Category: Musicology
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Jazz Fest 2004, day 2
Still behind on taking notes, but here are my photos from Saturday.
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Jazz Fest 2004, day 1
I’ll post my notes later, but for now here’s a photo album.
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Breaking for lunch
Even the fugitive has to do it. I print out chapters six and five, prepare to mark them up in pen while wolfing down a bagel and whtefish sandwhich after buying some lox for the flight on southwest tomorrow. (bagels out, po’boys back, that’s our motto). On return (from lunch, not n’awlins), I will key…
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In X
Here’s a vocal in search of some instrumental accompaniment in the obligatory MP3 as well as the (possibly more Cakewalk friendly?) AIFF format.
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Cecil Vortex has a blog
Best. Tagline. Ever.
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Fire on the Mountain (getting there)
Accidentally wiped some vocals, but the mix is getting better (I think).
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Fire on the Mountain (distorted, still incomplete)
When in doubt, hide time and rhythm errors with special effects!
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Why At Swim-Two-Birds?
My last few Macs have had their hard drives named after Irish or Celtic literary takes on mythology. The last one was Tir-na n’Og and the current one is At Swim-to-Birds. Phil Gyford republishes Donald Barthelme’s reading list and while DB claims it is in no particular order, of course it is in an order…
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Fire on the Mountain (a work in progress)
Fire on the Mountain, some basic tracks. How do I speed up my slow pickin’ in GarageBand?
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Technorati synergy at bOing bOing
Susan Mernit likes what Boing Boing is doing with their Technorati cosmos links. Mernit asked me and others to link to her entry, so that her example page at Technorati will be populated with incoming links. This also serves to demonstrate the central drawback to this innovation (that Mernit alludes to), which is that the…
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Patchy access in San Antonio
My room at the CheaperNearby hotel naturally offers no high-speed access and sadly I can’t get my modem to work with it either. Fortunately, Roadrunner offers pay-for-use wireless service in the RiverCenter mall attached to the Marriott, so I can briefly check mail and get a message out to the wider world before heading to…
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In the air above Vegas
Before my batteries run out, I think I’ll get caught up on “what I’ve been doing all week,” especially since I’m only getting busier. I’m currently on a plane headed for San Antonio with a stopover in Vegas. I’m going to a joint regional and national conference of the American Culture Association / Popular Culture…
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Effervescing Elephant (take 5)
The insider outsider take (take 4 was the outsider insider take)
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Effervescing Elephant (take 4)
Now, with microphone and multitrack…
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Remix Nightmare (Land of Toil and Bluff bounce in D, edit)
Clipped off the bass loops at the end and started the vocal a little more into the track.
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Remix Nightmare (Land of Toil and Bluff bounce in D, Unedited take)
Remix Nightmare (Land of Toil and Bluff bounce mix in D)
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That falling-behind feeling
Don’t know how much longer I can keep up this pace. It seems like my obligations keep mounting, but I am trying to keep up and stay balanced. Monday I discovered the chords for Ripple are also just G C D Am (a subset of the chords used in Uncle John’s Band). I sorted out…
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The Yeah Yeah Song
I wrote a pretty simple song on my ukulele today. I still can’t play for shit, but tapping into the magic of chord patterns is just too fun. It goes (basically) G C G C7 D Em A C and back to G again. I was so thrilled that I called up Cecil Vortex and…
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Catching up
I’m still not logging my things done each day but I’m starting to get to it in less than a week, so that’s something. Thursday I started an email interview with Levi, found the tab for Syd Barrett’s “Evervescing Elephant” on the web and transposed it for my ukulele, put out the garbage and the…
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Effervescing Elephant (take 3)
in which I remember the chords a bit better but still to no avail
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Effervescing Elephant (take 2)
In which I try to remember to keep strumming