The title of the track is “With Broken Heart and Sharp Mind.” The album is the self-titled release by We Are Bright & Broken. Perhaps that mention of a “heart” helps explain the intermittent beep, a sharp bright ping that is not consonant with the light and slow guitar-like looping that is the...

01 Couvre feu (2:38) 02 Bal masqué (2:28) 03 Passage à niveau (2:29) 04 Furie (2:22) 05 Une poule à Venise (1:35) 06 ZAP (1:05) 07 Conversation piece (5:15) 08 ZAP ZAP (:48) 09 Sortie de prison (et en plus il pleut) (2:53) 10 Giboulées (5:19) 11 Soap Opera (2:24) 12 Capacités de découplage (2:25) 13 Poteaux/Feux (2:43) 14 Pluie d’insectes (2:23) Total time 36:40 Cassette released by Echtzeit, Germany, [...]

Two views of the exhibit Aoyama Space by Carsten Nicolai, currently at Kunstraum Innsbruck in Austria: Those familiar with Nicolai’s work for the Raster-Noton label will recognize his trademark, and trenchant, stark minimalism, and likely envy the opportunity of those who get to enter a...

Jean Wells, Teddy Bear, 2009, $50,000. Timothy Yarger Fine Art I’m not going to waste much time discussing Art Miami because the fair isn’t worth the energy. Sure their smooth concrete floors improves upon the rickety wooden one they had last year, but if they fill the space with crap it doesn’t...

POST BY: PADDY JOHNSON Pulse Miami, Photo courtesy: Art House Good on Pulse Miami for not repeating their New York fair missteps earlier this year. The fair clearly isn’t as strong as NADA — expect to view roughly 25% more WTF booths — but there were a number of great showings regardless. Not that...

Josephine Taylor, Bomb Landscape 6, (detail) 2008, sumi ink and colored ink on paper, 100 1/2 x 76 inches, Catherine Clark Gallery “This is really mature work for a 32 year old” said one would-be buyer of this baby and wolf suckling on the teets of a naked amputee in the woods.��� Indeed Ms. Taylor...

To close out the week of SoundCloud.com-focused coverage, it’s useful to take a look at the conversations that occur within the web community of music-makers and -appreciators. Not the website’s forums, mind you, though those are informative. No, each track posted to SoundCloud allows for individuals to comment at any place along the given track’s [...]

Pssst…! Here’s what’s been going on these past days��� at Art21… VIDEO EXCLUSIVE(s): Kimsooja | “A Beggar Woman” & “A Homeless Woman” Yinka Shonibare MBE | Being an Artist Feed that brain with some more��� thinking food (!) Cecilia Novero on Franza Kafka, the anti-diet, notions of��� progress...

Weird. The "Conference DJ" (at a tech event) in the film Up in the Air is none other than Cut Chemist. # ♫ Link to aforementioned Dutch downtempo beatcraft: http://is.gd/5cyA2 # ♫ Afternoon listening: Netherlands's Piyojo (aka Rik Möhlmann) does up some sloppy, slow, slurry beats of found sounds and old synth noises. # RIP, Eric Woolfson (b. [...]