no peanuts in church…

"You might as well face the music. You've tried everything else…" -Sun Ra.

March 2013

  • Upload: Three Pure(ish) Tone Studies in Audiomulch

    I’ve been playing around with Audiomulch for a couple of months now, to the point where it has managed to replace my aging copy of Ableton Live (v5.2.2… get off my lawn!!!) as my go-to environment for electronic noodling. I like the ‘level’ Audiomulch inhabits– it’s not the ubiquitous high-level, strip-chart style DAW– it’s not Continue reading

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  • Disquiet Junto projects 62 & 63.

    Between dayjob demands and dealing with a seemingly non-ending stream of weekly blizzards, I’ve been lax at updating. Here’s the last two Disquiet Junto projects I participated in. Last week, everyone built a piece using three sine waves as the building blocks: And this past weekend, folks were asked to use a source track (Italian Continue reading

  • ‘Indie Capitalism’: Once you name it, it’s a Thing.

    After yesterday’s rant on the Great Inevitable Future of Work, I stumble onto this article in WiReD about ‘Indie Capitalism’. This article, itself, quotes another article in Businessweek on the same subject– arguably a more mainstream/non-techie publication, which indicates that the idea has ‘arrived’, I suppose. So, ‘Indie Capitalism’ now has a name. Which means Continue reading

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  • contra leisuretopia (some random thoughts).

    Just wanted to make note of an interesting article by sci-fi author Damien Walter in aeon magazine about the possibility of a ‘creative culture’ arising in the near future, as the natural result of increased automation and our current, inexorable shift towards a pure-knowledge economy. The article falls in line with current thoughts and assumptions Continue reading

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