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Clarity Jones winter ambient pics
t's October and the days are getting shorter, nights cooler and the late night listening is turning to a moodier nature. Icy synths and church ready atmospherics all are signs of the approaching winter's midi melancholy. Clarity Jones ambient pics this winter showcase the best whirrs, crackles and drones set to rhythm around. It starts with the best and the rest follow in take it as you wish order.
Beehatch
BEEHATCH
Having played together over a decade ago in the group Download, Phil Western and Mark Spybey, make good on the name by recollaborating solely online for the richly textured drones and breaks of Beehatch - a brilliant sonic odyssey.
Lens Records
The Happy Error
MICHAEL SANTOS
Michael Santos' The Happy Error skims a whisper thin border between cinematic ambient and mood enhancing sound art. Santos subtle melodies layered with soft electrical crackles and plenty of atmospheric whirs, pops and drones, transcend their circuit board womb with a surprising amount of warmth.
Baskaru Records
This Liquid Sky
NOISE LEVEL
Rising Robot Nation
anguard journalist Adam Yamaguchi demonstrates that once again the future is now as he points his camera on the emerging robotic work force of Japan. Making up for Japan's declining population and ultra-restrictive immigration policy, these humanoid robots are both essential and shockingly life like, asking questions of who or what qualifies as a functioning member of society.
Making Plastic Float Plastiki Style
lastiki is a 60 foot sailboat made entirely from recycled plastic bound for a transpacific journey from San Francisco to Sydney. Though creator and eco-adventurer David De Rothchild claims to be but one pixel in the bigger picture, he deserves serious kudos for melding concern, inspiration and adventure into an attempt to shift our perceptions of waste.
After 3 years of construction, The Plastiki is due to set sail by year's end, and if you want to follow her voyage check out Plastiki.com You can visit mission control Wednesday to Sunday: 11am - 4pm at Pier 45, The Embarcadero, in San Francisco
The Bane of My Existence
lastic, I love it. I hate it. Plastic houses my laptop; it makes up my plumbing; it keeps my sandwiches fresh and it's the foundation of my music collection. How would we exist without rubbermaid. What would the world be with out ceran wrap. Plastic seems necessary and insidious and it doesn't go anywhere, ever, literally.
