vocoid now has a SL venue

Thanks to my friend Michael, Vocoid now has a venue in second life for live performances. I'm working on a launch party right now, which will hopefully coincide with the release of the second medl album, coming soon!

If you wanna check out the space (or just hang out and listen to the SomaFM digitalis or pigradio.com streams):
Club Vocoid

Another New Album: Challenged

I know, it seems like I was just saying this (okay, maybe not) but I have yet another new album. I just finished my submission for the RPM Challenge (rpmchallenge.com). You can check out the fruits of my labor of putting out an entire album in a month on Vocoid:

Challenged

New Audio and Images

I just "released" my first set of tracks, I guess it used to be called an ALBUM, on vocoid. I've been working on them for a while, and had actually hoped to have one more finished, but decided that 3 was better than none. Sometimes you just have to kick things out the door. I hope you enjoy them!

http://vocoid.com/?q=dsl/releases/triad

Also, I updated the Sight link to point to both my youtube page, and my flickr page. There's not a whole lot there right now, but more is forthcoming.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/looprock/

More code

I added 3 new entries to the Code page. They're all command line tools I thought people might find useful. There's an ssh wrapper, system lockdown script, and the original script that became 'upbeat'. If you're sys-adminish, you might want to check them out.

General system performance app

I wrote my first GUI applescript app this weekend. It's allows you to enable and disable some system parameters to increase system responsiveness for heavy IO and CPU related tasks under OS X. If you think it'd be useful, you should check it out Here.

Vocoiding into the future

If you haven't already checked it out, most of my work these days is going into a music project with DJ Squelchy, Medl. We just release our first full length album Medly, and are currently trying to pimp it out to labels. I'm also investigating the possibility of taking submissions for vocoid, and maybe one of these days making it into a more "real" label.

I've also been taking some time to go through the EOI archives from when I had "The Hole", and extracting some of the more promising parts from them. There's even talk of doing an offline album among some of the other members, so an EOI03 isn't entirely out of the question. Even if this doesn't happen, I'm hoping to distribute the loops I get from this and publishing them under a Creative Commons license, and hopefully even hosting a ccMixter contest with them. You never know.

Other than that, not much to report, but check out vocoid and the new album!

New trix and trax

After a very log vacation from working on any full tracks, I'm proud to present Bridges and Gates.

I figured out a new method for composition, and I think this track is substantially different (yes, read "better") than my previous work. As always feedback is appreciated.

To anyone looking at midi control surfaces, I'd highly recommend checking out the M-audio trigger Finger. I picked one up on Monday, and I've been having a LOT of fun with it since then.

Other than that, not much to report. I had some nice downtime in germany last month, and then the recovery period, so please excuse the long update cycle.