Rosano / Journal

75 entries for July 2021

Thursday, July 8, 2021

Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Open-source doesn't mean build it only in the ways defined by software tools like GitHub: we can meet up, talk about it, help each other, organize together in our own ways.

Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Sunday, July 4, 2021

Dopplebanger: Pussylicker

Mashes up three different songs with electronic grooves and well-placed cowbell.

Lil Nas X: MONTERO (2021)

Outside my milieu, genre-wise, but it’s a bodyshaker that deserves to be blasted on good speakers. The artist explores their sexuality with visual metaphors and vibrant colours.

Amy Winehouse: Cupid

From The Ska EP (2008) might be the song that gets me into ska—I would describe it as ‘uplifting’.

Don Cherry: Lito

From Live At The Bracknell Jazz Festival (1986). Featuring flinging tongues, African grooves, and drummer Ed Blackwell.

Ron Everett: Glitter of the City (1977)

Traditional jazz and swing sounds with weird stuff, and I dug several tracks: Royal Walk_ with warbly instrumentals, loops, screeching, spoken word; Tipsy Lady’s blues/hip-hop and old school drums; Pretty Little Girl’s singing off-key Latin vibe; the 8-bit bossa nova of Untitled No. 4.

Joana Queiroz: Memórias (2019)

Live performance where she builds sound structures with loop pedals and various clarinets, accompanied at times by graceful dancing. Sublime colouring in the photography and clothing.

Joana Queiroz: Performance sonora

Live improvised “sound performance” from 2021. There’s something pure and unfiltered about a human being making music with an acoustic instrument while walking through nature. Accompanying is the sound of birds, dogs, air, footsteps, singing, a self-playing accordion, a fireplace, frogs…

posted to Ephemerata

#009: mental cages · Fission event · Joana Queiroz

Joana Querioz: Diários de Vento (2016)

Seamlessly integrates nature and song and humanity: it’s the sound of someone enjoying instrument timbres and ambience. Around clarinet melodies there’s a duet with a fly, a child warbling their tongue, clanging pots and pans, squeaking of a rocking chair, lots of tasty sounds. Ai qué delicia!

Friday, July 2, 2021

Thursday, July 1, 2021

On Pioneers, Settlers, Town Planners and Theft.

[Pioneers build the first prototypes of new technologies. Settlers make it accessible profitable. Town planners make it a commodity that enables new pioneers.]

[Create incentives for each group to steal from the other.]

[Each group has a different culture. Not to be subsumed under 'company culture'.]