Seems nice here. Going to try to lay low and do some work, but I suppose I should also get out and explore what’s rumored to be one of the awesomest cities on the planet.

Cologne gig –

Thursday in Berlin —

I have a track on what looks like a really cool compilation put together by the folks at Dalaki. It’s ultra-fancy packaged, super limited edition has some really nice music on it, and is sure to be worth millions in ten years or so.

Last night’s gig went well. Met some cool people. Enjoyed hearing and meeting equipo. Nice guy, good, clever music. His visuals guy was great too.

Things sucked at first because I got in at 9:15AM and couldn’t check in until 2PM. Then I got to my guesthouse and got in to bed and fell asleep, and things were great. Then, an hour later, someone here started blasted some of the vilest robo-cheez euro-dance-pop radio imaginable. So now I’m a little grumpy again.

I’m going to check out a gig by André Goncalves, which happens to be two blocks from this pit of degenerate disco hell I’m currently trying to sleep in.

Here’s my gig in barcelona tomorrow. Watch out Barcelona. It’s revenge time!

I’m thrilled to be able to say that Joshue and I have been invited to perform at this year’s Mutek festival in Montreal. We’ll be opening for one of our heroes, Murcof, on Wednesday, May 28.

- holed up in New Hampshire working toward a new album
- putting together a European tour for late April/early May
- writing software for Joshue Ott and Ezekiel Honig’s installation for Yuri’s Night
- preparing for Fine Diving 003, on April 19

The Spanish radio show MusicVictim asked me to create a mix for them. Here it is.

I’ve been wanting to share the software I use for quite a long time, and finally have it in halfway decent shape. You can download it here. I’ll be giving a workshop on it, along with some SuperCollider fundamentals Wednesday, January 30, at Warper, at 8:30.

A few facts about Ripple:

* Mac-only, for now
* Built in the SuperCollider programming environment.
* Designed primarily to be a tool that matches my own ideal work style, but also designed as a framework for and container for SuperCollider patches.

If you give it a try and find it interesting, please let me know. I’d love to keep working on it, and to find folks who are also interested in using and contributing to the project.

quick note: Playing this saturday at Sink

Saturday January 26, 2008

Anticipate Recordings @ SINK

Music by:
Sawako
Morgan Packard
Ezekiel Honig

Visuals by:
Joshue Ott
Sawako
Seej

ReBoot, Ave. A btw. 2nd and 3rd, NYC
10PM-2AM
$10

Then doing a workshop on my software, Ripple, at Warper on wednesday.

http://warperparty.com/

Robert Henke aka Monolake, a wonderful musician, one of the founders of the Ableton software company, and a really really smart dude, wrote this article perfectly summing up the dilemma faced by modern computer musicians.

http://www.textura.org/reviews/henke_liveperformance.htm