Sounding

I haven’t experienced Mute’s STUMM433 release yet, it’s not due out until May.

Ok Bob.

The term disc jockey was first coined in 1935, referring of course to the phonograph discs that had become popular for recorded music.

John Cage liked to borrow.

I was once employed at a startup whose attitude about remote workers had begun to retrograde to the point where even simple tolerance of the practice became a hot point.

The flowers sort of peeked

I’ve been clearing out shelves and digging through old notebooks, and came across this steno pad from the summer of 1998, exactly 20 years ago.

I am the nerd who annoyed you as a roommate because I always had the phone line busy dialing into BBSes when you were pounding cheap beer to “jump up jump up and get down” in the living room, while I searched Usenet for pirated software and other nefarious

– SCSI-9 ::: Metamorphosis –

– Peter Dundov ::: Ideas from the Pond –

– Orbital ::: In Sides –

Probably around five years ago now, while much further in the depths of a thrice-laid-off financial hole the technology industry bestowed upon me, I became fixated with actually building my own electronic instruments.

Here’s my own collection of aural glass animals for you to enjoy… a mix of groovy and beaty dreamscapes (3:38 @ 256K cbr mp3), recorded live for the Fullerton Art Walk on Friday (April 6), accompanying tattoo artist Jon Kelly (known for Olde Tyme Tattoo)…

– Farben ::: Farben EP –

We own this D battery operated “mini organ” that has a real blower inside and some kind of reed system… I haven’t taken it apart yet to see, and somewhat afraid of breaking it, but it works and sounds really cool!

– Martin Schulte ::: Treasure –

– Lackluster ::: The Invisible Spanish Inquisition –

As you may or may not know, 2012 is the Centennial of John Cage’s birth, and among its many celebrants (including myself, details to come…) is “transmission arts” collective Free103point9, who work in conjunction with WGXC 90.

Three years ago was the last time I did any kind of “year’s review” of aural nourishment, and I sort of feel the need to do it again.

Back in the mid 90’s before I ever got into techno music, I owned the original VHS copy of Peter Greenaway’s 1983 release 4merican Composers (natch, “Four American Composers”) and watched it constantly while in music school; I think I probably saw the Cage

Someone showed me this incredibly awesome looking ‘DIY’ pedal being done by Line6 called the ToneCore DSP Developer’s Kit.

This is a great interview of an awesome figure in electronic music, done just recently (2011) in Madrid by the Red Bull Music Academy:

Just in case you missed it, SoundWalk Long Beach 2011 is just around the corner!

Here we go… I’ve optimized the way I’m using power, love the way the dual jfet opamps (TL082) sound, and have the mixing elements mostly decided.

I’m building a 3×3 matrix mixer and have been scouring the Internet for examples and technical ideas.

I like this collection of DIY and lo-fi instruments that Rodrigo Constantzo has built, modded and incorporated into his percussion setup.

I’ve decided to pull all my sculpture and art photography here to a central gallery, and have a new page for my sculpture that for now features most of the photos I have up on Deviant Art.

A lonely computer music lab, between practice and Early Music Ensemble rehearsal.