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	<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 22:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Freeware music tools for OS X</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2008/05/02/freeware-music-tools-for-os-x/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 22:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;I happened across Ken Restivo&#8217;s blog the other day (lots of good &#34;math funk&#34; there in Ogg Vorbis format), and was interested to note that he&#8217;s doing almost everything - recording, synthesis, mixdown, the works - on LInux, using free software.
Having listened to the stuff he&#8217;s got there and liking it quite a lot, I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&nbsp;I happened across <a href="http://www.restivo.org/blog/">Ken Restivo</a>&#8217;s blog the other day (lots of good &quot;math funk&quot; there in Ogg Vorbis format), and was interested to note that he&#8217;s doing almost everything - recording, synthesis, mixdown, the works - on LInux, using free software.</p>
<p>Having listened to the stuff he&#8217;s got there and liking it quite a lot, I started investigating what I could get or get running on OS X to best take advantage of my now-aging iBook G4.</p>
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<li>Most of these use Jack to output audio, so <a href="http://jackosx.com">JackOSX</a>&nbsp;is a requirement. I&#8217;ve installed it from a pre-built package.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.hydrogen-music.org/">Hydrogen</a>, a very nice drum machine, is available via MacPorts. Outputs via Jack. Does not build properly. Grrr.</li>
<li>He uses the <a href="http://zhevny.com/specimen/">specimen</a> sampler, which doesn&#8217;t have an OS X port, so I&#8217;ll have to try porting that myself. Outputs via Jack.</li>
<li><a href="http://ardour.org/binary_downloads">Ardour</a>, which comes in a prebuilt OS X version, for audio recording. I&#8217;m trying the new native version of this. Seems fine.</li>
<li>Rosegarden, for MIDI sequencing (should be buildable via MacPorts, but not sure if this is a native app or X11).</li>
<li><a href="http://lilypond.org/web/index">Lilypond</a>, for engraving</li>
<li>There are several more tools he mentions:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nongnu.org/fluid/">fluidsynth</a>, <a href="http://www.sysex.net/phasex/">PHASEX</a>, <a href="http://www.nekosynth.co.uk/wiki/nekostring">nekostring</a>, <a href="http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/">AMS</a>, <a href="http://jack-rack.sourceforge.net/">Jack Rack</a>, <a href="http://www.essej.net/sooperlooper/">SooperLooper</a>, <a href="http://home.jps.net/~musound/whysynth.html">WhySynth</a> (interesting because of its mention of the ESQ-1 as an influence) and <a href="http://http://www.audjoo.com/Helix.html">Helix</a>, all of which I need to investigate in more detail.</li>
<li>I&#8217;ve put links to all this in <a href="http://del.icio.us/pemungkah/synth">my del.icio.us</a>, and will keep updating those as I go along.</li>
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<p>&nbsp;What I hope to do is put together a reference list of &quot;useful free music software that will run under OS X&quot;. This is all part of my plan to hit Different Skies 2008 with my laptop, a USB controller keyboard, and the necessary gewgaws to connect me to the board (the FIREBOX; a teeny-tiny mixer to allow me to pull myself out of the mix for cueing, and to swap in the headphone output to the board if the FIREBOX cacks on me; and the necessary cables &amp; c.). My aim is something that will fit completely into my carryon luggage so I can just walk in, set up, and be ready to go.</p>
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		<title>Lying users and synth manuals</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2008/02/15/lying-users-and-synth-manuals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pemungkah</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In &#34;Every User Lies&#34; at the excellent&#160;Coding Horror&#160;blog, Jeff Atwood refers in passing to the&#160;concept of the &#34;active user&#34; - the person who immediately runs the software without looking at the manual at all.
