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Tuesday, 9 December 2003
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Watching computer DJ's just fiddle around with laptops is boring and sometimes bewildering. Watching Djs use taplights makes sense. Hit big glowing light. Hear slamming beat. Connection made. Click pix to learn how to make this kind of shit yourself.
You have seen Luna Negra perform this year and are wondering how those bewildering lights work. Here is Canton's guide to making your own Tap Lights. Fueled by three margaritas.....
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PERSONAL CONTRACT FOR THE COMPOSITION OF MUSIC
[INCORPORATING THE MANIFESTO OF MISTAKES]
THIS IS A GUIDE FOR MY OWN WORK AND NOT INTENDED AS THE CORRECT OR ONLY WAY TO WRITE MUSIC EITHER FOR MYSELF OR OTHERS.
1. The use of sounds that exist already is not allowed. Subject to article 2. In particular: No drum machines. All keyboard sounds must be edited in some way: no factory presets or pre-programmed patches are allowed.
2. Only sounds that are generated at the start of the compositional process or taken from the artist's own previously unused archive are available for sampling.
3. The sampling of other people's music is strictly forbidden.
4. No replication of traditional acoustic instruments is allowed where the financial and physical possibility of using the real ones exists.
5. The inclusion, development, propagation, existence, replication, acknowledgement, rights, patterns and beauty of what are commonly known as accidents, is encouraged. Furthermore, they have equal rights within the composition as deliberate, conscious, or premeditated compositional actions or decisions.
6. The mixing desk is not to be reset before the start of a new track in order to apply a random eq and fx setting across the new sounds. Once the ordering and recording of the music has begun, the desk may be used as normal.
7. All fx settings must be edited: no factory preset or pre-programmed patches are allowed.
8. Samples themselves are not to be truncated from the rear. Revealing parts of the recording are invariably stored there.
9. A notation of sounds used to be taken and made public.
10. A list of technical equipment used to be made public.
11. optional: Remixes should be completed using only the sounds provided by the original artist including any packaging the media was provided in.
MATTHEW HERBERT 27-11-00
updated 05-06-03 There is a lot here I like and will consider. #6 amazes me, because it would imply that Herbert uses an analog mixer with his digital editing/remixing.
Today I listened to Blu 102.9FM, the new radio station in Santa Fe and while it is pleasant enough, and has some nice international color, a lot of it sounds the same. I would like it to break with the formula....It's a new formula but still a formula....They should play some Herbert and more people should use an original approach like him.
I have this CD of Herbert's: Secondhand Sounds. I listen to it quite often.
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A new full-circle camera lens from Sony that can capture a 360 degree panoramic shot without having to rotate or move. No word on when...
[Gizmodo]
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A cellphone company in India is outfitting a fleet of 200 rickshaws in the city of Jaipur with handsets so they can double as mobile...
[Gizmodo] Talk about mixing tradition/analog and modern/digital life styles!!!
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Scientists on the Odyssey are sailing around the globe to study the giant whales and uncover humans' effect on sea life. After almost four years of study, the results are worrying.
[Wired News]
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(San Francisco, CA) Citizens across the country are taking action to help protect the world's threatened coral reefs. Businesses, youth groups, aquariums, dive clubs and individuals aim to raise $35,000 by Earth Day (April 22), to pay for grassroots conservation projects at six of the world's most important coral reef protected areas in: Hol Chan, Belize; Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles; Namena, Fiji; Cozumel, Mexico; Rock-Islands, Palau; and Southeast Cebu, Philippines.
The campaign, known as the "Coral Park Buddy" program, is part of the annual Dive In To Earth Day event coordinated by the Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL). It was developed in response to a call for help from park managers in coral reef protected areas around the world. "Marine protected areas are one of the best tools we have to protect coral reefs," said Brian Huse, CORAL's Executive Director. "However, too often they lack the resources necessary to protect their reefs. The good news is that a little money goes a long way in these small communities. For example, as little as $4,000 will buy a patrol boat needed to stop illegal fishing at a marine park in the Philippines."
There are numerous ways to fundraise, from benefit dinners, to contests, to dive-a-thons. Donovan Watts of Berkeley, California, plans to hold an online raffle to help pay for a Park Ranger education course in Bonaire. Well-known musician and snorkeling enthusiast, Ottmar Liebert, agreed to donate one of his guitars to Donovan's raffle. "I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask Mr. Liebert, and he said okay! That's music to my ears." The Dive In website links to the raffle and lists other great fundraising ideas to get you started. I donated the white strat copy I have played since 1983. It's the electric guitar I used on "The Hours between Night + Day", "Opium" and many more. I also used this guitar on tour until 2001, when I received the Vizcarra Strat. I think the link is not in place yet....check back with the Dive In web site to find out when and where the raffle starts.
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© Copyright
2003
Ottmar Liebert.
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