Saw DJ /rupture play a wonderful set Club 6 last night. Non-stop dance party, mixing all kinds of stuff, from dubstep to cumbia. He’s got a good blog, too.

Trying to play more guitar lately.

Sometimes it helps to give yourself a framework to work in. Maybe use the exact BPM of a song you like. And use the same kind of synth sounds. And the same rhythm pattern. And then try to make it your own.

Layers of what was around at the time.

Original lost in the Great Hard Drive Cleanse of 2005.

It’s important to take care of your ears, especially when waveshaping is involved.

Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus.
She comes up behind, angelic.
Sliding carefully upon blue air.
Still closer, undulating ballistic amplitudes.
Self-contained, underwater, but angelic.

“A pilot study suggests that randomly-generated 60-note melodies high in Ω are preferred over ones low in Ω (Ω being measured at the group-length of one note).”

http://www.utexas.edu/architecture/center/GenValu/

From the first Sample Soup.