Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Ears:
  • Gyorgy Ligeti - Concertos for Cello, Violin, Piano (Boulez, Ensemble Intercontemporain)
  • Luc Ferrari - Didascalies
  • Kevin Drumm - Imperial Horizon

Monday, August 30, 2010

Monday, August 30, 2010

Eyes:
  • Susan Sontag - "Godard" from Styles of Radical Will

Ears:
  • Luc Ferrari - Didascalies
  • Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
  • Jorge Ben - Africa Brazil
  • Roxy Music - s/t
  • OOIOO - Feather Float
  • Beans - Shock City Maverick
  • T. Rex - The Essential Collection
  • Neil Diamond - The Essential
  • Fela - Opposite People / Sorrow, Blood & Tears

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Eyes:
  • Sunday New York Times

Ears:
  • Melvins - s/t (Lysol)
  • Melvins - A Live History of Gluttony and Lust (Houdini Live 2005)
  • Melvins - (A) Senile Animal
  • various - Tuva: Voices from the Center of Asia
  • Harmonia & Eno - Tracks and Traces
  • Alva Noto - Prototypes
  • Kevin Drumm - Imperial Horizon

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Eyes:
  • Saturday New York Times

Ears:
  • On (reworked by Fennesz) - Something That Has Form and Something That Does Not
  • Jackie-O Motherfucker - Valley of Fire
  • Harmonia - Live 1974
  • Endless Boogie - Full House Head
  • Lou Reed, John Cale & Nico - Bataclan 72
  • Melvins - s/t (Lysol)
  • T. Rex - The Essential Collection

Friday, August 27, 2010

Friday, August 27, 2010

Eyes:
  • Friday New York Times
  • Saturday New York Times

Ears:
  • Jackie-O Motherfucker - Valley of Fire
  • Ikue Mori - Class Insecta
  • Elliot Carter - Chamber Music (Arditti String Quartet, Oppens)

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Eyes:
  • Sunday New York Times

Ears:
  • Ikue Mori - Class Insecta
  • T.Rex - The Essential Collection
  • Lou Reed, John Cale & Nico - Bataclan 72

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Eyes:
  • May Revue No. 3
  • Time Out Chicago

Ears:
  • Alastair Galbraith - Mass
  • PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
  • Cat Power - The Greatest
  • Johann Sebastian Bach - Partitas, Preludes & Fugues (Glenn Gould)

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Eyes:
  • Lydia Davis - "Forbidden Subjects," "Two Types," "The Senses," "For Sixty Cents," "How Shall I Mourn Them," "A Strange Impulse," "Getting Better," "Head, Heart" from Varieties of Disturbbance

Ears:
  • Lou Reed, John Cale & Nico - Bataclan 72
  • Soul Center - s/t
  • Sleep - Jerusalem
  • T. Rex - The Essential Collection

Monday, August 23, 2010

Eyes:
  • Lydia Davis - "Head, Heart" from Varieties of Disturbance

Ears:
  • Lou Reed, John Cale & Nico - Bataclan 72

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Ears:
  • Soul Center - s/t
  • Sleep - Jerusalem
  • Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde

Friday, August 20, 2010

Friday, August 20, 2010

Ears:
  • Carl Michael von Hausswolff -Topophonic Models
  • Boredoms - Super Roots 3
  • Funkadelic - Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
  • Sleep - Jerusalem
  • Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
  • Sonic Youth - EVOL

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Eyes:
  • Tan Lin - "A Dictionary of Systems Theory" and "Various Library Standards" from Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking
  • The Onion
  • Time Out Chicago
  • Susan Sontag - "The Pornographic Imagination" from Styles of Radical Will

Ears:
  • Johann Sebastian Bach - Partitas, Preludes & Fugues (Glenn Gould)
  • Boredoms - 77 Boa Drum
  • Carl Michael von Hausswolff - Strom
  • David Tudor - Three Works for Live Electronics
  • Cecil Taylor (The Feel Trio) - Celebrated Blazons
  • Sun Ra - Atlantis
  • Vibracathedral Orchestra - Wisdom Thunderbolt
  • Alastair Galbraith - Mass
  • Robert Fripp - God Save the Queen / Under Heavy Manners