In my trying out of various softsynths (most notably the WayOutWare&#160;TimewARP 2600&#160;and the GForce&#160;Oddity&#160;and&#160;impOSCar), I&#8217;ve found myself doing that - firing up [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In &quot;<a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001048.html">Every User Lies</a>&quot; at the excellent&nbsp;<a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/">Coding Horror</a>&nbsp;blog, Jeff Atwood refers in passing to the&nbsp;concept of the &quot;<a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/activeuserparadox.html">active user</a>&quot; - the person who immediately runs the software without looking at the manual at all.</p>
<p>In my trying out of various softsynths (most notably the WayOutWare&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wayoutware.com/products.html">TimewARP 2600</a>&nbsp;and the GForce&nbsp;<a href="http://www.gmediamusic.com/gforce/oddity/oddity.html">Oddity</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.gforcesoftware.com/ins_imposcar.php">impOSCar</a>), I&#8217;ve found myself doing that - firing up Garageband, and opening the plugin in a track, then just fiddling with the presets. By this point I know quite well that doing this with an analog synth with a screenful of knobs and sliders is counterproductive, but I caught myself doing it anyway.</p>
<p>So I decided that if I was going to have any kind of a meaningful interaction with the plugins, I was going to have to work through the manuals and see what there was to learn, whether I decided to buy them or not - and to avoid wasting money on something that didn&#8217;t fit my headspace (and earspace).<span id="more-88"></span> My TimewARP 2600 demo expired last year(and reinstalling/other fiddling about doesn&#8217;t wake it up again - I suppose I could wipe my OS X install, but that&#8217;s frankly not an option&#8230;), so I&#8217;ve concentrated on the Oddity, since the impOSCar, though swoonily gorgeous soundwise takes too much processing power on my G4. (Click and breakups <span style="font-weight: bold" class="Apple-style-span">bad</span>.)</p>
<p>I was able to find the original&nbsp;Odyssey&nbsp;manuals at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.oldschool-sound.com/">oldschool-sound.com</a>, in addition to the GForce manual for the plugin itself, and I&#8217;ve started reading them through. Both are very good, and a very different experience from, say, the Ensoniq manuals - and most other contemporary manuals as well. These manuals assume that your goal is to build a framework of understanding before proceeding, so you won&#8217;t be lost in a maze of Too Many Options. I particularly like the advice from the original Odyssey manual which exhorts you to resist the temptation to simply crank all the sliders up. The author obviously had musicians like some I know in mind.</p>
<p>Frankly, in the case of these plugins, it&#8217;s really necessary to understand the signal routings and how everything is connected up if you want to be able to to do anything other than load presets. The original manual for the Odyssey is quite up to the standard of the 2600&#8217;s manual, with its outstanding step-by-step tutorial. (As an aside, any musician who wants to understand who subtractive synthesis really works should spend some time with this manual; as I&#8217;ve said before, even without a 2600 in front of you, it&#8217;s possible to get an amazing amount from this book.)&nbsp;It very carefully builds up from near the end of the signal path, gradually working backward and adding complexity as it goes. Quite a good read as well as being fun to follow along with.</p>
<p>I think that&#8217;s the key thing here: the machines are relatively speaking quite opaque, and unless you have some entertaining way in, you&#8217;re going to find it a bit dull.Then again, after all this, I&#8217;m still not finding the sonorities speaking to me yet - I think my current musical needs are actually better served by the Moog Modular V &#8230; which, again, needs more CPU than the G4 can give it.</p>
<p>Hmm. It&#8217;s entertaining anyway, and I&#8217;m finally getting to try out the instruments I missed in their first incarnation.</p>
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		<title>Evocative sentence of the day</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2008/02/14/evocative-sentence-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pemungkah</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From the&#160;Krakatoa&#160;entry on Wikipedia: &#34;Biologically, the &#8216;Krakatau problem&#8217; refers to the question of whether the islands were completely sterilized by the 1883 eruption or whether some life survived. When the first researchers reached the islands in May 1884, the only living thing they found was a spider in a crevice on the south side of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa">Krakatoa</a>&nbsp;entry on Wikipedia: &quot;<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px" class="Apple-style-span">Biologically, the &#8216;Krakatau problem&#8217; refers to the question of whether the islands were completely sterilized by the 1883 eruption or whether some life survived. When the first researchers reached the islands in May 1884, the only living thing they found was a spider in a crevice on the south side of Rakata.&quot;</span></p>
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		<title>Inline MP3s</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2008/01/25/inline-mp3s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pemungkah</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve added a new Wordpress plugin that will let me inline a player with MP3 links. Here&#8217;s a sample of a noise piece I made a while back using Thonk: Joe McMahon - An Ocean of Liquid Helium - click on the little speaker icon following the link to play the track.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve added a new Wordpress plugin that will let me inline a player with MP3 links. Here&#8217;s a sample of a noise piece I made a while back using Thonk: <a href="http://ibiblio.org/mcmahon/third_sound/_an%20ocean%20of%20liquid%20helium_.mp3">Joe McMahon - An Ocean of Liquid Helium</a> - click on the little speaker icon following the link to play the track.</p>
