Sounding

Incredibly, when I was a young boy I assumed everyone was supposed to know everything.

This past weekend we presented ourselves in regalia of the zombie, partying until the early single digits at my good friend Chad’s.

The call burst across as I was sitting in the datacenter.

I happen to be a voracious reader.

Check out these great DIY schematics and tutorials for audio electronics published by Doepfer… found this while working on a passive mixer for Long Beach SoundWalk.

So much music.

It’s been a while since I’ve sincerely blogged, as I’ve been somewhat obscured by computing lately.

Audiobulb has released a free sampler of music from eight artists on the label, including a track off Supple (see post below), subtly arranged and expertly mixed by label owner David Newman.

Presenting: an electro-acoustic album of experimental sound sources and improvisations punctuated by iterative percussion, i.

I’ve set up a set in Soundcloud called “Downtempo Excursions” to post some sonic paintings created with free improvisation and minimal beats.

Here’s something I thought I’d never see myself do in my own lifetime: build a synthesizer from scratch.

at times i get overwhelmed by possibilities.

Freely improvised one-takes.

I like to make myself feel as if I’m somehow close to the elusive community of electronic music.

So my new full-length album, Supple, will be released by Audiobulb in March of 2009.

Check this out… DataCent, a data recovery company, has started a catalog of common sounds heard on failing hard drives, and it covers multiple vendors and situations where things can be heard going terribly wrong.

October brought many exciting things for me, including not only a new job, but also a new album that I’m very excited about.

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I’ve done some updates to the Audio Software page, including three new categories: “Looping and Performance”, “Free Players and Visualizers” and “Programming Languages”.

I’m very happy to announce the release of a project I did this summer called Tekuchesti (a transliteration of текучести, which is a Russian word meaning “fluidity”), a piece in shuffle time for listeners and improvisers.

In 2001 the debut 12″ for Craque titled Trolling for Olives EP was released on Metatron Press, and now it’s available for free on last.

Tom Erbe is one of the members of the electronic music community whose work I highly respect.

As the summer begins its winddown, I’ve found that I’ve been writing some interesting beat-ful music at the same time I’ve been doing completely abstract sound works.

I’m usually happening upon all kinds of things while I’m across the Internets for work or play, and I’ll document the more interesting and pertinent ones here on sounding.

There’s a new generative music package out now called Nodal, which uses an object oriented interface that gives composers control over every aspect of MIDI in a string-it-together sort of Max/PD style.

The noiseforiphone looks promising as the worlds first official iphone synth, with FM synthesis and gestural parameter adjustment.

Yesterday at 4:15PM (Pacific) I took a break from the chaos of networks and enjoyed a ceremonial oneness to honor the victims of Hiroshima in a gesture of world-wide harmony.

Sound Art at Anti-Theory.

Having moved to the LA area little over five years ago, it wasn’t until today that I experienced a significantly violent earthquake in our hometown of Fullerton – just across the freeway from the epicenter of the 5.

Here’s a live set from the guys at Erotus (Blamstrain’s new label) celebrating its launch, featured in the Viides Uuden Musiikin Festivaali, or “Fifth Festival for New Music”, held in Kupittaanpuisto, Turku, Finland.

One of my favorite sources for anything psychedelic, Twisted Records has started an online store with digital downloads.

Once aspect of creativity I haven’t quite discovered how to manage is the navigation of intuition.

One of my favorite pastimes recently is surfing through social sites like last.

I am infused from all directions it seems, there is so much to do.

Since this release came out while my blog was unavailable, thought I would shout it out that a new Craque album called Material is available on Kahvi Collective!

I’m excited to be waiting on the arrival of my new Bleep Labs ThingamaKIT.

You may have noticed a slight change in interface on the blog here, it’s because I switched from the TWiki BlogPlugin to WordPress.

Wednesday night I played after John Harrington’s Stop Time for their CD release party, you can hear the 2-hour set new on CraqueCast or download the full thing directly.

Metatron Press has re-released a few more recordings on archive.

My favorite live downtempo band – T Spigot – is back in action this year, and to start it off they’re offering the limited edition first pressing of Experiments in the Hypnotic Production of Crime, available through paypal for a measly $5, so go get it!

Metatron Press (the website is slightly outdated, but not necessarily incorrect) has started a netlabel archive, posting releases formerly available only on CDR, as well as more new stuff to come.

The synth used for my Feb 8 show at Dangerous Curve, incorporated in my live electro-acoustic rig.

Behold the appalling beautiful world of Density Operator now available on Stadtgruen.

In response to the many sad emails and messages about Loungeometry, the evident is true: Kettle and the Keg has decided on their own to forgo lounge music to try and bring in more customer base.

Starting off the new year with an archival live show: Amalgamation: Live at Smartbar, Chicago, 2002 is a set I did at SmartBar in March of 2002.

Well I know you could just go through my Last.