4
November

David Burdeny’s Incredible Iceberg Photography : TreeHugger

Simply: WOW

David Burdeny is an architect and interior designer. He is also a skilled photographer.

His iceberg series shows that these frozen giants are far more than platforms for penguins: They are floating sculptures that are becoming increasingly endangered.

 

no comments

2
September

various

Other sites worth visiting. Careful, some may be very naughty.

Friends, Family, etc:

    the dendrites – Good friend Ryan and Alyssa’s band in Portland, OR… also includes Todd, Rob, Jen and Joel. 

    fernando poo – blog of another friend and fellow music fanatic, Eric, who dj’s all around as “Big Brother”.

    glory kill sound system – music from my friend Eric of Wichita, KS in the style is drill and bass and pretty damn good. perhaps we will see more music from him sometime soon. hint hint.

    here lies my dingosity – good friend jamies blog from way up north.

    rachel’s site - my lil sister. isnt she oh so sweet?!!

Other Sites:

    absorb – “an online resource dedicated primarily to electronic music” 

    artlad – Something about a six year-old art blogger is both creepy and inspiring. Hey, even Neil Gaiman thought so…

    banned music – “…to make it impossible for the five major record labels to use legal threats to stifle music.. advocate for common-sense reforms to copyright law that can make sampling legal and practical for artists”

    barcode magazine – another electronic music review source.

    black sun productions – homoerotic performance artists. NSFW

    disinformation – be disinformed. (un)learn something.

    electrofreaks – electroclash/synthpop/electronic music discussion

    garageband.com – both professionals and amatures use this site to promote music. many great, free finds from this site (if you can wade through the large amount of crap) – think old mp3.com but 20x better.

    gaywired – news source for you nancy-boys.

    generative.net – website highlighting various generative (computer assisted, often continuosly self manipulating) projects and artists

    glowdot – online idm/electro/techno music community with very nice radio stations.

    grooves – the mecca of IDM/experimental/electronic reviews. perhpaps the inspiration for this blog. the magazine itself is much better then the site, so subscribe damnit.

    muisc – “experimental lifestyle magazine”

    negative3 – “N3 is a unique brand that is committed to the act of bridging the gap between media and entertainment. Our goal is to seamlessly combine our distinctive mix of audio + visual + design backgrounds to create an entirely new level of total user experience.”

    rotten – yeah, its morbid, its sick… and i visit it daily. NSFW

    something awful – need to waste about 16 hours?

 

no comments

12
May

Local

New Orleans related links

New Orleans area bands, artists, etc…
this is only a collection of my fave local artists in any medium. Please visit neworleansbands.com for a comprehensive list

    Atone Pain Tribe – local body modification/suspension crew. not recommended for the squeemish or for those at work. 

    Backporch Revolution – Local record label featuring Chef Mentaur, Electrical Spectacle and The Buttons (among others).

    Chef Mentaur – Electronic post-rock heaven.

    The Eames Era – Indie Rock.

    nothingistrue.org – website/blog of good friend and fellow aspiring mental patient Brian. Website includes images of his own artwork with photography and paintings.

    Rotary Downs - Impressive sedative indierock

    The Band That Fell To Earth - Straight-forward rock and roll

    Torrent Vaccine – One of NoLa’s few good electronic “bands”

Venues

    The Howlin Wolf- 828 South Peters

    TwiRoPa – @ Tchoupitoulas St. and Orange Street in the Warehouse District 

     

Other New Orleans related sites

    A New Machine – blog of nola rivetheads. 

    Dark Entry – Clothing for those of us who prefer black.

    Gargoyles – More clothing for those of us who prefer black.

    Immortelle – “A pictorial tour of New Orleans’ Cities of the Dead”

    nola-goth.org – mother site for the email list.

    Rings of Desire – THE place in NoLa to get another hole in your body.

    WTUL 91.5 new orleans – local radio station for Tulane University. Its no KJHK, but its the best we’ve got in the south.

 

no comments

23
August

honestly fucking fantastic: dub fx

A bloke, his voice and some effect pedals. A street musician in one of it’s purest forms. Dub FX just feels good.

I’ve only recently discovered Benjamin Stanford’s work via word of mouth and YouTube and have already found everything I could by this man – bootlegs and official material. It just that good. Really.

