diversions archive

A personal repository and growing list of websites that I find useful or of interest. A Closer Listen is a review site for new music Audio Foundation promotes new music in Aotearoa, New Zealand Balkanarama has a useful selection of Eastern European sheet music Divisions of the tetrachord by John Chalmers - string theory and tuning systems ELEMENTSTUDION is a recording studio in Gothenburg Sweden specialising in unconventional music, providing professional recording and mastering services Geiger is an organisation for sound art and new music in Gothenburg, Sweden Intuitive Music Homepage is an excellent source of ideas, articles and music resources curated and compiled by Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen Kathleen Schlesinger: The Greek aulos; a study of its mechanism and of its relation to the modal system of ancient Greek music (1939) klingt.org sounds weird Levande Musik exists for the promotion of Art Music and modern composition in Sweden llllllll is Lines and is discussion Oobject is lists and lists, and is infinitely useful Perspectives in New Music is a journal Radio Cegeste 104.5 is the website/blog of radiophonicist and erstwhile collaborator, Sally Ann McIntyre Richard Wilhelm's and Cary F. Baynes translation "I Ching: Or, Book of Changes" hosted online by Akira Rabelais Stewart Lee has ruined my appreciation of any other standup comedian, ever. UbuWeb Film & Video, Sound, Dance, Papers, Visual Poetry, Conceptual Comics, Conceptual Writing, Ethnopoetics, Electronic Music Resources Vocal Remover does just that Wayback Machine
  • "Noyes utilized his famous mini-sized kit, this time stripped back to absolute bare boner. What occurred was simply gorgeous – Noyes mirrored the chatter and crunch of radio by stretching drum-skins, scraping and sucking, blowing and shuttling, his kit transforms into an ululating backdrop... There is a delerium to this performance. And I don't think any one else would have had the imagination and responsive sensitivity to make it work."Matt Middleton - La Décennie Brut
  • "Every gesture is prudent and well-placed. Sticks, knuckles, brushes, fingertips, rubber balls, eraser-on-paper emulations etc. join skin and metal, Noyes analyzing all areas of his drum and cymbal with creative kindness/coercion... With extreme simplicity, intimacy at its most familiar and acute patience, Noyes... craft(s) intrigue."Dave Madden - The Squid's Ear
  • "Noyes manages to balance the tensions between sounds, noises and notes, by sprinkling a few short, sensitive melodic phrases or disseminating the rubbing and scraping wood and strings of his piano, in a territory that hesitates between the parentage of John Tilbury and Magda Mayas."Julien Héraud - Improv Sphere
  • "History feels challenged... very tense, angular work that succeeds through its own awkwardness and ability to sound unlike much else I have heard in a while."Richard Pinnell - The Watchful Ear
  • "Noyes, the free-improv percussionist, folds and subsumes his contributions into the whole."Jesse Goin - Crow With No Mouth