In 2004 my friend Rob gave me a CD containing his latest work, a chiptune style album he had just written called Walk Like An Equation. I stuck it on my mp3 player and it stayed there all summer. It was the summer of quitting my dreary office job to go freelance, returning to computer studies, riding my BMX around the city in the sun, drinking beer, and listening to this album. It is still one of my favorite albums of all time, and he has now uploaded it for everyone to enjoy on Bandcamp. It's absolutely killer, so go download it now!
Jan. 16, 2011
I have started a new blog here which is basically just images straight from my phone. I figured out the fastest way to get things from my eyeballs straight onto the internet. It goes like this:
- Take photos with phone.
- Email photos from phone to an address on my server, which forwards:
- To a gmail address, where it goes to Google Buzz.
- To a special Wordpress email address which posts the pictures to the blog.
- The Wordpress thing also posts the pictures on Twitter and Facebook.
What I love about this was I didn't have to write any code to make it happen, but it still uses open source components and my own server. It's also ridiculously convenient which is very important when you have a newborn. I don't have to rely on some horrible corporation (they are just some of the end-points where the stuff arrives). I am a pretty huge fan of things which involve writing less code.
If you like images, feel free to subscribe to the RSS feed. I promise it won't all be photos of my wonderful daughter. :)
Now I am going to post some drawings I scribbled.
PS Here is another cool internet thing someone did for selling stuff on the internet without writing any code. It came from Warren Ellis' blog.
PPS another thing is what I am reading and sharing on Google Reader, which is here.
Dec. 17, 2010
Here are a couple of interviews I did in preparation for playing squeakyshoecore at the Seriously Sound System festival at Hyde Park, Western Australia, this Saturday the 18th of December, 2010 at 12:40pm.
This is an mp3 of the radio interview I did with Peter Barr for local radio station RTRFM
This is a magazine interview I did for Drum Media Perth; sorry it is a graphic. here is the Flash applet source of this excerpt.
Enjoy!
More links:
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GarageAcidLab is the set of patches I use to play the music from squeakyshoecore. There is an Android app too which you can purchase at that link.
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You can find some other squeakyshoecore articles and interviews I did previously here.
Dec. 9, 2010
Hello! I've uploaded two new tunes to the squeakyshoecore album of algorithmic acid. They are called ring singularity and prolate spheroid. Get yr rave on here. Incidentally, you might like to type the names of the squeakyshoecore songs into the search bar of Wikipedia. They are all named after fascinating science and mathematics topics.
On the 18th of December, I will also be playing a live gig in Hyde Park, Perth. I will be using the GarageAcidLab algorithms that I use to make squeakyshoecore here in Perth, Western Australia as part of the Seriously Sound System music festival organised by the local radio station, RTRFM. I am on just after midday at 12.40 in the afternoon. It should be a lot of fun!
Leading up to that I will be interviewed on that radio station at 8am local time this Friday the 10th of December. If you are not awake for it (like me), or you don't live in Western Australia, you can listen to the podcast, which I'll post here afterwards if I can figure out where it is.
Kampai!
Nov. 12, 2010
I've recorded the sixth tune, "Oval BA", for the squeakyshoecore algorithmic acid album. Click the shoe to have a listen!
Here are some articles that nice people have written about squeakyshoecore:
To use GarageAcidLab (the engine used to make squeakyshoecore) on your Android phone or on your PC with Pure Data, click here:
