4 or 5 months ago while poking around the monome.org message board that I frequent on, this Canadian group called Names posted this video of them doing a live performance using the monome in the studio. Most of what I’d heard with the monome up to that point was mostly instrumental, but they were throwing...
Anymore now with an extremely active family life (read: 6 year old daughter), it’s difficult to pull together time to think through large arrangements. I’ve found it easier to give myself some boundaries and try to help focus what time I do have towards music. After experimenting a bit, I’ve kind of settled on a...
A couple of weeks ago, my friend Steve and I headed up to PDX to go see Edison on his Death Stare Tour. I’d been following Edison on the monome discussion boards for some time, and I really enjoyed his video performances and his two albums. On a whim, I shot him a message on...
I’ve been doing alot of freelance work lately, and something that I’ve been battling for a long time is the idea of the monetization of art. In the early years, it used to drive me crazy actually, but I seemed to have found a sense of balance. That’s not to say, of course, that there aren’t some definite caveats....
Last year I went through a phase of interest in the grassroots movement of DIY control interfaces for software. One in particular caught my eye: the monome. The monome is basically a grid button interface that you can use to control things...
Out of all of the different types of projects I get into, studio engineering is definitely at the top. The nerdy, techy side of it is alot of fun, but the thing I love about it the best is producing...
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