Author Archives: Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Dog Tricks!

SOFA writes: “I thought this was kinda cool — but I’m a sucker for cute…” Well so are we! :)

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Reactable

Is this how we’ll be making music, 20 years from now? The reactable, is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical objects on a … Continue reading

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Milano ’82 (2)

It’s on to Part Two.

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Got Trance-Fusion?

Quoth Birdman: Hey!!! No Trance-Fusion thread? I suppose everyone here had already heard it as a bootleg, but still, Bob Ludwig and GZ’s liner notes could generate discussion. Well here you go! Got the album? Love it? Hate it? Mixed … Continue reading

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How Tonedeaf Are You?

While working at the music and neuroimaging lab at Beth Israel/Harvard Medical School in Boston, I developed a quick online way to screen for the tonedeafness. It actually turned out to be a pretty good test to check for overall … Continue reading

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Lizard Queen

Meet Patricia Kennealy: author, Celtic priestess, retired rock critic, wife of Jim Morrison. She had a brief relationship with David Walley — “probably the closest friend I have ever had“.

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77 Million Paintings

Brian Eno, Light Painter: The multidisciplinary artist, with the help of a few technical experts, has created a computer program that continually fuses his translucent light paintings to create an ever-evolving artistic display on your computer screen. The piece is … Continue reading

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You Talkin’ To Me?

What American accent do you have? As for me: Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other … Continue reading

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Calvin, Hobbes & A Robot Chicken

Thanks Stephane!

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The Fugs

Frank had this to say about The Fugs: You mentioned the Fugs in comparison to us. The Fugs are not in good taste. They have a few bugs in their plan. One of them appeared on the David Susskind Show. … Continue reading

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Milano ’82

Part one is now available!

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Kill Ugly Radio World Tour

Remember those scrapbooks that were passed around when you were a kid? A friend would ask you to write or draw something in his/hers and then you’d give it back. Some of the pages would turn out rather cheesy, while … Continue reading

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Ike Sig!

For my birthday, Peter of Uni-Muta gave me (among other things!) Ike Willis‘ album “Dirty Pictures” which has been on heavy rotation as of late at Barry Towers. But an even cooler surprise unfolded when I had a look at … Continue reading

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Bad Doberan, ’03

One weekend with Ike Willis at the Zappanale festival in Bad Doberan, Germany (2003): This is the trailer for an upcoming documentary which looks to be pretty cool.

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Computer Says Noooo…

Well hi there! I’ve been out of the loop a couple of days as you may have noticed. Finally brought the iMac to an Apple reseller for repair and got it back with a shiny, new, empty hard disk. No … Continue reading

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