Still immersed in making visual music thingers. I'm getting somewhere, possibly. A nice vacation this weekend and then one month to go, more or less, before portfolio deadlines. Then hopefully more work on the DVD in a more leisurely fashion.

The paper I wrote with Ben Nevile for Computer Music Journal has come out. Looks like a great issue! ( Read more... )

from an efficiency point of view, to be spending energy actively cooling one box in my office (the computer) while I actively heat other unrelated things in the house (water). So, instead of working to make computers super-energy efficient and nice to look at, just make them waterproof and design big, ugly, inefficient, cheap computers to put in ( Read more... )

OK, mine is here.

To make one, open any capable World Wide Web browser (Navigator, Lynx, etc.) and "surf" here.

please post yours, in WAV format if possible-- I want to collect all my friends in little jars that i will open up when i'm feeling lonely.

"1777: In St.Louis, the prisoner Dominikus Dufort jumps from a high building with a parachute garment and is rewarded with a spontaneous collection of money." A Google search for Mr. Dufort turns up only this one sentence and its German version. The ungainly English phrasing leads me to suspect that the German, which appears in "Lexikon der ( Read more... )

i picked out some records this morning, drank all the coffee, went over to Andy's to work on visuals for a bit, then went for a walk around Greenlake. Now I'm going to take a disco nap. Looking forward to Krakt and yr company for arrrrrrrrrrrrrr! later.

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This question from the Kaplan online practice test pretty much sums up my experience so far:

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when people that aren't your friends write you and ask if you will link to their sites. as if a link from the orac records website will get them so many customers that it's worth hassling a total stranger about it. when's the last time you "followed a link" to "surf the web?"

if you missed the recent orac hoedown in san francisco, which i think goes for all of you reading this except matt holland, well then you can get the nice mp3s of caro and [a]pendics.shuffle livesets at kontrolsf.com. click on the "audio" section after the link. the DJ sets are very swell too ( Read more... )

Kontrol SF party on Friday night was a very good one. I got to see Joshua, who of course got drunk and got on the mic during my "union people" song and generally got into trouble. There might be recordings. I had a new performance setup I was trying out for the first time, and it seems to be a lot more fun to play on than what I was doing before ( Read more... )