Uncompatible Systems

Mon, 13 Nov 2006

I Just Cut A New Record With My Band

Plans are to tour with The Beatles sometime in 2007

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Sat, 23 Sep 2006

Not Since Aphex Twin's Windowlicker

Has there been a video as funny in it's objectification of ass and titties. Dougal Wilson has taken Benny Benassi's "classic foam party club anthem", not my words, and set it to slippery bitches with power tools! Did I just say slippery bitches? Holy shit. That's the only way I can describe his music video.

posted at: 19:21 | path: /music | permanent link to this entry

Tue, 18 Jul 2006

Weekly Band Fixation

There is something about a group of sad, earnest and pissed off people making music together that gets me extremely excited. Add to that a singer with an charmingly bitter voice using the word "fucking" in what I can gather the most honest way possible. Yeah. A Better Son/Daughter is an uplifting song about faking it till you're making it despite the horrible feelings you have inside.

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Mon, 17 Jul 2006

Rilo Kiley is impossible to download anywhere but P2P or iTunes

In the search for a downloadable version of the Rilo Kiley album The Execution of All Things I have come to the conclusion that it is impossible to download without participating in iTunes or sharing with an anonymous "friend". Emusic, Yahoo music and Saddle Creek's own store do not offer mp3 or vorbis versions of the record. I wonder if this is an exclusive agreement between Apple and Saddle Creek? WIth the commercial success of Bright Eyes I wouldn't doubt it.

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Wed, 24 May 2006

I Made a Playlist Today

And you can have it! It's for a friend that works at a bar called Sweet Ups and The Royal Oak, which is prety cool so you should go there. If you go there soon you'll even get to hear good music...probably.

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Sat, 18 Feb 2006

My Favorite picks from Project 168

Attack of The Knives

Blue Vitriol

Dissolved

posted at: 20:33 | path: /music | permanent link to this entry

Sun, 23 Oct 2005

Tyondai Braxton Played at Tonic

Tyondai is my favorite living composer and performer. He makes very well orchestrated pieces right before your eyes with a guitar, his voice and a rather complicated matrix of looping samplers and effect boxes. Mike Burke, part of JMZ records, the small record imprint that pressed his first solo CD described his performance by telling me "he becomes this cybernetic organism."

Ty played at Tonic on the 21st of October 2005. I recorded it. He asked me to only place part of the show here. The segments are in ogg/vorbis format, to further confuse you so you'll buy the record when it comes out.

First seven minutes
Last 6 minutes

For all the geeks reading this, I recorded it with a Sony ECMZS90 stereo condensor microphone attached to an iRiver ihp-140 portable harddisk player/recorder. The source format was wav, which I moved to FLAC and finally to vorbis.

posted at: 23:40 | path: /music | permanent link to this entry

Fri, 29 Jul 2005

Water. Written by Polly Jean Harvey

water
walking on
water
for years
taking it into my head
living by the right lines
reading what the very man said

water
walking on
water
neighing on eleven years
taking it into my head
mary mary drop me softly
i've been reading what your very man said
neighing on eleven years
taking it into my head
leave my clothes on the beach
i'm walking down into the sea
prove it to me
now the water to my ankles
now the water to my knees
think of him all waxy wings
melted down into the sea
mary mary what your man said
is washing in all over my head
mary mary hold on tightly
over water under the sea

Listen to the song.

posted at: 10:15 | path: /music | permanent link to this entry

Tue, 15 Mar 2005

There is a band named The Internet

That is soooo rad. The Internet has a web site on the World Wide Web on The Internet!

Mudboy plays an insane organ construction. He has a web site too. His music is totally rad. Kind of like The Internet's music.

OMG, my mind is being blown so fast!

posted at: 17:56 | path: /music | permanent link to this entry

Wed, 09 Feb 2005

Converting xmms playlists to iRiver iHP series format

The iRiver is great but the playlist functions pretty suck. Here is a Perl script that converts the playlists you save from XMMS to a format the iHP can read. It takes two arguments, the first is the playlist file and the second is the mount point where you mount the iHP on your desktop filesystem. It requires the program called todos which is available in Debian under the name sysutils.

This program is short, poorly documented and probably won't work unless you tweak it for your system. YMMV.

posted at: 00:11 | path: /music | permanent link to this entry

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I work with communications, open source software, sound and video. I'm the most happy when I work on all of these things at once. Sounds, Systems, Robots, Rocking Tigers.

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