I might be up in the Bay Area this summer. well the Bay Area -ish. The great David Cope does a workshop in algorithmic composition (writing code which writes music) and if I figure out a way to pay for it, I'm going to be there.

I might also be up in the Bay Area next week. David Cope is doing a presentation at Stanford through a computer music ( Read more... )

brian eno: Sometimes you learn as much from the things you don’t like as from the things you do like. The rejection side is as important as the endorsement part. You define who you are and where you are by the things that you know you are not. Sometimes that’s all the information you have to go on. I’m not that kind of person. You don’t quite know ( Read more... )

http://brushing-up.blogspot.com/2008/08/hobo-signs-vol2.html

no, I'm not going to answer your questions, and yes, I am going to refuse to pay you if you don't do the things that I won't tell you about.

I do a thing where I twitter new beats every day. sometimes they suck, other times they turn out well. these are three I like ( Read more... )

I just left a comment on Andy W's Facebook page encouraging him to listen to some superclub trance. I don't know why exactly but it's very entertaining. I want to encourage everybody to leave comments on Andy's page encouraging him to listen to cheesy trance. Try it, you'll be surprised how much fun it is.

god help me, I just discovered Zalashji's Cave and thought "this would be a great location for a rave."

yay now I have work and I'm not panicking (as much). so this conf I was thinking about going to, because it was in San Francisco, it isn't in SF at all, it's in Burlingame. apparently the goal was to be right near SFO. ok, but bleah.

i've caved into this insistent desire to play Warcraft again. but I can't remember what server I was on.

( sci-fi novelist is wrong )