WOW. Go and type in your childhood address at thewildernessdowntown.net to play the new, interactive video for the song “We Used To Wait” by Arcade Fire. You’ll get the best experience with the Google Chrome browser. And guess what, Germany: “There is not enough streetview data” for my full experience. So you better pretend to be born somewhere else to get the whole fun. The video was directed by Chris Milk and built in HTML5. Good idea. Thank god for the internetz.

Read more about the project in this Wired article.

(uvmann via Stereogum)

I cannot recall right now but seems that this is the first Internet video clip from a major artist that goes beyond artistic and technological experimentation. Ok maybe I should check again David Byrne or Peter Gabriel. 

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Tristan Perich’s 1-Bit Symphony is an electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip. Though housed in a CD jewel case, 1-Bit Symphony is not a recording in the traditional sense; it literally “performs” its music live when turned on. A complete electronic circuit—programmed by the artist and assembled by hand—plays the music through a headphone jack mounted into the case itself. The project is set to be released on Cantaloupe on August 24, 2010.

Order now ($29): bangonacan.org/store/product/181

More info:

Cantaloupe Music: cantaloupemusic.com
1-Bit Symphony: 1bitsymphony.com
Tristan Perich: tristanperich.com

Check Vimeo video part II for more music

via http://www.1bitsymphony.com/

(thx to @dave_haynes)

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Holy Strays – Black Journey 

Noir atmosphere, distorted synth loops, spacey sounds, hypno keyboard spirals, flirting with electric bass and guitars. The track is from the album Hyperion and is released by Not Not Fun! to an extreme limited edition of 100 cassettes. Yeap, it’s not a mistake is limited to 100 cassettes. If you wanna listen more tracks visit Holy Stray’s myspace site or watch them live somewhere in Paris.