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/
So exciting to receive copies of my forthcoming @3313books.bsky.social book on Woody Guthrie's 'Dust Bowl Ballads'! I think this 1940 album on ecological collapse; police brutality; mistreatment of migrants; & making art despite it all is as timely as ever www.bloomsbury.com/us/woody-gut...
NZ saxophonist, the late Andrew Clouston, ca.1985. Unknown photographer. ATL ref: natlib.govt.nz/records/2280...
"Let's start with the story of sheep and wire..." Music that shouldn't have a place had geography ｜New Zealand Vaporwaveà note.com/frqsgnl/n/na...
場所を持たないはずの音楽に、地理があった｜ニュージーランドのヴェイパーウェイヴ｜FRQSGNL
羊と針金の話から始めます 音楽の話に入る前に、針金の話をさせてください。 ニュージーランドには「number 8 wire」という言い方があります。直径0.16インチ、日本のミリに直すと約4ミリの針金で、イギリスの標準線番規格の8番。これ、羊の柵に使う針金なんです。それが、なぜか国民性の代名詞になっています。Wikipediaにも「ニュージーランドの文化的な語彙に入った」という説明で項目が立っ...
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Ensemble Trigon perform medieval chants from a antiphonary held at the Alexander Turnbull Library (NZ). The manuscript was originally written for the Augustinian abbey of the Sisters of the Common Life in Amersfoort, ca.1450-1500. youtu.be/IYzWt4Zsno0
De Moderne Devotie in Amersfoort
YouTube video by OVF Videokanaal
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World building, the analogue way. The latest from Atrocity Guide. youtu.be/LlkziznE-WI?...
The Imaginary City of Urville
YouTube video by Atrocity Guide
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"That's number one, and this is number two, and this is number eight... number eight?!" Alan Whicker report from 1961, about a row of terraced houses on the road between Hexham and Gateshead, where the house numbers appear to defy all logic. youtu.be/Fr6Gxb97W_c?...
1961: The Street With Confounding House Numbers | Tonight | BBC Archive
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"Southland Monkey-Puzzle" (1973), silk screen print by Robin White. Dunedin Public Art Gallery: digitalnz.org/records/4340...
According to the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers, "there have been no confirmed reports of [AI book buying, scanning & shredding] happening in Australia”. Wonder what NZ booksellers' experiences are? www.news.com.au/technology/o...
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
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Emeritus Professor Erik Olssen ONZM, PhD (Duke), FRSNZ, FNZAH 1941 – 2026 A fellow traveller from Cavvy, King’s High and @tuhura.bsky.social but most of all a fine historian, mentor and friend. Just a wonderful human who will be deeply missed. Vale Erik
Stephan Kunze has being doing some fantastic service interviewing #vaporwave artists, documenting the scene's often fugitive histories. Here is his latest, a chat with Mr. @disasteradio.bsky.social.
Stephan Kunze@www.zensounds.de · last wk.His mixtapes High Fashion Mood Music and LARP of Luxury were among the first vaporwave mixtapes I’ve downloaded some 13 years ago, so I was really happy to be able to speak to Luke Rowell alias @disasteradio.bsky.social.
His mixtapes High Fashion Mood Music and LARP of Luxury were among the first vaporwave mixtapes I’ve downloaded some 13 years ago, so I was really happy to be able to speak to Luke Rowell alias @disasteradio.bsky.social.
Vapor Talks #38: Eyeliner
The Kiwi vaporwave legend, MIDI enthuasiast and digital fantasist in conversation
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Jean-Michel Jarre has written a book, Machines: A History of Electronic Music, which explores the history of electronic music via the machines that artists use to make the music @thamesandhudson.bsky.social buff.ly/4Ix87vb
📢 A crew of up to 90 workers are training in a giant fridge to redevelop New Zealand's Antarctic station during a short summer construction window each year.
'No Mitre 10 down the road': Inside the $498m Scott Base rebuild
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Single-only synthpop rarity from 1983. "On the Mountain" by John David. youtu.be/lhDGnCjMuOo?...
JOHN DAVID - ON THE MOUNTAIN
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'Down time doesn't exist here,' states Eldred Stebbing, '... if we can't get hold of something quickly we make it ourselves.' Extensive 1987 article on Stebbing Studio (NZ) in 'Sound Engineer and Producer' magazine. www.muzines.co.uk/articles/fam...
Family Affair (Sound Engineer and Producer, Aug 1987)
Stebbing Recording Studios
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It's kind of hard to believe, but Martin Phillipps passed away 2 years ago today. In June, the Pink Frost Walk plaque was laid at Sandymount by Martin's family, thanks to the Dept of Conservation/Te Papa Atawhai. Here are some memories of Martin: www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/mar...
Some music items from the Alexander Turnbull Library, ready for a show-and-tell today… First up, charts for Prince Tui Teka’s band of the 1970s, including for the Indonesian song ‘Mimpi Sedih’ upon which the melody for ‘E Ipo’ was based. natlib.govt.nz/schools/teac...
"Pulse, legato, harmony, tone colour, rhythm, triads, tuning - each appeared in the draft curriculum with incorrect definitions" www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...
‘Riddled with errors’: How AI has been used in drafting the new school curriculum
A primary school music teacher has flagged major errors in the music curriculum he suspects have “all the hallmarks” of AI, and while the ministry admit it used it to help, it disputes its use for any...
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In-depth review of an in-depth biography. David Herkt considers Craig Robertson's "Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly". landfallreview.com/the-voices-t...
Classic NZ historical marker using local materials, here a riverstone from the Ōtaki River out of frame to the left. It commemorates the first aircraft flight in the Wellington district, in January 1914, by Will Scotland. He ascended to 500 ft and circled the area for 20m.
Been catching up with this 2025 podcast on the 1970s Mr Asia drug syndicate case. It's good work, incorporating new i/v's and publications. Probably too much to expect, but would be good to have a book too based on all this fresh research. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/mr-asia-p...
Mr Asia: A Forgotten History - new podcast reveals full story behind NZ drug empire
The untold story behind New Zealand's most notorious drug syndicate.
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Great to be here at the NZ Nationa Library for Gareth's talk
Michael Brown@jingajik.bsky.social · 2w agoA reminder! Gareth Shute will be speaking about his recent book history of NZ popular music, at the National Library of New Zealand, this Thursday (23/7), 5.30-7.00pm. natlib.govt.nz/events/songs...
wow, immediately added to the @livetapes.heads.social.ap.brid.gy feed: legendary nyc taper jeff lazar's stash is getting digitized by some of the @ajc-project.bsky.social gang! now up, a bunch of tom verlaine, tall dwarfs, butthole surfers, thinking fellers, & more. archive.org/details/LazA...
The Jeff Lazar Audio Collection
The Jeff Lazar Audio Collection
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After every new drop from @500songspodcast.bsky.social, it's always fun exploring the maze of musical rabbitholes that appear. Exhibit A this time round, "Snowblind" by Judy Henske and Jerry Yester 👇👇 m.youtube.com/watch?v=pv7j...
Snowblind (Remastered)
YouTube video by Judy Henske - Topic
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This is a big one, for me at least. Jordan Bortner alias 식료품groceries in conversation. Yes! We’re open
Vapor Talks #36: 식료품groceries
Yes! We're Open – An in-depth conversation with Jordan Bortner
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