Tag: music

  • Second one in the can

    Second one in the can

    Went back to Megasonic Sound yesterday to record basic tracks for a second song for my album and came out with another rough mix that’s making me smile.

  • Long Haired Kings (rough mix)

    Long Haired Kings (rough mix)

    Rough mix of new song, The Long Haired Kings

  • Giving Zoo Wolves Lessons in Music (dance mix demo)

    For odd reasons. was tuned to about A 415 when I recorded this. This tune was inspired by a New York Times article from the 1910s:

  • Memory Lane

    Here is the first song in a five-song mini-concert recorded last month and initially posted on ye old booke of faces. This one has lyrics by Peter K. Hirsch: Next up, a bit of early 20th century science history, “Giving Zoo Wolves Lessons in Music.”

  • Giving Zoo Wolves Lessons in Music

    A scientist’s dream… Three notes in a scale

  • Standup, Mixer!

    Don’t forget that out here Someone loves you every day

  • Carnegie Hill

    Shoestring fries at Jackson Hole PLJ playing Billy Joel

  • Carnegie Hill

    I’ve written a new song and have been learning how to play it. This is the first demo version I’ve felt comfortable enough to share more widely:

  • Ain’t No Sunshine

    Ain’t No Sunshine

    this house just ain’t no home any time she goes away

  • carry that water of love to me

    Got on a Dire Straits kick recently and started teaching myself to play “Water of Love,” one of their first hits. Here is a sort demo mixdown of a draft arrangement (experimenting with a new way to embed audio):

  • Swan Swan H – nother acoustic take

  • Birth month

    Birth month

    I was out at dinner with B the other night, celebrating my birthday, and I mentioned how I wasn’t following my old tradition of posting a note about the birthday of my blog (because I started breathing room on my 33rd birthday and briefly considered calling it “Outliving Christ”) because, as with so many things…

  • Probably time to break out the Edirol

    I love the spontaneity of recording the band on the phone, and the quality is really not bad, but I’ve got a nice compact digital recorder and I should be using it.

  • (Here Comes) The Reuben Kincaid!

    So sometime back in the previous millennium a bunch of us technical-publishing bohemians were sitting around wasting time as we were wont to do, coming up with band names, which reminds me of xian’s law: “There are more good band names than there are good bands.” One of the ones that I suggested that our…

  • Resisting the baroque temptation and design is harder than it looks, at BayCHI in February

    This coming February 9 is approximately my one-year anniversary as co-chair of BayCHI’s monthly program and so far I’m enjoying the responsibility a great deal, even with the occasional panic that sets in when each new cycle rolls around. The BayCHI Program for February features Elaine Wherry from Meebo and Jeff Green from EA. Elaine…

  • BT intent on his monitor

    BT intent, originally uploaded by xian. A snapshot of the evening entertainment last night at Yahoo! for the kickoff of the iPhoneDevCamp 3.

  • Girl Talk at Yahoo!

    Girl Talk at Yahoo! Originally uploaded by kentbrew I do the white man’s overbite. Please @kentbrew, point that camera over at @cynk. ah. better. thnaks!

  • Seaside Jazz Fest 2007

    Seaside Jazz Fest 2007 Originally uploaded by andytnisbet. B’s brother Andy took this really nice picture of my sweetie and me. We spent Sunday down in Seaside (right next door to Monterey). Good food, great people, fantastic music (with a rotating cast of players), not too many speeches, birthday wishes to B’s sister Peg, anniversary…

  • I'm stuck

    My first article at a new music blogzine called Stuck Between Stations went live today. It’s called Goodbye, Ruby Grapefruit. Joe Bob says check it out.

  • My vocal debut

    Been meaning to do some recording at Vortex Studios and last weekend I finally got the chance. Cecil played me his song, “Styrofoam,” and then recorded me singing it with his backing tracks in my ears to guide me. So far, so good. then Cecil added harmony vocals, additional guitars and keyboards and drums ‘n’…

  • Feinstein can pry my MP3's from my cold dead fingers

    Adina Levin sent me a head’s up (discussed on her blog: BookBlog: Dianne Feinstein wants to ban mp3) about the resurrection of the PERFORM act (why am I not surprised Lieberman is a co-sponsor?): Hi, all. Don’t know if you’ve seen this, but Senator Feinstein has just re-introduced the PERFORM act, a bill that makes…