Wednesday, September 30, 2009

I used Shazam to discover Saloua by Eric Truffaz


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Monday, September 28, 2009

Skin on the Drum [Bassnecter Remix]

This beautiful song is enhanced by a beautiful remix. One of my fave Franti tracks. 

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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Echoes: Interview with Sound Shaman Jorge Reyes, RIP

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Jorge Reyes died in February 2009. He was a messenger from and connector to the vast past, and an inspiration for an inclusive, creative future...

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Echoes: Interview with Sound Shaman Jorge Reyes, RIP

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Jorge Reyes died in February 2009. He was a messenger from and connector to the vast past, and an inspiration for an inclusive, creative future...

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Friday, September 25, 2009

Bye Bye Country Boy

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Saisir

Check out the song Saisir by Erik Truffaz on midomi.com.

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I used Shazam to discover A Song For Women by Baaba Maal


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Saturday, September 19, 2009

Here's the scene of the students storming the field at Husky ... on TwitPic

Even crazier!

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Huskies are back to the old days! Purple Reign on TwitPic

Dang! Wish I coulda been there!

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Washington Shocks No. 3 USC, 16-13 - ESPN Video - ESPN

We's jus' "#Folks"! Erik Folk, younger brother of #DallasCowboys kicker Nick Folk, and kicker for the # UW #Huskies, kicks the game-winning field goal to #upset the no.3 USC Trojans! Sweet Dallas-Seattle Connection!

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yugenro music

Music has always been my ultimate love in life. Check out my aesthetics writings for my philosophy of music.

I have always had music around me. My mother owned a spinet piano in the house i grew up in, and she played it and sang beautifully. My family always sang together, in church, in the car on family vacations, at birthdays and holidays. My oldest sister Terri was the first singer i was conscious of singing harmonies. But we all could sing in harmony with each other. I remember my father singing love songs to my mother in the car on night drives-- verrry romantic.

But it wasn't until I was 13 or 14, when I bought my very first 8-track tape-- Styx' The Grand Illusion, from my sister Dedee as part of her high school band fundraiser-- that i became fully enraptured by music. I'd lie on the bed next to her stereo, put on the headphones and The Grand Illusion, and be off in "la-la-land" for the next 45 minutes. What really got me back then were three things: the vocal harmonies, the synthesizers, and the rich depth of the stereo field under headphones.

Discography

1987:
King Felix: Rivers & Viens
Hagia Sophia Arts

1994:
yugen: cloud-hidden
wu-wei (wwr1)

1995:
Makak: Visiting Dog
wu-wei (wwr2)

1996:
yugen: logos, eros, cosmos
wu-wei (wwr3)

History

1964 - 1982

  • singing rounds in the car on family vacations.

1970 - 1980

  • church choir

1975 - 1977

  • Jr. High choir

1977 - 1982

  • High School choir: my first real chorus; always highest marks in UIL choir contests.

1981

  • Texas All-State Choir, Tenor II

1982 - 1983

  • voice major, Rice University choir

1983 - present

  • yugen (my solo projects): ambient/new age/experimental instrumentals, dreamy love songs, layered vocal tone-poems, etc.
  • Syntax (with Dell Little): new age instrumentals, electronic pop songs, progressive ballads.

1983 - 1984

  • Del Mar College choir
  • Parkway Presbyterian Church choir: my first payed singing gig

1985 - present

  • Renjeaux (with Dell Little, Domingo Leija & Luis Longoria): progressive, new age, art rock, lately become more experimental, jazz-inspired techno-improvisations.

1985 - 1986

  • Church of the Good Shepherd Senior Choir (Jim Buonemani, director): professional-level, world-class chorus.

1987 - 1988

  • King Felix (with Geoff Walden, Wade Ozment & Mitchell Player): progressive/art rock.

1989

  • Del Mar College African Percussion Ensemble (Gregory Spayd, director): technically-accurate West African hand drumming+percussion.

1989 - 1990

  • Del Mar College Electronic Percussion classes (Dr. Norman Weinberg, director): electronic/ambient new age instrumentals

1990 - 1991

  • Makak (original incarnation with Keith Krause & Marcus Medina): experimental acoustic/electro folk-rock.

1990 - 2003

  • drum circles (with the world!)

