Sonemic Interview: Jim O'Rourke (@steamroom.bsky.social) Prolific producer, performer, and improviser Jim O'Rourke speaks with insight and affection on music, noise, films, and frogs in this interview with @calcash.in. rateyourmusic.com/feature/sone...

Echos - a doc about Eliane Radigue (that sadly passed yesteerday) is not available on Vimeo. letterboxd.com/film/eliane-...

Amazing things being filmed in Russia. letterboxd.com/film/ai-4u-w...

Praise for our book Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene, @greavesian.bsky.social's definitive exploration of the classic Play for Today from script to screen. Available now from tenacrebooks.co.uk

🚨 Led by the Free Alabama Movement, incarcerated workers across Alabama are ON STRIKE to protest brutal labor exploitation and inhumane conditions behind the walls 🚨 Watch ‘The Alabama Solution” doc and read on for ways to support their strike: docs.proton.me/doc?mode=ope...

The Cult, 2013 Koji Shiraishi ghost mockumentary. The Shira touch is obvious form the start - the weirdness, the humor, the characters. Three idols get hired to participarte in an excorcisim TV show, they go into haunted house with a shinto priest and things go downwards from there. Super fun.

Old synth focused ambient gem from 1986. Almost became an ephemera as it was only released on tape - transferred in 2022 and now avaialble on YT. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyX9...

Joyeux anniversaire to French composer Éliane Radigue (b.1932) who turns an incredible 94 years of age today! Her work is proof that subtlety can be seismic, and that the smallest shift can change everything. Long live sustained tones, deep attention and Éliane Radigue!

One for all the minimalist fans out there - a wonderful live recording of Terry Riley live at Town Hall, New York City - September 25, 1982 youtu.be/nTKL2zxqCF0?...

Why it's the Rube Goldberg machine of pain my dear boy! www.welcometohellworld.com/they-will-ne...

The NYC curbside classic including car radiator, plant stand, sink, box fan, oscilloscope and a drying rack all up for grabs! We almost took that oscilloscope home, but it was raining for hours prior.

Rabbit Trap - first full length movie from Bryn Chainey blew me away. Folk horror set in the 70s where a couple of experimantal musicians living in the remote house in Wales as they record a new album they discover that they have a new neighbor. Imagine way more low key In the Earth mixed with...

Shigeo Ôsako aka Kudo from Shiraishi's Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! in Yugo Sakamoto's Baby Assasins.

Zhao Yu directional debut Illuminant Object is really fun. Always good to see a maniland take on a "found footage" genere. Some Shira here, some true crime a bit of X-Files and probably some general weirdness out of China that escapes me. It falls apart a bit in the final act, nevertheless worth it.

SENRITSU KAIKI FILE 1: this lady is pretty tall and scary SENRITSU KAIKI FILE 6: you must complete 4 missions, director of noroi who has become the main character of this film, or everyone will die. There is a floating giant over Tokyo like Drakengard

Desperately praying for a US distributor to pick up Koji Shiraishi's KINKI before it gets buried in the WB deal - easily one of my new favorite horror movies of the last few years, and possibly the closest Shiraishi's ever come to making a true-blue NOROI successor.

Got a chance to watch Pistachio Wars last night an kickstarter funded doc that almost did not seen the light of day becasue Wonderful Company / Resnicks did not wanted it to be out. The amount this family fucked over California and US is general astonishing. In short - billionaires should not exist.

Let’s check in with people who threatened to leave Zohran Mamdani’s NYC: defector.com/lets-check-i...

Carax A+++++

Walmart nostalgia is Blockbuster nostalgia, to me. The things you liked about it were pale imitations of concepts they stole from the places they ran out of business. You don't like Walmart, you like the shadows of the things they destroyed

Insane amount of missed opportunity with all this fake unbranded clothing. They should have plaster him in Marvel (or whatever company he was at the helm) logos. Make the puppet work extra! Make him look like a fucking digital billboard, that sweater should look like a NASCAR driver's jacket.

Couple of Barbara Skyes video works from late 70s composed on Sandin Image Processor aka Video Synthesizer. mediaburn.org/digital-exhi...

