A new old Eno documentary
A mini-documentary from 1973, apparently frequently quoted but seldom seen complete: https://www.openculture.com/2020/11/eno-a-1973-mini-doc-shows-brian-eno-at-the-beginning-of-his-solo-career.html
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An interesting inside look…
.... at the development of a new synth, here: https://www.attackmagazine.com/features/long-read/making-a-synth-from-scratch-sonicware-liven-8bit-warps/
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Hainbach/Bram Bos looper is getting raves
This iOS looper is getting raves from reviewers and from every musician I know who has downloaded it.
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Well, this is kind of silly.
Or maybe not. On the one hand, it's sort of over-focused on the obvious basics. On the other, I've seen a hell of a lot of musicians show up for small-venue live performances completely under-prepared. So you might want to take a look.....
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The show I’ve been waiting for
This is not, strictly speaking, a post about music. Since the pandemic started, I've seen any number of live-streamed performances by small theaters that just didn't quite work. Performances via Zoom really, really, really need to be written for Zoom (or, as in the case of a couple of Beckett plays, written for characters so disconnected from each other that it doesn't matter that they're each in a little box). Last night I saw a show from Cherry Arts here in Ithaca that is the first genuinely successful use of small-budget livestreaming that I've seen. Right script,
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Pricey, but maybe the best thing since Patterning 2
This new drum machine from Sugar Bytes is... impressive. Well, new to iOS, anyway. https://www.synthanatomy.com/2020/11/sugar-bytes-ports-its-drumcomputer-drum-synthesizer-plugin-to-ios.html
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Sam Whiting
This guy writes some very interesting stuff about the measurable value of small-music venues, particularly in his native Melbourne (which remains one of my favorite cities anywhere). He's gotten a lot of attention recently for his writing about relief for Melbourne's small venues -- it has more than any other city in the world -- in the face of COVID. But there's a lot of his stuff that's just plain interesting regardless.
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Collaborative Pure Data construction?
Somebody's got Pure Data running in a browser, and while it's not as good as running your own desktop version, it makes a space where collaboration could take place (and teaching -- Peter Kirn points out that it removes an enormous amount of overhead from setting up a workshop. Check it out.
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A few more words on contact mics
For the last week or more, I've been playing around with the Box o' Fury -- the springbox that Karl Fury made for me -- and with a Crank Sturgeon device that I already owned. Much of what I found out confirms what I said in my first post on the subject, particularly as regards preamps, but I thought I'd add a few words. I'm getting my preamp capability from a KOMA Elektronik Field Kit that I already owned. It incorporates a four-channel mixer that I suspect has preamps designed for work with contact mics (KOMA seems to be saying this in its documentation), so that's