AllThatFall…

I’ve posted two new patches to the Max/MSP section… One is a little obfuscation of mine that happens to make interesting sounds from time to time. The other is my first experiment with interfacing Max/MSP with the MPC 2000. This patch lets you sample in real time and then cut up the sample using the MPC pads. It’s a bit esoteric and it’s only monophonic at the moment, but I definitely plan to pursue this patch a little further. Also, a BCR 2000 is in the mail, speeding its way towards my loving arms at this very moment! Between this and the MPC, I shouldn’t have to do much mousing around during shows, and I’ll have a much more immediate and visceral control of my patches (or that’s the idea).

In other news, my latest (and actually not-quite-finished) track “Keeping Birds” popped up on the local college station yesterday. That’s always a super-nice feeling, too, hearing your own stuff! Thanks WTUL! I’ll have to post the finished version soon…

Bookishly, I’m splitting my time between Twisty Little Passages by Nick Montfort, and Brian Greene’s The Fabric of the Cosmos. Dork out!

My girlfriend Michelle just got in from a month in Spain yesterday, and she gave me a wonderful scarf she made while away. To celebrate, I just uploaded the first track from my 2005 Hopecrash EP, “I Missed You All Week” to the music page. Give it a listen, and if you dig it please download the whole EP from Luv Sound.

Today, we worked on incorporating her xylophone into our latest track-in-progress, “Keeping Birds”. I’ve really been dorking out lately with Max/MSP… and I’m almost finished with the nuts and bolts of the live patches for Michelle and I. Our patches will be a little bit different, but both will essentially just loop and brute-force-mulch incoming audio in real-time. The next step is hipping them up with super cute gui’s (Michelle want birds for buttons and trees for volume faders)! Hopefully, we can borrow a couple of laptops and get the live show going sometime soon.

Currently reading: Umberto Eco’s Kant and the Platypus

Great new releases from 8Bit Betty and ADCBicycle. Please listen!

So my new job is pretty fun! Lots of machinery and whirring of all sorts… not at all like a quiet biochemistry laboratory with its classical music, but I’m definitely itching to bring my field recording stuff and sneak a few samples! Clatter bang pow! And, yes, I’ve already bought my super deluxe earplugs like the uber-safety-dork that I am!

Also, I’ve just a moment ago updated my Max/MSP section with a pretty rocking new patch… Please check it out if you have a sec! Best warmth!