Good Night

A Post Midnight Selection

I was going to post this earlier but fell asleep, so now it is a post-midnight thing for your lugholes.


PJ Harvey - On Battleship Hill

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Enjoy.

Node

If you love old synths and such like then chill out time is here -

Node - Live

This video pairs up two Node concerts: The visuals from Paddington Station & the sound from their EMMA concert.

Node Live at Paddington Staion 1995

Node - Perpetuum Mobile 1

Node is a quartet includingt two well-known producers, Flood (U2, etc) and Ed Buller (Suede!),who are also collectors of massive prehistoric analogue synthesizers - the sort of huge edifices, patched together with jack-to-jack leads, that look like they must require planning permission to erect. This spells out Tangerine Dream in letters writ large. What makes Node so compelling is that the tracks are more abstract and more rhythmically exciting than their influences (of course, Node have the advantage of 20 years or more musical history behind them, and better studio technology), plus the analogue sounds are warmer and more seductive than their dlgital peers.

Node - Clock

Track 01 - Clock from Node - Node
1995 Deviant Records

Edited By – Matthew Denny
Engineer – Traci Sherman
Mastered By – Simon Hayworth*
Synthesizer [Interactive Phrase] – Dave Bessell
Synthesizer [Modular Moog] – Ed Buller
Synthesizer [The Putney] – Flood
Trumpet [Ring Modulated] – Gary Stout

Node made three albums on CD before disbanding.

Note - they can be confused with heavy metal thrash band Node.

Bedroom Community

Bedroom Community is a label from Iceland , an ideal and a community of artists -


Valgeir Sigurðsson - Draumalandið (Dreamland) Documentary

Here are a few music examples from Draumalandið (Dreamland), a documentary about the exploitation of Iceland's natural resources, tells a story about huge things—the fortunes of a whole nation; the destruction of vast landscapes; and the global economic forces, greater still than any nation, that fuel it all—and for his soundtrack to the film, Valgeir has brought out a heavier set of tools. His entire roster of Bedroom Community labelmates contributes in some way to the creation of the score: classical composers Nico Muhly and Daníel Bjarnason, industrial wizard Ben Frost, and American folksinger Sam Amidon, along with a host of others, and the small orchestra assembled for the record swells from moments of expansive beauty into massive, surging symphonic force. Its harmonies are anxious, pulsing, driven.

Everything Everywhere All The Time (Official Trailer)

Reviewed in Wire mag - of course - the double DVD is cheap at £.4.50 brand new via Amazon. DVD 1 is the documentray (1 hour) and DVD 2 is the 2 hour live concert and yes i have this in my collection.


And the individuals -

( Artists under the cut )

As alwyas, my ears are attuned to the new and vibrant bringing you unheard of musics.

Enjoy.

Does Space Have An Edge ?

Here’s an artists impression/map of the entire observable universe. The artist, Pablo Carlos Budassi, has used an exponential scale to make it fit. You will see the Earth/Solar system in the centre, and as you move out, the scales increases exponentially. The light travelling back to us from the “edge” is showing what it looked liked in 13.8 billion years ago (when it was really small!?).




Is there “empty space” outside the universe? The answer is almost certainly NO. First, when we say universe, we should be saying “observable universe.” That’s what we can see, and by definition we’re at the center. But there’s nothing special about us, our 3rd rock from the sun, the milky way, any of it. There’s no reason to believe that the universe doesn’t stretch on forever, and that on large scales its uniform and just like our own. And all this stuff exploded from a tiny smaller scale about 13.8 billion years ago, but it didn’t explode “into” empty space. Space expanded rapidly, carrying things apart like raisins in bread (they are themselves not moving relative to the bread, but the bread is expanding).

This beautiful — and scientifically designed — picture does not answer the question. Every curious, thinking person asks, if the universe is finite, what is there beyond it? If it is infinite, what is that, really? we are asking about two concepts virtually impossible to visualize: infinity and oblivion. The latter means the existence of absolute nothing, which in a contradictory way cannot even fit the word “existence.” Nothing, the void.. When the universe dies, again there will be nothing, no space, no time, no light, no dark, no anything. On the other hand, theoretical physicists are coming up with explanations such as wormholes, parallel universes, eleven dimension space based on string theory, membrane theories and so on.

Perhaps this space has no edge and that everything within the niverse is just that but then we are creeping towards metaphysics .. just that i find this all so fascinating.

{from Quora}

Libration

The libration of the moon  is the wagging or wobbling of the Moon perceived by Earth-bound observers which is caused by changes in their perspective. It permits an observer to see slightly different halves of the surface at different times. The libration is a product of the moon's elliptical (elongated) orbit. Although the moon's rotation, or spin, goes at a nearly constant rate, its orbital speed varies, going fastest at perigee (moon's closest point to Earth) and slowest at apogee (moon's farthest point from Earth).

In Gillingham

I suppose it was time for the dry weather to finally succumb to some precipitation. Well, it sure did rain today. I was not going to out but one of my companies wanted a job done today so that they do not lose out of their quotas. Ah diddums. More likely the executive's bonus i thought. Anyway, it was in Gillingham and yes it crapped most of the day.

I did take some shelter in a very friendly micro pub called Past And Present. Had a very tasty Goachers Stout Ale.

Found a copy of that lovely album by Emiliana Torrini on CD for 25p in a charity shop whilst in the town. This is the one she did in 1999 which has "Summerbreeze" on it, which just makes me all tingly.

It was a tremendous find!

Wednesday Women in Music Selection

More musical vibrations , nutations and librations -

Emiliana Torrini - Easy

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Enjpy.