Music
May 20, 2005
freeform jam with kevcraig
May 20, 2005
Here's a newer incarnation of the mp3 linked to below, with me singing on it. I really need to get voice lessons or something. If only I could make the sound I imagine in my head. But what I really hate is people who say shit like "you shouldn't sing" when I make crap like this. Because if you don't try, how can you ever expect to improve? Anybody who has ever gotten good at something that once they were not should know that. (it's not like I recorded that and was like "MAN I RULE I NEED TO GO ON AMERICAN IDOL! YEAHZ!!!")
Just made this remix (licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike license). It's from this remix contest. I know they want us to use more of their samples, but I'm too lazy to go dig through them.. and I wanted to do another song in non-4/4 time.. it almost works, anyway. But fun no less. I dedicate this song to Steve. Anyway, not gonna bother entering it or anything, but not too awful for a quick bit of work, either. My attention span is too short, though. On one of our own songs, maybe I can spend more time, maybe. Update: OK those vocals were really not working for me, here's a mix without them and with some drums in the bridge.
My lovely woman ran off for a fun long weekend on the east coast, so I'm alone, with the cat, my cold, my new gold crown (pictures coming soon) and some tasty indian food. I just made this tribute to one of our band's songs. Kinda funny. I really dig the Treo 650 I got. Might start playing around with developing stuff for it. Maybe. I have an itch that needs scratching, now if I could just find something that won't take tooo long to get into. Tomorrow we're going to start recording album versions of our songs, fun. Also, been watching that classic 90s show, "Strange Luck." It's been so long, that I get to watch each one as if I've never seen it before. If only I had something better than a terrible VHS rip..
Our show last night went pretty well, we had a very good time. We were lucky enough to have two friends (ok ok more than two) there to videotape, so we edited together this little video.
Woot only 2 days til our band plays. Excitement in the air! Saw The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy movie today. Was pretty good. I understand that some of the changes were necessary to make a good movie, and that's fine, but I do have a few gripes over particular things. But in the end, I think it's a good movie for what it is, and definitely enjoyed it.
I posted a link on the Jesusonic Forum to the Jesusonic DirectX plug-in, woot. Also, our show next tuesday is on, and we will be going on at about 8:00pm. Hooray. Here is a playlist of our last rehearsal (which is a mixed bag but entertaining no less).
There's a new version of Pathsync up. Thanks Francis and Alan! This new one lets you do a lot of nice things, see the whatsnew on the page.
OK so I still need to build the footboard for the new Jesusonic (which I will do this week), but I just upgraded the board in this one to a via C3 1.2ghz board. The CrusFX still has a 1.6ghz P-M board in it. The difference in power (and price!) between the P-Ms and the C3 is huge. But The 1.2ghz C3 is finally powerful enough where in normal (and even excessive experimentation) I'm not finding it running out of power. Yes, if I try, I can get it to run out (whereas with the P-M that is difficult sometimes even). So I think the first run of Jesusonics will probably be 1.2ghz C3 powered. If anybody is interested in purchasing one of the first run of Jesusonic hardware, let me know. It will probably cost around $1k, and will likely be hand made and of very limited production. I'd like to gauge interest before building the initial run. I've still been using the 1.6ghz P-M based CrusFX for our practices, it's really quite fantastic, we tried using a Line6 POD XT Live for half of one of the practices and while it was good too, it was also lacking in certain features (which makes me feel like making the Jesusonic is somewhat justified, if not completely useful). We had a fantastic rehearsal today, too, the mp3 is up. I can't wait for the show (but I'm glad we have a little more time to get things solidifed ;)
So apparently we're going to play on May 3rd sometime after 8pm at Studio Z here in San Francisco. Our practice yesterday produced this decent collection of songs. It's merely 35 minutes, but played live would be stretched out closer to 40 I'd imagine. And we have a cover we might do, too.
It works now! All that's really left is to build the detachable footboard! Yay. Here is a picture of the internals (what a big mess of wires, I know!):...and the front:
...and here is an MP3 I made quickly with it.
After a day at the beach, getting the tops of my feet sunburned, I came home and registered brainal.org (think Brainal Sex), and then found myself building a very strange website on it. <3 PHP.
Here is a lovely playlist of tracks. Also, made an RSS feed for our full jams, not sure if that'll be useful for people.
I'm protesting the use of the word "blog" by calling this a home page, which is what it really is anyway. Not too different than the ones we used to have back in the 90s, only a little more chronologically biased. Here is another kinda entertaining song from that last (April 2nd) jam. And another, and another. Oh and here's one from yesterday with just me and Brennan.