Listen to the Flower People
Action packed! This week we're shaking with the Shakers, searching high and low for that flow, enacting improvisational anarchy, and simplifying the modular. Plus: spicy recommendations and attitude.
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A Tradition of Aesthetic Hijacking
This week: engaging the détournement machine, the glory days of space art, and famous ALL CAPS rants of history. Plus, lots of clickable links, many wild recommendations, and the unveiling of a simple plan.
Haunting Broadcasts of Mechanical Voices
This week: audio detritus from the Cold War, the nonsense of poetry (and vice versa), and Slovakian gangster music—along with splatterings of links and recommendations.
The Essence Remains Intact
This week: making big things happen in mid-town USA, letting the universe take care of you, the ritual of dissonance, and righteous acts of rebellious loving. Here, the essence is hardly rare.
The Zone Between Ignorance and Mastery
This week's meanderings include questions about artificial expression, embracing the things that suck, when packet loss is a gain, and Liverpudlians who love their football. Half email, half newsletter.
That Old Pastoral Vocabulary
This week features thoughts on the eco-psychedelic, how glitches got sloppy, and why Alvin was immortalized for just sitting in a room. Plus a bevy of tasty recommendations you'll eat up like popcorn.
Objective Spiritual Facts
This week, grab hold of visual sounds, hauntological echoes, and 'intergenerational cohabitation' as we explore the recent exploits of The Tonearm. Links will be clicked.
Sound Crystals in Time-Lapse
Behold! Apocalyptic cover art, molecular music, and PVC pipe organs! These are but a few of the wonders found within this week's Talk Of The Tonearm newsletter.
Heed the Song of the Symphonic Frog
This week, we explore the sounds our peeper friends make, how to recontexutalize harmonica tension, and yet another excuse to add to your guitar collection. Also: a couple of delicious album recommendations.
We Remain in the Mist-Space
This issue of your favorite Sunday newsletter explores the advantage of the ambiguous, the implications of microphone placement, the lure of bean-washing sounds, and the anarchist's trombone. Also: bicycles.
What's the Sound of One Record Skipping?
A recurring theme of constraints, as we explore counting duets, Beethoven's royalties, and elegant accidents. Also: our usual raft of recommendations and know-how.
Maneuvering the Sacred Theater
"How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon." In this weekend's Talk Of The Tonearm, we read the oracle, sing in unison, bring the noise, and then go completely gonzo.