Simple Sequencer

A nice eight-step build-it-yourself sequencer at Instructables: Simple Sequencer.

Torley

This is Torley. Torley has fun with stuff. Torley is also adroit and educational. You should be reading his blog.

Harmonia Prohibitorum

I like this blog – just started, but the writer’s funny, articulate, and passionate about electronic music. One of the first posts is on noise: a discussion of the analog recording process, with its inherent noise, versus the nearly-silent digital realm. A blog worth reading.

Harmonia Prohibitorum.

WordPress 2.8, and unhacked again

Got caught again – I’ve updated to 2.8, and have the WordPress blog in my RSS reader to be ready for the next release as soon as it appears.

You’d think people would have better things to do.

A quick guide to opensource synthesis

A quick overview of Pure Data, ChucK, Supercollider, Csound, and several other synthesis languages/tools I haven’t heard of before. Looks like it would repay some link-mining. [Edited 01/08 ... I forgot the link!]

Different Skies audio

Between the two evenings (Friday tech rehearsal and Saturday performance) we’ve got good versions of everything, looks like. That’s excellent.

It was an outstanding year this year. We’re hoping to work out the best way to communicate the Different Skies experience altogether; I have no idea whether it’ll be a DVD, CD , or what [...]

Different Skies: after

I’m currently at the airport, having just finished going through security and having to have my backpack scanned twice; too many confusing electronic bits, I guess.

Load-out took from after the concert and final jams (ten-ish) until about 3AM. We got to experience the weather we might have had: 60 mph winds and [...]

Different Skies: Day 5

Another big day.

Murray, who at the minimum should be knighted, supplied marvelous croissants again, and a Thermos of espresso midafternoon. Nothing like fresh musician fuel.

With 17 musicians and 27 pieces, we needed a spreadsheet to figure out who plays on what and who’s leading which piece. (It averages out to about [...]

Different Skies: Day 2

Most of today was spent getting set up and setting levels. We spent some time on figuring out how many pieces we had ideas for (27!), and gathering volunteers for each possible piece.

I’ll be leading “Slow, Cheap, and Out of Control”, an ambient piece based on my Java-Cocoa application that randomly generates drones [...]

Different Skies: T -2:05:29

I’ll be attending the Different Skies festival this year as a performer. This will be my first public performance on keyboards. Gulp.

I’m still doing my last minute planning – I’ve finalized the gear, gotten the software I want to use ready, and have made lists of the stuff to actually be packed and [...]