The Theremin

Discover: Creepy Music and Soviet Spycraft: The Amazing Life of Leon Theremin

Vangelis - Chromatique

Future Islands - Like the Moon

Unofficial video for "Like the Moon" by Future Islands. The guy who made the video took an old Russian Science Fiction film and edited it perfectly to the song.

Forest Xylophone

Back in 2011 the Japanese telecom company Docomo created a large forest xylophone to promote the then new Touch Wood SH-08C cell phone. A wooden ball rolled down the steps of the instrument playing Bach's Cantata 147 as it progressed to the bottom.

The xylophone was reintroduced at the 2015 Hokkaido Garden Show where visitors could purchase a ball from a vending machine to play the instruments tune.

Apparat: You Don't Know Me

Another wonderful song which was part of the Pilobolus's piece Automation.

Max Richter: On The Nature Of Daylight

Gorgeous song I first heard during Pilobolus's performance of Automation. I have since learned that it was also used in a couple of movies including Shutter Island.

Macro Time-Lapse: Daniel Csobot

Wonderful time-lapse video created by Daniel Csobot. The song is Digital Hearbeat by Daniel Gautreau.

The Vein:Magma

Cool psychedelic music video created by Dvein for a new track called Magma by the bank The Vein.


The Vein / Magma from Dvein on Vimeo.

Slow Magic: Feel Flows

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my bloody valentine: sometimes

It has been years since I have listened to the noisy yet strangely hypnotic sounds of my bloody valentine. Caught it while watching Lost in Translation for the first time.

I, Robot...in a Rock and Roll Band

With the video of the Compressorhead's Ace of Spades making it's way through the blogosphere I thought I would put together a collection of some other cool videos of robots playing videos.


Compressorhead


University of Pennsylvania


The Hubos


Toyota


Toyota

The Trons


Bonus Compressorhead

The Known Universe

Wow, what an amazing journey!

Omni Magazine

When I was a boy, sometime between the ages of maybe 8 to 11, I remember my father had a subscription to a science/science fiction magazine called Omni.  It was a strange blend of articles about science, futurism, the paranormal, sci-fi stories and fantastic art. Each issue was like a doorway to another world filled with strange creatures and bizarre landscapes.  It had a style which was endemic of the times, combining the older new wave movement in science fiction with the developing cyber punk genre.

It also had a pretty good run with it's first issue published in October of 1978 and the last in Winter of 1995.  After that it ran as a webzine from 1996 to 1998.  Other Omni related media included a short run television show called Omni: The New Frontier, Omni comics, and a series of music CD's.  What follows is a selective taste of what Omni was about.


Magazine Covers

Articles

Vernor Vinge: First Word (arguably first article on the Singularity)

Dougal Dixon: Visions of Man Evolved

Short Stories

Here are links to some of the short stories published in Omni which later became classics of the sci-fi genre.

William Gibson: Johnny Mnemonic

William Gibson: New Rose Hotel

Orson Scott Card: Unaccompanied Sonata

Terry Bisson: They're Made Out of Meat

George R. R. Martin: Sandkings

Music

Here are a few of the songs which were on the first of the Omni series of CD's.

Ray Lynch: The Oh of Pleasure

Mars Lasar: The Eleventh Hour


David Arkenstone: Rain


Television
Omni: The New Frontier



Addendum 05/16/13
Just discovered that you can now view almost the entire run of Omni magazine here.
https://archive.org/details/omni-magazine

Twin Shadow: Five Seconds

Could Twin Shadow revive the New Wave/Synth Pop sounds of the eighties?

Vic Hennegan - In a broken heart

CELL - Audio Deepest Night

Nice astral trip

Zero Cult - Tripshere

Some great psy-ambient-trance, whatever you want to call it.

Gorgeous song from In The Nursery's 1996 album Deco.

Zeb - The water & the sun

Makes me think of lying on the beach enoying a pina colada.

The Egg - Lost At Sea

A mesmerizing song from The Egg.