karl’s back. was he ever gone? reintroducing his own line with this very cool short directed by barnaby roper and music by tristan bechet.
ps. what’s going on with the logo? is there something i’m not getting? by kl
saw it and thought of ya! for pp. by dd
YEARS from Bartholomäus Traubeck on Vimeo.
landscapes to soundscapes, this is what artist bartholomäus traubeck has created this this piece ‘years’. it is a record player that translates the information on slices of wood into music by analyzing the rings for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. this data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music. you can read more about the project and the artist here. by kl
a spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. but what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality. at the end of every labour-process, we get a result that already existed in the imagination of the labourer at its commencement.
-karl marx
(on human nature and the beginning of capital)

ps. do you think i can get away with singing this to someone? only avec turtleneck, naturellement. by kl
“There’s no choice left in America anymore. Anything that’s authentic and genuine, anything that grew out of any sense of tradition, is wiped out. We’re left with this bland monoculture that’s swept over the whole country.”
-terry zwigoff