Monthly Archives for February 2006
Motorized ice-cream cone for the lazy-tongued
Motorized ice-cream cone for the lazy-tongued
Another entry into what seems to be a new series of posts on the limitless ingenuity of the creative minds of our developed societies.
TweetSoupir
“Soupir” (not to be confused with the earlier S’assoupir) was recently recorded live, in one pass, in my home-studio (boudoir-studio, appropriately enough).
I’m posting it to Radio Vince (and mini Radio Vince at the top of this page).
25/09/06 Update: Now with a tiny Radio Vince player!
TweetFind Music You’ll Love – Pandora
Pandora is a Flash-based front-end to yet another music recommendation service based on something called the Music Genome Project. Basically, you start by inputting a song or an artist, and Pandora suggests other songs, which you approve or disapprove.
I have pretty eccentric and off-beat tastes and was quite pleasantly surprised by the way Pandora handled them. It recommended some really pertinent stuff. You can save different “radio stations” for later enjoyment. Tip: although the site is limited to US residents (due to licensing issues), all you need to do to create an account is enter a US zip code.
Thanks to Pamela for this one.
Update:
I have a really shitty and monotonous job to do today, so I created a B-52′s radio station this morning to help keep me awake, and have been working to the sound of the mostly quality music that has been streaming ever since: The Kinks, Stranglers, Devo, Nico, Blur, Sparks, more B-52′s, although it did screw up badly once by bringing up a…Celine Dion song! Even so, nicely done.
Sons of Sarookh: Topango
I’ll let Matt Love, the spiritual leader of the Sons of Sarookh, do the explaining:
TweetHi folks. many long ages ago, I sent a clip from a jam session I took part in to each of you. it was indifferently recorded and performed. I deliberately sent it without any key or tempo information. I wanted to see what each of you would do with it, and then I would stitch together the results.
I spent many long hours on it, and it didn’t jell. Not because any of the individual contributions were unsatisfactory, but I jumped into it without sufficient planning, and much later, I realized that I had taken the wrong approach, and I knew what the right approach was, but the idea of starting over was too discouraging.
Thanks to one of you, Vincent, and your persistent and gentle reminders, a couple of nights ago I located the individual parts and using the mental template I had developed in the later stages of doing it wrong, I did it right.
I called the results Topango, and posted it here.