May 31 2012
8:14
May 24 2012
20:03
This is an excerpt from Miserere Mei, one of the pieces on an album called The Wine Of Silence. These pieces are an orchestral rendering of Robert Fripp’s ambient electronic guitar Soundscapes, transcribed by California Guitar Trio member Bert Lams, and arranged and scored for orchestra by Andrew Keeling. The pieces were performed by The Metropole Orkest, conducted by Jan Stullen.
(Source: blip.tv)
May 20 2012
10:37
“ There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration,
who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of
Realization, who returns again and again to say “It is yet more
difficult than you thought.” This is the muse of form. It may be then
that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us
and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know
what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know
which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not
baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.
who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of
Realization, who returns again and again to say “It is yet more
difficult than you thought.” This is the muse of form. It may be then
that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us
and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know
what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know
which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not
baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.
—
Wendell Berry.
Kinda where I am right now with a tune I’m working out.
May 18 2012
9:00
Creepy 60’s Pop
foxesinbreeches replied to your quote: and let me try with pleasured hands
…Also, what’s the deal with that dubious “Who’s your daddy?” lyric?oh, totally… and the entirely too creepy follow up of ‘is he rich like me?’
There are a fair number of 60’s pop songs like this, featuring high creep-factor lyrics. Even the Beatles got into the act, with this paean to domestic abuse providing a nasty ending to Rubber Soul.
May 17 2012
20:47
May 11 2012
23:53
Exactly. Mrs. Thoughtcontainment goes to bed, I get a glass of cheap-but-decent Malbec, stick on the headphones, and slap this into the computer for evening viewing. Yay for Friday. And for smokin’ jazz-fusion performances in HD.
(Source: paperctz, via danholepond)
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18:49
Audio Equipment Review/Whinge
Got a pair of Shure SRH240A headphones to replace the Audio Technicas that the vacuum cleaner ate a while back. While they’re billed as studio phones, I wouldn’t use them for anything but tracking, as they’re nowhere near as accurate as the AKG 240As that I use for real mixing.
But the main annoying thing about them is that with a sensitivity of 107dB/milliwatt, these things are just too bloody efficient. Which means that, even for my aging ears, I wind up running the volume on everything I connect them to between 0.25 to 1 on a scale of 1 to 10. And a lot of volume pots just don’t respond well to changes way at the bottom of their ranges. Hrrmph.
May 05 2012
11:33
May 02 2012
22:23
Shepard Smith reacts to Romney statement on Gingrich withdrawal (~30sec that I think are definitely worth spending)
please everyone watch this it’s kind of beautiful
POLITICS IS WYRD… AND CREEPY.
If this isn’t sampled and playing somewhere in someone’s set at the high-end clubs of this planet by Friday night, I’m going to surrender any hope of understanding pop culture.
Apr 30 2012
9:42
Ronald Van Der Meijs: Clouds of Knotted Sound
water-filled brass and bronze bowls on turntables. Watch a demo here.
The sound installation consists of two sound bowls. Because the two different sine waves are dueling with each other it creates nodes in the sound field that are audible and visible. These resonance areas can be observed in space by walking around the installation and can be observed with your ears. The visibility of the sound is created by the vibration patterns of the water in the bowls. The installation creates a sculpture of sound.
Oh shit. Studio goals.
I’ve done something similar by hooking up my guitar to two different phasers, and then running those to two different amps. If you get it right, you can hear your notes go past your face.
