Miller-Urey Bong, 2010

Bring your own combustible material to an installation recreating the origin of life

A scientific art installation involving high-powered lasers and combustive materials, Miller-Urey Bong is a BYOW (Bring Your Own Whatever) exhibition based on the 1952 Miller-Urey experiments that attempted to prove the genesis of life on Earth. “We really don’t know what the Earth was like three or four billion years ago,” the late scientist Stanley L. Miller said more than forty years later. “So there …

Beachcomber’s Windowsill

The folk rock sounds of over a hundred instruments on British band Stornoway's first album

Five years in the making, Stornoway‘s recently-released debut album Beachcomber’s Windowsill like so many records before it, is the story of a homegrown musical enterprise. The band of Brits, named after a town on the Scottish isle of Lewis, met and honed their earnest, folk-rock style at the University of Oxford, where an eight-track recorder served as their primary means of laying down songs. But …

Touchable Sound: A Collection of 7-inch Records From the USA

New book pays tribute to 25 years of the best sound and package design of the 7-inch

Assigning themselves with the heavy task of sifting through a whopping 15,000 indie records from the last 25 years to find the most interesting albums, editors Brian Roettinger, Mike Treff and Diego Hadis of “Touchable Sound: A Collection of 7-inch Records From the USA,” narrowed the selection down into the 300 that fill this 412-page compendium, available tomorrow from Soundscreen Design. Organized by region, “Touchable …