pointy heads Archives

The Space That Holds the Stars

22/11/2017

Professor Bobby Acharya on the Depth of Dimensions in Physics and Mathematics...

Listening : Modes and Strategies

20/01/2014

Listening is largely, though not exclusively, a conscious activity. ...

Kentucky Fried 3D Printing

09/12/2013

In a future where any garage, shed or corner of a living room could be turned into a miniature factory, what will be the point of large scale manufacturing?...

London Film Festival : Computer Chess

15/10/2013

A film that will likely appeal to only the film aficionado. But for that aficionado it is a quietly hilarious little gem....

Mystic Chemist: The LSD Biography of Albert Hofmann

16/07/2013

' a chemist who does not get mystic looking at the wonders of creation that he's researching is not a real chemist' - Albert Hofmann...

An ABC of Aesthetics

15/07/2013

There is a distinction between art and entertainment, one of them being that art is meant to be hard work. ...

Counterpoint : Reich Bach at Ya!

01/03/2013

The truth of music in 2013 is that we don't really need a masterpiece right now. We need a higher grade of ordinary....

Guns: America’s Addiction

19/01/2013

America is addicted to guns and the politics of aggression, aimed entirely at the target audience of consumers, is exploited for commercial and artistic gain....

Skirmish of Ideas?

15/12/2012

IoI has its own clear agendas but the festival definitely has a positive function in bringing hidden or repressed debates to the surface and airing them to a much wider public than they might...

Touched by Sir Jimmy

12/12/2012

I looked nostalgically at the picture of Jimmy’s face and noticed he’d even put a little smiley on there for me. Yes, Jimmy Savile touched me back in ’93...

Are Social Media Values Human Values?

04/12/2012

None of the values promoted by a social-media-dominated world are helpful with depth-oriented, long-term thinking...

Fontanelle: Vitamin F

22/10/2012

For a devout cadre of vinyl record owning, real ale drinking, herbal cigarette smoking losers Jazz fusion is the pinnacle of music. ...

Spinning the crowd: Adamski, 3 / 4 and Neo Waltz.

19/10/2012

"indecent whirling-dance of the Germans and engaged in a familiarity that broke all the bounds of good breeding—then my silent misery turned into burning rage." ...

Rare Grooves: The Dropa Discs

15/09/2012

‘The stone disks you have mentioned do not exist; but, being extraneous objects in this museum, they were relocated.’ The discovery of a mass grave containing dwarfish skeletons with abnormally...

The sound of us not dismissing anyone’s ideas (Islet)

11/02/2012

Islet's stunning debut album, on which 'Guitar figures drone in and drown out vocal lines, cymbal-heavy rhythms pile in and utterly demolish all that is in the rest of the sound-picture, discordant...

Eyvind Kang: The Narrow Garden

19/01/2012

The fine folded pressures of the lidless eye. Renowned through his collaborations with John Zorn, Mike Patton, and Trey Spruance, Eyvind Kang has become the go-to violin guy for a certain strain of...

Islet: Illuminated People

12/12/2011

Islet's Illumiminated People is awash with the self-indulgence of a band who have little to fear from the ignominy of failure. That's the official line at any rate. Famous now for not being...

Supersonic festival 2011 – review

08/11/2011

Begin transmission: Supersonic is the probably the greatest festival or true music lovers in the UK, perhaps further afield. Stop. 21st to 24th October. Attending Supersonic 2011 felt like being...

I Hate the Concept of Revolution. I Spit On It: Trey Spruance

19/10/2011

Interview with Trey Spruance of Secret Chiefs 3, Faith No More, and Mr Bungle Fame on music and spirituality....

Mitch Lucker, Suicide Silence. By Carl Byron Batson for Trebuchet Magazine

Suicide Silence – The Black Crown, London.

23/07/2011

"I don’t want to sound like a fucking dinosaur or a pig for 45 minutes and no one know what the fuck I’m saying" Trebuchet magazine interviews Mitch Lucker...