1994 - 1996

  • Makak (second incarnation with Keith Krause & Greg Willman): tribal drums+percussion

1995 - 1996

  • Graduate Studies in trance music & rhythm (with Dr. Norman Weinberg)
  • Master's Project: logos, eros, cosmos, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

1997 - present

  • Roshen (with Milena Worsham): dramatic vocal performance art

1997

  • L.O.S.S. (with Keith Krause & Alberto Duran): unfocused instrumental acoustic/electronic gaelic-ambient-rock

2000

  • Ornamental Ether Experience (with Milena Worsham, Keith Krause & Dru Harrison): experimental improvisational/organic acoustic/electronic "opium house"; live looping.

2002 -2003

  • collaborations with Atactic (Craig McGonagil): instrumental electronic/ambient dub, performance art
  • Full House (with Robert Valerius, Geri Crowe-Eliff, Marge DeWitt, Dick Hermann): five-part a capella vocal ensemble

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yugenro music

Music has always been my ultimate love in life. Check out my aesthetics writings for my philosophy of music.

I have always had music around me. My mother owned a spinet piano in the house i grew up in, and she played it and sang beautifully. My family always sang together, in church, in the car on family vacations, at birthdays and holidays. My oldest sister Terri was the first singer i was conscious of singing harmonies. But we all could sing in harmony with each other. I remember my father singing love songs to my mother in the car on night drives-- verrry romantic.

But it wasn't until I was 13 or 14, when I bought my very first 8-track tape-- Styx' The Grand Illusion, from my sister Dedee as part of her high school band fundraiser-- that i became fully enraptured by music. I'd lie on the bed next to her stereo, put on the headphones and The Grand Illusion, and be off in "la-la-land" for the next 45 minutes. What really got me back then were three things: the vocal harmonies, the synthesizers, and the rich depth of the stereo field under headphones.

Discography

1987:
King Felix: Rivers & Viens
Hagia Sophia Arts

1994:
yugen: cloud-hidden
wu-wei (wwr1)

1995:
Makak: Visiting Dog
wu-wei (wwr2)

1996:
yugen: logos, eros, cosmos
wu-wei (wwr3)

History

1964 - 1982

  • singing rounds in the car on family vacations.

1970 - 1980

  • church choir

1975 - 1977

  • Jr. High choir

1977 - 1982

  • High School choir: my first real chorus; always highest marks in UIL choir contests.

1981

  • Texas All-State Choir, Tenor II

1982 - 1983

  • voice major, Rice University choir

1983 - present

  • yugen (my solo projects): ambient/new age/experimental instrumentals, dreamy love songs, layered vocal tone-poems, etc.
  • Syntax (with Dell Little): new age instrumentals, electronic pop songs, progressive ballads.

1983 - 1984

  • Del Mar College choir
  • Parkway Presbyterian Church choir: my first payed singing gig

1985 - present

  • Renjeaux (with Dell Little, Domingo Leija & Luis Longoria): progressive, new age, art rock, lately become more experimental, jazz-inspired techno-improvisations.

1985 - 1986

  • Church of the Good Shepherd Senior Choir (Jim Buonemani, director): professional-level, world-class chorus.

1987 - 1988

  • King Felix (with Geoff Walden, Wade Ozment & Mitchell Player): progressive/art rock.

1989

  • Del Mar College African Percussion Ensemble (Gregory Spayd, director): technically-accurate West African hand drumming+percussion.

1989 - 1990

  • Del Mar College Electronic Percussion classes (Dr. Norman Weinberg, director): electronic/ambient new age instrumentals

1990 - 1991

  • Makak (original incarnation with Keith Krause & Marcus Medina): experimental acoustic/electro folk-rock.

1990 - 2003

  • drum circles (with the world!)

1994 - 1996

  • Makak (second incarnation with Keith Krause & Greg Willman): tribal drums+percussion

1995 - 1996

  • Graduate Studies in trance music & rhythm (with Dr. Norman Weinberg)
  • Master's Project: logos, eros, cosmos, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

1997 - present

  • Roshen (with Milena Worsham): dramatic vocal performance art

1997

  • L.O.S.S. (with Keith Krause & Alberto Duran): unfocused instrumental acoustic/electronic gaelic-ambient-rock

2000

  • Ornamental Ether Experience (with Milena Worsham, Keith Krause & Dru Harrison): experimental improvisational/organic acoustic/electronic "opium house"; live looping.

