Jan
30
As the 90s came to a close, the business of music began to change profoundly. New technology allowed artists to record and produce their own music and music videos, and the internet became a free-for-all distribution platform for musicians to promote themselves to audiences across the world. The result was an influx of artists onto …
Jun
17
Wire Hangers! by Thegrumpyowl on Mixcloud
Mar
19
Porno Bopping Love In The Psychonovic Garage by Thegrumpyowl on Mixcloud
Feb
07
About where my head is right about now. And about where my heart is right about now.
Dec
12
Click To Play I’ve been a bit remiss in my blogging and, if you’ve noticed, you have my apologies. Thing is, I’m kinda on a deadline with the book and when I finish my nightly editing, I just don’t feel like blogging. I feel more like playing my PS3 while trying to ignore my fits …
Oct
01
Trikoton will convert your voice into a sweater. It’ll look something like this. According to Co.Design: “The technology here is an audio-signal processing program that converts speech into the binary code of a knitting pattern. Then an old mechanical knitting machine — hacked with microcontrollers and small engines to respond directly to computer-generated code — …
Jul
02
I have some pretty clever comrades. One of these, an incomparable chap who probably doesn’t want his name used, has long collected my empty pipe tobacco tins in order to repurpose them into various electronic devices – most of which have something to do with music. A while ago, he hosted a little workshop where he taught …
Although Ryan Oakley began his career as a simple rake (drunk) he has since become Toronto’s most renowned flaneur (no car) and notorious dandy (overdresses). A misanthropic composer of psycho-geographical fictions (sci-fi), he is also a server of food, a tender of bar and a washer of dishes. While performing all these functions with efficiency and elegance (disdain and malice), he somehow finds the time to publicly criticize friends, strangers and cultural crap.
