Guerilla Warfare: The Battery Powered Rig? - Livepa

.:Guerilla Warfare: The Battery Powered Rig?:.

I have always thought about how cool it would be to do a Guerilla style live rig where you just run out some where like in the middle of a park or the corner of a downtown city and do a mobile show for a few minutes and then fly out of there quickly.

Over at my .:LivePA:. blog I posted some possible gear ideas for a fun little show like this.

As of this writing I have never heard of any livePa artists doing any show like this and it is something I would love to try to do in the future. Just think about how cool it would be to run up to the busy corner in your favorite city, (for me it would be State street right in front of Marshall Fields) next to the homeless sax player and then jam out a wicked little livePA set for twenty minutes only to run off? Yeah that would be sweet.

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The Never Ending Song

One of the little pleasures (and sometimes nightmares) that I have found over the past couple of years working with hardware over software is that my songs never come to an end. I will always at some point in time come back to a song to tweak and sound here, noodle at a pattern there.

I think this is because with software I found that when I "completed" a song I would hit render in the software window and then close that project file never coming back to it again. I think this mainly occurred simply because there was no reason or process that forced me to try to re-visit the track. With hardware production however I am always scrolling through my patterns. The necessity to actually record my tracks over simply rendering them I believe also leads to this phenomenon.

Do any of you software only producers out there find that you don't revisit tracks after you have hit that "render" button?

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AudioMastermind » Audio production in a nutshell

.:AudioMastermind » Audio production in a nutshell:.

Over at taudiomastermind is a great post by a musician/producer Yann Seznec, who decided to create sort of blog documentary (...Blogumentary?) about his process of recording an album.

Way to go Yann. I think it is nice someone actually took the time to lay this all out. There are a lot of my friends who don't do music and just do not comprehend exactly how the whole music process works.

I'm totally jealous of your iBook too. I soon shall have one.

That's It, The Computer Is Dead.

Well it finally happened. The computer died on me. After running Windows Update two nights ago I found out yesterday that my computer no longer wants to run. It will boot up windows fine, but for some odd reason it will not load programs. The problem seems to continue to degrade to now where even the "Start" bar no longer wants to run.

I have gone through all of the concievable fixes, except actually re-installing the OS from scratch. Is it even worth it trying to re-install the OS? At this point I really don't think so........

(10 minutes Later)

I just tried for the heck of it to try to re-install windows, and I cannot even get the cd to boot up. Time to dump this computer for good.

Good Bye Dell, Hello Apple.

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EMU Command Station Video Tutorial

.:Download from Ourmedia.org:.

I have had several people over several different music boards ask me all sorts of questions about my EMU Command Station: How do you use it? How does it work Live? Is the sequencer really that sweet?

Well basically I decided this weekend to make a quick video showcasing how I use the Command Station. You can view the video over at Google Video, but I highly recommend you download the uncompressed video from the link for ourmedia.org.


....And yes, the sequencer is that sweet.


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Vermeer Quartet

This evening I got to go see a free show of the Vermeer Quartet. They are a Grammy nominated string quartet composed of none other then Northern Illinois University professors. They are apparently retiring soon and this show was one of their last.

I have not had the opportunity to see many string quartets, but I always enjoy them. I have always loved going to classical music events. The music is so nice to listen to, yet it also allows me to relax my mind and wander in thought without any busy noise or events happening around me.


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For the Good Old Days: Techno

Here is another "new" old track that I found on my computer. This one is entitled "For the Good Old Days", and is sort of a genre nothing track. I don't know exactly where to classify it. It has a dancy feel, with a break in the middle but doesn't really jump out at you as being a definitive something.

.:Mp3 Link:.

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EDIT: Whoops, it seems that the soundclick page has cut the mp3 off. I have uploaded the song to another site for direct mp3 linking. Unfortunatly this is a direct mp3 link and does not have a lofi stream.

A Clean Desktop.

.:A Clutter Free Desktop:.

I have always hated those people who have tons and tons of icons floating around on their desktop. Most of the time I have tried to keep my desktop as clean as possible, but never was able to figure out exactly how to get rid of that pesky recycle bin. After following the setup methods from the above post and quickly downloading the Windows Power Tool .:TweakUI:. to remove that final pesky Recycle bin I have finally been able to clean my desktop of completely.

As you can see in the second picture I opted to put my most used programs in the quicklaunch taskbar on the lower left. I then activated the desktop toolbar, which is actually extremely nice allowing me to quickly navigate through my folders on my computer without having to continually click through endless windows.


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I Found Some Old Songs Ready For Upload

Going through my mp3 folder this afternoon I found some old recordings of a few of my songs. While most of the recordings are pretty rough it was nice to find them just as a gem in the rough. I will try to put them online this afternoon so everyone can hear them.

New recordings of most of tracks is hopefully going to begin this weekend as I sit down and begin to properly record tracks for a net album.


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