Photos and live recordings from my two recent shows are now posted on the Live page. Of the two, I'd recommend listening to the Silk City show. I am pretty happy with this performance and it's a clean direct-audio board recording. Sounds good. Thanks to everyone who came out.
I've also posted the Grooves Magazine review of the Philadelphia Laptop Battle 2.
Live at The Khyber (FM) - Philadelphia, PA - 7/29/2004
1. Slipp
2. Brechia
3. Another
4. Buttons
5. Beetle
6. Sakai
[ Stream entire set] [Flyer] [Photos]
A nice free MP3 compilation from the n5MD label:
V/A: The Mafia Rip Bin
Electoral Vote Predictor 2004, based on current polling data. It's currently showing Kerry in the lead 291 to 237.
Live at Silk City (Knobs) - Philadelphia, PA - 7/27/2004
1. Slipp
2. Brechia
3. Another
4. Buttons
5. Beetle
6. Sakai
[ Stream entire set] [Flyer] [Photos]
The current issue of Zehar Magazine is entitled Perspectives of Listening, and looks to be good reading. Some sample article titles:
Software, Music and Culture
On Making all the Correct Mistakes--Monk´s mood and Cage´s artlessness
Chaos, Randomness, Fractals and Audio
The Challenge is the Format
Against the Stage
Potlatch digital
I have two performances coming up next week in Philadelphia (click for flyer):
Tuesday, July 27th at Silk City and Thursday, July 29th at the Khyber
I'll be debuting at least one new song, and this will be my first performance using my new toy.
Transparency - Writings by media critic Ken Sanes
Ableton Live 4 beta is now available.
Anybody want a Gmail account? I have some invites. Drop me a note if you are interested: bill AT teamtechno POINT com.
If you're in the Ithaca, NY area on Sunday July 18th, be sure to check out this show at Castaways. Featuring: Nintariman, Vytear, Duran Duran Duran, Black Market, and GTORi. Mad mad beats for your brain.
A review of Haunted Weather, a new book by David Toop
Haunted Weather - a brilliant title, implicitly offering a poetically generous definition of what music is - pursues experimental sound art into the 21st century, interviewing its weird and wonderful practitioners, musing on its implications and weaving it all into a globetrotting travelogue.
My favorite metaphysical metaphor, from Buddhahood in Three Dimensions by Thich Nhat Hanh:
When we look at a wave on the surface of the ocean, we can see the form of the wave and we locate the wave in space and time. Looking at a wave from the perspective of the historical dimension, it seems to have a beginning and an end, a birth and a death. A wave can be high or low, long or short—many qualities can be ascribed to the wave. The notions of “birth” and “death,” “high” or “low,” “beginning” and “ending,” “coming” and going,” “being” or “nonbeing”—all of these can be applied to a wave in the historical dimension.We, too, are subject to these notions. When we look from the historical dimension we see that we are subject to being and nonbeing. We are born but later on we will die. We have a beginning and an end. We have come from somewhere and we will go somewhere—that is the historical dimension. All of us belong to this dimension. Shakyamuni Buddha also has a historical dimension—he was a human being who was born in Kapilavastu and died in Kushinagara, and during his lifetime of eighty years he taught the dharma.
At the same time, all beings and things also belong to the ultimate dimension, the dimension of reality that is not subject to notions of space and time, birth and death, coming and going. A wave is a wave, but at the same time it is water. The wave does not have to die in order to become water; it is already water right in the present moment. We don’t speak of water in terms of being or nonbeing, coming and going—water is always water. To talk about a wave, we need these notions: the wave arises and passes away; it comes from somewhere or has gone somewhere; the wave has a beginning and an end; it is high or low, more or less beautiful than other waves; the wave is subject to birth and death. But none of these distinctions can be applied to the wave in its ultimate dimension as water. In fact, you cannot separate the wave from its ultimate dimension.
Even though we are used to seeing everything in terms of the historical dimension, we can touch the ultimate dimension. So our practice is to become like a wave—while living the life of a wave in the historical dimension, we realize that we are also water and live the life of water. That is the essence of the practice. Because if you know your true nature of no coming, no going, no being, no nonbeing, no birth, no death, then you will have no fear and can dwell in the ultimate dimension, nirvana, right here and now. You don’t have to die in order to reach nirvana. When you dwell in your true nature, you are already dwelling in nirvana. We have our historical dimension but we also have our ultimate dimension, just as the Buddha does.
Should be interesting.
This Wednesday, July 7th:
Hologram
w/ Cerebral, dj Zenas(Prime) & Keston and Westdal.
La Tazza
108 Chestnut St
Philadelphia, PA
10pm-2am
21+
I'm now officially listed on the Arden Artists page.
...a multimedia magazine of the arts published by Phyllis Johnson from 1965 to 1971. Each issue came in a customized box filled with booklets, phonograph recordings, posters, postcards — one issue even included a spool of Super-8 movie film. It's all here.How fun would it be to get something like that in the mail every once in awhile?
"Grain, Sequence, System": Three Levels of Reception in the Performance of Laptop Music by Kim Cascone