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On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Roman Sturm Aon wrote:

quoted 3 lines Read a Frank Miller Comic while listening to music like Autechre

> 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org