Anecdotal Semi-Competence

The only thing I had to do yesterday was get myself into New York City for rehearsal of the Bach with the Oratorio Society of New York.  The easiest way to do this is to catch the Montclair-Boonton line into Penn Station and take the E subway up to the Turtle Bay area.  This costs [...]

Programming, Processing, Ego Depletion

I got my last freelance assignment in Muscatine finished yesterday, with Robert’s help.  I think I’m done using Dreamweaver as a code editor.  So far, its brought me nothing but trouble,mangled code, and misleading displays.   Notepad++ is my new tool of choice for all things code, with one notable exception.  I downloaded Processing a week [...]

Pictures! (and the Comedown)

First things first:  Pictures of the show!

A little on the out of focus side, but not bad

Also, not too bad, considering the conditions

I’ve got a few more I’m working on, but it’s not a bad start.  I took perhaps 300 the night of, and I’ll continue adding as I get around to editing.
It’s been kind [...]

Bleeps, Sweeps and Creeps

I just liked this closeup of the Spectral Frequency for 25 Ghosts III.  You can clearly see several song elements in here:

tenor drum (vertical lines crossing all frequencies,)
high pitched static drone ( horizontal reddish orange bar across the top)
marimba (series of three bright yellow blotches)  3a.  You can see the chord in here in [...]

On Multi-tracks

Being unemployed has its advantages… I have all the time in the world to learn to do whatever I want.  This is an ideal situation for me, as I would like nothing more than to drink up as much knowledge as the world has to offer.  I simply need to find a way to get [...]