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Kim Cascone is one of the main representative digital American artists of the glitch aesthetic and the use of software like Max/MSP.
Born in Albion, Michigan 1955, Kim Cascone studied at the Berklee College of Music in the early 1970’s, continuing his electronics studies in 1976 with Dana McCurdy at the New York City’s New School. In 1980, he moved to San Francisco where he worked with film director David Lynch as Assistant Music Editor on both Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart shows.
In 1986, Kim Cascone founded Silent Records, one of the first electronic music independent labels born in the U.S., where he released some of his personal projects, including Heavenly Music Corporation, PGR, Thessalonians, and Spiced Barons. Kim Cascone sold the company 10 years later to start a career as a sound designer, working for Thomas Dolby’s company Headspace as a sound designer and composer. He later began working for Staccato Systems as the Director of Content where he worked in the design of new sounds for games using algorithmic synthesis.
Since 1980, Kim Cascone has released more than 15 albums of electronic music and designed several sound insatallations, including Dust Theories, mixing randomly selected soundfiles from a sample library previously created.
Kim Cascone is also co-founder of the Microsound organization for the discussion of digital and post-digital music, and has also worked with artists such as Carlsten Nicolai, David Toop, Peter Rehberg, Scanner, Oval, Bochum Welt, Keith Rowe, and Doug Aitken.
The Marquee Club is opening it’s doors again in London’s Soho, this time located at 14 Upper St Martin’s Lane. The main launch it’s been announced for the 5th of September 2007, with a special show featuring The Move, one of the most reputed bands in the history of the oringinal club in the 60’s.
The last reincarnation of the club opened it’s doors in September 2004 at 1 Leicester Square. It was run by Plum Promotions and was closed in December 2005. Plum Promotions is once again running the new version of the celebrated club. I hope to have more details soon about the new club. For more information please visit The Marquee Club official web site.
Thanks to Alex Piva for the pictures and information.
This news via The Marquee Club
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“Mention an appreciation of 8 track tapes, and you’ll get a lot of bewildered looks. At one time 8-track was the only portable music format, and now it’s been unfairly reduced to a punchline – a thick plastic icon of the 60’s and 70’s.
There are a number of reasons to be genuinely sore at 8-tracks. You couldn’t rewind the carts, the internal mechanisms could fritz out, and worst of all – the songs were often put on the tape in a different order than the album. “
Read all about it at Retro Thing
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This is one of my all-time favorite movies but it’s also some of the best soundtrack music for fantasy movies ever recorded.
See more at Muppet’s News
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Musician and photographer Deborah Anderson has announced the release of her forthcoming cafe-book for the fall, which will include a collection of her portrait photography and latest music productions.
Deborah says in her Myspace blog: “It has been almost three years since i decided to put a book together of images that I shot since first picking up a camera professionally. Finally I have completed this journey and am in the midst of editing the content of this beautiful story told in images and songs.
It shall be published and released worldwide this Fall/Autumn. Accompanying this book is a CD of songs that I recorded solely on my Mac computer using a program called Garageband. So for the past year I recorded songs on my trusty laptop whilst traveling or just sitting home on my porch. New York, Paris, London and LA have been the backdrop for these musical endeavors and this I believe is why I have been able to create an eclectic sound and verse to accompany the visual of the book.”
Read all about it at Deborah Anderson
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