The Grey Album I had forgotten about The Grey Album but was reminded of it while watching the excellent TED talk on combinatorial creativity by Kirby Ferguson (of Everything is a Remix fame). The Grey Album (2004) is a very clever mash up of The Beatles’ [amazon text=White Album&asin=B0025KVLU6] (1968) and Jay-Z’s ... [Continue Reading]
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Gerry Diver: Music for tape loop
Multi-instrumentalist Gerry Diver based the Speech Project on several interviews of Irish musicians and singers such as Shane MacGowan, Christy Moore, Damian Dempsey, Martin Hayes and Danny Meehan. It also features archival recordings of Galway accordion player Joe Cooley. The various musical pitches of the musicians’ voices ... [Continue Reading]