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		<title>Housecleaning</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2008/01/24/housecleaning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started going through the various subpages in the site, cleaning them up to look better (all fixed text is so retro), and fixing lots of broken links. First up is the MIDI spec pages; I&#8217;ll be converting them over the next few weeks to look much better than they do now.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve started going through the various subpages in the site, cleaning them up to look better (all fixed text is <span style="font-style: italic" class="Apple-style-span">so</span> retro), and fixing <span style="font-style: italic" class="Apple-style-span">lots</span> of broken links. First up is the MIDI spec pages; I&#8217;ll be converting them over the next few weeks to look much better than they do now.</p>
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		<title>The ARP 2600 manual</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2008/01/19/the-arp-2600-manual/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pemungkah</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite some time back, I found a scanned copy of the ARP 2600 User&#8217;s manual. I&#8217;ve always had a soft spot for the 2600, though I could never quite afford one; it&#8217;s always seemed like a great balance as far as analog synths go.In a recent fit of &#8220;my disk is too full&#8221;, I unzipped [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://ibiblio.org/emusic-l/arp2600blue.jpg" alt="blue-face Arp 2600" />Quite some time back, I found a scanned copy of the ARP 2600 User&#8217;s manual. I&#8217;ve always had a soft spot for the 2600, though I could never quite afford one; it&#8217;s always seemed like a great balance as far as analog synths go.In a recent fit of &#8220;my disk is too full&#8221;, I unzipped the file of scans and started reading. It&#8217;s really a very good introduction to the machine and how it works; I&#8217;ve actually started feeling like if I had one in front of me, that I&#8217;d be able to use it effectively.<span id="more-76"></span>An idle thought crossed my mind that it would be amusing to figure out how much an equivalent synth (from analog modules) would cost to put together nowadays; Richard Wentk was kind enough to point out that the <a href="http://www.macbethstudiosystems.com/" title="Macbeth synthesizers">Macbeth M5N</a> is pretty much a modern 2600. Quite a drool-worthy box, but still quite pricey at about $6k - although that&#8217;s roughly $1200 in 1970 dollars; I seem to vaguely recall from the time that the originals sold new for about twice that, so hey, prices have gone down. Up. Sideways.One-scan-per-page was getting hard to read, so I started transcribing it (copying the illustrations inline). At the same time, inspired by the really lovely design choices in this synth, I decided to poke around and see what emulations of the 2600 were out there - I had remembered seeing them before, but I wasn&#8217;t in an analog place at the time. I found two: <a href="http://www.arturia.com/en/arp/arp2600v.php" title="ARP 2600V">Arturia&#8217;s Arp 2600V</a>, and <a href="http://www.wayoutware.com/products.html" title="TimewARP 2600">WayOutWare&#8217;s TimewARP 2600</a>. Perusing the docs (which are really quite good for both products), I found out that the TimewARP 2600 manual is a pretty faithful version of sections 4 and 5 - the real meat - of the manual (it&#8217;s even written by the original author!), so my transcription has halted for the moment. I did find it interesting that just the act of transcribing did a lot to put the concepts into my head, even though I wasn&#8217;t particularly studying them.I&#8217;ve played with both some now, and I&#8217;m liking the TimewARP 2600 better than the Arturia one: it seems to run better for me, and doesn&#8217;t make weird user interface decisions (I was convinced for quite some time that the Arturia guys had never heard of a scroll bar, until I was told that there&#8217;s a +/- control at the top of the window that expands and contracts it. Note to anyone contemplating their own softsynth: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic">never</span> just make up your own UI conventions. It makes long-time users of Macs <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic">really irritable</span>). It <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic">feels</span> like a 2600, so much so that I remembered vividly the hour or so I was lucky enough to spend with one when I was fifteen, making silly noises. And it&#8217;s certainly cheaper than a real 2600 at less than $200.I had this dream the other night, of a custom MIDI controller that mapped real physical sliders to every slider on the face of the 2600 emulator, and which would look just like a real 2600. Definitely a pipe dream, but hey, those are the best kind.</p>
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		<title>A quick guide to opensource synthesis</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2007/11/05/a-quick-guide-to-opensource-synthesis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A quick overview of Pure Data, ChucK, Supercollider, Csound, and several other synthesis languages/tools I haven&#8217;t heard of before. Looks like it would repay some link-mining. [Edited 01/08 ... I forgot the link!]
