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First published at A Closer Listen Joseph Sannicandro interviews Italian soundshaper Matteo Uggeri (Hue, Sparkle in Grey) in the second installment of an ongoing series searching for a relationship towards technology that doesn’t fetishize equipment, but rather valorizes the creative process itself. There is a long tradition of fetishizing musical equipment, be it as artists, fans…
First published at A Closer Listen Joseph Sannicandro interviews Rutger Zuydervelt, akaMachinefabriek, in the first installment of an ongoing series exploring the creative process and a non-fetishization of equipment. “A rather poor instrument,… but how wonderfully they use it.” In this quote, James Joyce is referring to the French language, but at its heart…
Originally published on The Silent Ballet, November 2010. Just 2 months ago, the anonymous Brooklyn-based tape loving ambient artist Black Swan took TSB by storm with Black Swan (In 8 Movements), certainly the most captivating debut in recent memory. (Review here.) Who was this arresting artist who managed to stir our emotions and imagination? An…
My first piece for OpenFile Montreal was published last month. Does the current structure of the rental board favour landlords over tenants? Quebec’s Régie du logement (the rental board) is a tribunal tasked with overseeing residential lease matters. It makes decisions on complaints and publishes guidelines on rent increases to try to make the relationship…
The following essay accompanies a 2-volume compilation of experimental Italian music I curated for The Silent Ballet, a webzine I co-founded in 2006, and Lost Children, a net-label I’ve been co-running since 2010. A link to a free download is included below. The compilation was release one year ago, and received some very nice press.…
The following 4 songs suggest something of a genealogy. Though each track has different structures and keys and changes (or lack there-of) the connection between the tracks is pretty obvious. The first single off Mogwai‘s latest LP clearly references the melody beginning in David Bowie‘s “Warszawa.” Beginning at 1:17, the key changes and the melody…
You can follow my tumblr here. I collect videos and sounds worth sharing, as well as my writings and reviews of mostly experimental music, and some other random mostly music related things. the new objective
Wu Ming is a collective of anonymous Italian authors, a group that grew out of the Luther Blisset collective, known for the popular novel Q. Wu Ming have been active for over a decade now, releasing many novels collectively and individually, as well as co-writing the script to Lavorare con Lentezza (Working Slowly), a fantastic…
And when it fails to recoup? Well, maybe: You just haven’t earned it yet, baby. -Morrissey The Smiths – “Paint a Vulgar Picture” When it comes to discussing the current state of the music industry, our core concepts are so poorly articulated and limited that most discussions are led astray before any progress is…
–Jacques Rancière, The Ignorant Schoolmaster (download the complete text at the link above) Rancière, in the early 1980s during a heated national debate on education in France, wrote his wonderful little book The Ignorant Schoolmaster, in which he looks back on “the great thinker of emancipation,” the post-French Revolution era schoolteacher Joseph Jacotot. Jacotot’s great…
I spent two months traveling around Europe during the summer of 2011. I began with a week in London, followed by a week in Paris, then a month in Italy before returning to London. I attended an independent music festival called TagoFest in Massa organized by Onga of Boring Machines, presented a paper at the…
by Joseph Sannicandro Joseph.Sannicandro@gmail.com As entertainment obessed consumers, we rarely ever think about where things come from, let alone the hidden costs of production. How is it that ethnic violence in central Africa has anything to do, causally, with my owning an iPhone or playing videogames? ——- The ravages of ethnic violence in the Congo,…
Sound Propositions 