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!

The ATF badges finally arrived! Yay! If you want one, alls you have to do is scoot an email over to me! Easy! Some of you will get one whether you want it or not, so deal with it ok?! (If you’ve any doubt that I know your address, let me know just in case.)

I’ve been plugging away at a pseudo-granulizer patch in Max/MSP. It’s pretty functional at this point, so I’ll post it in a few days. It approaches some of the old granular problems in a different way, and has a really lovely sound to it. Speaking of which, those into Max really must check out Leafcutter John’s burgeoning Framework project (featuring a subpatch by He Can Jog). Tres hip!

OK, I know I’m super late to the Nick Drake party, but I feel compelled to say that I bought “Pink Moon” tonight, and it’s lovely. He had a really wonderful voice.

So, lots of guitar feedback experiments lately. Who’d of thought that, after all this time running away from rock and its accoutrements, I’d be digging out my old Gretsch Controfuzz and Fender Delay-Reverb! Certainly not me… for a guy who makes all his music with a computer, I’ve been weirdly purist about the acoustic sources that comprise my latest compositions. It’s time, I think, to grow away from that a little.

For all the absolute loveliest in esoteric dorky stuff, check out Lovely Media, maintained by the great Erik Schoster and pals. If you visit the “science” section of the site, you’ll notice I’ve posted a few links to some really awesome fluorescence microscopy videos… I’m seriously pondering the benefits and malefits of producing a video for projection during our live sets using the software Jitter, potentially with science-y stuff like this.

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!

I’ve bought the coolest running shorts ever, and I am totally ready to jog listening to the near-perfect Bacanal Intruder release on Test Tube Records. On tonight’s agenda after my jog: struggle through recording a cello part for the new track, process some prepared piano samples from last week, and continue work on the Max/MSP patch to process Michelle’s xylophone live. Also, I just got my first job since Hurricane Katrina wrecked the biochemistry lab where I used to work. Rock! I am SO getting the UC-33e controller with my first paycheck! (^_^)v

These are way exciting times! I’ve got a lovely girlfriend, a new website, and an almost-finished EP on the way! Things really couldn’t be better, and this webpage will be the virtual manifestation of all my gushy-ness and current optimism. I plan to just totally load this page up with bloggies, and max patches, and rocking tracks… PLUS I’ve ordered a bunch of super hip All That Fall buttons, and those will cost you exactly zero bucks as soon as I get them! Ok, it’s actually a bit late… A substantive post tomorrow, I promise!