Eyes & Ears:
  • The Simpsons
  • 30 Rock

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Ears:
  • Luciano Berio - Orchestral transcriptions (Chailly)
  • Pita - Get Down
  • Endless Boogie - Full House Head
  • Charlemagne Palestine - Relationship Studies
  • The Pink Noise - Birdland
  • Johann Sebastian Bach - Partitas, Preludes & Fugues (Glenn Gould)

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Eyes:
  • Jean-Luc Nancy - "Cosmos Baselius" from Being Singular Plural
  • David Reinfurt - Six Prototypes for a Screensaver (A Retroactive History)

Ears:
  • Sibylle Baier - Colour Green
  • Bill Barron - The Tenor Stylings of Bill Barron
  • Sunroof! - Silver Bear Mist
  • Hototogisu - Ghosts From the Sun
  • The Dead C - Harsh 70s Reality
  • Pocahaunted - Make It Real
  • New Humans - Super Loco
  • Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth
  • Archie Shepp - Mama Too Tight
  • Dean Roberts and the Black Moths - Play the Grand Cinema
  • The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter
  • Gate - A Republic of Sadness
  • Alastair Galbraith - Mass

Eyes & Ears:
  • CoCoComa
  • Royal Baths
  • Ty Segall

Monday, August 16, 2010

Monday, August 16, 2010

Eyes:
  • Tan Lin - "2 Identical Novels" from Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking

Ears:
  • Mount Carmel - s/t
  • Gate - A Republic of Sadness
  • various - Sounds From True Stories
  • Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
  • Paul Lovens & Paul Lytton - The Fetch
  • Double Leopards - Halve Maen

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Eyes:
  • Sunday New York Times

Ears:
  • Steve Lacy Four - Morning Joy
  • Gate - A Republic of Sadness
  • On (Reworked by Fennesz) - Something That Has Form and Something That Does Not
  • Pan Sonic/Keiji Haino - "Synergy between mercy and self-annihilation overturned"
  • Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
  • Alastair Galbraith - Mass

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Eyes:
  • Saturday New York Times
  • Friday New York Times
  • William S. Burroughs - "A.J.'s Annual Party" from Naked Lunch

Ears:
  • Fred Lonberg-Holm - Dialogs
  • On (Reworked by Fennesz) - Something That Has Form and Something That Does Not
  • Gate - A Republic of Sadness
  • Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
  • Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - The Spotlight Kid / Clear Spot
  • Arto Lindsay - Mundo Civilizado
  • Sunroof! - Cloudz
  • Leroy Jenkins' Driftwood - The Art of Improvisation
  • Fritz Hauser - Pensieri Bianchi
  • Pelt - Bestio Tergum Degero / Skullfuck

Friday, August 13, 2010

Friday, August 13, 2010

Ears:
  • Pan Sonic/Keiji Haino - "Synergy between mercy and self-annihilation overturned"
  • Alastair Galbraith - Mass
  • Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
  • The Dead C - The Dead See Perform M. Harris
  • fIREHOSE - Ragin', Full-On
  • Pan Sonic - Kulma
  • Neil Diamond - The Greatest
  • Cat Power - Jukebox

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Eyes:
  • Tan Lin - "American Architecture Meta Data Containers" from Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking

Ears:
  • Pelt - Bestio Tergum Degero / Skullfuck

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Eyes:
  • Robert Nickas - "To Be Read (Once Every Two Years)" from Curating Subjects
  • Time Out Chicago

Ears:
  • Crescent - By the Roads and the Fields
  • Fritz Hauser - Pensieri Bianchi
  • Pandit Pran Nath - Midnight Raga Malkauns

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Ears:
  • Eliane Radigue - Adnos I-III
  • Funkadelic - Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
  • Jean-Luc Godard - Nouvelle Vague
  • Cornelius Cardew (The Scratch Orchestra) - The Great Learning

Monday, August 9, 2010

Eyes:
  • Robert Nickas - "To Be Read (Once Every Two Years)" from Curating Subjects

