music

The return of when gadgets mate

January 14, 2009

As promised in an earlier post, I tried my hand at making some generative music with my small collection of musical gadgets. Here’s what I came up with: The result is more ambient/drone-like than the Japanese original, mostly due to my not knowing how to program the Korg DS-10 synth and having to settle for [...]

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70,000

January 12, 2009

While adding new music to the iTunes library today, I noticed that I had broken the 70,000 song mark. It’s not Robert Klein’s “every record ever recorded,” but it’s a substantial amount of music. I’m waiting for the half-terabyte iPod that would hold the whole library. It would need a better search function; I’d probably [...]

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… and on keyboards …

January 11, 2009

I grew up outside of New York City, so it was inevitable that I would be dragged to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I resisted what I thought would be a day-long exercise on boredom, changing my opinion only when I discovered the early music collection. From then on, every visit to the museum had [...]

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Love or confusion

January 10, 2009

I’m not one to pay a lot of attention to lyrics, especially for songs I only hear on the radio instead of in my music library. I was playing Rock Band, and selected “Lump” by The Presidents of the United States of America. This was probably the first time I could hear the words clearly. [...]

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My brother, the genius

January 9, 2009

My younger brother Chris has won three Grammy awards in his career as a recording engineer and producer. Two of those are for Bob Dylan records: “Love and Theft,” and Modern Times. He contributed some remastered tracks to The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006, the release of which prompted [...]

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When gadgets mate

January 7, 2009

I have a small collection of music-making gadgets: a Buddha Machine II, ElektroPlankton and the Korg DS-10 for my Nintendo DS, and Bloom (by Brian Eno) and RjDj Album on my iPhone. Today I found this video via the Create Digital Music blog: It never occurred to me to use all of the programs at [...]

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