I'm trying something new. It's a podcast mix .. and it's a bit all over the place. Which is sort of the way I like it. The name just showed up one day (as names are wont to do around here ), and it wouldn't leave.

I didn't have time to post this before CMJ, but some of these bands played during the festival. (Some are just personal faves and/or fit inside this Brooklyn/NYC bubble I've been in lately.) In my hunt to find shows to hit up that I would later end up blowing off, I still discovered some cool stuff. My new favorite thing is Teengirl Fantasy , who I didn't get to see. They are not from Brooklyn nor did they go to RISD. But hopefully they'll be back.

Here's the tracklist:

° High Places - Golden (Brenmar Remix)
Brooklyn, NY: myspace.com/hellohighplaces

° Hercules and Love Affair - Classique #2
Brooklyn, NY: myspace.com/herculesandloveaffair

° Black Dice - Roll Up
New York, NY: myspace.com/blackdicemyspace

° ESG - My Love For You
Bronx, NY: myspace.com/esgband

° Lightning Bolt - Dracula Mountain
Providence, RI: myspace.com/laserbeast

° Lansing-Dreiden - Part of the Promise
New York, NY: myspace.com/lansingdreiden

° Lemonade - Blissout
from CA but just moved to Brooklyn, NY: myspace.com/bananasandecstasy

° (bootleg) - The Right Shorty
Brooklyn, NY

° Teengirl Fantasy - Portofino
Oberlin, OH: myspace.com/teengirlfantasy + teengirlfantasy.angelfire.com

--
I did see Women and Ponytail (and I think Vivian Girls) during a Todd P show Friday at this big Bushwick warehouse called Danbro Studios. With not much to it but brick and rafters, this raw space made it sound kind of like hearing music in a castle and was therefore pretty awesome. As a friend pointed out, it was a lot like something out of Berlin. The view of Bushwick industrial graveyard magic out the back was nice, too. The Danbro flyer said something about 'restaurants' and 'photo' along with recording and rehearsal spaces, so rumors that they're turning this into a proper build-out may be true.

° Killing Joke - Change mp3

Last Friday night I watched the first presidential debate at the new LEED-certified Galapagos space in Dumbo. Outdoing the aquatic entrance of its former Williamsburg location, the new Galapagos is laid out with an undulating archipelago of round booths hovering above an impressive 1600-foot lagoon. Plenty of pix on their site help illustrate. I think it's a good look, even though there's not much open floor space. The seating-focused design signals a shift in programming—toward cultural events that are a bit classier than, say, rocking, raving and titty dancing (all of which are still in full force up at the original space, now Public Assembly.)

° Brian Eno + David Byrne - America Is Waiting mp3

Despite its supper-club layout, the venue was standing-room-only for the debate. I barely made it in, just as they were reaching capacity an hour before the broadcast, and friends who weren't so lucky texted me to say the line outside had become super long. Because CurrentTV's Hack the Debate was hosting, instead of watching pundits and regular folks keep score on CNN , we were watching a real-time feed of Twitter messages as they floated up over the broadcast, "powered by Adobe Flash." Neat idea, but the execution was a little distracting. I found myself reading them during McCain's time but trying to ignore them when Obama was up. (It was also in 3D, apparently, but I was too late to snag a pair of glasses.) Photos of the night, including screen shots, are Flickr'd here .

° Baby's Gang - America mp3

Galapagos is showing the VP debate Thursday, this time with a $5 guaranteed-seat-and-free-drink reservation .

If you're Burg-bound that night, you should try to reserve a spot at MonkeyTown , which will have just celebrated its 3rd anniversary the night before with free food, free drinks and djs. It has teetered on the edge of being priced out (a la Galapagos), and I'm really glad it's still in the hood. (Who doesn't love that place?)

° Devo - Freedom Of Choice mp3

Before the debate, head to Kiosk , where my favorite traveling merchant-curators have cleverly timed the spectacle with their next Opening Party:

The KIOSK American Installment #1, an exploration of sorts into our past, present and the future. With all the activity going on in this country now we could not think of a better place to focus on. Opening Party October 2nd, the night of the Vice-Presidential debates, from 6 - 9 pm. Obama fundraiser comb and hopefully a poster (we are taking sides: OBAMA YES!). Economics and coin rolls, politics and surprise balls, things to fish with and stuff for babies to chew on, it's America after all, we hope you will like our sampling. Opening party starts early this time so we can watch the debate at 9, FYI we hope to have a TV hook-up here and are working on getting reception now. Hope you can pass by! Hope you are hanging in there during these trying times!

