Back from Thanksgiving vacation. I hope you all had a nice Holiday.
Not much to report. Working on music when I find the time. I have about four new tracks in the works. Hopefully I'll be ready to send out a new demo early next year.
I just got an invitation to play a show on January 4th in Philly. It's curated by the infamous MP, so expect an eclectic line-up. More on that later.
Meditation Builds Up the Brain - "They found that meditating actually increases the thickness of the cortex in areas involved in attention and sensory processing, such as the prefrontal cortex and the right anterior insula."
A few dimensional distractions for you today...
Time-lapse movie of a guy making a big painting. Neat, but his method seems a little uninspired and tedious. (From a photo, cut into grid, projected, lots of tape.)
I'm currently reading this anthology, which may be of interest to many of you: Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music. Highly recommended. Here's a nice review.
I'd like one of these for christmas pls: Continuum Fingerboard. Think: 3 dimensional kaoss pad / keyboard hybrid midi controller. Yes.
Finally... You can use your laptop as an external monitor with this program: Maxivista. I tested it out briefly and it seems to work pretty well.
Synthetic Zero is one of my favorite weblogs. Here's why:
"We tend to think of people as objects which we can add or remove from our lives, but in fact they're interwoven in a way that cannot be easily untangled. Just as we are interwoven into the fabric of the world --- we bloom into being in the matrix of life and we disappear, but we don't really disappear --- we're not three-dimensional objects, separated from the world, but we breathe into the world and breathe the world in, and thus, when we die, we're not gone, because our presence in the world was what it was entirely, at that moment, and that creates a cascade of effects that continue on. Just as we owe a debt of gratitude (or blame) for the billions of years before us, our existence contributes to what happens after us as well."
It's a cozy machine! Don't expect me to get much done this winter. This thing emits beams of pure lethargy. See what it did to the cat?
"The Buddha Machine is not a CD release, or even an LP release. It's a small plastic box (that runs on two batteries) made in China that has not only an integrated speaker, but a volume control and an 1/8" output jack. To control the box, you simply turn it on, and a single switch on the side of the box toggles between nine different loops that are stored within the onboard memory."
The Ars Electrik show went fairly well. The turn-out was weak, but I was happy with my peformance. The sound system there is clean and loud, so that was a pleasure.
Vostek totally skipped out when he couldn't find a projector to borrow, so his visuals were missed. Robots in Disguise played after me. Darkish drum-n-bass with live drums, bass, and synths. Pretty sweet.
For those of you who couldn't make it, here's a little sample of what went down: William Fields - Sunwire (Live) [12mb MP3]