slow loss

somebody mentioned my album 'contemplation through meditation' as one of their favorite ambient albums of the year

finally a little bit of feedback on it!

January 27, 2012, 6:02pm

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January 27, 2012, 5:22pm

mysterydriver:

Voight-Kampff machines, guns and fire hydrants. Go through the eye for a (limited) gift.

righteous gift.

Reblogged from Steve Moore.

Tags: blade runner sketchbook

January 27, 2012, 5:22pm

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movementandwonder:

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thesixthear:

Another stunning sample from the forthcoming Keith Fullerton Whitman LP on Editions Mego.

sink yr teeth into this modular dankness.

he’s coming here in a couple of weeks. i have to remember to go check it out!

you lucky bastard! zone out for meh~

Played 546 time(s).

Reblogged from Movement and wonder in space.

January 27, 2012, 2:52pm

$cwnl: Sunset on the Alien Planet HD209458b: Osiris The amazing image above of a sunset on exo-planet HD209458b 150 light years away, was reconstructed by Frederic Pont of the University of Exeter using data from a camera onboard the Hubble Space Telescope. Pont used his knowledge of how the color of light changes based on chemicals it encounters, and computer modeling, to create an actual image of what a sunset on the actual planet would look like. The large exo planet in question, exoplanet HD209458b, nicknamed Osiris, circles its star rather closely. At certain points, when the planet passes between us and its star, the light from that star passes through Osiris’s atmosphere before reaching us, which allowed Pont to determine the chemical composition of the atmosphere and deduce what colors would appear to the naked human eye. The light from Osiris’s star is white, like our own sun, but when it passes through the sodium in Osirisi’s atmosphere, red light in it is absorbed, leaving the starlight to appear blue. But as the sun sets, the blue light is scattered in the same way as it is here on Earth (Rayleigh scattering) causing a gradual change to green, and then to a dim dark green. And finally, due to diffraction, the bottom of the image becomes slightly flattened.$

cwnl:

Sunset on the Alien Planet HD209458b: Osiris

The amazing image above of a sunset on exo-planet HD209458b 150 light years away, was reconstructed by Frederic Pont of the University of Exeter using data from a camera onboard the Hubble Space Telescope.

Pont used his knowledge of how the color of light changes based on chemicals it encounters, and computer modeling, to create an actual image of what a sunset on the actual planet would look like.

The large exo planet in question, exoplanet HD209458b, nicknamed Osiris, circles its star rather closely. At certain points, when the planet passes between us and its star, the light from that star passes through Osiris’s atmosphere before reaching us, which allowed Pont to determine the chemical composition of the atmosphere and deduce what colors would appear to the naked human eye.

The light from Osiris’s star is white, like our own sun, but when it passes through the sodium in Osirisi’s atmosphere, red light in it is absorbed, leaving the starlight to appear blue. But as the sun sets, the blue light is scattered in the same way as it is here on Earth (Rayleigh scattering) causing a gradual change to green, and then to a dim dark green. And finally, due to diffraction, the bottom of the image becomes slightly flattened.

Reblogged from THERIOMORPHIC HERALDS.

January 27, 2012, 2:44pm

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thesixthear:

Keith Fullerton Whitman. New album out Feb. 21st, 2012 on Editions Mego.

Over the course of a year, Keith Fullerton Whitman performed a piece of live electronic music a few dozen times entitled “Generator.” The debut was given in San Francisco at Root Strata’s “On Land” festival at Cafe Du Nord on September 19th, 2009 … over the months that followed stagings took place in venues ranging from flooded basements to festival stages in Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, Easthampton, Iowa City, Jamaica Plain, Northampton, Raleigh, Saint Louis, San Francisco, Somerville, & Washington D.C.
This LP covers the final two performances of the piece over two consecutive evenings ; the opening solo set from the final night of “High Zero” festival in Baltimore at the Theater Project, September 26th, 2010, then the performance during the “For Eliane” night of the “Propensity of Sound” festival dedicated to Eliane Radigue’s work at Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, September 27th, 2010. These recordings show the piece in two different iterations, taking two different trajectories entirely. They’re considered as the definitive versions of the piece.
Composed for, and realized with a scalable selection of digital & analogue modular synthesis equipment, “Generator” was at attempt to wrest a viable performance-based music out what had until then been a solitary set of sound-design tools. The piece grew out of a frustration with the limitlessness of computer-based real-time synthesis & algorithmic / generative systems vs. their utter failure as performance solutions. It hinges heavily on the ideology of the “Playthroughs” system (in that the subtle tuning inconsistencies of a physical instrument - the electric guitar - could be amplified & multiplied) through the use of multiple layerings of different topologies of oscillator, yielding an unstable array of modal canons that drift in & out of “tune,” causing all manner of inter-voice beating & assorted psycho-acoustic effects.
Keith Fullerton Whitman is a musician based in Cambridge, MA, USA. Previous releases include “Generator” (Root Strata #62, 2010), “Live Generators (1)” (Protracted View #041, 2010), “Live Generators (1.5)” (Agents of Chaos #7028, 2010) & “Chicago Generators” (Hyperdelic #7 , 2010

Played 456 time(s).

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January 27, 2012, 2:41pm

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