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> A <a href="http://diagrammes-modernes.blogspot.com/2007/08/music-control-languages-specialised.html" title="Diagrammes Modernes overview">quick overview</a> of Pure Data, ChucK, Supercollider, Csound, and several other synthesis languages/tools I haven&#8217;t heard of before. Looks like it would repay some link-mining. [Edited 01/08 ... I forgot the link!]</p>
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		<title>Different Skies audio</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2007/11/01/different-skies-audio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between the two evenings (Friday tech rehearsal and Saturday performance) we&#8217;ve got good versions of everything, looks like. That&#8217;s excellent.
It was an outstanding year this year. We&#8217;re hoping to work out the best way to communicate the Different Skies experience altogether; I have no idea whether it&#8217;ll be a DVD, CD , or what at this [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Between the two evenings (Friday tech rehearsal and Saturday performance) we&#8217;ve got good versions of everything, looks like. That&#8217;s excellent.
<p>It was an outstanding year this year. We&#8217;re hoping to work out the best way to communicate the Different Skies experience altogether; I have no idea whether it&#8217;ll be a DVD, CD , or what at this point,  but it will definitely contain a lot of great music.
<p>And yes, the gear video&#8217;s coming. </p>
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		<title>Different Skies: after</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2007/10/21/different-skies-after/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pemungkah</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;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 cold. Fortunately, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;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. </p>
<p>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 <em>cold</em>. Fortunately, that was the only cold night we had. We all got up as usual thsi morning; several folks had to go out early (Otso, DK, and Mike) because of bad weather predicted along their return route. Giles, Bill Fox, Darrel, Allen, and Doug went out around noon, and Jim Combs and I followed soon after. I was lucky that Jim was with me, as there was construction that required us to get off the freeway and drive through random parts of Phoenix. Jim had done it on Sunday when he went back down to pick up Otso and John 3. I dropped Jim off, dropped the rental car off (it was a Honda Civic hybrid - only half a tank of gas to get all the way to Arcosanti and back - cool!), and checked in.</p>
<p>Man, am I tired. Thank goodness Ivan was there to do sound for us, but that is some heavy equipment. Fortunately Rus ran into The Naked Guy during this process instead of me, as I would probably not have handled it with equal aplomb. (The Naked Guy showed up partway through the process; he apparently really needed to get to the visitor&#8217;s parking lot for some reason. Who knows.)</p>
<p>Sales at the merchandise table were brisk - the two folks who volunteered to help out took in more than $400. Wish I&#8217;d had my CD ready, but oh well. Maybe next time.</p>
<p>I need to analyze my setup and come up with something without a single point of failure if I want to play live. The FIREBOX was the bottleneck - if I&#8217;d just yanked the mixer cables and swapped them to the Firebox I could have stayed on line. &#8220;Everything and Nothing&#8221; would have just been different, rather than for all practical purposes nonexistent. I could have done fine with something I could switch to a straight audio-out feed from the headphone jack in an emergency - it worked well enough for the TV appearance, so it would certainly do for a backup. I didn&#8217;t use the Vortex much at all, so I could leave it home next time. If the audio was all routed direct to the mixer, and then to the direct box, I could turn up the direct laptop feed in case of an interface crash, or simply switch to whatever else I was using (real modules/etc.) if the computer bit it completely. Add one of the Edirol controllers for a backup if the keyboard goes but the computer&#8217;s up. and I should be ready for nearly anything. Though I will still keep the drum and whatever other acoustic instrument(s) I bring handy; they should work for anything short of the power going off. Miking, etc. is to be figured out later. And I&#8217;d really like to start playing trumpet again. Would be a nice addition to Brian&#8217;s sax.</p>
<p>Admittedly, it would have been nice if I had been able to figure this out earlier, but at least I&#8217;ve got a live setup sorted out for next time &#8230; and I definitely want there to be a next time.</p>
