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Archive for October, 2005

a new laughin and stabbin track

( projects and sound )

I bartered some website work for two days of studio time with TJ down at Silver Sonya, and here are the results:
Laughin and Stabbin - Born in ‘72

This song is no relation to the Travis Morrison tune of the same name. I swear! First I heard of his track was when I […]

(yet another?) DIY mellotron

( sound )

The Melloman - DIY Mellotron, via del.icio.us and probably a buncha other places.
TJ wanted to make one of these for use in Aloha, but he ended up getting the job done with a sampler. But imagine using real honest-to-god cassette tapes for loops and it has a creepy casio-meets-bad-acid-trip sound going on. Maybe […]

compiled sunsets

( image )

Sunset images from the big concrete apartment I used to live in down in the Hasidic section of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
sunsetimages

visual complexity: two types

( technology and image )

I like sites like this so much… a really rich set of examples of tackling the problem of presenting complex sets of data, sometimes in a really beautiful way. (via del.icio.us)
Related, though completely orthogonal, is this set of abstract photos taken by tossing camera phones in the air (again via boing boing, which has […]

what is this place anyway

( yeah )

Okay. Listen. Ulf Magnet has evolved into this — sort of — concept in my mind. It started as words TJ wrote on a notepad in 10th grade. We had this song we recorded, “Grandma’s Party”, and maybe a few others (why do you expect me to remember things from 1993) […]