I remember reading about the Norwegian Black Metal scene in the British music press at just about the time when they started stabbing one another. They did make Pavement look like a bunch wussies. This document looks good and what an amazing name!
I haven't developed quite developed the taste for black metal. But then I couldn't stand drone metal, it was only when I started writing I craved something rhythmic and cyclic. Now I can't get enough of Acid King and Om.
Live those lines so it eventually starts to sound arabic
This is aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaces. Specially like the 'design process'
It's Tuesday. What better time to talk about the end of the world, especially as on Tuesday 8 November 1983 the Russians almost pressed the big red button according to this doc by Channel 4.
It's not bad, but it does suffer from the production team's over enthusiastic soundtrack. 'Yay it's the eighties! stick some Frankie on and get those clips of yuppies with giant mobiles out of storage.'
For a less literal approach to the subject you could listen to this:
http://speechification.com/2008/09/28/document-britains-cuban-missile-crisis/
and this:
http://speechification.com/2009/01/08/the-human-button/
instead.
He wrote Arena's theme tune, so it seems funny it's taken the BBC all this time to finally devote an episode of the show to him.
He was the external moderator one year for my degree course. Unfortunately, it was a few years before my time, but there was a great story about how he really liked one student's final piece, but the work couldn't be justified academically. So, as he was barred from awarding a high mark, he suggested they give the student a gift. And a pretty good one. I can't remember what it was exactly, I think it was something musical. I've heard from a number of sources it being described as 'something for his studio', to a 'music studio', to 'a mixing desk.'
We will never know (or will we?), get in touch if you were on the Interactive Arts degree between 1990 - 2000.
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