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		<title>Different Skies: Day 7 and the last</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 07:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mostly rested today. Put together the vocal samples for &#8220;Everything and Nothing&#8221;, Allen&#8217;s and my piece &#8230; we&#8217;ll talk about that later.The concert was a raousing success; technically speaking for me it was a nightmare, The FIREBOX hung repeatedly whenever I brought up any software that tried to talk to it, so when we got [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mostly rested today. Put together the vocal samples for &#8220;Everything and Nothing&#8221;, Allen&#8217;s and my piece &#8230; we&#8217;ll talk about that later.The concert was a raousing success; technically speaking for me it was a nightmare, The FIREBOX hung repeatedly whenever I brought up any software that tried to talk to it, so when we got to &#8220;Everything and Nothing&#8221;, I really did have nothing. Worse, Allen&#8217;s rig crashed too. I filled with a little ambient percussion, hoping he could get straightened out, but no luck. Still, even on the pieces I was out of due to tech problems, it still sounded great.I was fortunately problem-free for Bill&#8217;s piece, and I rocked my MiniMoog solo tonight. Very happy. Drumming was at a way higher standard than the rest of the weekm even happier about that.A great experience, and one I&#8217;ll probably write more about later. Especially I need to look at the technucal issues and see how to resolve them, I&#8217;m going to play more live gigs.</p>
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		<title>Different Skies: Day 6</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rehearsals again; we have the ordered matrix of performance ready now (okay, okay, who&#8217;s playing on what, who&#8217;s leading, and the song order. Meaning the spreadsheet&#8217;s sorted).
The students from the Orme School came by for the &#8220;here&#8217;s what we do here at Different Skies&#8221; demo, which was a load of fun. We did a jam [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rehearsals again; we have the ordered matrix of performance ready now (okay, okay, who&#8217;s playing on what, who&#8217;s leading, and the song order. Meaning the spreadsheet&#8217;s sorted).</p>
<p>The students from the Orme School came by for the &#8220;here&#8217;s what we do here at Different Skies&#8221; demo, which was a load of fun. We did a jam with Mike conductiong us. The best part was geting to do 8-bar complete chaos and everyone coming back in right on one - twice!</p>
<p>During the students-on-stage portion, I got to demonstrate the SD-1 and Ableton Live to two different sets of students. Favorite quote: &#8220;You&#8217;re actually going to use that sound in the concert?&#8221; They thought it was really cool that the one keyboard could do so many sounds, and Ableton Live was just fascinating.</p>
<p>Aleen and I got to do our piece for the first time tonight; I&#8217;m playing a marvelously damaged patch called &#8220;Migraine Flash&#8221; through &#8220;Torture Cell&#8221; and &#8220;Twinkly Bitz&#8221;. Allen plays some nice rhythmic stuff while I alternate between this texture and a computer reading of a section from Bacon&#8217;s <i>New Atlantis</i>, in which he seems to quite accurately predict electronic music (or something like it) in 1624.</p>
<p>Live works great for this, and I think I&#8217;m going to break down and buy a copy soon. I&#8217;ve seen a number of other people using it for similar purposes on other numbers.</p>
<p>We had quite an extensive jam session tonight after the tech rehearsal. Tomorrow will probably be rest in the morning and concert in the evening, with a bit of setup in between.</p>
<p>My machine is <i>just</i> a little too slow to handle running Live, the Java program I&#8217;ll be using at one point, and TextEdit to keep Bill Fox&#8217;s chord chart up as well, so I&#8217;ve resorted to setting up everything but Live during the first part of the show, and then shutting down the Java program before starting Live (and reloading everything - I need to save up a while before I&#8221;ll be able to purchase a license, so I can&#8217;t save anything; I need to copy it all back in again).</p>
<p>Still, seems to work well. I&#8217;ve gotten quite a lot of practice on the dumbek and have improved a lot this week. Hopefully I won&#8217;t earn a sandwich during the performance! (The sandwich is a Different Skies tradition: John DuVal almost always has a sandwich left over in his cooler after driving down from Portland; the person who screws up worst during the performance &#8220;earns&#8221; the sandwich.)</p>
