Alice's Interesting Stuff

www.alicemarymusic.com I'm a musician into: technology, electronics, guitar, voices, pop music, strings, beats, women in music, gay stuff

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Watch Holly Herndon talk process in new Ableton lecture

Just amazing. Just watch.

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Last week, GFOTY tried to defend a racist comment as "a joke." But what—or who—was the punchline?

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Spiders tune their webs like guitars

Pluck the silk of a spiderweb and it vibrates like a guitar string, scientists say. By strumming the strands and detecting the vibrations via sensors in its legs, a spider information about meals and mates.

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Haven’t posted for a while. There too much good stuff to keep up with really. This is one of me mates playing a lovely song

Hayley Ross 'Barracuda'

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The Quietus | Opinion | Black Sky Thinking | Impure Intentions: Sandi Thom & Writing To Please The Radio

After Sandi Thom had a viral YouTube wobble over Radio 2 turning its nose up at new song Earthquake, Pete Paphides looks at the uncomfortable history of pop musicians writing to please the wireless

"How much of what is recognisably mine am I prepared to forsake in exchange for this actually working?" 

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Mary Gaitskill and the Life Unseen

In her new novel,­ the author — known for depicting violent sex and lonely people — delves into the most frightening subject of all: real connection.

“Gaitskill is friendly, if wary in the way of habitually truthful people trying to stay out of trouble, and slightly irritable.”

It’s hard to know what other people think of you but I wonder if this would be a good description of me.

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U.S. Girls - Sororal Feelings

“Now I’m gonna hang myself, hang myself from the family tree”

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The first great works of digital literature are already being written

Video games could be the greatest storytelling medium of our age – if only the worlds of art and technology would stop arguing and take notice

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[Easy Chair] | The Mother of All Questions, by Rebecca Solnit | Harper's Magazine

I gave a talk on Virginia Woolf a few years ago. During the question-and-answer period that followed it, the subject that seemed to most interest a number of people was whether Woolf should have had children.

‘There is no good answer to being a woman; the art may instead lie in how we refuse the question.‘

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I didn’t know this was out!? 

Her lyrics are always to dense and full of references I enjoyed reading all the analysis here: http://genius.com/Joanna-newsom-sapokanikan-lyrics/

How can one person get to be so intelligent, musically talented AND attractive?!

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                       A Guy Called Gerald plays analogue in his studio              

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Last few days have been so much of this over & over again

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Heather Dewey-Hagborg's forensic DNA phenotype of Chelsea Manning. The sex parameter was left out of the process.PAPER is proud to present this conversation between an affiliation of artists and activists and Chelsea Manning -- the former military intelligence analyst who...

Amazing

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Great amazing St Vincent interview, watch it all!!

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A meaningless conversation with life navigator Ian MacKaye

Former Fugazi and Minor Threat frontman and Dischord Records owner Ian MacKaye on self-preservation, digital obsession and finding your life tree trunk.