Soaking Tide

One of my favorite pastimes recently is surfing through social sites like last.fm, following neighbor and friend links to different people's pages and friends and neighbors and so on and so on... it's a fascinating and sometimes recursive journey through the tastes of …

Splay

I am infused from all directions it seems, there is so much to do.

At times there seem to be so many directions that I cannot find a clear path; when I dream to be great at something, but feel I have no focus on anything.

New Release: Material

Since this release came out while my blog was unavailable, thought I would shout it out that a new Craque album called Material is available on Kahvi Collective! From the website:

"Guest artist craque arrives on Kahvi Collective with a unique blend of textures and IDM …

DIY photo-sensitive synth

I'm excited to be waiting on the arrival of my new Bleep Labs ThingamaKIT.

Not unlike the simple improvising synth I've been working on with VCOs and 2-pole filters, this is a DIY version of their photo-sensitive thingamagoop, described on their website as simply:

"The …

New on CraqueCast: Amalgamation

Starting off the new year with an archival live show: Amalgamation: Live at Smartbar, Chicago, 2002 is a set I did at SmartBar in March of 2002.

This is a set where I combined many influences, methods and directions together through a wide assortment of sampled …

Tangent and an Improv Rig

Preparing for Feb 8 at Dangerous Curve, I've collected some of the sessions into an album called Tangent, improvisations recorded on my live electro-acoustic rig.

What you see below is my homebuilt synth (three square wave oscillators fed through dual 2-pole lowpass …

New Release: Density Operator

Behold the appalling beautiful world of Density Operator now available on Stadtgruen.

"The title is program: everything in this world seems to be under pressure in order to extract the highest concentration of agility. Computer sounds are algorithms, just another form …

RIP: Loungeometry at the Kettle and the Keg

In response to the many sad emails and messages about Loungeometry, the evident is true: Kettle and the Keg has decided on their own to forgo lounge music to try and bring in more customer base. Loungeometry has been discontinued.

At a certain level, the finger can be …

Welcome back...

<p />What I thought was a complicated thing turned out to be an easy module install and Sounding is back in business! It's been a hectic couple of months, but I've been longing for some wiki/blogging time so I'm happy to have it working again. <p />

Metatron Press releases Gray Code on archive.org

Metatron Press (the website is slightly outdated, but not necessarily incorrect) has started a netlabel archive, posting releases formerly available only on CDR, as well as more new stuff to come.

A quintet I played in for some time called Gray Code now has a live …

T Spigot is rearing its burroughsian head once again

My favorite live downtempo band - T Spigot - is back in action this year, and to start it off they're offering the limited edition first pressing of Experiments in the Hypnotic Production of Crime, available through paypal for a measly $5, so go get it!

The bonus is …

New Releases on Metatron: Joe Zitt, GWME

Metatron Press has re-released a few more recordings on archive.org:

• Collaborations features Joseph Zitt's vocals and improvisations with such musicians as F. Vattel Cherry, members of Gray Code, and an electronica treatment by Craque.

• Gusty Winds May Exist …

Craque DJ set: Stop Time CD release party

Wednesday night I played after John Harrington's Stop Time for their CD release party, you can hear the 2-hour set new on CraqueCast or download the full thing directly.

I also have several pictures from the gig for all to see... John moves ALL THE TIME so my little …

Welcome to the New Sound

You may have noticed a slight change in interface on the blog here, it's because I switched from the TWiki BlogPlugin to WordPress.

The basic reason is that although BlogPlugin is a great tool on TWiki, it's not as fully featured as I'd like, and there is the overhead …

Modular Synth meets Wii Controller

So you wanna control buttons?

Listening on

Networking ideas at Ramp

Brian Eno's 77 million and the Mac

Netlabel Collaboration