Fedback Feedback
A week or so ago on the very awesome AudioCookbook blog, there was a post about Old Amplifier Abuse that reminded me of an experiment from a few years back conducted by Arthur, Micah and I using an old Crate amp head with a spring reverb. As luck would have it not two days later [...]
Java Midi Reference Class
Lately I have been doing some work with Processing to create visuals from music. One of the concepts I’m working with is live visuals based on video feeds from cameras that are tracking the show, or band, or whatever. This alone would be enormously boring, so to heighten the experience, I thought of using the [...]
Sound Memory
It’s pretty common to create mnemonic devices to help remember things. Indeed, I can think of at least a dozen acronyms, sing-a-longs and rhymes that I’ve used in the past (thanks to Fields, I’ll never forget my Latin Declensions). Apparently the sense of smell creates the strongest memory bonds in most folks, but for me, [...]
Welcome, Organ
This weekend I picked up a 100+ year old organ from a friend’s house. Thanks Ryan. Its a pump organ, made by a company that looks like “Moreto”. Apparently it was also made in Chicago. All I know is that it doesn’t require any power other than my own two feet to operate. This makes [...]
First test of the Firepod (FP10)
I guess I should start calling it the FP10, since technically its been renamed/rebranded. Firepod just sounds so cool. Band practice Saturday consisted of cutting a drum track for an ongoing demo that we’re working on (I’ll post a copy when Bill finishes the mixing). I didn’t feel at all prepared for it, but that’s [...]
Music to code by
Lately I’ve been having to step back in to writing a lot of code. I used to have no trouble at all concentrating on the task at hand, but for some reason focusing these days is tough. Its probably the vast number of distractions from co-workers needing help with this, that, or the other thing. [...]
