This album is particularly important to me, because hearing it as a child introduced me to my two favorite artists as an adult. I have everything by Talking Heads and David Byrne as a solo artist (including seeing him live six times). And I’ve made it a somewhat obsessive hobby to collect everything possible released [...]
Nothing motivates like a system requirement for a new Brian Eno gadget – and since his new software “77 Million Paintings” is going to require a G5 to create it’s generative soundtrack, then so it shall be. Not that I’m getting a new machine just to run video paintings. I’ve had the same dual 800MHz [...]
I really need to get a passport. From March 24-April 3, Brian Eno’s new installation “77 Million” will be on display at the Laforet Museum in Tokyo. The exhibition takes it’s name from his forthcoming software DVD, “77 Million Paintings”, in which layers of his audio and video creations are continuously and randomly composed. On [...]
I’m typically an early adopter on things: hardware, operating systems, software, you name it. I’ve run beta software on alpha OS’s, on overclocked machines. The total lack of stability adds an element of excitement to an otherwise average day on the computer. But I have been getting mature and reasonable earlier this year when I [...]
After over three years of the exact same design, I’ve finally reworked my site a bit and started using a real blogging tool – WordPress. I still have quite a bit of work to do (update my design portfolio, link my generative songs, some CSS tweaks, upload 3 years of posts, etc.) but it’s a [...]
The lineup was announced this week, and I snatched up my ticket for Lollapalooza 2006. The lineup is frankly hit and miss, but $150 for three days of music in downtown Chicago is a no-brainer. Even despite the fact that enduring the heat of Lollapalooza 2005 was among the most difficult things I’ve done in [...]