John Stewart...PaF

Check out John Stewart raging hard at a DK show in Virginia (William and Marry) sometime in the early 1980's. Damn.

Cloud Nothings: "No Future No Past"

Cloud Nothings - "No Future / No Past" Official Video from Urban Outfitters on Vimeo.
This is pretty rad...and to me, the format of this video embodies a classic music video style where we follow one subject for the duration of the video but we don't really know what is happening until possibly the end I'm still not sure what is going on after watching this one.).
...The new record is pretty good as well.

Lee Ranaldo: "Off the Wall"

SY Lee's got a solo record out 3/20 on Matador. Check out the new cut below:

Lee Ranaldo: "Off the Wall"

Brian Wilson - CNN Interview

I guess I've never seen an interview with Brian Wilson before- especially a recent one. As uncomfortable as he seems, he has a lot of interesting things to say about his music and life. CNN?

Behold:

The design of this season's indoor soccer jersey. Excellent job, Nick. Just excellent.

Trash Talk: "Slander"

Whoa. This is really rad.

Christine Sun Kim

Todd Selby x Christine Sun Kim on Nowness.com.

In sound and music, there can and should be an emotional context based on what the listener hears. There is also an element of physical feeling produced by sound- how the body and brain perceives vibrations caused by the sound's owned wavelengths. Go to a drone or noise show and this will be clear. Physical feeling is all that Christine Sun Kim has to go with- she is deaf. Above is an interesting short doc about how Christine, a sound design/performance and visual artist, interprets sounds as it relates to how it makes her feel just from feeling it and seeing it.

Zoo Kid (King Krule): "Out Getting Ribs"

There's something oddly affecting about this track/video. For me, it has mostly to do with the simplicity of the visuals and the reverb effected guitar build. It's imperfect - which is necessary here.

Sparklehorse

I've been on a pretty big Sparklehorse kick of late... Mark Linkous' songs fall in the between space of accessible and just weird enough (especially regarding production) to limit the popularity of his project. Give it a try.

MOGEES (Mosaicing Gestural Surface)

MOGEES, which uses "realtime gesture recognition with contact microphones," is a recent technology that could have interesting applications for audio performance among other sound design situations.

According to the developers, MOGEES utilizes:

physic modelling, which consists in generating the sound by simulating physical laws;

- concatenative synthesis (audio mosaicing), in which the sound of the contact microphone is associated with its closest frame present in a sound database.

This basically means that the microphone senses a vibration and turns that vibration into a waveform which a computer can turn into a sound, or trigger another sound (similar to MIDI).