Collected Harmony on Nowness.com.
Not completely surprising, and completely hard to pin down...Harmony Korine leads the direction of his films by feeling...not dissimilar to some musicians. Hard to explain, easier to show.
This is an absolutely spectacular collage of some of Philip Glass' work that Beck remixed for the Rework - Philip Glass Remixedrecord. You'll want to listen up close and in the background, multiple times. Impressed.
Wow. My primary interest with Scott's recent work is how he comes to record the sounds on his punishingly morose records (see The Drift)...I can't listen to him too much, but I am certainly very interested in his process. If he didn't scrape these songs from the edge of some dark abyss, in some unlivable location, then he probably made them using knives, barking dogs and ancient instruments made from something which was once alive (or a rack of meat as he did on previously mentioned The Drift).
I'm actually kind of interested in this tool from Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers. It's an interesting application in the sense that it appears that it takes little to no music playing ability to use, but the real art here would be the user's sense of texture and idea...the algorithm apparently composes the music (generative music)- this means that the curator of the sound has little to no say over the composition as the music plays, but can certainly change the inputs. As the user gets more familiar with the tones and "scapes," more are unlocked- I like this idea. It's tempting to just move on to the next option when there are so many, and easy to get overwhelmed.
I'm warming up a bit to things like this. Going only from the demo, the tones are excellent, and odd...lonesome in the sense of retrofuturistic film or mid 70's science documentaries- sounds I've always been a fan of.
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