In the works...
- Two new tracks (at least).
- A new live set (now with granular technology!)
- A score for my friend Mark's video: unlike.
- An ambient album for my friend Ben's microlabel: Gears of Sand.
I think I'm getting old. I couldn't deal with Society Cleaners last night. I like it when there is some amount of structure or pattern to the music... when the sounds have some relation to one another. Or are the patterns just too complex for me to pick up on? I don't know... To be fair, maybe I didn't give it enough of a chance. I ducked out after about 15 minutes.
It reminds me of something I read in the book Improvising Jazz by Jerry Coker (here he is quoting Richmond Browne):
"The listener is constantly making predictions; actual infintesimal predictions as to whether the next event will be a repetition of something, or something different. The player is constantly either confirming or denying these predictions in the listener's mind. As nearly as we can tell (Kraehenbuehl at Yale and I) the listener must come out right about 50% of the time -- if he is too successful in the prediction, he will be bored; if he is too unsuccessful, he will give up and call the music 'disorganized.' Thus if the player starts a repetitive pattern, the listener's attention drops away as soon as he has successfully predicted that it is going to continue. Then, if the thing keeps going, the attention curve comes back up, and the listener becomes interested in just how long the pattern is going to continue. Similarly, if the player never repeats anything, no matter how tremendous an imagination he has, the listener will decide that the game is not worth playing, that he is not going to be able to make any predictions right, and also stops listening. Too much difference is sameness: boring. Too much sameness is boring -- but also different once in a while."
Looky! I made a VST plugin:
This week in Philly:
Thursday:
Philadelphia Laptop Battle 3 - I'll be there rooting for Vostek.
Saturday:
FM at The Khyber with End, Society Cleaners, Black Market, Mad EP, and Gtori.
You should really go download the new Nintariman Web Cassingle right now. Very very impressive stuff. The first track is a hip-hopped out remix of a new Team Techno track, the second is a beautiful short melodic piece, and the third is that fun super-detailed booty shaking track he's been playing at his recent shows. Yay!
"...a man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened..."
--Albert Camus
I have a new previously unreleased track called Star Emsumu on the tbtmo.com playlist2004.
I just noticed that my friend Brandon Schakola also has a new track on the playlist. Quality!
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Tuesday is Voting Day! Be prepared!
Find out where to vote.
Check the opening and closing times for the polls in your state.
Be sure to bring photo ID. If you are a registered voter and your name is not on the list for some reason, ask for a provisional ballot. They must give it to you by law. Check your voting rights before you go.
Ho boy, it's going to be another doozy.