Maybe stretching how we define “week” here, but so it goes.
– Julia Easterlin has finally released Eyes On The Prize. It is the best thing.
– There’s a FireFox plugin called Collusion that shows how you are being tracked on the Internet. Essential.
– Google released its Glass video. Valve has one of the coders behind Quake working on wearable computing. A computer simulation of Tupac “performed” at Coachella. The idea of computers mediating our perception of the real world is going to become mainstream very, very fast.
– I got a draft of the third movement of Tornado Songs done! Also had the premiere of Five Rooms For Solo Flute, by Sara Page, and of Ringette, by Alex Richards. I am in their debt.
– I am taking time off from writing the ISMIR paper to write this. It’s due in 48 hours. Go go go!
We made this happen:
Recordings are here.
Pokeplayer cards are here.
Further images are here.
Thanks you to everyone who came!
It’s that point in “the term” when things start getting done. Which makes me deeply happy.
– I got data for my timbre analysis paper for ISMIR, thanks to George Tzanetakis and his shockingly powerful 8 core desktop Mac. Results are pretty good, so far.
– I confirmed lyrics and sketched out rhythms for the third movement of TORNADO SONGS. It’s called “The Soldier With The Green Whiskers”, and is silly.
– I bought music! Margot’s new tune, Alt, is rad, as is Carl Craig remixing…Friendly Fires, of all people.
– Pair is an app for long-distance relationships. Despite the tragic term “thumbkiss”, the idea of having an app for your significant other is a serious one.
– Boston Dynamics do not fuck around, in terms of robots.
– I have a crush on Bret Victor. In addition to wanting to fundamentally change how we interact with everything, he helped prototype the iPad. A serious dude.
– Taylor Holmwood and I sat down for 3 hours and got audio / video for CIRCLES, which I edited together last night. I need to print the poster and the project is done, thank heaven.
– Charles Stross’s comments on the Girls Around Me app are well worth reading…and are part of the reason why I’m going to be turning my Facebook account off again pretty soon.
– I finished the New Tune! It is called MOTOKO, after everyone’s favorite cyborg. It’s going to go out on Limbo’s nascent Sushi Audio, we think.
– Finished a draft of the first (and longest: it’s 4 minutes!) of TORNADO SONGS. It needs a ton of polish: motives need tightening, I need to hear some of the string FX, I need to remove the outro of a verse…but the draft is finished.
– A piece that my friend Shawn is masterminding got accepted to NIME. I’m providing extra composition / sound design / Max|MSP chops, as needed. Potential trip to Ann Arbor / Detroit? I hope so.
– Me and Ohmichu made the cookies of the year, care of Smitten Kitchen. No, really: they’re that good.
– These drum pattern posters are the best thing.
– I spent a good chunk of time installing OpenFrameworks and openNI on my laptop. OpenFrameworks was a dream: openNI and the required libraries were not. This is, I suppose, what I get for running a windows machine.
– The game now is: Kinect sends data to an OpenFrameworks program. OF sends OSC data to Max/MSP. Max sends Midi data to Ableton. Ableton listens to the audio and effects it accordingly. Whew.
– I’ve also got scads more data for the ISMIR paper; I need to run tests on it this week, and then alter the paper accordingly.
– Need to big up Martyn and Exeter for an excellent Sunday night show at Lucky, as part of the RBMA tour. Exeter in particular knows his way around drum pads.
– Sonic Lab, UVic’s contemporary music ensemble, played an amazing concert, featuring a mind-boggling Claude Vivier piece and really quite excellet improvisation in to and out of it.
– Lastly, if you’re in Victoria and you don’t go check out Trimpin’s installation at Open Space (featuring four robotic pianos!) you are missing the haellll out.
– I’ve validated my hypothesis for my timbre analysis of DJ sets paper. (This just in: DJs choose records that are timbrally similar. Who knew?). Need to collect more data and then write it.
– Sat down with my performer, Taylor, to work stuff out for my percussion / computer music jam. Also made plans to install software with the immortally brilliant Gabby tomorrow.
– Making some techno: the new jam is called METAL, is at about 6 minutes, and needs to reach about 8.
– Sketched the first verse of the first song for TORNADO SONGS. Words are hard.
– Went to an RBMA promo event. You should be applying.
– I need to tell you about a delicious new EP from Hannah Read & co. It’s filled with secrets.
– I’m playing records at the UVic Visual Arts spring party, SPRUNG, on the 8th, from around 10 to midnight. If it is half as good as their Halloween party, it will be amazing.
– Ran some scripts for the paper I’m working on for ISMIR. It’s about timbral similarity in DJ sets, and there might actually be some good things in the data.
– I wrote a bunch of music: finished FIVE ROOMS FOR SOLO FLUTE, for my friend Sara Page, drafted the gestural percussion thing I am working on, and sketched out the introduction for TORNADO SONGS. So much more to do.
Download here.
1: Kid Kidnap – If (Jamie Grind Remix) [Squelch & Clap]
2: George FitzGerald – We Bilateral [Hotflush]
3: Virgo – Never Want To Lose You [Rush Hour]
4: Robin S – Show Me Love (Hrdvsion) [White]
5: Jacques Greene – (Baby I Don’t Know) What You Want [Night Slugs]
6: James Fox – Close Your Eyes [White]
7: Sepalcure – Taking you back [Hotflush]
8: Jacques Greene – Another Girl [LuckyMe]
This one (dancey house, post-dubstep, etc) only took me about a billion takes to get right. Art is by Caryn Kesler, who is evidentally brilliant.
Oakley Low and I, better known as ITERATE, are playing at Cloud Sounds, doing our live / ambient thing, on Thursday, February 23rd, at the Fort Street Cafe. Come on down and get deep.
I’m playing records for Mike Dean’s CFUV radio show next Saturday, from 2:30 to 3:30 or so. Lots of Canadian content, lots of house and techno.
