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WooHoo!! It loos like my website’s pages are all under 80kb including background images and everything. That does NOT include audio downloads.

That means you should be able to navigate the site with a 2400baud modem without a glitch. None of the audio is automatic so there’s no time-mines.

groovy baby 

_atmospheres_ from "I Am Sitting In a Room"

I was setting up the studio at Craig’s. This session’s an improv and a test for the system. It was clicking, we shortnened the firewire cable and now it works. There was also a little bit of various set-up changes that happened along the way. We’re gonna change the firewire back and see if th re-glitches. blah blah bla

I was wiondering about multitracking while recording. A pair of duos overlaid. Another good system test.

The nature of the rig (electric guitars’) 

 _I AM Sitting In a Room_ ; the ending atmospheres as the voice dissolved into it’s room-warped warping loop. finding a few good rig-flavored impulse responses might be a goo way to lay down environment(s). How to see an anvironment (and what defines that anyway?) to be used as a ‘ground’ like a drone.

Use the rig’s ambient spectra as an implulse source. Manipulate that spectra (for instance, try multitrack improvs in an openly monitored room and see what the feedback tastes like) 

Back to the guitar piece and material acquisitions.

Paper for the model.

Electric guitar for sources? Maybe not? Other possibilities…

cello, trmpt, iced metal, improv?

Right now, I thik the relationship to the iced metals will be limited to using samples form Davy’s renditions of the metals’ models.

 Need to make one or two paper models and hand them over to Davy. Right away.

Might be able to do that at Craig’s? Does BSC have a place to record? (got my own mics but need a preamp)

The nature of the electric guitar (or one of them)

I’m working on devising a signal path for Kyma and electric guitar. I’ve always maintained that the nature of this particular beast (guitar) is that of an electroacoustic device. It not only transmits electroacousitically, but it receives acoustic and electrical feedback. The guitar and the amplifier are commonly known as a ‘rig.’

That path need not be set in order to begin the piece, but the development needs to take that in as it goes along.

For now I’d like to go straight into the board and then to K. As this goes along though I want to experiment with a miked amplifier combined with it. A more advanced stage might include a small amp with K output feeding in to the amplifier/mic area. A close, small but powerful practice amp maybe.

Davey Williams Signs On

International provocateur Davey Williams received four of the Parables. This is the start of the new electric guitar piece. Davey has such a classical approach to ‘the ear.’ It’ll be great to hear what he does with them. I’ll take these into the studio to begin some of the processing work for the diffused parts. However, the bulk of he material should come from his renditions of the paper-wrought models that the work will be made from.

Craig, Kim, Ricky and Shelby came to Davey’s show tonight. Very cool.