Tag: Jim O’Rourke
The Creeping Garden documentary follows artists, fringe scientists and mycologists who study the mysterious plasmodial slime mold — a non-animal, non-vegetable, non-fungi organisms that appears to be making intelligent decisions. Scored by Sonic Youth’s Jim O’Rourke (who scored Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man), it’s finally nearing completion. The slime mould is being used to explore biological-inspired design, emergence theory, unconventional computing and robot controllers, much […]
As if Jim O’Rourke’s oeuvre wasn’t daunting and complex enough already, here are eight albums the Tokyo-via-Chicago noise maven dropped surreptitiously and simultaneously on Bandcamp this week. Titled Steamroom 1-8, the series is comprised of either material that was previously unreleased or saw very limited initial release, and is now available for free streaming or a […]
