"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:
quoted 56 lines On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Roman Sturm Aon 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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