Art and Music Tidbits

I’ve got nothing, so here’s some stuff that’s isn’t deserving of its own post.

Trivia: Named after the British “Unemployment Benefits, Form 40”, pop-reggae band UB40 was formed in a welfare line in 1978.

Brian Eno has an new “DVD/Art Software Package” named “77 Million Paintings“. It consists of an interview DVD, a 52 page illustrated book, and a software disk, which is really what the package is about. The software creates a constantly evolving painting on your screen, and creates music to go along with it.

Gizmodo loves Frankie Flood’s pizza cutters. Me too. Their article doesn’t have, but here is, the link to his exhibit at the University of Illinois School of Art and Design’s MFA Thesis Exhbition 2004

Brian Eno and David Byrne are offering for download all the multitracks from two of the songs on their album “Bush of Ghosts”. The 24-track session of the songs, “A Secret Life” and “Help Me Somebody”, are available in MP3 and wav formats, with all tracks available individually or with all tracks from the song in a single zip file. You are free to edit, remix, sample and mutilate these tracks however you like.

Art and Music Tidbits

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