Katie Paterson, As the World Turns

Katie Paterson, As the World Turns

A turntable that rotates in time with the earth, one revolution every 24 hours, playing Vivaldi's Four Seasons. If performed from beginning to end, the record would play for four years. The movement is so slow it isn't visible to the naked eye, yet the player is turning, imperceptibly.

Pages on a Plane

Pages on a Plane is now available for purchase from Under the Spire, Boomkat, Norman, and Stashed Goods! The Black Eagle Child LP is produced in an edition of 250. Each disk is pressed on a translucent sea green vinyl with wavy blue streaks. LP arrives in a clear PVC sleeve, also containing a download code.

Colored Vinyl

Ask anyone who knows me and they'll agree that I'm a music geek. I buy vinyl, but I'm no vinyl purist. I play music on a record player made of plastic and cardboard after all. I'm also a sucker for colored vinyl. Note: this is possibly the most "hipster" post I've made on this blog, but who cares - these records are fun.

Your standard black vinyl - with excellent cover art by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Red and black vinyl

Jimmy Eat World 7" -transparent vinyl

Gray vinyl - White Stripes - from this year's Record Store Day

Transparent red vinyl - also from this year's Record Store Day

MGMT white 7"

Blue marble Frodus 12"

Deerhunter white vinyl

The newest Black Swan album on red vinyl (edition of 100 - get one here)

Black Angels 10" on white vinyl - seeing them tonight at the Fox. Rock!

Scratch the Earth

Via "We Make Money Not Art" I found out about the G-ONE sonic surfing by satellite. From the G-ONE website: "The G-ONE (Global Orbit Navigation Engine) invites you to virtually hop on a satellite and scratch across the Earth's topography, just as the needle of a record player scratches across a record." The results can be heard on their podcasts - and amount to different variations of white-noise. So the audio of the line or "scratch" between two place is somewhat dull, the idea is really interesting. And in April you can actually have custom vinyl records made of the journey of your choice. I like to imagine each custom created vinyl record with tiny microscopic bumps representing a building or mountain or street or something. It reminds me of that old Lauren Hill video for "Everything is Everything."