Links: Origin of scenes, problems with muzak, pirate’s Raspberry Pi, John Cale, Unknown Pleasures.

12 December, 20179 September, 2018 David Gerard Industry, Links, mp3, Post-Punk, Writing 4 Comments

The change in music: scenes as they existed in Rhett Miller’s day (and mine too) don’t really exist in that sense any more. The dynamics of the industry they lived off the scraps of changing from beneath.

A new anti-piracy video depicts that MOST FEARSOME PIRATICAL DEVICE, a … Raspberry Pi, a tiny computer for kids and small applications.

Music is where you mine it. A review of John Cale trotting out the Velvets in New York recently.

Poor neglected Rocknerd! It’s been flat-out here in Rocknerd Towers, with ~~Arkady~~ Rose (courtesy a name change earlier today — in 2017, you can change your name online) being in and out of hospital for the past few days — just tests, everything turns out to be fine, but understandably taking a bit of attention.

And the blockchain rubbish going nuts with Bitcoin going nuts. (I saved you from three more musical blockchain links, all of which were actually pitches for dodgy ICOs. The book‘s over 3000 sales. Good! Enjoy some hilariously disastrous cryptocurrency mining rigs.

The book that mine is the direct descendant of, Neoreaction a Basilisk by Elizabeth Sandifer, is finally released after two years’ effort (UK, US) and it’s fantastic and everyone should read it. Check the “Look Inside,” my name is in the first sentence.

4 thoughts on “Links: Origin of scenes, problems with muzak, pirate’s Raspberry Pi, John Cale, Unknown Pleasures.”

Nick Alcock says:

12 December, 2017 at 11:08 am

I don’t entirely understand in what sense _Neoreaction a Basilisk_ has not been out for years: as noted, it was released in some sense so long ago that you’ve been able to base another book on it! I read it long enough ago that I no longer have a record of when (over a year ago, certainly). And it is indeed fantastic, and fantastically dense.

Is this the difference between “released to Kickstarter backers” and “distributed by Amazon” or something? (And if so, I wonder if the version I’ve already got is different and I should, ah, upgrade?)
Nick Alcock says:

12 December, 2017 at 12:50 pm

Oh duh Phil sent an email out to Kickstarter backers explaining exactly that two days ago and it got misfiled by my increasingly creaking email system.

(Yes, new version. :) )
David Gerard says:

15 December, 2017 at 8:35 am

yep! The new version includes extra polishing and all the footnotes on the first essay, and the other six essays (which I believe have been sent to Kickstarter backers).

Over 1000 sales, which equals success.

Phil’s entire marketing for this is word of mouth, so TELL EVERYONE!
Ben says:

4 January, 2018 at 9:54 pm

The waveform from Unknown Pleasures is 50 years old, 10 years of which it’s been the calling card of the Hipster ;)