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		<title>Different Skies: Day 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s leading which piece. (It averages out to about 11 different pieces [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another big day.</p>
<p>Murray, who at the minimum should be knighted, supplied marvelous croissants again, and a Thermos of espresso midafternoon. Nothing like fresh musician fuel. </p>
<p>With 17 musicians and 27 pieces, we needed a spreadsheet to figure out who plays on what and who&#8217;s leading which piece. (It averages out to about 11 different pieces per musicians.) We span a wide range: from duets to complete ensembles - and styles from weird jazz to Berlin-style electronica to tribal to totally off-the-wall weirdness. Woo.</p>
<p>I had a number of pieces to practice today, and I&#8217;ll be playing stuff from clavinet funk lines to Middle-Eastern drums. It&#8217;s going to be pretty active onstage! I will probably be playing a very silly Spike Jones-style percussion solo on one piece, which is gonna be FUN.</p>
<p>I tried some different stuff in the all-star jams tonight: essentially some ostinato &#8220;sequencer&#8221; stuff played by hand. (I found out that this is hard to do at fast tempos. Duh.) I lasted about halfway through and had to take a rest. Did a little drumming along with Giles, and finished up playing faux soprano (which is pretty silly considering we have a very good soprano player on hand already - hi Brian!).</p>
<p>Kinda late now. People are tired enough now to be discussing politics. Bedtime.</p>
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		<title>Different Skies: a word from our sponsor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello to EMUSIC-L! I&#8217;m Mike Metlay, the Founder and Coordinator of Different Skies, and this short post is by way of introduction and to say a few words about the event.
And here they are: Blubber! Nitwit! Oddment! Tweak!
More later if time permits.
mike
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello to EMUSIC-L! I&#8217;m Mike Metlay, the Founder and Coordinator of Different Skies, and this short post is by way of introduction and to say a few words about the event.</p>
<p>And here they are: Blubber! Nitwit! Oddment! Tweak!</p>
<p>More later if time permits.</p>
<p>mike</p>
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		<title>Different Skies: Day 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was mostly practice and preparations. I spent most of the morning optimizing my setup, but late in the afternoon we put together the intro piece which includes me doing Tibetan throat singing. In for a penny, in for a pound. I&#8217;ll be using quite a number of things: Ableton Live, Brad Garton&#8217;s jlooch (slightly [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday was mostly practice and preparations. I spent most of the morning optimizing my setup, but late in the afternoon we put together the intro piece which includes me doing Tibetan throat singing. In for a penny, in for a pound. I&#8217;ll be using quite a number of things: Ableton Live, Brad Garton&#8217;s <a href=http://music.columbia.edu/~brad/jlooch/">jlooch</a> (slightly modified for use in performance), the SD-1, dumbek, and vocals. I&#8217;m finding that I&#8217;ve stretched to play a lot of stuff that I probably wouldn&#8217;t have done on my own, let alone live on stage; having such an incredible talented and supportive group has made me feel much more confident. I mean, Tibetan throat singing?!</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve already established the full running order, and will be doing more runthroughs for various pieces tomorrow; we did a couple of very cool jams post practice in the evening, and then set up the stage lighting. I was up on the ladder since I was about the tallest. Afterward I was also the dustiest.</p>
<p>We adjourned to the music room after that, and watched the version of <a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0095738/">Nightfall</a> that was filmed at Arcosanti back in the 80&#8217;s. Much MST3K style riffing occurred, especially since the tape was very old and had no sound, but we always manage to make our own amusement. &#8220;DID I MENTION THE BIG ******* CLIFF???&#8221;</p>
<p>Oh yes! And the <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/sensitivechaos.176561567">shirts</a> arrived!<br />
<img src="http://www.differentskies.com/Resources/ds2007tshirt150x.jpeg"></p>
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		<title>Different Skies: Day 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We did the TV show today - the Behringer mixer we tried out last night was actually broken, which we figured out 45 seconds before airtime (ack!). We ended up soloing all the channels, which got us a mono mix good enough to allow us to perform.
