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Album Review

Blink: The Epidemic of Ideas

Read "The Epidemic of Ideas" reviewed by Lyn Horton


Force fields emanate from and pour back into a source. This dynamic creates a self-generating system. When a group of musicians conglomerate, each playing a different instrument, each intent on developing a specific sound idea, but all beginning from a center, their dynamic is a self-generating system similar to the way force fields work. Blink embodies the boldness to self-generate, The Epidemic of Ideas its recorded results.

The minute-long first track, appropriately titled “Sum," is an overture for how each ...

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Album Review

Blink: Blink

Read "Blink" reviewed by Chris May


Although it's a record on which three adventurous London musicians each contribute to making the earth move, Blink may one day be best remembered as the album with which pianist Alcyona Mick started getting taken very seriously indeed.

Still in her mid-twenties, Mick is a jazz player whose style is enriched by her love of contemporary classical music. Here, she reveals herself as a composer and improviser who has absorbed her diverse early influences--amongst them Thelonious ...

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Recording

Scanner and the Post Modern Jazz Quartet - Blink of an Eye

Scanner and the Post Modern Jazz Quartet - Blink of an Eye

Source: Something Else!

By Mark Saleski The area of electro-acoustic music encompasses so many different sounds and constructions that the label itself is nearly meaningless. As the name implies, it is music created with both acoustic and electronic instruments. On my list of favorites are the Anthony Braxton/Richard Teitelbaum collaboration featuring synthesizers and contrabass clarinet, and Alvin Lucier's I Am Sitting In A Room. This pairing is instructive if only to illustrate that the two musics sound nothing like each other. The first ...

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Scanner with The Post Modern Jazz Quartet "Blink of an Eye" Available Now on Thirsty Ear Recordings

Scanner with The Post Modern Jazz Quartet "Blink of an Eye" Available Now on Thirsty Ear Recordings

Source: Peter Gordon

The blending of jazz and electronics has been one of the more difficult musical challenges, as it attempts to humanize the machine or mechanize the free spirit of improvisation. It's a very tricky balance to get right, as they can be on a collision course with each other. British artist Robin Rimbaud traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form, creating absorbing, multi-layered sound pieces that twist technology in unconventional ways. From his early controversial work using found ...

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Technology

In Face-Off With China, Google Blinks

In Face-Off With China, Google Blinks

Source: All About Jazz

Google said it will stop automatically redirecting web searchers in China to an uncensored portal in Hong Kong as it hopes to convince Beijing to renew its operating license in the world's largest Internet market.

Google's unexpected announcement comes ahead of Wednesday's deadline when the Internet giants license is up for renewal.

Its clear from conversations we have had with Chinese government officials that they find the redirect unacceptable, and that if we continue redirecting users, our Internet Content Provider ...

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Music Industry

Blink-182 Drummer and DJ AM Critically Burned in Jet Crash That Kills 4

Blink-182 Drummer and  DJ AM Critically Burned in Jet Crash That Kills 4

Source: All About Jazz

Mayor: 'It's Absolutely Terrible And Tragic'

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity DJ AM were critically injured in a fiery Learjet crash in South Carolina that killed four people, authorities said Saturday.

Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said the plane carrying six people was departing shortly before midnight Friday when air traffic controllers reporting seeing sparks. The plane headed for Van Nuys, Calif., went off a runway, through a fence and crashed on a nearby ...

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Blink

Loop Records
2008

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The Epidemic of Ideas

Thirsty Ear Recordings
2008

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