I’ve found that the melodies are fantastic, the beats raw and invigorating, the innovation relentless… though I’m not really describing the album titled ‘Everythinks a Ripple’ but the live material found on video all over YouTube (see below). This is a case where the ‘real’ is far superior to the posed, produced, polished and manicured. It’s Benjamin’s performance that seals the deal. I would NEVER throw my copy of ‘Everythink…’ in the trash but I certainly would prefer a quality recording of streetside emotion and honesty over a refined-by-q-tips take any day, any hour, any way… at least for now.

Enjoy the tracks below. Please watch each at least once through to the end. If you don’t choke up while watching any of these videos you have ventured too far from the wall and your emotional self has become unplugged.

‘Flow’, the second video is my personal fave.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhBoR_tgXCI

no comments

28
June

perfect: second-line for mj

My adopted home does the man right.

Need I say, yet again, how much I love New Orleans? Yes. Yes I do.

They gathered on a 7th Ward corner to offer a traditional, raucous New Orleans send off befitting a king.

Just before dusk Sunday, the Revolution Social Aid & Pleasure Club began its march down St. Bernard Avenue, leading a second-line parade to honor Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, who died Thursday at age 50.

Joe Black, Revolution founder and organizer of the parade, said his initial estimate of 1,500 people was probably low.

 

no comments

18
June

vid: fever ray – ‘triangle walks’

 

Triangle Walks from Fever Ray on Vimeo.

no comments

2
July

Tweets? hmm, point taken

So, I get this comment today:

“I don’t mean to sound harsh here but its quite borring to receive your ‘tweets’ in my RSS reader. I keep getting the most banal stuff from this blog mixed in with really good content. Which means I’m forced to unsubscribe from your otherwise great blog…”

Harsh? Yeah, actually it was.. but a good point.  I love Twitter. I use it for everything, updates to TWX, personal crap.. and I do see how this can ps3 be a bit underwhelming.  So, Tweets will no longer be included as blog posts. Instead, I will use something in the sidebar soon, a mini feed or badge. I am not doing away with it altogether because it often includes changes, uploads and just general on-the-go stuff that I feel readers might have interest in. So, please, if you enjoy the Tweets, visit and subscribe to my Twitter Feed – you’ll get the more personal things and the undercurrent that I just don’t want to make a full blog post about… sometimes it may be exclusive content!

On that note, if you love Twitter/Facebook/Last.FM etc and are motorola looking for invites to SocialThing.com, I still have plenty of invites left. It’s a fantastic free service that ties your social dell sites together. Leave a comment if your interested!

Sorry you had to unsubscribe, Anon. I don’t want to loose readers. I hope you return and find that you may have helped things along. To those still around, hopefully you can see that speed is picking up around here and will continue to do so… now if I can only get more feedback on what people want! I KNOW yalls are out there…

 

No comments yet

12
June

noise

Various webstations of interest.
Hover to view a short description, click station name to listen.

ab-cd / amped out / brainwashed radio / cliq hop / cryosleep / detroit industrial underground / digital gunfire / drone zone / emb radio / fail’s audio workshop / indie pop rocks / immortal continuum /intelligentdancemusic.com / invisible radio / kjhk 90.7, lawrence / kuci 88.9, irving / limbik frequencies / rand()% / static beats / tormented radio / wzbc 90.3. boston

if you have any suggested stations, info, questions playstation 3 or have problems with any specific link (or even a problem with it being on this blog) please contact me

 

Music technology, resources, etc…
Sites for the tools of the trade

“Established” software/hardware developers and manufacturers

    Ableton /Access / Alesis / Korg / Moog / Native Instruments / Novation / Ohm Force / Paia / Propellerhead / Roland / Sony / Steinberg / Yamaha / 

free patch libraries/vst instruments/effects, DIY equiptment, sources and resources and other strange finds

    The Cracklebox – Neat lil’ contact noisemaker. Feel free to get me one.

    Create Digital Music – Blog of music tools and various other music-related strangeness

    Database Audio – “freeware resources for the electronic musician” very impressive collection of free online/vst/stand-alone software.

    Find Sounds – handy dandy way notebook of searching the web for, say, the sound of a flyswatter (this too has its uses)

    Hitsquad – hmm, just a good resource for musicians all around.

    Hollow Sun – site that “preserves” old classic electronic instruments.

    Museum of Soviet Synths – Just about says it all. Some very nice toys here.

    Music Thing – blog of synth oddities, instruments long forgotten and just general strangeness.

