I’ll be playing a house show at Rita’s Speakeasy tonight (Tues. 8 March), once again opening for my dear friends The Binary Marketing Show. Short notice and not a whole lot of promotion, but putting the set together has been a nice (if unneeded) diversion from a slow boatload of craziness.
We’ll start at 6. If you’d like to come by and don’t know Rita, get in touch with me at semiautomaticgroundenvironment (the gmail account) and we’ll work it out.
I’ll be opening for The Binary Marketing Show at the Flying Monkey this Saturday, 4 September, at 8 p.m.
I started a bandcamp site; check it out for streaming audio.
The newest installment in the 8088 Record Collective’s series of madcap compilations has shipped, and it looks beautiful this time around. Sounds great, too. Be sure to visit your nearest 8088-affiliated event to pick up a copy, or contact one of the artists in the collective.
One of the songs is mine, and I am proud to be a part of it all once again. My contribution is another ambient noise/drone composition for computer synthesis, again programmed in Csound. It’s a lot different from “Let the Dark”, though (see my previous post)… and I’ll leave you with that for now. Enjoy!
Download “Implications”
Details, contact information, and other goodies will be coming to this site! In the meantime, thanks for listening.
A piece of music for computer synthesis, created for submission to an informal composition challenge proposed on the Csound mailing list (read the challenge proposal for details). The challenge limits the composer to a single sine-wave instrument.
More details about the piece and my Csound score are on the sine challenge wiki, [note: links now defunct] along with the other submissions.
Download:
Moved to Huntsville, Alabama. Now settling in, both domestically and musically.
Musically, on two fronts, both of which will figure bigly into Semiautomatic Ground Environment. First, I’ve been practicing the flute like crazy.
Secondly, I’ve finally gotten around to learning an audio rendering language, something I’ve (consciously) wanted to do since Mileece released Formations in early 2003. I didn’t know for sure, however, where to start or what to pursue, and good answers to my questions were not easy to come by. Recently, I practically stumbled across Csound, and have since been almost obsessively mounting its early learning curve – which is quite steep.
Csound is a language (itself written in C, hence the name, but most of the similarities end there) descended from early giants of computer music composition. Released in 1986, it is probably the oldest (i.e., longest in continual use) audio rendering language in the history of computer music, and is also in the top four or five among music- and audio-related software in general.
I have a ton to learn, but I like it.
Welcome, and thank you for visiting the new-fangled site.
As of this writing, I live in Brooklyn, New York, but by the end of this month I will have relocated to Huntsville, Alabama, where I will set up shop and start playing with sounds again. Many ideas are in the works, and there is still much to do on the website, so please keep an eye on it.
In the meantime, visit the 8088 Record Collective and check out the compilation we put together, which includes an old guitar song of mine among the ranks of its artistry.
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