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

2007 was a really great year for me. I’d like to thank all of you who reached out and said hello, came out to a gig, wrote a review, bought some music or otherwise supported and encouraged me and helped reassure me that my work is valuable to others besides just myself. Let’s all hope 2008 turns out to be full of enough of what we all need, and a good deal of what we hope for.

I’m always afraid someone will ask me to make one, because, honestly, I don’t pay nearly as much attention to what’s going on around me as maybe I should. But I’m glad other people pay attention! Phillip Sherburne, a cool guy and very well respected writer, apparently thought enough of Airships Fill the Sky and Mark Templeton’s “Standing on a Hummingbird” to include the as numbers 2 and 1, respectively, in his 2007 top 50 list for Pitchfork. Pretty cool!

Last saturday’s event went off as well as we could have hoped. Good turnout, cool people, great performances. In an attempt to break out of my computer box a bit, I composed a two-saxophones-plus-accordion end for Josh’s and my laptop set. It felt really good to perform using instruments, not computers. There’s something wonderful about unamplified sound. I hope I have a chance to work with it more. Here are some photos from the night:

We’ll be doing Fine Diving 003 some time this Spring. Get in touch if you make music that might fit in. We’re looking to expand the pool we draw from for these things.

December 8th. I’m putting lots of energy in to putting this little event together. It’s going to be cosy and wonderful, I think. Please come!

I had a great time playing in a nice gallery space at a gig organized by the Boring Kitchen crew from DC. DC has a a relatively small but pretty lively electronic music community, it seems. Jeff Prosser played before me, a really nice set of experimental-leaning tones and beats. I was impressed by his ability to cover a wide range of sounds and textures without falling in to hardly any cliches.

I’ve been listening to Sawako’s new album, Madoromi, on Anticipate. She impresses me in many of the ways Zeke honig does — she has a very recognizable style, she’s experimental, but extremely listenable at the same time. I like her music quite a lot. She’s also really smart and fun to talk to. Check Madoromi out!