Worse: the mixer, once we got it set up, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We did the TV show today - the Behringer mixer we tried out last night was actually <em>broken</em>, which we figured out 45 seconds before airtime (ack!). We ended up soloing all the channels, which got us a mono mix good enough to allow us to perform.</p>
<p>Worse: the mixer, once we got it set up, started making little &#8216;fzt&#8230;ftzt&#8230;crackle&#8221; noises while the previous interview was going (our gear was set up off on the side). Mike had to <i>crawl</i> under the table and try to unplug the speakers. Problem was, he unplugged the audio, not the power, so the speakers immediately began going &#8220;HNNNNNNNNN&#8221; at full volume. He had to grab the cones to silence the speakers &#8230; and unplug the power with his teeth, while lying underneath the table in a tangle of audio and power cables. The wonders of live TV.</p>
<p>The actual performance itself went perfectly well, not a problem at all with the actual music itself. Oh yes: and this was my first ever live performance. Woo hoo!</p>
<p>Back at Arcosanti, we went through a lot of the candidate pieces today, and most of them worked really well. We timed out to about an hour and 15 minutes already; it&#8217;ll be interesting to see how it all works out in the end. I&#8217;ve volunteered for quite a number of the pieces, playing everything from vibes to Java-generated algorithmic noise, and a surprising amount of percussion, both electronic and real live dumbek. I should invest in a decent microphone for next year (and for my own performances) so I can play the drum along with my own stuff.</p>
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		<title>Different Skies: Day 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;ll be leading &#8220;Slow, Cheap, and Out of Control&#8221;, an ambient piece based on my Java-Cocoa application that randomly generates drones and various [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be leading &#8220;Slow, Cheap, and Out of Control&#8221;, an ambient piece based on my Java-Cocoa application that randomly generates drones and various other sound effects. I can basically tell it the shape of what I want it to do, but I can&#8217;t predict what notes it will choose, or how often it will change things other than in a very vague way. Should be quite interesting, especially since the rehearsals won&#8217;t be repeatable! We&#8217;ll see if that one fits together well enough for it to work.</p>
<p>Tomorrow there&#8217;s a gig at the local TV station in Prescott: DK, Brian, Mike, and I will be doing a few minutes live and then Mike will do an interview. Should be interesting: I&#8217;ll be playing a couple of VSTs hosted in licve from a teeny little 2-octave Edirol controller which I&#8217;ve only just started playing with today. Whee!</p>
<p>[Posted day 3 - no time to write it yesterday. - JM]</p>
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		<title>Different Skies: Day 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just wrapping up after the first day. A number of folks were quite delayed - Mike and company ended up having to drive way out of their way to avoid snow, so they&#8217;ll not be in until very late. Otso, John 3, and Jim Combs got in just as I was headed back to my [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just wrapping up after the first day. A number of folks were quite delayed - Mike and company ended up having to drive way out of their way to avoid snow, so they&#8217;ll not be in until very late. Otso, John 3, and Jim Combs got in just as I was headed back to my room so we shook hands in the dark and stumbled to our rooms.</p>
<p>Got set up and found that the new snake I got works great for the SD-1, not so great for everything else. The inspired bit was bringing the Apple Pro speakers and the Griffin iFire to use as monitors. They&#8217;re <em>perfect</em>. I had planned to just use them as speakers for the laptop, but they worked great as monitors. I&#8217;m set up and ready to roll. Everything&#8217;s just right - SD-1, MIDI setup, VSTs on the iBook; I am ready to roll.</p>
<p>We ended up improvising with the Tibetan bowl I brought along - that may turn into a piece. The jams fell together really well. I think this is going to be really good.</p>
<p>Very tired now - been up since 4:30. Time for bed.</p>
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		<title>Different Skies: T -12 minutes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; according to the countdown timer. It&#8217;s a little before 6AM here in California; just making brekfast and writing this post.
