April 2010

April 29, 2010

A big interview I did with David Toop, one of my favorite writers, at Rhizome, in which we talk about sound, painting, and silence for about 3,000 words. (The full interview I did was about 8,000 words; it took me a long time to cut it down. I’ll have to post the whole thing at [...]

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April 18, 2010

To The Best of Our Knowledge, an NPR program produced by Wisconsin Public Radio, aired a great hour-long documentary this weekend about arts criticism. It includes a long interview with me, talking about writing my Eno book with the Oblique Strategies cards. (I start talking at about 28 and a half minutes in.) The documentary [...]

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Further thoughts on ’10 Ragas to a Disco Beat’

April 6, 2010

So what motivated Charanjit Singh to cut an acid house record in 1982, in India? (Here’s the reissue, if you’re new to the story.) What inspired him to play some ragas on a Jupiter-8 with some heavy 808 beats and squiggly 303 basslines? Over the past few days, I’ve been trying to piece the puzzle [...]

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April 6, 2010
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April 6, 2010

An alternate cover for my Eno book, as imagined by frenchbloke. I like this one.

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Epiphanies.

April 5, 2010

All this talk about 10 Ragas To a Disco Beat reminded me of an essay I wrote for The Wire six years ago. I just found it — here it is. EPIPHANIES The Wire, September 2004 by Geeta Dayal My dad was an organic chemistry professor, an eccentric sort who would often reel off Sanskrit [...]

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Thoughts on ’10 Ragas To a Disco Beat’

April 5, 2010

Last week, some friends of mine in New York and London — friends with very good taste in electronic music — told me I absolutely had to listen to 10 Ragas to a Disco Beat, a new reissue on the Dutch label Bombay Connection. The word going around the Internet is that this album, full [...]

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April 3, 2010

Was walking down the street in Cambridge and fell in love with this stencil, and the way it looked against the mottled, peeling wall. I took this snapshot with my cell phone, but you get the idea.

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April 1, 2010

A cool review of my book in the Vancouver mag Discorder.

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