Lawrence English – Kiri No Oto

Re–blog from Soundscaping.

I totally agree with Trym Asserson. Australian sound artist Lawrence English’s Kiti No Oto was one of last years best albums. I specially like Lullaby, a hypnotic piece dense in texture and highly repetitive.

Nam June Paik: Lessons From the Video Master

Yesterday UBUWEB published an excerpt from Skip Blumberg’s documentary Nam June Paik: Lessons From the Video Master. Shot in 2006 at Nam June’s funeral Skip asks people, among them several well known media artists, what they learned from Nam June. My favorite interview is with Japanese artist — as a glitch kid I adore his sound art — Yasunao Tone. Apparently the Master thought him spying techniques!