Word: vinyl
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Nevertheless, for the uninitiated Friday night’s event may have seemed a little odd. The first part of the event was a screening of one of Prina’s short films, Vinyl II in the Carpenter Center auditorium. Filmed at the Getty museum in Los Angeles (it was originally commissioned by the museum), Vinyl II could almost be described as a kind of extremely slow-paced music video. The bulk of the film depicts a group of musicians playing a score written by Prina himself while sitting in two of the Getty’s galleries, punctuated...
...pair of speakers. The Ka-on flower speaker, housed in a vase, below, or pot, uses real plant parts--stems to conduct sound waves, leaves and flowers to serve as cones--to fill a 16-ft. radius with music. Its audio quality is closer to that of a vinyl record than a CD, but for some audiophiles, that's a good thing...
Even if your only religion involves band t-shirts and b-side vinyl, consider for a moment an afternoon organ recital at your local cathedral as a perfect, albeit unlikely, refuge from today’s folk-pop play list: a salvation, if not from evil, then from present day independent music’s fuzzy instruments, vague lyrics and disaffected warbles, so often praised by the disaffected critics at that God of indie webzines, known, perhaps fittingly, as Pitchforkmedia.com...
...serious light, rock bands have benefited from the help of dance labels and club remixes of their songs. It is onto this scene that Tim Goldsworthy and James Murphy have become so prominent for their stable of dance-rock artists and their production work as the DFA. Their vinyl remixes have been club fodder in NYC and around the world now for more than two years, and DFA #2 marks a milestone in their careers; two discs longer than their first compilation, the set reveals their increasingly prolific catalog at a glance, and the outstanding nature of their production...
...ultra-relevant blend of rock and dance this music has its most sophisticated, engaging, and above all else, intelligent producers in the form of the DFA. Their new release saves a lot of vinyl in its wake, and is an electrifying jolt from the most relevant rock genre of our day and its foremost spokesmen...