http://dev.zope.org/Members/tbryan/TriZPUG/FrontPage

Zope/Python users group. Nifty. Although, Zope pretty much just scares me.

Spent the weekend in Winston-Salem. Went to see the
Japan Air/Tommy Gun/Frog
and Toad Together show at The Garage

Japan Air was excellent as usual, with a full keyboards included show
this time. Tommy gun was good as well, playing a handful of
new songs. Frog and toad were pretty good as well (though
they played a _long_ time). Some of the songs vaguely
reminded me of a less jazzy Clockhammer.

Borrowed the “Shadow of a Great Name” cd from Johnray.
Pretty cool cd. Working on trying to either get them a show
in Winston-Salem with Japan Air, or vice versa here in
Raleigh.

Been listening to 9beetstretch A time stretched version
of Beethoven’s 9th (stretched out to 24 hours). Kind of nifty, though it does remind me alot
of fripps soundscapes or some of eno’s stuff that way.

Kind of makes me wonder what a fripp piece time stretched down to say, 3 minutes,
would sound like.

Been tired all week, not sleeping too well.

Probably will head to Winston-Salem this
weekend to catch the Japan Air/Tommy Gun show
at the garage. Good excuse to get away from a computer
for a day or so.

The evolution of pants

and other assorted band photos

Def Leppard
to play Fayetville Wal-mart opening. No idea if it’s for real or not.

While perusing the web page for Pure Data stumbled
across the site for dorkbot-nyc. Basically
a user group for people who do weird arty things with computers/electronics. Too
bad theres not a dorkbot-rtp. Not that I would have anything to contribute, but the
meetings look interesting.

Some of the folks presenting include Leon Gruenbaum
and his Samchillian Tip Tip Tip Cheeepeeee.
The interesting part is that the controllers selects pitch offsets from the last/current note instead
of absolute pitches. Ie, hitting +7 will result in playing a note a fifth higher than the current note,
and pressing it again will go another fifth higher. Simple, but really freaking clever, as I
cant think of any other instrument which can do that. The mp3 samples are pretty cool.
I didnt even realize I already own a cd with him playing that on it (Vernon Reid’s Mistaken
Identity cd…)

Another interesting project linked from dorkbots is Pocket POOL
or Performance-Oriented Oscillation Looper. Which is basically a Compaq iPaq handheld running
linux and custom software.

Did very little over the weekend despite needs to do lots (like say, porting up2date to the new
rpm api…)

Instead spent saturday hitting used cd/book stores. Picked up two Umberto Eco
books (“How to Travel with a Salmon” and “Travels in Hyperreality”), the
book version of “United Sates” by Laurie Anderson.

Handful of cd’s as well… progday95, shift – get in (crappy major label
release by a previously good indy band), killing joke – pandemonium,
two greg howard cd’s (shapes and sol), a space rock compilation,
a Eat Static cd, and a capsize7 cd (know a guy that used to be
capsize7, figued that was as good a reason as any to pick up a cd)

Read though “How to travel with a salmon’ and got started on
“hyperreality”. Headed out to the baamph!, but between
not seeing anyone I knew very well, and feeling a bit sick,
left while the first band was still playing.

sad, yet oddly fascinating story of the day.

I really wish the version of up2date in the beta had worked. A new version
of a lib it depends on sneaked in and busted it, now I get about 10 bug reports
a day that are completely useless to me. Ah well.

Missed this earlier. Jesse Ventura
proclaims Indivisible Day