    Patch Arena – huge collection of patches for many, many software programs (effects, synths) as well as hardware toys.

    Reasonfreaks – a user created resource for all things related to propellerheads’ “reason” software

    Retrothing – New blog of yesterday’s strange gear and mechanical toys.

    Shifty Death Synth – D.I.Y. effects box.

    Synthtopia – Another music tech news site

    Tweakbench – 13 free vsti’s, 8 free vst effects, some of the best plugins I have found.

Online musical toys (this is the cure-for-boredom section)

    BPoeM – Pattern sequencer 

    Kompact Kittens – “A tribute to minimal techno”

    Pâte à Son – French Oddity

    Repercussion – Impressive iphone 4 (but not always musical) 3d sound enviroment

    Soft – Flash based noise machine

    Sonic Wire Sculptor – Cyclic tone toy in Java

    The Mixulator – Umm, scary scary

 

no comments

16
June

Antigravity


Antigravity Magazine, an excellent New Orleans area rag that features interviews, reviews and more from many of the same artists mentioned here on TWX.
external player:

  • >Volume 3 / Issue 3 – The Kingsbury Manx, the Unicorns, David Fridlund, The Fatales, Camoflouge Nights, Mobius Band and Black Lipstick.
  • >Volume 3 / Issue 2 – Broken Spindles, The Eames Era, Soft, Death From Above 1979, Clann Zú, Battery Operated and The Juan Maclean.
  • >Volume 3 / Issue 1 – Xiu Xiu, Headphones, Spoon, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Tarwater vs Rechensentrum, Minus the Bear and Summer at Shatter Creek.
  • >Volume 2 / Issue 3 – Mum, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Smog, These Arms Are Snakes, The Buttons and The Radio Dept.
  • >Volume 2 / Issue 2 – Electrelane, Elliott Smith, Jesu, Le Tigre, Takashi Kojima, Macrosick and Andrew Duke
  • >Volume 2 / Issue 1 – Emperor X, Shy Child, Low Frequency in Stereo, Broken Social Scene, Scientific American, Bloc Part and Viva Voce.
  • >Volume 1 / Issue 12 – The Album Leaf, Bright Eyes, Thighpaulsandra, The Decemberists, Onemilliontinyjesuses, The Faint and Sam Prekop
  • >Volume 1 / Issue 11 – Other Passengers, The Walkmen, Ugly Cassanova, The Mountain Goats, The Applicators, Make Up and Starlight Mints
  • >Volume 1 / Issue 10 – Broadcast, Yo La Tengo, Ambulance LTD, Why?, …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Castanets and bitcrush
  • >Volume 1 / Issue 9 – Blonde Redhead, Chef Menteur, Ampop, Via Satellite, Stars as Eyes, Clue to Kalo and Interpol
  • >Volume 1 / Issue 8 – The Arcade Fire, Deathray Davies, The Only children, Earlimart, Moving Units and Can
  • >Volume 1 / Issue 7 – The Band That Fell To Earth, Fu Manchu, Rotary Downs, AM60 and Battles

Information:
A new monthly theme of mp3s are published to complement Antigravity Magazine’s content, a companion of sorts to Antigravity.
Like all music on TWX, I cannot guarantee that these songs will always be available due to the nature (?) of the Internet nor can I guarantee that every artist in Antigravity will have a song online that I can pull from.I strongly support local alternative media and it just so happens that I can get a small bit of promotion for TWX while doing so. There is no payment involved with either party. The Witness Exchange and Antigravity are and will continue to be two seperate sources but will be working together somewhat to bring you the best in (mostly independant) national and local acts… and all because we enjoy doing it. Neither Antigravity or The Witness Exchange is responsible for the content on the others real-world and/or online publication… though if you like one you are sure to like the other :)

If you live in or are coming to the New Orleans area and like what you see in this theme you can find the actual FREE magazine in bars, laundromats, resturants and other dark corners scattered throughout the city. You can also visit the website but keep in mind that it is still being developed.

- Thanks to Leo @ Antigravity

 

No comments yet

Back to top

">www.pnd.mu

 <= /o:p>


HORAIRES D'OUVERTURES : =

Lundi-vendre= di : 8h00 - 16h30

 <= /o:p>

 <= /o:p>

PLAN = :<= /span>

sur googlemap.mu, taper : = painting and decorating co ltd bambous black = river