BBC Article
Apparently the darkest material ever has been created. Scroll to the bottom of that page to see an interesting list of potential uses.

The previous post made me think of this website….another fun one to browse. And it’s 100% solar powered… =)

SHAPEVENT
I think it’s well worth the time to sit and browse this one for a little while….weird and fun. I found out about this from the Audiobulb site (a wonderful experimental/avant-garde label).

Rudy Rucker was recently a guest on neofiles / 10zm.tv talking about “natural computation” (interviews). I love how he argues that digital is indeed analogue, and refers to it as a “red herring”.
Neofiles (podcast)
R.U. Sirius Show (podcast)
10ZenMonkeys (webzine)

The SETI podcast is a good one, indeed. This week the history and future are discussed with various guests. I recommend checking out previous episodes as well, as they are thought-provoking and the hosts are pretty sarcastic. =)
This weeks podcast (March 29, 2007)
SETI Institute (home)

from CDM.

Prophet64 SID music software is offering cartridges that sport TB-303 emulation… surprisingly good emulation, considering it’s all like, 8-bit. Check it out.
{edit} - nice low fi synth creation here as well!

I just recently learned that elephants have a rather keen way of communicating over long distances: Really Low Vibrations.
Elephant wiki - Scroll about halfway to “communication”. Also interesting is the fact that they know we cannot hear these frequencies, thus they up their pitch when communicating with us.
Which leads to…
Oskar Sala (1910-2002) (wiki, tribute), […]

This is a cool little ambient application with snowflake graphics that appear as you’re listening. It’s not too mind-blowing, but cool to think someone took the time to do this. The music is quite pleasant…

So the Buddha Machine seems to have quite a little following. Robert Henke’s concept album on them was released recently, and I just found out about Kikapu label head, Pocka, using them in his latest release. Also, here is a compilation dedicated to these beautiful lo-fi ambient boxes.