Flower Electronics

I just liked the pun originally but now I want one of these bad boys:



as designed by noise monster-girl (sound artist) Jessica Rylan (who seems to have kind of reinvented the noise genre, with added swirls and flourishes and less of the My Dad's Bigger Than Your Dad vocalising) and used by her and Cody Renaldo (son of Lee, from Sonic Youth) and others I hadn't heard of like Tara Rogers.

There's a few MP3s of the little boy blue synthesiser at Disquiet and I guess more will tumble out over the years as people figure out what to do with it and why. All good clean/dirty fun.

Jessica Rylan - Gift For The Fan Boys

Jessica Rylan - Hide And Seek

Woofers, Tweeters, Raptures

Spent a good deal of last night puzzling over this key question / Spinal Tap conundrum: what do the numbers on a stereo volume button represent? My new stereo goes up to 30 (which is really loud) but I'm not sure what that means. It can't be some absolute measure of loudness - each number can't relate to a particular decibel level because even at the same number different CDs are louder or quieter, as always. So if there is no absolute relationship between the numbers on my stereo and actual loudness is there instead a relative relationship? Does 10 relate to 10 more than the original level on the CD?

I know, I know... but it's been a long week and the sad thing is someone out there will actually know the answer to this.

The first track I played? This one:

Shackleton - Blood on my hands (villalobos mix)

pilfered from here