Dog Days...

It's that chunk of summer we see every year, when the entire continent is sweating under a heat wave (except for here, where it's always hot; a dry heat, but hot nonetheless) and not much is happening in the music…

SpringThing...

I haven't put in the electronics yet, but the electromechanical portion of SpringThing is complete. I'm experimenting with different combinations of effects that will work in the context, for the best possible result…

Fire Sale And Various Things...

We're currently having our summer sale at Audio Damage, if you didn't get the info through one of the roughly 3,000 media outlets it appeared in prior to me putting it here. Enter the code BURNINGUP at checkout for 30%…

Building An Empire, One Optimus Prime Cock At A Time...

As those of you who follow me on the Twit-scape know, I completed the MATG last week, and began work on the third instrument, SpringThing. MATG turned out... interesting, I guess? Not quite what I expected, I'll say…

And In The End...

This time it came through Facebook. We've gotten the news first hand, second hand, over the phone, via email, pretty much any communication medium we humans possess. "Hey, Chris, did you hear? One of your friends died."…

Emily The Intern...

There's quite the kerfuffle on the 'Tubes this week due to a post to NPR's All Songs Considered blog by one Emily "The Intern" White. If you haven't read it, you don't really need to bother. The gist: "I love music a…

Instrumetal...

After several trips to various light industrial zones, wherein pieces of metal and pressure tanks filled with noble (and not-so-noble) gasses were procured, on Saturday I busted out my shiny new MIG welder, and…

Various Things...

First up, if you didn't get the memo, there's a new set from Standard Beat Company, Boiler Room Beats. Single hits, some loops, plus Poison. It's like if Bell Biv DeVoe was produced by Adrian Utley. (I'm aiming for a…

In Search Of Hidden Sounds...

After bagging the completely procedural algorithmic album idea (which turned out to be a lot more fun to think about than to actually create, as it happens) I started pondering my next release in earnest a couple weeks…

Our Hypocrisy Knows No Limits...

Sorry for the lengthy pause, but we've been working long days since Thursday when we received the Propellerheads Rack Extension SDK. Since we're under a fairly detailed NDA, I can't really go in to all the trials and…

Inspirational Activities...

When I do a post like this, half the readership goes "sigh. Another process post." And the other half goes "Yay! Another process post!!!" When I started blogging lo these many years ago (Jesus fuck, has it been 18…

8 BITS OF DOOM...

Puremagnetik has just released a new Micropak called alphaSynth. It is a heavily re-tooled and much improved version of the sample set I used to have here that I made from the alphaSyntauri. They are much, much better…

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Digits...

The vinyl of unsuspected sounds has arrived here at the compound, and assembly and shipping will commence in the morning. As promised, and since this is a good cusp, here are all the numbers so far, with annotations…

Yeah, It's That Time Again...

If you point your browser at this little gem, you'll be rewarded with an interesting insight in to Apple's continual process of legacy software pruning. They learned long ago (c. OS 9) that it is far easier to just not…