K.M.Krebs \ 833-45

electronic, ambient & electro-acoustic music.

Month: July, 2008

“Living On Oxford Time” — CBC Ideas Podcast

I will be post­ing a selec­tion of pod­casts and links that have caught my atten­tion recently.  In the mean­time, here’s a pod­cast from the always enlight­en­ing CBC Ideas pro­gram.  It explores the fun­da­men­tal con­cep­tion of time in rela­tion to mod­ern physics and reveals that our com­mon sense under­stand­ing of time is ter­ri­bly flawed. CBC Radio […]

In Memoriam Andrey Tarkovsky

In Memo­riam Andrey Tarkovsky, a a com­pi­la­tion of music ded­i­cated and inspired by Russ­ian film-maker Andrey Tarkovsky has just been released on the Musica Excen­trica net­la­bel.  It fea­tures tracks by Kim Cas­cone, Ken­neth Kirschner, Alva Noto and other excel­lent exper­i­men­tal artists. You’ll also find a new 833  –  45 track enti­tled ‘Marsh­lands’ on it. Direct ZIP file download: […]

Will muxtape ressurect mix-tape culture?

photo credit: wiiu ! Mux­tape is a young web­site that went online in March of 2008. While it lacks an excit­ing, glossy inter­face that the iTunes gen­er­a­tion has come to expect (or even a search func­tion) it excels in two things: 1) It makes it dead sim­ple to share a mix-tape of your favourite music […]

Links for July 7th, 2008

How Eng­lish Is Evolv­ing Into a Lan­guage We May Not Even Under­stand  —  An engag­ing arti­cle in Wired explor­ing the future evo­lu­tion of the Eng­lish lan­guage. It is sober­ing and some­what ironic to con­sider that Eng­lish, with its incred­i­ble capac­ity to absorb other lan­guages, is grow­ing and devel­op­ing most out­side of what we con­sider ‘Eng­lish nations.’ It […]