paraclude

you may not agree, but watching this will help you realize the truth.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/62945/before-the-music-dies

its good stuff, check it out, http://www.myspace.com/thieveslikeus. lead singer is an old friend of mine from my high-school days and it appears they are enjoying some success which is really cool. amazing to imagine the guy i once knew is touring the world.

grado labs makes by far the best headphones you can buy. the company is a small family owned business in Brooklyn, NY and have been making headphones for i think like 50 years. i have been using a pair of SR80s for years now and after trying a number of others i always come back to these. they are ugly as hell, yes, they are uncomfortable as hell, yes, but the sound is stunning. trust me. the other benefit is that since they are supra-aural, you can actually do some amount of mixing on them as they don't fuck up the stereo field nearly as much as other designs. be warned though, you will hear detail in recordings you haven't heard before, some of it might be good, some of it might be bad, so caveat emptor and all that. oh, and if you do buy a pair, be sure to let them break-in by running some music or whatever through them overnight.

Taken from a post on the Ableton forums

"A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands of people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.

Three minutes went by and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried up to meet his schedule.

A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the till and without stopping continued to walk.

A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly he was late for work.

The one who paid the most attention was a 3 year old boy. His mother tagged him along, hurried but the kid stopped to look at the violinist.

Finally the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. All the parents, without exception, forced them to move on.

In the 45 minutes the musician played, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money but continued to walk their normal pace. He collected $32. When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.

No one knew this but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the top musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written,with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars.

Two days before his playing in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out at a theater in Boston and the seats average $100.

This is a real story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station

was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and priorities of people. The outlines were: in a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we perceive beauty?

Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context?

One of the possible conclusions from this experience could be: If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing? "

http://www.akaipro.com/apc40

new controller by Akai that was built for Ableton Live. Oh, well, its not like i have the money for it anyway. Looks damn cool though. Hopefully Apple will come through will some new cool stuff soon.

NAMM is here, the annual trade show that all the musical equipment manufacturers debut their latest and greatest. Always a fun time of year for me as I really enjoy all the buzz and press releases and such. Since I don't really buy hardware, and have settled on my Logic Pro/Reason combo there aren't any new purchases for me on the horizon. It is interesting, though, to see the direction instrument manufacturers are heading. I have heard that the Ableton/Cycling 74 partnership is about to bare fruit so be on the lookout. I hope that announcement it isn't too exciting, as I am not in the mood to go back to Ableton.

well who knows, or cares. i went ahead and created a vox.com named paraclude so if you jump ship there, go ahead and add me.

Watch it, they have it on Netflix, its good. Its a documentary about the one heavy metal band in Baghdad and the crazy shit that is going on there.

"You know what I mean by Minimal right? That Berlin based 5AM on Ketamine after hours "some guy just touched my behind" sound."

-The Horrorist

omg, lol

Parks on Fire from neither-field on Vimeo.

free music from trifonic here: http://www.trifonic.com/

the plugin has 10 parameters right now (I'm working on adding more), eventually I'd like the carrier signal to be a full synthesizer with LFOs and filters...stay tuned

* dryModMix: controls how much of the unvocoded modulator signal pass
* outputscaling: this controls the output level of the vocoder, if you want to hear anything you'll need to turn this up.
* ModHPFfreq: this sets the cutoff frequency of the highpass filter on the dry modulator signal...it is often useful to let a little of the high end modulator signal through to make the vocoder more intelligible
* sawFreq: this controls the frequency of the built-in saw wave oscillator that is fed into carrier signal
* sawLevel: this controls the volume of the saw wave oscillator
* sqrFreq: this controls the frequency of the built-in square wave oscillator that is fed into carrier signal
* sqrPulseWidth: this sets the pulse width of the square wave, obviously a pulse width of 0 or 1 isn't a wave, so you can't hear it...anything between 0 and 1 should be audible though
* sqrLevel: this controls the volume of the square wave oscillator fed into the carrier signal
* noiselevel: sets the level of a white noise generator that is fed into the carrier signal
* beesAttackJessMcClain: this is the sound of Jesse McClain aka Paraclude being attacked by bees...this controls the level of the sound that is fed into the carrier

Here is the plugin http://www.evilx.com/vocodex/

i just can't get enough of this cat

one of my best friends on this miserable rock:

and yes he can shoot lightning bolts from his hands

replying to xdingbatx made me think of all the gear i've used over the years and the things i wish i would have kept. so here is a boring list for the archives. (* denotes stuff i wish i still had) This period is from 1990 - 2005.

( Big-ass List )

http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2008/11/can-using-loops-in-fl-studio-get-you-in.html

So, some guy used a loop that came included with FruityLoops which is believed to belong to some other artist as the loop was used in the other artists track. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, i don't know. Bottom line is: WHO THE FUCK CARES. Fuck, look at Daft Punk, any Hip-Hop artist, etc. Their art is borrowed and stolen and reinterpreted, not granted by the terms of use of a paid for product. I have listened to all kinds of artist, known and unknown, who do the same thing. Meanwhile, the poor guys reputation is being trounced on the internets. For that matter, I've seen well known bands in the industrial scene using midi controllers with no cables, midi or usb. Again, NO ONE CARES. If you make all your own sounds, play all your own stuff live, make your own software, make your own synths, discover physics, create the universe or whatever then good for you. Be proud of your accomplishment. Realize that it takes time to develop as a musician and maybe part of that involves taking shortcuts. I leave you with this thought:

Music is about intent and completeness of thought. People who love music love the experience of the result, not the experience of creation. (Unless, of course, you are a musician;P)

/rant

Enjoy