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Housekeeping: FBConnect

blinder — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:09:31 +0000

as much as i loathe facebook (and i really do) i do understand how widely it is used out there on the internets. heck, i do have a facebook account, and i do use here and there.

having said that, i added a facebook connect widget to the blog here, which basically means you can log in and participate in this blog using your facebook credentials. no, wordpress (the blog system i use) doesn’t record your facebook login, because well, you don’t actually authenticate here. its all very secure and makes it much easier on you if you should decide to participate.

oh this doesn’t mean you can’t sign up here if you want… its your choice really.

The Freesound Project

blinder — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:45:38 +0000

Just wanted to drop a quick link in here to mention the freesound project. A website for creative commons samples and sounds.

I really like this site, and have started using a few things I’ve found here and there. Interesting concept, and could be quite useful.

Oh and I’m now cross posting to my live journal account. i have a few friends there, and instead of posting updates all over creation, I thought I’d use technology to make things easier. Aint it grand?

Level Three

blinder — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:28:49 +0000

Just hit level three on SixtyOne! Thanks everyone for the bumps! I’m just beside myself with surprise. I never would have expected 10 bumps let alone over 130. Cool.

A Few Items of Little or No Consequence

blinder — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:04:24 +0000

Just added the 0×000000 rough cut to the SixtyOne page, if you are so inclined, stop by, give it a little bump. Or not, I can’t tell you want to do.

Second, why does Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky and The Album Leaf all have to be so amazingly terrific? I’m serious. I put a few songs by each on a CD for the (brief) drive into work and I am just sitting there at a traffic light thinking to myself, “dear maker, these fellows get it, don’t they? they understand, everything!”

They just make great music. And its more than just music, its the image that gets painted in my head, the overall aesthetic. I’m always talking about “aesthetic.” I think its important and every artist who makes music brings to it an aesthetic, and there are those that just integrate one that works better for me than others. Its a sparseness, a realness, organic but also fabricated sadness and expressiveness. I don’t think I can explain it any better than this, but if you appreciate the artists I mentioned, then I think you may know what I’m talking about.

What’s On the Agenda

blinder — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:04:59 +0000

So, what’s coming up next? Not a whole lot actually. I am, however, working on another release. It will have six or seven songs on it, included will be the three from “Broken Robots…” but I’m going to re-mix them up a bit. The additional three to four songs are currently in the works right now.

In fact, I have two songs actively being recorded. One is a moody, darker more electronic piece, while the other is a bit more noisy and (I think) more faithfully serves the post-rock genre. I’m also working on a piece that will have a vocal track or two, of course not sung by me. Oh no, I’m not doing that (to you or myself) but a fine singer who has just the perfect voice for this kind of work. The song isn’t fully structured yet, so I can’t speak to its character quite yet.

This record I am working on will be called “Fly By Wire” and will be released as a 12″ (yes, vinyl, I love vinyl records) CD and be distributed through SNOCAP. The vinyl will most likely be on colored vinyl and be a pretty limited run (300-500 max).

Ok, that’s the update for now. Stay tuned, I’ll be posting rough mixes of those two songs in the very near future.