Re: [idm] Comics & Music [was Re: [idm] >I found a good way to listen to idm<]
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I used to listen to Global Communication's 76:14 while reading the "Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind" manga. Fantastic manga. Fantastic backing music. Turned out to be a "soundtrack" of sorts.
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From: "Marc Weidenbaum" <marc@disquiet.com>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [idm] Comics & Music [was Re: [idm] >I found a good way to listen to idm<]
quoted 71 lines "The music? We call it didge-Ital," rants a character> "The music? We call it didge-Ital," rants a character
> in Bruce Sterling's late-'80s science-fiction novel, Islands
> in the Net. "Dig-ital, see, D.J.-Ital. ... Mash it up right on
> the ship."
>
> Marc
>
> At 01:35 AM 12/20/00 +0200, Nuutti-Iivari Meriläinen wrote:
> >On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Roman Sturm Aon wrote:
> >
> > > Read a Frank Miller Comic while listening to music like Autechre
> > > or 2 Loan Swordsmen...
> > >
> > Funny that you should mention this, I was just thinking about this last
> >night, and on more than a few occasions before that. Electronic music as
> >soundtracks for reading comics is something I've been interested in for
> >a good while. I have a good-sized comics collection, Miller, Gaiman,
> >Morrison, Moore, Vachss and numerous others, and I've always tried to find
> >a good match in music for the books I'm reading. Morrison's ``Invisibles''
> >goes with almost everything. Miller's ``Sin City'' books needs something
> >moody yet somewhat industrial (with the exception of ``300'' which has a
> >very different ambience because of the greek legends and mythology).
> >Miller and Geof Darrow's ``Hard Boiled'' requires something twisted,
> >perhaps EBN's ``Telecommunications Breakdown''. Miller & Gibbon's ``Martha
> >Washington'' series, hmm... haven't thought of that for a while.
> > Just last night I went for my collection again and dug up Quinn &
> >Vigil's ``Faust'' series and listened to Autechre's ``EP7'' and ``LP5''
> >whilst reading them. I also contemplated taking out Rex Miller's
> >``Chaingang'' with some very aggressive music like Aphex Twin's ``Come To
> >Daddy'' or somesuch, but fell asleep before that.
> > In my mind, Gaiman's ``Sandman'' and ``Death'' have a very tight
> >coupling with the ``Artificial Intelligence'' series on Warp - I was very
> >much into Gaiman's work (and still am) when those albums came out.
> > The ``Hellraiser'' book series (and other adaptations and additions to
> >Barker's work) is a potpourri of different themes and feelings, so most
> >anything goes.
> > Currently the only series I'm following is Mike Carey & Peter Gross'
> >``Lucifer'' on DC Vertigo, and the most appropriate piece of music I've
> >experienced while reading the issues has been Aphelion's ``Zugzwang'' on
> >deFocus. I hope Miller's new series will start soon, it has been too long
> >since ``Hell and Back'' ended... no info even on Dark Horse's site.
> > I don't know if my selections correlate with the themes and feelings of
> >the comics I'm reading, but since it's a matter of taste anyway, I
> >wouldn't start feuding if someone disagreed with me. My taste in comics is
> >anyway as eclectic (and broad) as my taste in music.
> > As for books (novels etc.) and music, don't even get me started. Last
> >week I read Sterling's ``Zeitgeist'' from front to back in a few hours and
> >all the while listened Beumont Hannant's ``Texturology'' and ``Basic Data
> >Manipulation''. And for technical reading - well-produced British techno
> >like Ruskin, Polson, Ho and the like go very well with that.
> >
> > IDM content? What IDM content?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >--
> >nuutti-iivari meriläinen gordon at diversion dot org
> >http colon slash slash www dot diversion dot org slash
> >
> >
> >
> >
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