NPR is streaming a new song from the band volcano choir. volcano choir is a collaboration of bon iver's justin vernon and collections of colonies of bees. hear here
Monday, August 31, 2009
volcano in winter
NPR is streaming a new song from the band volcano choir. volcano choir is a collaboration of bon iver's justin vernon and collections of colonies of bees. hear here
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Friday, August 21, 2009
a new new order
love will tear us apart (again and again and again)
the soundtrack to the time traveler's wife will feature broken social scene covering joy division's love will tear us apart. hear here.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
bass wiggle
stunning bass-string shot from urbanscreen on Vimeo.
apparently this is captured as raw footage, the only special effects being the shutter speed of the camera fusing with the frequency of the strings.
Friday, August 14, 2009
RIP lester william polsfuss (les paul)
06.19.1915 - 08.13.2009
i learned to play on borrowed guitars.
first was my sister's acoustic ... a nylon string job.
the first electric i learned to play on was a borrowed les paul.
it was black.
shiny.
30 pounds.
mother of pearl inlay.
i borrowed it for two years from a friend of a friend.
i could wax poetic about all of the great musicians that played les pauls, but in truth the experience of playing one... of learning electric on one... that means more to me.
les paul guitars feel substantive. heavy. solid. yet the strings and their relation to the pickups are incredibly delicate. the experience of learning on one was an immersion in dichotomy... path of least resistance...
there is reportedly a point in any mechanism, no matter how powerful, that can stop the mechanism with the slightest touch. i've read that a train can be stopped with a finger if you know where to put that finger.
a les paul guitar feels like every fret, every finger touch has that power.
the video shows two greats exercising that power, but also (and more importantly) that restraint. which just may be the definition of mastery.
i learned to play on borrowed guitars.
first was my sister's acoustic ... a nylon string job.
the first electric i learned to play on was a borrowed les paul.
it was black.
shiny.
30 pounds.
mother of pearl inlay.
i borrowed it for two years from a friend of a friend.
i could wax poetic about all of the great musicians that played les pauls, but in truth the experience of playing one... of learning electric on one... that means more to me.
les paul guitars feel substantive. heavy. solid. yet the strings and their relation to the pickups are incredibly delicate. the experience of learning on one was an immersion in dichotomy... path of least resistance...
there is reportedly a point in any mechanism, no matter how powerful, that can stop the mechanism with the slightest touch. i've read that a train can be stopped with a finger if you know where to put that finger.
a les paul guitar feels like every fret, every finger touch has that power.
the video shows two greats exercising that power, but also (and more importantly) that restraint. which just may be the definition of mastery.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
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