Monthly Archives: August 2003

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Odd weekend.

I slept most of early afternoon Friday to early afternoon Saturday. Thats
probabaly a direct effect of the roughly ~3 hours of sleep on Wednesday
and Thursday.

Saturday headed over the badgers for a bit. First attempt
started with lots of stuttering and glitching (intentionally) short loops.
Then moved into a slightly more traditional ambient loops (Look
at the shiny pretty clouds of add9 chords!) then than kind of devolved
into multiple layers of fuzzed out dissonance, and then some fun
looper abuse to end it.

Next bit started with a nice spaced fill loop. Plus some Korg
abuse. Then abuse of korg->fuzz->step phaser->space station
(preset #21, just so i remember) for a sound somewhat resembling
a 80’s video arcade broadcast over an malfunctioning 80’s cell phone.
Fun was had by all.

Then over to msw’s party saturday night. A large collection of
inebriated geeks.

Then finally committed the answer to The Question That Never Stops
to up2date cvs. And wrote more unittests while I was at it.

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Hmm, weekend.

Went to see Rivers And Tides
A documentary about Andy Goldsworthy, whose probably my favorite
artist. Very very good. Strongly recomended to everyone. And if you
have even a passing interesting in art or craftsmanship, it’s a must see.
It seems to have been filmed around the time as the works featured in
his book Time,
and in some ways, focuses on similar ideas. See
badgers comments
as well.

Definately getting the DVD when it comes out (and from someone
who owns a whopping 5 dvd’s, thats saying something).

Feeling somewhat inspired saturday, and in the mood to be
“arty”, and being a bit of a gear geek, I headed to the art
supply store. Finally bought some pencils. Also some colored
pencils, though I’m not very comfortable with this whole
“color” thing.

Then a bit of hacking on Gimp, but
brain was no worky, so I did not get much accomplished.

Sunday was mostly spent either researching things on the web, pointing
out the obvious in email, or watching tivo.

Did head over to badger‘s to play for a while. Decided to
bring out the Korg x911
for a change. Used it for the first bit through a light metal distortion and some
dubby delay for a fair approximation of a big gnarly synth bass line. And towards
the end put it in its glitch mode and slammed out some cords producing
lots of random notes in a moog death rattle sort of way.

Second up was some interlocking clean figures in a vaguely 80’s Crimson/
phillip glass/gamelan style. Another one of those times that I’m reminded
that my technique sucks.

Third up was the 50’s sci-fi noise freakout/showdown. I was at a mild
disadvantage having left both the opto-theremin and the ring mod at
home, but I gave it my best shot. Lots of korg, lots of phaser, lots
of delay time tweaking, etc.

I think I need to brush up on my xml skills for a few reasons. One
is the next step in answering “The Question That Never Goes Away”, and
the other being to try to get the Tivo Home Media stuff working under linux.
They provide docs and a perl cgi, but might be interesting to try it in python.
But then, I probabaly have better things to do than reimplement a protocol
in a new language, especially for a moderately propietary appliance.