watching it rise

Botanical Otology: on Alex Metcalf’s Tree Listening Installation.

Last.fm’s Endangered Language group, featuring a more or less weekly newsletter describing an endangered or potentially endangered language and an artist who performs using it. They also have set up the Minority Language Radio.

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

Poe is one of a couple of new (to me I mean) artists that popped up in my last.fm playlist today:

I have this song going through my head, so you should too…

Björk and PJ Harvey covering Satisfaction:

Drumpants!

I hadn’t heard of KT Tunstall until she popped up on my last.fm feed this morning. I love the layered vocals from the sampler.

Imogen Heap’s Just For Now:

Composer Andrew Waggoner asks for just five minutes of silence:

The colonization of silence is complete. Its progress was so gradual that even those who watched it with alarm have only now begun to take stock of the losses. Reflection, discernment, a sustainable sense of tranquility, of knowing where and how to find oneself—these are only the most obvious casualties of marauding noise’s march to the sea. Much more insidious has been the loss of music itself.
– Andrew Waggoner