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Meh Clopstump is a founding member of New Zealand outsider sound art-rock triumvirate Bunky Slink Disorder and has been active as an arranger, guitarist and conceptual theoretician since Thursday. His glacial textures embellished the steady droning of drummer FFFfff! Smith Jr. (who famously never drums, preferring to drone) and stochastic inversions of accordionist Graeme bLeaK-SPaZz. Clopstrom’s debut solo excursion, Rockets of Sunlight Cascaded into Her Carousel Leaving Me to Kiss the Varnished Twilight excited many with its reverberant wash of guitar tone (just the one) based on the concept of strumming only “the best” two strings of a chord found in a scrap of manuscript found in a public urinal. The 356 tracks, all called ‘Whippet (Part 9)’ highlighted Clopstrum’s sensitivity to light and shade, and his short attention span.

Fall Leaves Fell on Your Limbs but the Ache of Your Belonging Will Always Leave me Resplendent in Cool Architectures of Distant Song is Clopstrom’s sophomore release and has continued the vector of the pre-sophomore release Rockets of Sunlight Cascaded into Her Carousel Leaving Me to Kiss the Varnished Twilight so ambitiously that it may not be understood by anyone who isn’t a clever blog music critic who always writes “sophomore” whenever he means “second” – unless of course, they are sophomores in Eng. Lit., because Fall Leaves Fell on Your Limbs but the Ache of Your Belonging Will Always Leave me Resplendent in Cool Architectures of Distant Song carries no less than one literary reference, a subtle homage to Joyce which most of you would have missed, in its sole (65 minute) track ‘Rosemary Came Away to the Rodeo in Shards of Daffodil Spores and Danced but We Left Her in Fields of Obsidian Regret and Translucent Rapture by that Afternoon’s Swift Longing’, this being the chant of “F***!” repeated every 10 minutes into a reverb unit with all the controls set to “11″ whilst Clopstump’s hamster, Charles, walks along the fretboard of his guitar – that’s Clopstump’s guitar of course, hamsters don’t own guitars, they just play them sometimes when guided by geniuses such as Clopstrom. I think.

In short, there is just one word that can adequately sum up this album, and that’s “sophomoric”. And there’s no higher praise for a sophomore album than that.

I give it 4 fuzzy spiders out of 5.

Disaster, you say?

An Important Message from Amazon’s shopping basket:

£0.02 you say? No, that’s too much of a shock. Buy! Sell! Paaaaaniiiic!

 
 
 
 

The original screenshot was chopped into 3 to fit into the narrow panes favoured by WordPress. Well, that’s one peeve of only two, the other being the weirdly scattered menus that the otherwise impressive WordPress system imposes on bloggers… But this Important Message was too important not to be shared!

 
 
 
 

Update! Market recovers! Disaster averted! Amazon brings us an update on the price of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, which:-

 
 
 
 

Dancing in the streets will ensue.

What’s this doing here?

Source: YouTube

Fission

Rogue Amoeba’s Fission for Mac OS X is an editor for sound files that is easy to use and has all of the really essential features required for day-to-day editing.

It is with MP3s that Fission really comes into its own, however, since it is able to work with MP3 files without decompressing them first. Most sound file editors have to decompress MP3 files and then compress them again if you specify MP3 as the output file format. That means degradation of the audio, since MP3 is a “lossy” format that produces small files at the cost of throwing some audio information away. With Fission, it isn’t an issue: you just load your MP3 file, edit it, and save it, confident that the audio quality has been maintained.

Here’s another use for Fission. On rare occasions, iTunes will be unable to permanently change the tags in an MP3 file, perhaps because there is some sort of corruption to the tag data. Load the MP3 into Fisison and save a copy. iTunes will work fine with the copy.

For more information about Fission, see Rogue Amoeba’s site. Their other products are also worth considering, especially Audio Hijack Pro.

Inspirational Unicorns

1. Believe in yourself!
2. Yes you can!

3. This space deliberately left blank.

Unusual music on demand

Rhubarb Radio’s Phantom Circuit can now be heard at whatever time you want by streaming the audio from here. All shows to date are available.

For playlists and other information, follow the Phantom Circuit weblog.

Oh, so Llolgaylol isn’t a village in Wales?

“Road sign carries email reply“

Articulation

Using music to underscore the articulation of speech is nothing new but this piano accompaniment to Sarah Palin’s speech pattern is nicely done.

The articulation used in music often mimics that of speech, but rarely so explicitly as in this installation.

The installation robot tends to repeat itself, so is perhaps particularly suited to mimicking the speech of presidential candidates, who are, understandably, keen to hammer certain scripted points home. Here is a wonderful compilation of “synchronised debating“.

Sometimes politicians and other actors forget their lines and then struggle to work out what the scene is all about. Prompt!

Public misled about TV detector vans?

“BBC admits that TV detector vans only work because Britons believe they do“.

The comments section links to some informative photographs.