Indie Capital of the World

Saw this very cool card at the second annual Tiny Canary indie design market here in C-Bus this past weekend (www.tinycanary.com). I've lived in Columbus since 1990, and this sentiment might finally be close to being true if it isn't already.

Of course, I already knew that Columbus experimental/noise/extreme music is world class: Mike Shiflet, Envenomist, Sword Heaven, Environmental Control Committee, Rocco Di Pietro, Ryan Jewell, Twink Bully, Ben Bennett, Dead Sea, Hasan Abdur-Razzaq, Face Place, Lambsbread, and lots of others that I'm probably forgetting. Let me know if I forgot someone. 

Another cool thing is this blog post: http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/10/how-a-professor.html. You remember that dense, chimey chord that appears at the very beginning of the Beatles Hard Day's Night? Well, it is one of the more mysterious sounds in modern music since no one is quite sure how it was played (a runner up is the sludgy "wunk wunk wunk" chords in Neil Young's Hey Hey, My My). Well, a crafty professor used some computers and some complex math to figure out this chord. The results are sort of neat. Maybe it's a foolish academic exercise, but I think it is still kind of interesting.