Category: Features
On the map above, which shows the most distinctive artist in each of the 50 states listening preferences according to Spotify, there are a few surprises. What makes Ciara so popular in Nevada, for instance, and why is Delaware so hot on Rush? Of course, there are satisfyingly predictable states as well, from New Jersey’s […]
Last night, Spike Lee gave a talk at Pratt Institute for Black History Month that included what by all accounts was a pretty incredible section on gentrification. Listen below. The topic came up when an attendee asked Lee about the “the other side” of gentrification — a line of discussion the filmmaker was happy to […]
The Tumblr EMOCTV collects instances in which forward-thinking music turns up in children’s TV shows — everything from Mr. Rogers demonstrating an ARP synthesizer, above, to art-rock veterans The Residents performing on the Chicago public access program Chic-a-Go-Go. It’s all worth perusing, but the highlight is an episode of the French TV show Angelo Rules […]
Wes Anderson’s use of music in his films can verge on self-parody, but when he catches you off guard with a tune, the results can be sublime: think Margot Tenenbaum exiting the bus to Nico’s “These Days,” or the Darjeeling Limited brothers funereal walk to The Kinks’ “Strangers.” So approach Pitchfork’s stream of the soundtrack to The […]
Tokyo Tune Train, an awkwardly named new browser game from music hacker extraordinaire Paul Lamere, asks you to navigate a “Snake”-style path while listening to a song of your choice. If you stay on track, the song plays through, but as you screw up, it skips and glitches, with measures happening in the wrong order […]
An app based on a piece of music that doesn’t have any notes in it. It sounds like a gimmick, or a poorly placed joke about the absurdity of modern art. Get it? The app doesn’t do anything, just like the piece! On the contrary, 4′ 33″ – John Cage, released in the iOS App Store […]
This is a livefeed of Ukrainian riot police storming Kiev’s main anti-government camp. What you’re listening to are grenades, fireworks, Molotov cocktails, gunfire and the chants of anti-President Yanukovich activists over the continuous explosions. Espreso TV Livefeed Earlier today, the city saw its most violent clashes since the protest began 12 weeks ago, since the citizens set up giant make-shift […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Jonas Lund talks about We See In Every Direction! a Web browser for collaborative, synchronized surfing made for Rhizome’s online exhibition series The Download. The idea started when Zoë Salditch invited me to do a piece for Rhizome’s The Download. […]
An Easter egg was recently unearthed in the Hell panel of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. As posted by Tumblr user chaoscontrolled123 discovered “music written upon the posterior of one of the many tortured denizens.” And so, some 500+ years later, the music student decided to transcribe it “into modern notation, assuming the second line of […]
Here’s some art, film, music and other stuff happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 40°F NIGHT 29°F “Idiom II” group exhibit’s opening reception at Pierogi features chart-like narrative structures like Ward Shelley’s diasporas of Fluxus and A Continuum of Ideological Futility by William Powhida. (7-9pm, […]