Ears:
  • GCTTCATT - ampErase
  • Sun City Girls - 330,003 Crossdressers From Beyond the Rig Veda
  • Funkadelic - Standing on the Verge of Getting It On

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Eyes:
  • J.G. Ballard - "The Recognition" from The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard

Ears:
  • Vinicius Cantuaria - Tucuma
  • Anita O'Day - Swings Cole Porter
  • Sun Ra - Jazz in Silhouette
  • Eliades Ochoa - Sublime Ilusion
  • Jim O'Rourke - Insignifiance
  • Pandit Pran Nath - Midnight Raga Malkauns

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Eyes:
  • Friday New York Times
  • Lydia Davis - "Getting to Know Your Body" and "The Walk" from Varieties of Disturbance

Ears:
  • Roscoe Mitchell - Composition/Improvisation No. 1, 2 & 3
  • Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance
  • Steve Lacy - Sands
  • Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Beware
  • Brian Eno - Another Green World
  • Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil - Tropicalia 2

Friday, August 6, 2010

Ears:
  • Jimmy Giuffre - Olympia 23 Fevrier 1960 - 27 Fevrier 1965
  • Sun City Girls - 330,003 Crossdressers From Beyond the Rig Veda
  • Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance
  • The Stooges - The Stooges

Eyes & Ears:
  • Carrie Gundersdorf

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Eyes:
  • Smoke Signal Number 5 June 2010
  • J.G. Ballard - "Tomorrow is a Million Years" from The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard

Ears:
  • Endless Boogie - Full House Head
  • Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Beware
  • Wire - Chairs Missing
  • Jackie-O Motherfucker - Ballads of the Revolution
  • Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information
  • David Bowie - Lodger
  • Pandit Pran Nath - Midnight Raga Malkauns

Eyes & Ears:
  • "Severed Hands" from A Grin Without a Cat

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Eyes:
  • Tan Lin - "A Field Guide to American Cinema" and "Part II" from Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking
Ears:
  • Terminal 4 - s/t
  • Dana Gillespie - Andy Warhol
  • Boredoms - Super Ae
  • Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys Live at the Fillmore East
  • Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind
  • Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space

Eyes & Ears:
  • Jennifer Bolande
  • Cecelia Condit

Monday, August 2, 2010

Monday, August 2, 2010

Eyes:
  • Melissa Harris-Lacewell - "Katrina Is Not a Metaphor" from The Nation August 2/9, 2010
  • Gary Younge - "What Soccer Says About Us" from The Nation July 19/26, 2010
  • Barry Schwabsky - "The Changing Light at Craneway" from The Nation July 19/26, 2010
  • J.G. Ballard - "A Host of Furious Fancies" from The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard

Ears:
  • Sun City Girls - 330,003 Crossdressers From Beyond The Rig Veda
  • Dana Gillespie - Andy Warhol
  • Luc Ferrari - Cellule 75

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Eyes:
  • Sunday New York Times
  • Diane Williams - "A Shrewd and Cunning Authority", "The Everlasting Sippers", "The Power of Performance", "The Revenge", "The Capture", "The Guider of the Prick", "Excitability", "Speech", "For Diane", "Plural", "The Transformation", "Desperately Trying to Lie Down", "What Knowledge Is Most Worth Having?", "A More Detailed Account of This Is Out of the Question", "The Fuck", "My Reaction to Life", "The Dirty Necklace", "The Masturbator", "Thank You", "The Builder", "Escape", and "The Suitor" from The Stupefaction: Stories and a novella

Ears:
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago - Tutankhamun
  • various - 1971>1975 Modern Roots: Ethiopiques Vol. 25
  • Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
  • Endless Boogie - Full House Head
  • The Fall - Bury! b/w Cowboy Gregori
  • William Parker - The Inside Songs of Curtus Mayfield - Live in Rome
  • Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
  • Fennesz - Plays
  • Hoahio - Happy Mail
  • Ryoji Ikeda - Time and Space
  • Luc Ferrari - Cellule 75

Eyes & Ears:
  • Carrie Gundersdorf - The bottom of photos that look up at the sky and other observations