http://artificeeternity.com/voltage/index.php Voltage Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:46:39 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss092 voltage@artificeeternity.com voltage@artificeeternity.com en I'm not a lifelong Tron fan, and like any geek I've been burned by movies that didn't live up to their hype. But still -- this looks cool: The glitched, super-digital hardness of the music in that trailer comes courtesy of Daft Punk. I'm looking forward to hearing more ... http://artificeeternity.com/voltage/index.php?p=1358&c=1 Sunday, February 28, 2010 SPLICE @ The Quarterly Arts Soirée, Webster Hall Join us on Sunday, February 28 for a very special edition of SPLICE at Webster Hall! We'll be bringing our brand of eclectic electronics to the first-ever Quarterly Arts Soirée. The QAS is a day-long, all-ages creative festival that will fill ... http://artificeeternity.com/voltage/index.php?p=1357&c=1 The Unsound Festival, a celebration of electronic and experimental music based in Poland, has landed in NYC for a week. The festival mixes well-curated musical events with in-depth panels and presentations about the past, present, and future of electronica. On Saturday, I attended The Hidden History of the Vocoder, presented ... http://artificeeternity.com/voltage/index.php?p=1356&c=1 Here are La Roux and Heaven 17, performing Terence Trent D'Arby's "Sign Your Name Across My Heart" at the BBC's Maida Vale studio last Tuesday, January 26: http://artificeeternity.com/voltage/index.php?p=1355&c=1 The 3D film Magic Journeys was one of the star attractions at EPCOT Center when it opened in 1982; it later played at various other Disney parks. I first saw it when I was about 13. The plotless montage of natural vistas, laughing children, and fantasy scenes, accompanied ... http://artificeeternity.com/voltage/index.php?p=1354&c=1 The classic video for "The Telephone Call" perfectly manifests Kraftwerk's blend of minimalism, noir nostalgia, and melancholy: For a final dose of techno-historical vertigo, read the comments, in which younger YouTube viewers puzzle over how dial telephones actually worked. Previously: "We take back the culture of the '30s..." http://artificeeternity.com/voltage/index.php?p=1353&c=1 This piece, by the Guardian's Simon Reynolds, is a very nice overview of how the electropop of the 1980s was resurrected and transformed in the 2000s. It traces the musical threads of the last decade, from Adult. and Daft Punk, thru Tiga and Fischerspooner, to La Roux and Lady ... http://artificeeternity.com/voltage/index.php?p=1352&c=1 Geeta Dayal reviews the book Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear by Steve Goodman:Goodman analyzes "environments, or ecologies, in which sound contributes to an immersive atmosphere or ambience of fear and dread--where sound helps produce a bad vibe." Goodman catalogs a litany of military uses of sound that ... http://artificeeternity.com/voltage/index.php?p=1351&c=1 Ta-Nehisi Coates (and commenters) discuss what he calls White Music You Were Allowed To Like -- that is, new wave and synthpop jams from the early '80s that crossed over to gain a big African-American audience:Despite hip-hop ruling us in the 80s, and the general prohibition on "liking that white ... http://artificeeternity.com/voltage/index.php?p=1350&c=1 BEST ALBUMS Arvo Pärt - In Principio DJ Hell - Teufelswerk Glomag - Roland and the Lamprey Kutiman - ThruYou La Roux - La Roux Pet Shop Boys - Yes Tiga - Ciao! Vitalic - Flashmob BEST ALBUMS OF THE DECADE Adult. - Resuscitation Daft Punk - Discovery Dangermouse - The Grey Album Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights Ladytron - Light & ... http://artificeeternity.com/voltage/index.php?p=1305&c=1