02007-09-26 | Performance
We just finished a rehearsal for Saturday. Since Stephen had a previous commitment and Davo thought he might not be here I had asked Barrett Martin and Robby Rothschild to play the WaveFest at the Greek Theater with Jon and I. But, since Davo is around and I was a little worried about playing with two drummers who were both unfamiliar with the current set, the quartet playing on Saturday will be Davo, Robby, Jon and I.
Davo and Robby each have a cajon and a djembe and the rhythm they create together is positively intoxicating…
On one song they both play djembe and I couldn’t hear my guitar, which is not amplified during rehearsals… but it was sweet, a groove as solid as an old-growth forrest or a mountain…
We’ll start playing at 7PM on Saturday evening at the Greek Theater.
02007-09-25 | Binaural
I added a new free track to Up Close: the Fritz Files, named “Entrance and Tuning”. It’s free and only available in the form of 128 and 192kbps files. The track showcases the surround-quality of binaural dummy-head recording very well and is deliciously creepy, because every time I listen to it and hear the footsteps, then the door opening, then more footsteps I think somebody is coming into my room – and look around… Think of it as my early Halloween present to you! Enjoy!
02007-09-25 | Music
More music download choices for SSRI albums with the arrival of the Amazon.com download store:
One Guitar on Amazon.com
Amazon.com (256kbps, $.99/song)
One Guitar on iTunes (128kbps, $.99/song – awaiting getting the album added to iTunes Plus – 256kbps, $1.29/song)
One Guitar in the ListeningLounge (320kbps, $1.00/song)
Thira on Amazon.com
Thira on iTunes
Thira in the ListeningLounge
Transit 2 on Amazon.com
Transit 2 on iTunes
Transit 2 in the ListeningLounge
As you can see you still find the highest quality downloads in the LL.
Of course these are just three choices and there are many more, like Rhapsody, eMusic and others.
02007-09-25 | Computer
Street Use: You Can’t Have Too Many Screens
I suggested to the film team that we would be surrounded by a single seamless screen in an arc, and that we would stand up and gesture into it. I had observed that when you think on your feet you have different thoughts. I like to think while I walk or pace because I feel my whole body is thinking then. It may turn out to be a short-term anomaly that today we think while we are sitting. Perhaps if the right technology were around we’d always think with our entire body in motion.
(Via Street Use)
02007-09-25 | Music, Technology
Stephen says good-bye to CDs:
NEWS + JOURNAL: What are my CD’s doing lately?
Absolutely nothing. They are sitting inside a cabinet in the back room piled up high gaining dust. The last time I listened to a CD was when I couldn’t find the cable to plug my iPod into the speakers.
(Via NEWS + JOURNAL)
I still have a couple of thousand CDs. 15 years ago they were nicely ordered and now they are rarely looked at. I buy a CD and immediately rip it. I do wonder about the album format sometimes. Are Radiohead correct in only allowing their music to be downloaded as a complete album? Then I think of art-shows in galleries. You look at the paintings together, but then they are sold individually.