° Jupiter - I Love America mp3

Kiosk threatens to move overseas if Obama doesn't win. Make sure you're registered to vote by October 10th and that your friends and fam and neighbors all know what's up.

° Antiballas - Who Is This America Dem Speak Of Today? mp3

See also: The nascent American Design Club has its first show up at Character through Thursday: "The club produces events and socials to improve the lives of designers and the appreciation of American design."

You will not be able to stay home.

° Dead Kids - America (RAC Mix) mp3

I'm only a little scared: Hadrons, yes. Collisions, no. End of world to follow...

Eddie Izzard - The Awesome Universe mp3

Kode 9 and the Spaceape - Portal mp3

Electric Light Orchestra - From the End of the World mp3

See also: NYTimes article and infographics

image: The Big Picture (Boston.com)

° Magazine - The Light Pours Out of Me mp3

Apologies. Been too busy to post lately. But as promised here's an update.

Just a quick collection of experimental music [re/]production methods that freshen up old ideas with new technology or work old-fangled tech into new designs. Some of the tracks are directly related; some I've just correlated.

[Also: The lettering above is from a new typeface I'm working out. You can see it in action on the flyer for the Sharegroove get-down last Friday and on this Bastille Day Party invitation.]

—
[A] PLOrk: Princeton Laptop Orchestra
Of course. I think it's cute.

° PLOrk - Conflict: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Parse Error mp3

° Computer Club - Bizarre Love Triange mp3

—
[B] Graphite Sequencer
I love when visuals are tapped for sound source material and vice versa. This does both with a simple lo-fi charm.

"Graphite conducts electricity. Two wires brush against the surface of a paper disk as it spins. The wires are connected to a simple electronic tone generator. When a line of graphite is drawn across the disk, connecting the two wires, a tone is heard."

(via new favorite blog dataisnature.com)

° Muddy Waters - My Pencil Won't Write No More mp3

—
[C] MAKE: Blog: Is Gilligan the next Jules Verne?
I often wonder what impact Lost might have on the rest of popular culture, like how much is the series to blame/thank for this so-called 'cocopunk' craze? Anyway, check out this cute ukulele amp housed in a coconut shell, and forget I ever asked.

° High Places - Shared Islands mp3

—
[D] Big Ideas (don't get any)
For his final project in a Glasgow School of Art graphic design course, James Houston punk'd Radiohead's "Nude" remix contest. Except he missed the entry date.. but won our hearts! Aw.

"Based on the lyric (and alternate title) 'Big Ideas: Don't get any' I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they're trying their best to do something that they're not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there."

Give the vid some time to get going. The still shots of vintage hardware are reason enough to watch.

° Radiohead / James Houston - Nude (Big Ideas (don't get any) Remix) mp3

—
[E] Final Product // ATTIGO TT
Another thesis project demo'd on Vimeo, this prototype of a digital dj setup lets the beatmaster paw actual waveforms running across touchscreens instead of handling records (or CDJs or Serato Controls or.. paper-disks!)

° Daedelus - Touchtone (feat. Paperboy and Taz) mp3

—
See also: Random music-technology scene in one of my favorite '70s sci-fi fantasies. And here's the Speilberg mashed up with M83.

Looks like all the World Science Festival events that really interested me are sold out. Actually, that's not entirely true, but I'll be in the Poconos this weekend so will have to miss out on, say, Saturday's What It Means to Be Human moderated by Charlie Rose, with a panel that includes Jonathan Harris among philosophers, geneticists and neuroscientists. Get tix, go, and I'll borrow your notes when I get back.

° Solvent - A Panel of Experts mp3

If you can't make it out to these talks either, keep reading for a round-up of science and science-y links that I've been bookmarking (wikis, articles, vids, etc), so you can school yourself without leaving your desk/couch/hammock. With science-y musics, of course.

From a literal wall of color to a figurative wall of sound (and/or both)...

° The Depreciation Guild - Water Window mp3 [download album]

° Sweet Trip - To All The Dancers Of The World, A Round Form Of Fantasy mp3

Apologies if the Flash embed breaks your internet—first time trying out this plug-in. (Words by Devo, from Explosions)

Lots of extreme electric/kinetic stimuli this weekend. Including 3rd Ward's Devo-inspired show, which prompted me to do this contrived (fun) thing where I post a bunch of Devo songs corresponding to the different goings on.

Links and musics ahead.

The Artist's Space is exhibiting The New Normal through June 21, and these two works apparently resonated most with me and my phonecam at the opening last Friday. There are a total of 13 works in the show that use "private information as raw material and subject matter," including interesting stuff by several Eyebeam alums.

° Isolée - Jelly Baby/Fish mp3