Just had a nice thing happen. I’m listening to the stream of Mary Anne Hobbs‘ Friday night experimental music show because Dr. Ellis recommended it. It’s two hours of “beatless” records on a show that normally has a lot of beats. That’ll be good working music, I thought, and it is. The stream should be there ’til this Friday if you want to check it out.
So I’m taking a break and hitting some links in my feed reader, loading up a few pages in the browser to investigate. As I’m reading some article I notice one of the tracks appears to be mixed up with a talk I recognise. The phrase “the interface just disappears” keeps cropping up. It’s some demo of a new technology that I remember seeing a few months back and it works really well. Neat, I think to myself.
Closing a tab I realise that it’s not part of the mix but a streaming video linked to by Gordon that I didn’t realise I’d loaded up. And then I discover the track it fitted so well with (at around 1:25 in) is by an artist called Xela who co-runs a label called Type with my Flickr chum Stef.
And all this makes me smile.
That video clip is worth checking out, by the way. It appeared months before the iPhone and shows a much more advanced form of touch screen manipulation. And related to this, I once tried to put this Ruby of Rails demo to music but my skills were lacking. I’d love for someone with the requisite ability to have a go though.
If you’d like to hear it past friday then on over to http://themixingbowl.org/