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Blue Stone Jones' Electronic Music Podcast
Michael
www.bluestonejones.org In the midst of vast culture-level arguments over digital rights and intellectual property, my friend Matt Jones does something incredibly cool: he releases a bi-weekly podcast of his original electronic music compositions, Blue Stone... More »
The Trans-Human Music of Akhentek
Michael
A moment of speculation, rooted in a study of universal trends: Human history can be defined as development along any of numerous axes, but my preferred story-for-our-species is of an advance in mind control technologies. ... More »
Soundtrack To Your Funeral, Part VII: Switching Off
Michael
Compared to Life (if the familiar dyad even makes sense), Death is famously dispassionate. Death doesn't care when, or why, or how, or who. Death can not care, because caring is the job of the... More »
Painting While Dancing, Part 3
Michael
Painting @ Trilogy Lounge, 2008 03 06 Sometimes I feel like grabbing someone and pleading with them to please remind me what I'm doing, pretending to be a painter. It's a term I can only... More »
Painting While Dancing, Part 2
Michael
Live painting was a curiosity to me, bizarre and insignificant, until last summer, when I finally got to see it actually happen. I had just moved to Boulder from Lawrence, Kansas, where I had been... More »
The Soundtrack To Your Funeral, Part VI: Takin' Life So Serious
Michael
As I've said before, the soundtrack to your funeral is as personal a playlist as you'll ever make. Assuming you have the luxury of deciding what to play to your mourning crowd (and assuming that... More »
Painting While Dancing, Part 1
Michael
[For a better look at my paintings, visit my portfolio at myspace or photobucket .] Every Wednesday night around 9 pm, I drive out to the Trilogy Wine Bar here in Boulder, Colorado, where my... More »
R. Luke Dubois' "Timelapse Phonography"
Michael
Add one to the list of Things We Somehow Never Realized We Were Missing: Everyone in my generation, and most of the people in the generation before it, grew up in a spacetime remix. When... More »
Oh, Irony!: An Ode
Michael
Normally I don't do this. Normally I don't dip into the bedlam of internet discussion forums. They're engaging, but only until you realize that pearl diving in a flame storm is usually fruitless. Bless the... More »
...And We Helped! ZVM Compilation #1 Makes A Difference
Michael
Zaadz Visionary Music 's first benefit compilation, The Dream Is Valid , has finally made a small but significant difference in the world. Our first payout allowed us to offer a $225 microloan to Ramona... More »
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April 2008