2002 -2003

  • collaborations with Atactic (Craig McGonagil): instrumental electronic/ambient dub, performance art
  • Full House (with Robert Valerius, Geri Crowe-Eliff, Marge DeWitt, Dick Hermann): five-part a capella vocal ensemble

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Steve Roach: World's Edge

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World's Edge
Steve Roach
1992 Fortuna 18057 (CD)
Reviewed by Hannah M.G. Shapero, Eclectic Earwig Reviews, Margen Magazine, Muze, Synth Music Direct

The double-CD WORLD'S EDGE was Steve's first solo project created after his move to Tucson in 1990. At last the inspirations that fueled his music for years were right outside the studio, helping to feed an especially intense creative period. It is one that Steve looks back on as an important period of transition and discovery within the onion-skin-like evolution of his work. The roots of ORIGINS, ARTIFACTS, THE MAGNIFICENT VOID, and ON THIS PLANET are clearly present here, as well as the transition from the benchmark DREAMTIME RETURN.

Disc two contains an often-overlooked hour-long piece, "To the Threshold Of Silence." This composition shows significant influences from Tibetan ceremonial music, with a fusion of deep space music, melding perfectly into Steve's landscapes of time-stretching textures. Added to this foundation is harmonic singing, processed gongs, Tibetan bells, and deep Earth pulses, all combined to created a kind of ancient-modern sacred space. This groundbreaking long-form piece foreshadowed THE DREAM CIRCLE, SLOW HEAT, ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS and PRAYERS TO THE PROTECTOR. This rediscovery will delight both old listeners and those newly-experiencing Steve's vast musical journey.

 
Disc 1
1. World's EdgeMP39:44 
2. The Call 3:29 
3. Steel and BoneMP3, RealAudio2:38 
4. UndershadowMP38:26 
5. When Souls RoamMP36:51 
6. Beat of Desire 7:34 
7. Glimpse 3:05 
8. Thunderground 10:25 
9. Falling, Flying, Dreaming 6:13 
10. DriftMP37:43 
Disc 2
1. To the Threshold of SilenceMP360:00 

Steve's first solo release after he moved to Tuscon. Disc 2 is also one of his first (if not his first) continuous-playback disc!

I need this one in my SR collection!

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Steve Roach: Slow Heat

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Slow Heat
Steve Roach
1998 Timeroom Editions 1 (CD)
Reviewed by Exposé, Progressive World, The Raging Consciousness Desk

This is the first release in a Special Edition series that continues in the spirit of the infinite playback sound-world environments explored on THE DREAM CIRCLE and "To The Threshold of Silence" from WORLD'S EDGE. SLOW HEAT rises and falls, breathes in and exhales a constant flow of calming influence. Shaped over two summers of evaluation on Steve's patio playback system, the sounds of the warm desert nights were found to be in perfect tune to the sound-world playing back for hours on the speakers outdoors. These sounds were recorded by stretching 50 foot mic cables from the Timeroom out into the desert night, capturing a pure moment of natural magic to be included in the piece. Perhaps no other long-form piece from Steve has placed the listener in such an intimate and subtle expression of the sensual nature of the desert atmosphere.

 
1. Slow HeatMP3, RealAudio71:16 

Need to get this one... I LOVE "the Dream Circle," as I have an AUTOGRAPHED copy, and it was my first exposure to a 72-minute, continuous-playback composition. I used to sleep to it at the 1/2 Pad during the early 90's while I was in college.

So, Slow Heat must be another sweet one.

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Friday, September 18, 2009

Links Project on the Behance Network

More beautiful light/pattern/line/curveart from a beautiful Russian woman...

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CA / patterns on the Behance Network

Beautiful digital art by a beautiful Russian woman.

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TechEniacGlowBoy

image that I hope will inspire my ESL computer students to get excited about learning how to master this fabulous tool we call the personal computer.

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Computer Users

Another possibility for my Computer & Software Fundamentals class.

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Eniac

Possible pic for my Computer Software & Fundamentals class

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Benjamin Franklin's daily schedule

Awesome! Ben Franklin set the conditions for his genius to shine!

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