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Yesterday i remixed the Hebrew songs collage for Judith Silvers album.
Then I started adding things and remixing the theme tune to Raising Kayn web tv series. Only 20secs but it's gotta sound right. Still needs a bit more oomph so will look at it again today.
Quadelectronic 13 - our 1st birthday - i sensed we'd get a lot of players and we did - 16 - luckily I took a breakout desk. Being a bit tired and what with plugging folks in and sorting out the random groups and who went on when I didnlt get to focus much on my or others music much. Music was a bit more noise/sounds-based rather than the almost ambient previous 2 QE's - which is good that it;s all different. I;m loathe to add rules but I might add a time limit of 8pm for showing up if you want to play - otherwise I;m kinda plugging folks in all night. Still - 1 year of QE - and a nice scene it is.
Books finished
Albert Glinksy - Theremin Ether Music and Espionage
Amazing and enormously detailed book on the extraordinary life of Leon Theremin, his inventions and his lives in and out of trouble in the USA and then USSR, including inventing listenign bug devices and a spell in the gulag under Stalin and his final recognition near the end of his life.
A really amazing book which really paints the details and the atmosphere of his life and times.
ed Don Sakers - Carmen Miranda's Ghost Is Haunting Space Station 3
Short stories based on the filk song by Leslie Fish. Well...they had fun compiling it and it was fun in places but it didnlt really work for me overall. One annoyance was how repeatedly (and even in the song) authors referred to maraccas as "clacking" - marracas are shakers - they are thinking of castanets, which Carmen didn't use coz they are Spanish flamenco percussion, not Brazilian.
books I'm on now are William Gibson - Neuromancer - nice to be back in Gibson land - tho I'm finding his early work here not as elegant as his later books which I love. My new short storybook is Ron Goulart's Chameleon Corps and Other Shapechangers - it's certainly nice to be back in Goulart's world again - funny and light but well imagined.
Then I started adding things and remixing the theme tune to Raising Kayn web tv series. Only 20secs but it's gotta sound right. Still needs a bit more oomph so will look at it again today.
Quadelectronic 13 - our 1st birthday - i sensed we'd get a lot of players and we did - 16 - luckily I took a breakout desk. Being a bit tired and what with plugging folks in and sorting out the random groups and who went on when I didnlt get to focus much on my or others music much. Music was a bit more noise/sounds-based rather than the almost ambient previous 2 QE's - which is good that it;s all different. I;m loathe to add rules but I might add a time limit of 8pm for showing up if you want to play - otherwise I;m kinda plugging folks in all night. Still - 1 year of QE - and a nice scene it is.
Books finished
Albert Glinksy - Theremin Ether Music and Espionage
Amazing and enormously detailed book on the extraordinary life of Leon Theremin, his inventions and his lives in and out of trouble in the USA and then USSR, including inventing listenign bug devices and a spell in the gulag under Stalin and his final recognition near the end of his life.
A really amazing book which really paints the details and the atmosphere of his life and times.
ed Don Sakers - Carmen Miranda's Ghost Is Haunting Space Station 3
Short stories based on the filk song by Leslie Fish. Well...they had fun compiling it and it was fun in places but it didnlt really work for me overall. One annoyance was how repeatedly (and even in the song) authors referred to maraccas as "clacking" - marracas are shakers - they are thinking of castanets, which Carmen didn't use coz they are Spanish flamenco percussion, not Brazilian.
books I'm on now are William Gibson - Neuromancer - nice to be back in Gibson land - tho I'm finding his early work here not as elegant as his later books which I love. My new short storybook is Ron Goulart's Chameleon Corps and Other Shapechangers - it's certainly nice to be back in Goulart's world again - funny and light but well imagined.
new CD
Lakshmi Shankar - A Life of Dedication - 80th Birthday Celebration
Been a longtime fan of Indian classical singer LS (Ravi's sister in law) for years - saw her live, and got her autograph (blush) 15+years ago. I didn't have very high hopes of an album of her in her 80s but she is extraordinary - her voice and dexterity is unchanged by time. Could've come from any time in her career. Plus she is a great improviser. One memory I have of her live was watching an old lady walk on to the stage and as she sang I swear 20 years fell from her.
