Today we presenting two classic ASCII films:

Samurai on the Toilet by Takeshi Kitano

Man blowing a Bubble by Mitch Ansara

Wishery, comprising vocal syllables, musical chords and sound effects recorded from the 1937 Disney classic Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.

Download the track from http://pogomix.net/

[..] In fact I often say that the biggest difference between classical music and everything else is that classical musicians sometimes shut up because they’re told to, because the score tells them to. Whereas any music that’s sort of based on folk or jazz, everybody plays all the time.

[..]

Pitchfork: Yeah, it does seem that something that’s changed over the years is that headphones have become much more prominent, in terms of the way people have experienced music.

BE: Yes, well, that’s important because it means that they’re doing something different with music from what they’ve ever done before. And whenever there’s a new music, there’s a new way of listening. And whenever there’s a new way of listening, there are new musics that follow from that. And people start listening differently— that can either mean in different places or at different volumes or in different social groups or through different technologies. Whenever that happens, whichever one of those it is or whichever mixture, then a new music evolves for that niche, as it were. It’s like a new ecological niche opens up and wham! Within no time at all, it’s populated.

Brian Eno on pitchfork

Actually I could quote the whole Brian Eno’s interview but anyway you can read it on pitchfork

Rain Dance

Like Don Lockwood in 2010

Erk tha Jerk - TURF Dancing in the rain by Eric.D

(Source: jesserose)

The Hero’s Journey
A chart outlining Joseph Campbell’s idea of the monomyth.

Related articles

• The End of the Monomyth: We Need New Myths in the 21st Century (gauravonomics.com)
• Joseph Campbell: The Power of Myth from Greyhawk Grognard (greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com)
• Joseph Campbell’s “The Hero’s Journey” (gointothestory.com)

(Source: ilovecharts)

“Some People Feel The Rain Others Just Get Wet”

Bob Dylan

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Physical sales in a digital era

For decades, the music industry has been looking to the album charts to establish what made a hit. In the past 10 years, though, album sales have plummeted, sales of singles have surged and new sources of revenue have emerged — like fees for music streamed online and ringtone purchases — that are changing the definition of a hot artist.

Just wanna add that in the 90s the big labels stopped releasing singles afraid of the cannibalization of album sales.

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Have you ever imagined that Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Brian De Palma and John Cage have something in common with Justin Bieber. If you said no, listen to the 35 minutes interpretation of “U Smile” by Nick Pittsinger aka Shamantis. If you don’t get it, read Philip Sherburnes’ blog post on the matter. If you said yes, you are Philip Sherburne.

J. BIEBZ - U SMILE 800% SLOWER by Shamantis

Wanda Jackson – Funnel Of Love 

Born in Oklahoma. She dated Elvis Presley. She toured with Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Buddy Holly. She is the Queen of Rockabilly.

(thx to hypem via adamflight)