Madal Solo
May 25, 2009(c. 1997, 4:07) A performance on a Nepalese Madal, a double ended drum somewhere between a South Indian Mridangam and a North Indian bayan tabla.
3:00am
May 25, 2009This was the result of picking up a cheap cast off electric guitar at an auction. I experimented with preparing the guitar by inserting screwdrivers, pens and nail files between the strings. This adapts a technique devised by John Cage to turn the piano into a percussion orchestra. Preparing the strings selected a range of…
Caribbean Wedding
May 22, 2009In March I joined Jill and many friends in Puerto Rico to celebrate Anja and Tetsu’s wedding. As part of the celebrations and ceremony, I had written the titled little piece for guitar for them that I played on the beach at sunset. I wasn’t really familiar with the guitar I borrowed & a bit…
Notions of Location
May 12, 2009This is a one minute sound piece written Nov. 1993 and presented at the 1993 Evos/PICA Soundweek. It was later performed at the International Computer Music Conference in 1996. The title refers to the intrinsic distortion of any recording technology, of contrived suggestions of different spaces that we deal with listening to any recording.
EmCAP in the news
February 26, 2009PhysOrg do a good job of explaining the findings of the EmCAP project, of which I was a part of while working at UvA with Henkjan and Olivia, and collaborating with Martin, Sue, Emili, Ricard, Hendrik and everyone else in the EmCAP project. Great work, everyone!
Axon Bends recordings
February 19, 2009Examples of pitch bend tracking on Axon guitar synths: Axon bends and Axon_detuned.
Bushfire blamestorming
February 12, 2009It only takes a short time before the spectre of disaster capitalism appears in relation to the devastating Australian bush fires. In this case, it is attempting to scapegoat environmentalists as the cause of the bush fires. The claim is that the blazes are due to not clearing undergrowth and that was prevented by lobbying…
New Borns Sense the Beat
February 12, 2009My boss at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, Dr. Henkjan Honing is interviewed by WNYC about a study that was done along with Olivia Ladinig, my co-worker and the group in Budapest on the ability for newborn babies to detect the beat of musical rhythms. Science daily has further details and a link to the paper.
The Siege of Gaza
January 3, 2009The news that the Israeli defence force (IDF) is now using artillery only emphasises the indiscriminate nature of their attacks against the Gaza strip. Artillery is uncontrolled and practically untargetted (even with observers several rounds have to be fired to fix a target). It is almost guaranteed to kill innocent people. Gaza is one of…
New WTC photos
December 25, 2008As part of re-releasing my image portfolios as a drupal Image Gallery, I’ve added some extra images I took on a film camera before the towers fell. These took longer to develop than the digital camera, so they didn’t get put up at the same time as the earlier images, and then the CD-ROM I…