Converging in the quiet
August 13, 2009 at 10:33 am
People are aware of having too many external stimuli. What do you hear when you stop listening? The question is about whether anyone has an internal world any more.
- Kate Kellaway for the Guardian.
- Aphex Twin - Tha
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (R&S Records, 1993) - Crystal Stilts - Converging in the Quiet
Crystal Stils (Woodsist, 2008) - Radiohead - These are my Twisted Words
Unreleased - Smashing Pumpkins - Suffer
Gish (1991) - Memory Cassette - Listen to the Vacuum
Rewind While Sleeping EP (self, 2009) - Young Marble Giants - Music for Evening
Colossal Youth (Rough Trade, 1980)
You’ve begun, now use your props.
Kellaway is late… too much late…
Goodmorning Kellaway!!! :)
Thank you Moka, tnx
In Italy the problem said by Kellaway affects the 70% of the people… they vote for an old man that likes teen wores, affiliate with the mafia, condamned several times by the law.
He rules 6 tv media, several newspapers and an editing company… and much much more.
Goodmorning Kellaway!!! :D
Great, great list Moka! Keep up the good work!
Jungle: I don’t see what Kellaway’s piece has to do with politics… if anything it’s a condemnation of what technology has brought us, namely this hyperconnected world where our individual voices are silenced by the brain-dead megaphone of e-mails, social networks, chats, etc. . There was a good article in the New Scientist this week on how hyperconnectivity stifles scientific advancement because we need time to think out our theories on our own, not have them instantly torn asunder by the onslaught of the surrounding world.
thanks for posting the radiohead song up moka! i was telling myself to listen to it
also please check your email :)
Hi Agi, from my point of view you don’t see what Kellaway’s piece has to do with politics because you don’t want to see it.
I mentioned the biggest example I know of what external stimuli can make on people: they live a fake reality, they think what the establishment want them to think, they feel the fears they want them to fell…. and so on.
I think with my mind, not with the Kellaway’s one.
Thank you for the convergence and the ascendance.
Nice post Moka (as usual). I like the photo too. Do you know who made it?
very risky to accept it’s a radiohead song, even today.
Jan: Terribly sorry for not putting the image credit up before. I found it via Buamai and forgot to credit. Here’s the photographer’s link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trans_parent/3356074115/
Marto: That is definitely Thom Yorke on vocals and the music does sounds very reminiscent to the b-sides from the amnesiac era. Can’t really tell if it’s really a new song but I think it’s pretty safe to assume it’s them.
Moka: thanks!
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