Lovely things I keep finding
I can't stop but find brilliant things on the world wide superhighweb. This keeps stopping me from doing vital work for my university MA. hand ins, and could possibly ruin my life forever. But that's a little far fetched, and I'm sure it will be okay in the end.
I thought I'd share a few things with you, in an attempt to (possibly) ruin your lives too.
Firstly File-swap.com lets you give a file to someone, and be given a different file in return. This most definitely is lovely. I sent a rather fetching picture of Birdman:
And recieved a rather intriguing picture of some masonry that looks rather like a computer game:
'tis a rather addictive site. In other news, we all like to see renowned figureheads of pioneering art be laughed and considered circus freaks, so check out John Cage on a 1960's TV game show. In true Cagean fashion, we must treat the poor quality recording and audience nervous laughter as if it is part of the composition. Which, in my ever so humble opinion, is top bananas. Also, Salvador Dali on another gameshow is equally amusing. I wish people still spoke like that. In fact, I think I'll start.
This is lovely too, and pretty mesmerising. Grotrian Pianos. Audio visual interactive electronic music programs, in my opinion, are where the future of music lies. It's where truly original concepts are found. On a similar note, there's a great collection of weird ass musical instruments, and mp3 examples of most of them, at www.oddmusic.com. My favourite, I think, is the double violin, which is somewhere between completely ridiculous and completely delicious.
KAPOW.