This was a really cool post that was brought to my attention via Phil Shapiro.  It’s a nice introductory tutorial of sorts for using FriendFeed to learn, share and social bookmark.  With FriendFeed, you can add in various RSS feeds from all your social network profiles (del.icio.us, Twitter, your blogs, etc.) into one place [...]

This was a track I made shortly after seeing Chris Clark. I really liked his dense, gritty textures found on ‘Empty the Bones of You‘ and attempted to emulate a little bit of that in this track. The opening bar is me beatboxing into a MicroKorg vocoder. I made heavy use of [...]

I love electronic music. I love making it, listening to it, promoting it and of course, helping other people create it. While I didn’t write them myself, I thought I’d share some helpful PDF manuals and guides I’ve compiled to get you started.

Awesome kinetic, musical sculpture I found posted over at Mat Dryhurst’s blog. The interview with Felix Thorn is excellent too. In it he is interviewed with multiple questions fielded from artists, writers and musicians at Gasworks around the relationship between machines, humans and music.

Minilogue - Animals
Just found this. Fun video by Minilogue. They’ve made some really great tracks that I like playing with when I DJ. You can read more about them at their website or on their myspace page.

Some great highlights for me in the past few weeks having to do with community technology.
1) The CTCNet Conference
This was great, if a bit small.  It gave me and fellow VISTAs from the CTC VISTA Project to get together and hang out.  For a few of them, it was their first conference.  The conference was [...]

This was a track I made after seeing Plaid play in San Francisco a few years ago.  It’s an oldie, but I was inspired by Plaid’s technique of having really fast, rhythmic percussion in the cymbal/hi-hat frequency range with other rhythms in the lower percussive ranges (like kicks and even snares) slowly merging in to [...]

I’ve had this idea floating around in my head for a couple weeks now: community as your operating system.  If you need to find the answer to something or produce some kind of ‘knowledge object’ (I can’t think of a better word) you can run queries against your network of amateur experts - your very [...]

I’ve taken up a bit of a personal research project and am asking the question of this post on various networks.  What are the roles of community technology centers in building a national community service infrastructure? I hope to be able to compile and synthesize a brief report on themes that emerge.
Given the current socioeconomic [...]

The great thing about the internet is that it allows those with access* connection to people and ideas in a lot of easy, organic ways.  However, while the tools to do this are always changing and evolving I’d argue that the techniques are timeless and work online as well as offline.  Regardless of technology, you [...]

‘Intergenerationalness’ seems to be a pretty hot topic in the world of online writing/blogging. In light of my own development as a young professional, I wanted to share these websites/blogs that I refer to for knowledge geared towards developing my own capacities as as professional.  The blogs below have a focus on HELPING. [...]

Daft Punk - Something About Us (cover)
I thought this was simply genius.  A cover of one of my favorite songs, by one of my favorite duos.  The performer is Randy George - a thereminist.  More videos by him (including a link to his site) can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/ooo6
(Thanks to Sander Dennis (a.k.a. Eprom) for [...]

Autechre - Gantz Graf
I’ve always thought these two pieces should be in conversation. The piece of the left is Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 . I’ve always loved the piece. It has influenced me in so much of the music that I make. The visual ’stuttering’ of the painting [...]

 Hail Mary - Pomplamoose
Of course I think this song is endearingly cool. But then as you watch it, it’s TOTALLY creative in it’s use of video/audio - each sound you hear in the song is shown, as it’s played, onscreen. The concept is a ‘videosong’ which basically has two rules:
1. What you see [...]

Richie Hawtin 2008 DJ Setup from Dean Koch on Vimeo
I totally dig this video and the things that Richie Hawtin is talking about. I’ve kind’ve come to the same conclusion about ‘djing’ with computers - when I ‘dj’ with my laptop, I’m really letting Ableton do all of the beatmatching for me, thus freeing [...]