MEGASLOTH!

The Fall : Repetition

(Photo: Jeremy Fox/The Boston Globe/AP)

Osbourne “King Tubby” Ruddock. Postcard, Jamaica.

Grateful Dead’s Soundsystem - Hollywood Bowl 1974 

Augustus Pablo

Augustus Pablo Skanking In King Tubby’s Yard / photographer unknown

I'm not so convinced by this, at least not in the long run.

[Alberto Giacometti. Man Pointing. 1947]

On 9th March 2008, historians have found what they believe is the first recording of a human voice. Predating Thomas Edison’s first phonograph recording of 1877. The “phonautograph”, created by etching soot-covered paper by Parisian inventor Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, was played by US scientists using a “virtual stylus” to read the lines. The recording was initially believed to be the voice of a woman or adolescent, but further research in 2009 suggested the playback speed had been too high and that it was actually the voice of Scott himself. This is the original recording.

(via On the False Democracy of Contemporary Art | e-flux)

Oren Ambarchi - guitars and percussion with Thomas Brinkmann - computable drums with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem (Parts 1-5) Matt Chamberlain - drums & electronics (Parts 3 & 4) Crys Cole - contact mics & brushes (Part 4) Eyvind Kang - bowed gender (Part 1) & violas (Part 5) Jim O’ Rourke - synths (Parts 4 & 5) John Tilbury - piano (Parts 1 & 2) U-zhaan - tabla (Part 5) Ilan Volkov & the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra (Parts 1 & 3)