Connan Mockasin – I Wanna Roll With You

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“40 Years from now (if the human species survives), their will be hundreds of thousands of file servers – machines storing and dishing out materials. And there will be hundreds of millions of simultaneous users, able to read from billions of stored documents, with trillions of links among them…”

Theodore Nelson’s ‘Literary Machines’ is probably one of my favorite readings I have been assigned in university so far. Written in the 80s in non-sequential order, Nelson hypothesizes on an endless stream of data made up of hypertext, that he believes will revolutionize communication as he knew it. He was of course alluding to the Internet, however, given the context, it’s amazing how accurate his visions were. The reason I think I was so interested in this reading is that, as crazy as it sounds, it reminded me of William Burroughs’, ‘Naked Lunch’. Written in the 50s, by a junkie beat writer, this piece too is written in non-sequential order, and is basically just a collection of memories from all over the globe at different points within Burroughs’ life. As Adrian mentioned in the symposium, the Internet has no first page, and no last, and I suppose the same may be said about both of these written works. Whilst Nelson’s piece offers a very sobering, researched theory, Burroughs also hypothesizes on the state of technological advances, from an earlier, less sober perspective, stating; “The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.”

This is a blog I quite like, run by a man called Tim Koh. Tim Koh is musician based in Los Angeles, and performs with Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti. This blog consists of songs that he enjoys. Quite an interesting blog to look through to gain insight into some fairly obscure, catchy tunes.

http://lamaraba.blogspot.com.au/

For anyone out there interested in getting audio mastered, but like me have only negative figures in their bank account, well here’s your dream come true. The ‘MixGenius’ over at landr.com has created a website for musicians (and anyone else interested in mastering sound) that allows you to master your tracks (to mp3) for free! If you’re a total audiophile and can’t bare the thought of mastering to mp3 you can subscribe and pay to master to wav, but for me mp3 will do just fine.

Just thought it was a great idea for an online resource and that you all should know, enjoy!

https://www.landr.com/