Pennington Writing

While in LA, I visited my cousin Elvis Jewell Cohen, and my Aunt Brenda.  EJC has been making beats and staying up on the scene introducing me to a list of producers that are all not only putting out avant garde music, but are breaking trends and reinforcing the inevitability that we are headed to purely digital world.  These guys and gals are mad genuises who are conductors of modern orchestras, dominators of technological sincerity, and truly want to establish this infinite medium as a realistic, and talented way to produce music.

This label here,

http://www.brainfeedersite.com/

is one of the leading examples of music that is headed in this direction.  The other influential thing about them is the visual content that is being created alongside it, specifically of one young scientist, Dr. Strangeloop

http://drstrangeloop.wordpress.com/

While hanging out with Elvis and listening to some of his music, he eventually put in Dr. Strangeloop’s 2010: [or} How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Technological Singularity. Expecting it to just be a PlayStation visual loop, the 15 minute experience was theoretically driven and prophetic.  Dr. Strangeloop does not avoid being aesthetic beautiful and aggressive to make sure his ideas on culture, media, and technology, but rather encourages the two to speak volumes to the human predicament we face today; the increasing digitalization of everything.  Working within the medium, the music only under-scores what the visual material has to offer.  Referencing the great Stanley Kubrick both in his name and the title of his work, Dr. Strangeloop’s homeage to one of the greatest film directors signals his own interest in what can be though of as the cinematic.  In this sense, his work cannot be thought of as simply effects, this DVD is more of a cinematic experience.

But the mayhem does not end here, you have to check out Flying Lotus (son of Alice Coltrane).

This video was on his website:  http://www.flying-lotus.com/

Some dark shit- but so dope.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HvjK29Gpn0

Also watch these…

Joni Mitchell wrote “River” in 1971 in her best album, Blue (1971).  Reprise released the album, and I got the album in 2000 when I was a senior high school.  The tunes really fucked me up and knocked me on my ass, turned into a wannabe feminist and made me think I was in love with any girl I talked too, even if it was only about a math problem.  But there is something so haunting still to me about her lyric, “I wish I had a river to skate away on.”  During x-mas time, I’m always reminded of this song, and I wanted to write this entry about a month ago around the holiday, but when trying to find Ms. Mitchell singing the song on YouTube, I was mesmerized by all of the other videos I ended I oogling and my interest in producing my own thoughts about her were overcome by my interest to just watch.  God Bless this young Miss. Mitchell, make me think of so much hope.