Incredibly grateful to @pcgamer.com for sharing about our Games for Palestine charity bundle. Thank you so much for the coverage!! ❤️ www.pcgamer.com/games/you-ca...

the Eno diary has been building up to this entry all year. 26 August 1995:

Bring back the 90s indie movie end credits!

Inspired by @jrbolt.bsky.social list of his 25 fav horror movies of the 2000s, here is mine. Less gore more occult! letterboxd.com/drozdal/list...

Good morning.

Delia Derbyshire, Suzanne Ciani, Daphne Oram and Wenday Carlos - diy card dioramas from heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com fun summer projects for people who want to stay cool!

“Odours of incense and corruption joined in sickening concert, and the black air was alive with the cloudy, semi-visible bulk of shapeless elemental things with eyes.” H.P. Lovecraft, The Horror At Red Hook

🚩 My new doc is out now 🚩 CV is the oldest gang in Brazil. It's considered a plague by the government, but for the people of the favelas they control, the gang *is* the government. Inside their areas, street justice rules all. We spent a week there: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7kV...

Not in My Name: An Open Letter to Microsoft from @brianeno.bsky.social “If a sound can signal a real change, let it be this one.”

Happy International Women's Day, to women AND cis women!

El Hedi ben Salem in Fassbinder's ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (1974) He was BOTD in 1936

Ok, my next @mojomagazine.bsky.social How To Buy is on Drone. It needs to be historical, definitive... educational? 😶 W. Basinski, E. Radigue, Earth, K. Drumm, P. Oliveros, T. Hecker, SunnO)))??? Any help appreciated. What r your fave drone long players? Best submissions will be quoted in the mag.

Polish fountain of youth.

These days Spotify and the streaming model are normalized, but it’s had a huge effect on how music is made and enjoyed. This week @lizpelly.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss the consequences of the Spotify model and whether it can be changed. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/262_...

The Otherworld, 2013 directed by Richard Stanley. Stanley goes full Herzog (but about the occult). This is a really weird doccumentary. On the tin it's about the titular place hidden behind mystical gates and the ruins of castle Montségur in France. But it's also (mainly) about Cathars, Templars...

The Invocation of Enver Simaku (2018) by Marco Lledó Escartín. Unique found footage / mockumentary mix. Folk horror taking place in a wake of a mojor historical and possibly occult event. A filmmaker returns to Albania to piece together reason behind the death of his wife he witnessed firsthand.

Here is an experimental drone track I made last night and today with modular synth and guitar. it is called "In my body there is a wicked nail I cannot see, lodged deep" whyp.it/tracks/24396...

Lipton Cockton In The Shadows Of Sodoma. A Finnish Cyberpunk movie from 1995 directed by Jari Halonen. No-budget, bizarre, convoluted, offensive (?) but also charming, funny, refreshing and super Finnish version of Kamikaze '89 where Lipton, a detective has to solve the case of exploding people. A+

Yess! Was waiting for this to be released into the wide web. Morton is 91!!!

Hongkongs geheime Stadt (Hong Kong’s Secret City), 1988 directed by Christa Wesemann and shot for German station ORF. Nattarion is mid - a bit of a scolding in tone and generally sensationalist and orientalist. Despite that, there is a metric ton of amazing and raw footage of the titular place.

The only wrapped that matters

Ahh yes! You definitely should never ever share your taste in music with your fellow humans and rely only on "algo playlist". Talking with others about music is be so pedestrian and 20th century! Now you can have an AI model trained on stolen shit tell you how cool you are (for using Spotify).

Sunn O))) stage dive

Thought I'd do my own thread of lesser known video games currently on sale on Steam inspired by @spacetwinks.bsky.social's rec threads.

Toshikazu Nagae's 1999 - Saiko! The Large Family is something really special. Veronica Addison embarks on making a video reportage about large family living in Japan among fears of declining birthrates in the country. She gets a bit more than she bargained for, or does she? It depends on your read.

Our family is in the midst of a difficult medical situation, and we just found out an item we were counting on to generate income during the holidays will not be available. If you buy a copy of this book (Publishers Weekly starred review!!!) or anything else from the store, it will help us so much.