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I love Ableton .  I’d probably swear by it as a compositional and performance tool.  As far as multi-track recording, I’m sure there are some better ones, but Ableton Live is not really about that - it’s about performing and having the most intuitive interface for expressing your musical ideas.  [...]

This is a song I wrote nearly 4 years ago.  I think I’ve gotten all the arrangement down for it, and I’m happy with the sounds though I wonder if there might be a few things to finésse.  There’s a brief bridge in the middle of the song (made with my Alesis Micron) that I’ve [...]

there is a search
there is a nothing
there is a protector
for me
there is  nurturing out in the world
sometimes it’s hiding underneath the darkest of rocks
the most scary and wet of places
perhaps places no one wants to go
your search continues
amongst the bodies and the wreckage
we are drawn to each other like no other
like bloody magnets with the [...]

I came across an interesting post related to electronic music from a blog I’ve started regularly reading. Create Digital Music wrote about how hardware controllers for electronic musicians seem to be limited or never quite what we need. I feel that for the most part, the software seems to be pretty much [...]

Yesterday, I began participating in the Be the Media Project: The Social Media Empowerment guide for Nonprofits. It’s a collaborative project curated by N-TEN with wiki curation by Beth Kanter. Here’s the blurb from the site:
The Be The Media Project is a community of people from nonprofits who are interested in learning and [...]

A few months ago, I saw a call for entry for a print publication called the Squealer.  The Squealer is a semi annual media arts journal put out by Squeaky Wheel, a grassroots, artist-run non-profit media arts center in Buffalo, New York.   The issue’s theme was Codes & Community.  As these are two topics I [...]