Steven Cerio Says Hello

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Hello everyone, Steven Cerio here. I had a few things to mention.   1.  The new site www.stevencerio.com is coming along. Only a few things up right now. It’ll have all of the modern amenities modern computer people have come to expect, including a blog (I have hundreds of posts prepared) and lots’a new stuff like paintings, [...] [...]

What the Future Sounded Like

Every Nun Needs A Synth

I’ve watched this documentary on EMS (Electronic Music Studios) every few months since I first discovered it. MAKE magazine blogged it a few days ago. I recently saw this awesome ad for the EMS VCS3 (below) at the excellent Issues Newsstand in Oakland, CA. Watch all three parts. Comprised of pioneering electronic musicians Peter Zinovieff and [...] [...]

Record Store Day 2010 is GO!

Somewhere in the world, Record Store Day has already begun as I write this. I’ve still got about a dozen hours until it gets going here. Pitchfork has a very fine guide to the event(s). Bob Gamber of Monterey’s Vinyl Revolution, A Truly Unique Record Store Providing The Monterey Bay Area with High Quality Collectible [...] [...]

Weirdo Records

Record Store Day is just two weeks away! We’re starting the countdown with this awesome stop-motion spot by Linda Aubry Bullock for Cambridge’s Weirdo Records. [...]

Bits and Bobs – Real quick Version

NEWAVE Minicomix brick gets rave review from The Onion’s AV Club Strotter Inst. and Offset Needle Radius Vs. birdorgan will be playing next Friday, April 2 at 119 Gallery in Lowell, MA Steve Goodman’s (AKA Kode9) Sonic Warfare book, which was written about here previously, now has a blog. Simon Gane has posted an excessively lovely illo to [...] [...]

Three For the Equinox

Sunday’s big live show from Wow Cool folks is Sun Worship IV, organized by Joshua Baker of Offset Needle Radius. There will be live sets from New England Phonographers Union, Warewolf, Crank Sturgeon, Marc Bisson, bunq, and of course, Offset Needle Radius at Buoy Gallery in Kittery, Maine. More details on the Offset Needle Radius [...] [...]

Scott Smallwood – Solar Trashfence Phone

1 weekend, 1 thrift store toy, 1 Arduino, and 1 obsessed geek. Scott is one half of Evidence, Brown Cuts Neighbors’ former steel pan player and the original drummer/co-conspirator in nickname: Rebel. [...]

Go Read: Lady Starlight Interview

Brown Cuts Neighbors co-founder Colleen Martin – Lady Starlight talks to ClubPlanet about her NYC nightlife history, working with Lady Gaga and her unacceptable fashion choices. [...]

Go Bookmark: homemade musical instruments

During at least the last two February’s, Ranjit Bhatnagar has built and blogged an instrument a day for the whole month. Ranjit works with interactive and sound installations, with scanner photography, and with internet-based collaborative art; and, he has been maintaining his personal web site moonmilk.com in one form or another since 1993. The moonmilk [...] [...]

nickname: Rebel Gear Blog 1: Gemini MPX-30

nickname: rebel MPX-30

The Gemini MPX-30 is a Cheap (typically under 200USD), versatile and somewhat reliable CD turntable with effects, cues, loops, etc. It has been a standby item in my house party DJ rig and a favorite tool for Hallowe’en mixes since my brother in law left it at my house over three years ago. It’s since [...] [...]

Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear

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This is the one book about sound you must read this year. I’ve been waiting for something like this for years and for this book since July. Steve Goodman, better known to the world as Kode9 of Hyperdub Records, delves into how sound has been used by government and industry to manipulate and control people. Description [...] [...]

No Pigeonholes Wow Cool Special

Don Campau and John Hayden at KKUP 91.5 FM

I was invited to be a special guest on Don Campau‘s excellent No Pigeonholes show at KKUP 91.5 FM’s new studios in San Jose on Sunday, December 13th, 2009. We breezed through 20 years of the Wow Cool label in two hours; and, featured at least a dozen tracks: from the first Wow Cool cassette [...] [...]

Atlantic Drone New LP Out Now

It’s official! The second LP from Atlantic Drone: A Vivified Sugar Cube Explains the Universe is out now on beautiful 12 inch vinyl. Masterminded by Steven Cerio and featuring Brown Cuts Neighbors’ Jason Martin and Bryan Kieser. Get yours today from Circadia Records. You can also download from iTunes (Cheap! Just $7.92) ATLANTIC DRONE was founded [...] [...]

The Wow Cool SF MusicTech Summit 2009 (2) Report

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Still absorbing everything from the latest SF MusicTech Summit, this past Monday. This is my second one, and they have been great experiences. For those who have no idea what the hell I’m talking about, here’s the description from their website: The SF MusicTech Summit brings together visionaries in the music/technology space, along with the best [...] [...]

Jason Martin – Two Times!

The esteemed Mister Jason Martin of Brown Cuts Neighbors and Evolution Revolution fame – the wolfman hisself – is making two rare public appearances in the next few days. Be sure to visit him at the NYU MFA Open Studios on Friday at the Barney Building and DO NOT MISS the big event! Jason will [...] [...]

Crossfire Holloween Massacre 2009 with DJ Lady Starlight

I’m assuming that’s some new multitouch interface that she’s working on the brick wall. Crazy party. Half-pipe, Metal, Public Enemy, Zombies, the usual. Good stuff. I like this video. Lady Starlight’s Rock N Roll High School is still the best blog in existence. Get on the Starlight MySpaceship. Blood, Guts and Glory, This party had it [...] [...]

Missed it: Tristan Shone Profiled by MAKE

Tristan Shone - Author + Punisher

I got to meet Tristan Shone AKA Author & Punisher this May at Maker Faire and again at SubZero in San Jose. He is one of the few sound artists I’ve encountered who is doing something that is both totally unique and sounds completely awesome. MAKE did a profile on Tristan and you really should [...] [...]

New Atlantic Drone LP Available to Order & Release Show Announced for Syracuse

Details have emerged about the new release by Atlantic Drone on the brand new Circadia Records out of Chicago. Atlantic Drone’s A Vivified Sugar Cube Explains the Universe will be issued in an edition of 500 (250 white and 250 black) on 180g vinyl. Each record also includes a signed and numbered, 11″ x 11″, [...] [...]

New Steven Cerio Print Previewed

This is freaking hot. Exclusive run of 500 copies to be included with the forthcoming Atlantic Drone LP A Vivified Sugar Cube Explains the Universe, the debut release by Circadia Records. Atlantic Drone is Steven Cerio’s psychedelic brainchild, and this new release includes contributions from Jason Martin, Sal Canzonieri, Dave Rick, JD King and many [...] [...]

fognozzle – In the Stomachs of Fleas video

fognozzle and Erling Wold Mark Alburger conducting the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra We, that is, fognozzle and Erling Wold, present for you a tale of fear, horror, xenophobia, political posturing and denial, all contained within a musical program piece of sorts, a savage delight for the senses and an allegory for today, this and that and [...] [...]

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