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This is an installation by French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at The Barbican in London. The room is filled with finches and a few guitars plugged into amps, and the combination of the natural bird sounds and jagged “guitar playing” is strangely compelling.

Concord Ballet Orchestra Players 1/9/10 Part 2 from robert dene on Vimeo.

Concord Ballet Orchestra Players played a live set at the Issue Project Room on January 9th. Check out this video of the set:

Concord Ballet Orchestra Players 1/9/10 Part 1 from robert dene on Vimeo.

• The Surprising History of Copyright and The Promise of a Post-Copyright World. From 2005, and still good. http://bit.ly/5434rw #

• Our Love Will Destroy The World played in San Francisco a few days ago… in a bus. Check out some video http://bit.ly/7A4kzj #
• Didn't know the guy from Blink-182 was a moron. Now I do. Learn something new every day! http://bit.ly/7SYzLs #
• Matmos plays a free show Saturday January 16th at the SFMOMA. Info: http://www.sfmoma.org/events/1531 #

• Old news, good problem description. Hoping for change + sanity, SOON. "The Loudness Wars: Why Music Sounds Worse" http://bit.ly/4qzkhI #
• "A New Generation of Roots Music Reissues" – RT @cincottalaw: Dust to Digital in the WSJ: http://tinyurl.com/ydlvptz #

• Stoked to find @_loscil_ tweeting, love the ambient vibes. Happy holidays everyone! #
• @mikejjohnson maybe a hardware problem in reply to mikejjohnson #
• Google found a 1hr+ Metal and Glass Ensemble live set you can download for free: http://bit.ly/6pnifI. Great stuff! #
• Boston folk: good show happening Monday. Metal & Glass Ensemble, Dec. 21, '09, 8pm. $10. Third Life Studios. http://bit.ly/7nR0mq #
• AWESOME – Wish I was there RT @columbiajames: Snowball fight in Times Square http://twitpic.com/uadxt /via @JRudis #

• What's next, EMI to start CDR label? – New Blog Post "Paramount to Start Micro-Budget Arm" http://bit.ly/4Nxm4h /via @alittlefx #
• Just stumbled on the San Francisco Bay Area Noise Calendar. Nice presentation, good resource. Bookmarked. http://bit.ly/8Rc2ht #
• @dannyid I believe the burden of deciding guilt or innocence to be greater than simply assigning punishment. in reply to dannyid #
• @dannyid ever worser: jury. in reply to dannyid #
• The Built on a Weak Spot blog put up a solid review of our Magic People LP. Review: http://bit.ly/5xTzqF mp3's: http://bit.ly/2UVtAO Thanks! #
• From a couple days ago: the New York Times takes on Kraftwerk. http://bit.ly/4uTLX9 #

“It’s a solid record for sure that fits right along with many of the great experimental/noise-rock related material that Boston spawned over the years.”

We think so too!

Thanks to Built on a Weak Spot for the review, which you can find here.

Download the Magic People mp3’s

• A ridiculously talented guitarist – so sad. RT @antiopic: RT @imprec: Windy Webber on the loss of Jack Rose: http://bit.ly/7TIWc5 #
• Fluff piece from the NYT on the return of vinyl. Some don't realize it never went away? http://bit.ly/6iqzfr #