that was great! bravo!
did you notice you tend to kick one of your feet backwards--it's as if part of your brain is saying 'we're running now?' or something like that perhaps--how interesting! :)
you have a great natural stage presence. has that always been the case--it sounds it from your blog post. |
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I like the "Elite Runners & Walkers" bit. No middle ground! |
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I mean, you had to do well with those nos.
You made mom and I very proud. |
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Well, first you have to save it somewhere, like in My Documents. Right click and "Save As...". Then you gotta get it in iTunes. You can do that by dragging the file from the folder into the iTunes window, as long as "Music" is selected in iTunes at that time. Ugh. Or, from the File menu, "Add File To Library..." and then find the file. Once it's in iTunes you add it to the ipod the same way you always do. I don't really know that step because the phone works differently from a regular ipod, I think. |
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7576. Mike Kenny (pool-70-19-243-36.bos.east.verizon.net) –
05 Sep 2008 20:03:47
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as a deaf ear was a neat concept though. do you tend to find an idea stirs your creativity? i find manifestos neat, because i think 'what the heck will my art look like i if i use these rules?' the manifesto stimulates creativity. once i move too far down the curve of diminishing returns i suppose i start to look for a new concept.
i read somewhere an art theorist talking about how he felt there were two types of artists--one who sort of continually works out a piece of art, incrementally improving it, taking a long time--and the work can evolve from one thing to another, and then another kind of artist, who basically gets an interesting idea and cranks out the art work. the typology seems a little crude, but i found it fascinating nonetheless--AAD seems to have the concept-and-crank-it-out quality. Picasso was also put in the latter group by this author too. |
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7575. Tom 7 (h-69-3-248-133.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
05 Sep 2008 08:14:54
[ SIGBOVIK'd ]
I finally did post the Super Mario Bros. video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGI-GqAK9c |
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I would like to load Theme from msiegler on my IPod, How would a low tech person do that? |
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7573. Tom 7 (h-67-100-47-248.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
03 Sep 2008 22:09:09
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If I'm gonna drive someone all the way to the airport then I am definitely picking the tunes!
Playing all the other albums at the same time would definitely make it hard to pay attention to the music I'm trying to perform, especially since that stuff is so familiar to me (and by now, if I'm playing all 27 or whatever albums simultaneously, there's almost certainly going to be a song playing that I actually like and want to listen to at any given moment). It would certainly work! But the idea is not to make it impossible to think about music, but just impossible to hear the music that I'm performing. Given how barely listenable AAD-14 came out, I don't think any additional handicaps are well-advised. ;) |
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Dammit..
That is an iTunes bug, in my opinion, that if you replace a file it won't necessarily update the ID3 tags, even if you modify (some) of them. I'll fix it tonight. |
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is theme from mseigler's build-your-own-id3-tag flavor part of your artistic vision? |
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Custom ringtone! And now I'm famous. |
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44th place out of 1183. Not bad. |
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Heh. Well I agree on the first few, though, they have a special place in my heart (and an occasional gem). I'm glad you stuck it through to this one! And thank you for the kind words about the album and the plugins! |
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7566. Mike Kenny (pool-70-19-243-36.bos.east.verizon.net) –
02 Sep 2008 19:01:09
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hahaha, in the car. 'hey, while i drive you to the airport, let me play you this 20 minute track of...experimental music. let's see if we can get there without me driving off the road!' :)
the white noise versus procedural noise thing reminds me of a tip i read, which was basically, 'if you want to cover up a note you wrote so no one can read it, write other words over it rather than blacking it out.'
maybe you could do an AAD in which you listen to all previous AADs played simultaneously to block out what you're playing, as-a-deaf-ear style. the album could be called 'sibling rivalry' :) |
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Tom you are a true champion.
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Hey tom I listened to your first one and and this one . First one was harsh ; ) but this one is awesome! I am really enjoying this album . I downloaded it and I wanted to thank you for sharing and putting your soul out there . Thanx
PS ....Thanx alot also for your and Sophia's work on the free Au and vst plugins . Mucho Gracias. I use them all the time in my productions . |
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7553. Tom 7 (h-74-0-114-187.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
28 Aug 2008 08:17:47
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Yeah, I used it to make AAD #14 "As A Deaf Ear". Actually I got bored of the pure noise pretty quick (and it doesn't do a very good job of blocking out other sounds) so it actually has some more severe/complex procedural noise on it too. Not very pleasurable to listen to. I think I have that CD in the car. |
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7552. Mike Kenny (146-115-26-58.c3-0.abr-ubr1.sbo-abr.ma.cable.rcn.com) –
27 Aug 2008 20:40:49
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wikipedia says: "White noise can be used to disorient individuals prior to interrogation and may be used as part of sensory deprivation techniques."
i hope you're using those twenty-minute tracks responsibly... |
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7551. Tom 7 (h-67-100-130-109.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
27 Aug 2008 17:59:53
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I have some 20-minute white noise tracks if you want, BTW |
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7550. Tom 7 (h-67-100-132-9.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
26 Aug 2008 22:30:21
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It's all from the documentary or the music video that runs at the end. Some of the footage obviously is from older videos (like the inverted stuff where I am beating up you and Sam and breaking your drum thing), but it was in the documentary's music video. Actually everything before it goes "My favorite song" is from the documentary part and everything after is the "video", except that I clipped out some particularly repetitive shots of Pitfall II or whatever that game is with the swinging.
Then Come The Chunks! |
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7548. mike kenny (user-208-64-116-195.lahey.org) –
26 Aug 2008 16:42:42
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yeah, 'how to make a dry day moist' was a good track, i agree. good cover art too.
for weird stuff, i found the music off vectobot pretty accessible--there weren't any 20-minute long tracks of white noise or anything ;) |
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7547. Sophia (c-24-91-199-132.hsd1.ma.comcast.net) –
26 Aug 2008 10:15:16
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Omigod that video is boring. But amazing none-the-less. :) How much of it is even from Taleen's documentary? I haven't watched that in so long that I don't remember. There sure is a lot of "Musky With A Hint Of Urine" in there though! The song was short for it cuz Taleen asked me to come up with a special edit of it that would fit her 2 1/2 minutes of end credits.
And yeah, Then Come The Chunks was the "original" AAD before AAD was a specific concept. As I recall, it was the album we made the weekend before we each headed off for our first year of college. We had just finished VECTOBOT the last time we'd hung out, and I was always into this whole "planning for an album" sort of approach to making music, and so I thought if we weren't gonna see each other again for forever, then we should get the whole next album done during that last day that we had together. Or overnight, I think it might have been an sleepover venture.
So far as my favorites from these two albums, I would say:
Audat: Instabjor, intermission, My Life Story, Under The Covers Tonight
VECTOBOT: Handsome Song, How To Make A Dry Day Moist, The Sultry Pantry, The Tunable Creature
But as with Tom, I kinda hesitate to actually "recommend" some of those. I know that I love them all, but sometimes the appeal can be hard to reach, I think. At any rate, I too am glad that anyone is finding weird treasures in there!
p.s. - I just moved my old 4-track tapes out of storage and into my current apartment last night, so ummm... maybe I'll actually get to The Chunks this summer... year...? Yeah I know my promises are hollow... |
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7544. Tom 7 (h-69-3-248-204.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
25 Aug 2008 08:23:05
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This is all before Then Come The Chunks. Made at a leisurely pace, sometimes even writing a song one day and recording it another. |
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Great, new material to listen to!
Was this stuff from before or after the mythical never heard first AAD, Then Come The Chunks? |
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