Michael Brown
@jingajik.bsky.social
Music Curator at Alexander Turnbull Library | JD Stout Fellow 2023, Victoria University of Wellington | Author of "Eyeliner's BUY NOW" (33 1/3 Oceania) | Personal account | https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/eyeliners-buy-now-9781501394997/
In the 2026 Lilburn Lecture (Nov 2), Peter Walls will speak about working with composers as a performer, university colleague and an arts administrator. This will be the 13th of these annual lectures, which are held at the NZ National Library in Wellington. Details 👇 natlib.govt.nz/events/lilbu...
Perhaps a surprising dividend of the Flying Nun preservation work at NZ National Library. The Fall's👌live 1983 LP Fall in a Hole recorded in Auckland and released by FNR, is being reissued by Superior Viaduct, from new transfers of the original master tapes. www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/...
The Fall - Fall In A Hole 2xLP Superior Viaduct - Superior Viaduct
Release Date: November 27th, 2026 Black vinyl version. Also available on color vinyl. Originally released on Flying Nun in 1983, Fall In A Hole is a double LP of an especially incendiary Fall show at ...
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Perhaps a surprising dividend of the Flying Nun preservation work at NZ National Library. The Fall's👌live 1983 LP Fall in a Hole recorded in Auckland and released by FNR, is being reissued by Superior Viaduct, from new transfers of the original master tapes. www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/...
The Fall - Fall In A Hole 2xLP Superior Viaduct - Superior Viaduct
Release Date: November 27th, 2026 Black vinyl version. Also available on color vinyl. Originally released on Flying Nun in 1983, Fall In A Hole is a double LP of an especially incendiary Fall show at ...
superiorviaduct.com
Example of a voice record for sending personal messages, like voicemail version of a postcard, ca World War II.
"Journeys and Arrivals", the latest episode of Nick Bollinger's Song Navigators RNZ podcast is out. Featuring music by Tipene, Naked Spots Dance and Douglas Lilburn. www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/song...
Journeys and Arrivals episode of Song Navigator
Anyone coming to this country has made a journey – for some, a journey to the unknown. This episode compares journeys and arrivals, and different types of song they inspired. Featuring compositions by...
rnz.co.nz
"Journeys and Arrivals", the latest episode of Nick Bollinger's Song Navigators RNZ podcast is out. Featuring music by Tipene, Naked Spots Dance and Douglas Lilburn. www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/song...
Journeys and Arrivals episode of Song Navigator
Anyone coming to this country has made a journey – for some, a journey to the unknown. This episode compares journeys and arrivals, and different types of song they inspired. Featuring compositions by...
rnz.co.nz
I’m biased as he’s my best mate, but I love watching him teach my 8yo the basics of music (so am assuming he’s just as good with a classfull of kids too 😂) But shout out to Mat Hoyes! He also helping produced this which is now on Audioculture too ☺️ audioculture.co.nz/articles/cou...
Counting the Beat: Analysing Aotearoa Pop Songs - Article | AudioCulture
How can New Zealand pop songs be analysed in the classroom? Music teacher and composer Mathew Hoyes discusses an approach, and has created examples to assist getting started. Update, 7 October 2024. ...
audioculture.co.nz
A 15th-century manuscript in the Turnbull Library has sparked new research in the Netherlands, reconnecting medieval music with the original chapel and demonstrating the global impact of digitised collections. Anthony Tedeschi dives into the details: natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/a...
Synthpoptimism '87 This song by Australian-German band The Other Ones went Top 10 in NZ, and was included on the S/T for local ski movie The Leading Edge. youtu.be/Zvucu5vIhbE?...
The Other Ones - We Are What We Are (1987)
YouTube video by DiscoBar80
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There's a story to be written about how the NZ music scene responded to the 1980s AIDS crisis. This Christchurch benefit concert by various local bands seems to be one of the earliest. From "The Press", 9 April, 1987: paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/C...
"The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade" by Herman Melville. First published in 1857, then not again in the US until 1953 (this is the '55 pb edition). Now regarded as one of Melville's masterworks.
Delivered to your door daily, and fruit juices were available too. Recycled glass bottles, of course
Michael Brown@jingajik.bsky.social · last wk.Milkman's price list, NZ, January 1983. 31c a pint.
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My Pet Flamingo@mypetflamingo.bsky.social · last wk.New N64 Box Sets from the Vaporwave ‘Legends’ range just dropped… The seminal @disasteradio.bsky.social album ‘LARP Of Luxury’ (feat. 3 exclusive bonus tracks!) As ever @mrglennjones.bsky.social has done immense work on the boxes Available HERE: mypetflamingo.bandcamp.com/album/larp-o...
Bruce Cathie's "Harmonic 695". Was always fascinated by the chapter 'The Mysterious Aerials'.
Latest newspaper additions to Papers Past have just dropped paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/about/past-r...
"When hippies flocked to his locale (in Northern California) in the late 1960s, Bob McKee taught many of them carpentry skills, sold them land on which to build their houses and provided timber from his own lumberyard" www.worldofinteriors.com/story/bob-mc...
The man who designed DIY dwellings for California’s hippies
Bob McKee became a guru of back-to-the-land architecture in 1960s California. His part-Art Nouveau, part-Gingerbread redwood houses spoke to arriving hippies
worldofinteriors.com
How Has Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ Spent 24 Weeks Atop the Hot 100 — And Why Are People So Shocked By It?
How Has Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ Spent 24 Weeks Atop the Hot 100 — And Why Are People So Shocked By It?
Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas" has topped the Billbaord Hot 100 for 24 weeks, making history and causing backlash. Here's why all of it is happening.
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Explanation and context for Les Paul's contribution to multitrack audio technology. Presented by Steve Rosenthal & Perry Margouleff, for Library of Congress in 2023. www.loc.gov/item/2025661...
From Cylinders to Surround Mixes: Les Paul and the Early Days of Multi-Tracking
This event was one of several scheduled presentations on topics in the history of sound recording and the sound preservation work at the Library of Congress National Audio Visual Conservation Center i...
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An excellent introduction to doing web history from Niels Brügger & an agenda for researching the 1990s Danish web sphere that is readily transferable to other small nations, e.g., NZ play.umu.se/media/t/0_zh...
240820 Brügger: "Web history, and the question of sources"
Niels Brügger, Professor in Media Studies, Aarhus UniversityThis presentation debates some of the challenges when writing our recent history of digital media, in this case the World Wide Web. Focus is...
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A trip back through 50 years of NZ politics, as lived by MP Jim Anderton; lots of current newsreaders and reporters' younger selves turn up.
