My best 24 hours of music in 2008

I like to make myself feel as if I'm somehow close to the elusive community of electronic music. My problem, however, is that I am way too interested in multiple facets of music releases to pay attention in any style for very long. I seek out what really turns my ear, …

Coming soon... Craque on Audiobulb

So my new full-length album, Supple, will be released by Audiobulb in March of 2009. Ain't that awesome! It's a real honor to be joining in the ranks of Autistici, HeCanJog, Ultre, Calika, and so many others.

Months have gone by (actually, no, YEARS) where I have …

DataCent Failed HD Sound Library

Check this out... DataCent, a data recovery company, has started a catalog of common sounds heard on failing hard drives, and it covers multiple vendors and situations where things can be heard going terribly wrong. Best of all, they give full permission to use the …

Craque: Gamma out now on Test Tube

October brought many exciting things for me, including not only a new job, but also a new album that I'm very excited about. The Test Tube netlabel is featuring this new release, called Gamma.

Six tracks, mostly beat-driven, of downtempo styled expressionism ripe with …

Infinite Jest Project @ .microsound

The .microsound community recently embarked on a new project to honor the life of writer David Foster Wallace, known widely for his intelligently sprawling novel Infinite Jest.

Instructions were to take one of the films attributed to the protagonist's father and create …

The First Place I Heard Acid Jazz Was A Steven Jesse Bernstein Record

It's true.

Updated Audio Software

I've done some updates to the Audio Software page, including three new categories: "Looping and Performance", "Free Players and Visualizers" and "Programming Languages".

Craque: "Trolling for Olives" now free download

In 2001 the debut 123 for Craque titled Trolling for Olives EP was released on Metatron Press, and now it's available for free on last.fm.

All five tracks are both streamable and downloadable, I figured I'd do them all since the original is still available for purchase …

Craque: "Tekuchesti" out now on Constanta

I'm very happy to announce the release of a project I did this summer called Tekuchesti (a transliteration of ?????????, which is a Russian word meaning "fluidity"), a piece in shuffle time for listeners and improvisers.

Download the entire work, and remember to listen …

SoundHack Delay Trio Released

Tom Erbe is one of the members of the electronic music community whose work I highly respect. Not only is most of his software free, not only are they usable by any skill level, not only are they the most educational electronic music tools i've ever used... I could go …

haven't i always written techno?

As the summer begins its winddown, I've found that I've been writing some interesting beat-ful music at the same time I've been doing completely abstract sound works. It's fun! Each opens the doors in the other, it's pretty interesting the way the cross-over happens, …

Experimental Music Links

I'm usually happening upon all kinds of things while I'm across the Internets for work or play, and I'll document the more interesting and pertinent ones here on sounding.com.

I keep my own list of interesting Audio Hardware, as well as links to useful Audio Software, a …

Nodal: Generative MIDI software

There's a new generative music package out now called Nodal, which uses an object oriented interface that gives composers control over every aspect of MIDI in a string-it-together sort of Max/PD style.

It will work with any MIDI capable synth, software or hardware, …

Noise.io: The iPhone Synth

The noiseforiphone looks promising as the worlds first official iphone synth, with FM synthesis and gestural parameter adjustment.

The folks over at Noise Addicts have a nice blog entry including video clips and some detailed description of the four-channel FM synthesis …

Bell Rung for Hiroshima

Yesterday at 4:15PM (Pacific) I took a break from the chaos of networks and enjoyed a ceremonial oneness to honor the victims of Hiroshima in a gesture of world-wide harmony.

hiro1615080508shima starts about a minute before I rang in concert with many others across …

Getting into Circuit-Bending?

Sound Art at Anti-Theory.com professes to be where "the art of circuit-bending was launched on the internet," and it's actually a nice resource for getting into avant-garde uses of musical toys.

In [how it works] a step-by-step example shows the simple circuit-bending …

The quake song

Having moved to the LA area little over five years ago, it wasn't until today that I experienced a significantly violent earthquake in our hometown of Fullerton - just across the freeway from the epicenter of the 5.4 quake in Chino Hills today.

I was talking on the …

Erotus Records Kickoff Set

Here's a live set from the guys at Erotus (Blamstrain's new label) celebrating its launch, featured in the Viides Uuden Musiikin Festivaali, or "Fifth Festival for New Music", held in Kupittaanpuisto, Turku, Finland.

Download it to hear area, asketix, blamstrain, …

Twisted Records now has downloads

One of my favorite sources for anything psychedelic, Twisted Records has started an online store with digital downloads.

Traditionally this has been a "DJ's label" selling mostly vinyl and CDs of primarily music meant to be spun at a party, but it's interesting to see …

The Pull of the Unexplored

Once aspect of creativity I haven't quite discovered how to manage is the navigation of intuition.

It strikes me that some are better than others at accessing this elusive part of the imagination. As a visceral experience it's unmistakable, but the pathways to obtaining …