"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other." - Carl Schurz

"The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time." - George Sutherland
"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe." - Edmund Burke

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

My recommendations 2006:
IBM 1401, A User's Manual by Jóhann Jóhannsson

Jóhann Jóhannsson: IBM 1401, A User's Manual
4AD 10/24/2006

Available at Emusic

Jóhann Jóhannsson's father, while working as a technician on early IBM copiers many years ago, discovered that the machines emitted radio waves during their normal operations. He managed to record some the music he composed on the machines. Jóhannsson discovered the tapes years later, which inspired him to compose this symphony based on those recordings. Considering that these pieces were composed as an ode to a machine, they sound surprisingly pastoral. It just goes to show that the machines created by man reveal hidden patterns in nature. With IBM 1401, Jóhannsson shows how capable his is at interpreting these patterns.

Posted by Jonathan at 5:09 PM

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