia June →
Two new works
I've added two new pieces to the music page - some seriously filfy dirty breaks, and Down the rabbit hole, a somewhat hypnotic return to the ambient sounds of 'enigmatic xii: beacons". "We will not be held responsible for any hearing impediment or damage caused to you by excessive exposure to this sound." (thanks to acclivity @ freesound.org for the sample!).
RadioPlateaux: Public and Private
As an ongoing investigation into the function and the practice of publicness radioplateaux asked artists to respond to the concept of publicness as art practice. In a broad paper composed in 2006/7 radioplateaux artists describe the practice of publicnes as one that may be “a revolutionary everyday practice”. We claimed that publicness may open ones practice essentially to a multiple →
eleison
"they promised liberty, they promised freedom, but they themselves are slaves" My first piece in... too long. Available on sendspace for download - see my Music page.
Franck Vigroux – Live turntablism
Awesome. Really worth watching in HD.
If you really, really want your Madonna…
My friend Alleyria was kind enough to find the album on archive.org... http://www.archive.org/details/wtf_mrp_mp3