Everything&#8217;s packed and ready at this point - I ended up with a suitcase full of gear to tote along, so we&#8217;ll see how that goes. I only forgot one thing: scheduling a shuttle to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230; according to the countdown timer. It&#8217;s a little before 6AM here in California; just making brekfast and writing this post.</p>
<p>Everything&#8217;s packed and ready at this point - I ended up with a suitcase full of gear to tote along, so we&#8217;ll see how that goes. I only forgot one thing: scheduling a shuttle to the airport. So I&#8217;m taking the bus at 6:30, which should get me to the airport about 7:30 - plenty of lead time for a Sunday-morning flight from SJC. (Security wait times are about 5 minutes this time in the morning.)</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be posting next from Acrosanti itself after my flight and picking up a few things on the other end. </p>
<p>T minus 7 minutes. See you later.</p>
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		<title>Different Skies 2007 Countdown</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And of course I couldn&#8217;t resist the opportunity to write an OS X widget to track time remaining to the start of Different Skies.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And of course I couldn&#8217;t resist the opportunity to write an OS X <a href="http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/music/differentskies07countdownwidget.html">widget</a> to track time remaining to the start of Different Skies.</p>
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		<title>Different Skies: T -2:05:29</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2007/10/11/different-skies-t-20529/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be attending the Different Skies festival this year as a performer. This will be my first public performance on keyboards. Gulp.
I&#8217;m still doing my last minute planning - I&#8217;ve finalized the gear, gotten the software I want to use ready, and have made lists of the stuff to actually be packed and taken. I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ll be attending the <a href="http://differentskies.com">Different Skies</a> festival this year as a performer. This will be my first public performance on keyboards. Gulp.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m still doing my last minute planning - I&#8217;ve finalized the gear, gotten the software I want to use ready, and have made lists of the stuff to actually be packed and taken. I haven&#8217;t actually <em>done</em> any packing yet, but at least I know what I&#8217;m taking.</p>
<p>Gearwise, I&#8217;ll be exhibiting my simultaneous impulses to Luddism and bleeding-edge: the <a href="http://www.vintagesynth.com/ensoniq/sd1.shtml">SD-1</a> and <a href="http://www.loopers-delight.com/tools/vortex/vortex.html">Vortex</a> on the Luddite side - pretty much unchanged since 1993; and the Presonus <a href="http://www.presonus.com/firebox.html">Firebox</a>, <a href="http://www.greenoak.com/crystal/">wildly</a>-<a href="http://www.u-he.com/TripleCheese/index.html">assorted</a> AU and VST plugins, <a href="http://www.defectiverecords.com/vstihost/index2.html">host</a> <a href="http://www.ableton.com/">programs</a>, and software I haven&#8217;t even quite finished writing yet on the neophile side.</p>
<p>Haven&#8217;t yet decided whether to try getting the didjeridoo and dumbek in somehow or not; possibly the dumbek, and I might see if the didj will fit in the keyboard&#8217;s SKB case since it will be being handled by fellow musicians instead of airport baggage handlers.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, clothes, shoes, etc. Sure. I <em>am</em> going to pick up most of my personal stuff at the far end rather than dork with plastic bags and 1-oz bottle stupidity.</p>
<p>More updates as we get closer to the day.</p>
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