Progolog (Curator)

A new Blocsonic release that lit up my ultimate weekend playlist. mGee have published their release "Stand" containing only 2 tracks. In this case, this small release weights more heavier in it's sound. The two songs are currently running on heavy rotation and i think this ain't gonna change very soon. 

"Let me introduce to you our fortyFive series of releases. fortyFives are our take on the classic 7" single format. An A side, a B side and tracks no longer than 6 minutes in length. Because of this, it’s the perfect format to allow us the freedom to quickly surprise you with new music any day of the week by any current or future artists. They send us the music, we quickly get it to you. 

For this premiere fortyFive, we’ve got a little something by blocSonic’s founder and creator Mike Gregoire aka mGee. Later this year he’s serving as a guinea pig to test out a new hybrid release model with a two part album release, “Tourist Trap, Parts 1 & 2” (more details to come later this year). Until then, he plans on releasing the occasional fortyFive for you to enjoy.

On this one you’ll find a brand new track called “Stand” which samples the great Josh Woodward song “Let It In” and a remastered and updated version of the first track he released via mgee.blocsonic.com back in 2010, “Kick It Along The Transit Line (fortyFive Version)”.

Here's the blogpost on my german blog Progolog.de.

Maybe you've heard about this crazy photo mikroblogging tool called Instagr.am. A few days ago, a group of artists started a project called "Instagr/am/bient: 25 Sonic Postcards". First they shot photos with an ambient background and shared them via Instagr.am. Then they composed a piece of ambient music inspired by a different artist's instagr.am photo. The project was organized by Marc Weidenbaum, who has run the ambient/electronic music website Disquiet.com since 1996. Here's a quote from the original post on disquiet:

"The result of the 25 musicians’ collective efforts is an investigation into the intersection of technology, aesthetics, and artistic process. What parallels exist, for example, between the visual filters that Instagram provides users to transform their photos and the sound-processing tools employed by electronic musicians? In many cases here, the musicians employ sonic field recordings as source material for their music. In the case of both their photos and their compositions (photography in one case, phonography in the other), documents are altered to emphasize their atmospheric qualities: to eke a modest art out of the everyday.”

All of the tracks were originally posted under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license to the Internet Archive. There, you can also find a 58-page PDF with full-page reproductions of the images and additional information on all the participating musicians.  You can also find the whole album uploaded to the Free Music Archive, and check the german posting on  my german blog Progolog.de.