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.

Late (of me to be) Breaking (this) News!

Okay, I guess the news isn't new, just my posting of it. PCF released their first OSX public beta version of DTV! They actually did this August 9, so I'm a little slow to put this up, but hey, late is better than never I guess. Along with DTV, the launched their channel guide for feeds, which, over the course of the last 9 days has grown to around 200 feeds at last glance. I'd have to say, I'm very impressed. There's a decent amount of good content out there just waiting to be viewed, for free no less. I'd highly encourage everyone with a mac to check it out. PC folks, don't feel too left out. The windows version is on its way, but they haven't released any dated for that yet.

I've been putting together a little video accompanyment to my track jump,skip,repeat over the course of the week, so hopefully my own feed will have some new content soon. Until then you can at least browse through some of my low-res productions from yesteryear.

On another subject, I have a lot of the SeaMS functionality working that I wanted (amazingly enough), and just updated the page to use the new backend from it, so I might actually be releasing the code in the near future. I have auto-page generation, page directory display, "hidden" pages, and well as some other nifty features working, and it's "hopefully" fairly easy to set up for anyone familiar with php includes. It won't be ready tomorrow, but if I take some time to finish it shouldn't take that much longer either.

I'm currently collaborating with Squelchy on music again, so keep your eyes peeled here for some new audio releases.