My friend, and fellow grad student, Przemyslaw Bosak and I went out to drink some beer and play chess last night (highlights: Pliny the Elder, Allegash Black, and Pizza Port’s Hop 15 in cask). Luckily it …
What’s he got against zero-gravity chairs?
The list at the end of this post reminds me of the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge…I was reading a Lakoff text when I ran across mention of Borge’s Celestial Emporium’s taxonomy, that animals are categorized …
The Choir Boys loving Idaho
Andrew Pask and Jeff Kaiser at Craters of the Moon National Park, photo by Craig Green Andrew Pask and I are having a great time in Idaho. (Barring this three day bout of flu that I’ve …
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The Palindrome, Oakland, CA
Barry and Jeff I met Barry Threw at The Spark Festival in Minneapolis, MN last February. He is a very bright and creative musician with monstrous tech chops as well, what a nice combination. So I …
Kirk Silsbee Interview
The last days of Ventura’s secret mayorLocal avant-garde impresario Jeff Kaiser bids the county adieu ~ By KIRK SILSBEE ~ Though no one is making much of it, an era is coming to an end. For …
Second Annual Boise Experimental Music Festival: Day One
The Second Annual Boise Experimental Music Festival began today. What a blast, a great music and social event. So wonderful to hang out with like-minded people. Here are a few images from the first night: Joe …
Choir Boys: Eight Days in Chicago-4.8-4.10.2006
I love Chicago! So when my friend Don Malone invited me to come and play his final recital (retiring after THIRTY-One years) and teach some Master Classes, I said, “of course!” Even better, he had me …
Also…
Many of you that know me, know that for years I have wanted a granular synthesis footpedal for my electronics…Now that I’ve gone max/msp I have one. One of the gentlemen that I’ve met on this …
Hardware-Be-Gone
Finally, Spark makes it official for me. No more hardware/stomp box based sound processing…Cycling 74’s max/msp is it for me…the versatility and portability combine to make it THE way to go, in my humble opinion. Listening …