Electronic music pioneer Milton Babbitt (1916-2011)
Composer Milton Babbitt died yesterday at the ripe old age of 94. I have always adored his piece Ensembles For Synthesizer, composed from 1962-64 on…
Author: Brad Laner
Articles by Author: Brad Laner
John Cage chats with John Lennon & Yoko Ono (1972)
This is nothing too profound, in fact it’s rather goofy and quite amusing to see how giddy the two Johns are around each other, but…
Future of Music app tells you what not to listen to
What a brilliant antidote to the current highly lame trend of attempted personalised music selection software (Pandora,etc). This Brian Whitman fellow has got it right…
The making of John and Yoko’s Plastic Ono Band LPs
Over the weekend via that most wonderful invention known as Netflix Instant View I caught an excellent documentary on the making of the John Lennon/Plastic…
The gentle VHS madness of Robert Ashley’s Perfect Lives
Electronic and text-sound music pioneer Robert Ashley‘s video opera (developed over a period of time from the mid 70’s to the early 80’s) is, in…
Tarkovsky’s Polaroids
Initially published in 2006, Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids revealed a selection of enigmatic shots taken in Italy and at Tarkovsky’s home, thick with atmosphere, that…
Let’s dance for the great guy Bruce Lee
My wonderful old friend that I miss terribly, the late, great Jac Zinder was a true visionary pioneer in his pursuit of the artifacts of…
Keith Richards: experimental synthesist
I had no earthly idea about this until just this moment. From the rare movie Umano non Umano by Mario Schifano. Shot in ‘69, released…
D.U.I.: Lost 80’s Los Angeles Noise Punk Performance Art Documentary
Although it was covered in the Los Angeles Times and shown at a couple of high profile film festivals, Spike Stewart’s mid 80’s doc “D.U.I.”…
