Algorithmic music research...

http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl?term1=algorithmic+music&limit=0
i hope this doesnt suck.

i want to build this

http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~dano/CUI/#Sec2

Free tunes

Uhhh.. I dont think I posted this yet.
Woulg - Deer
It's my newest cd. Still no home for it... so you can have it for free until I find somewhere for it.

ffffforest

no posts lately since i've been running wild through the forest...
longer letter later,
love,
-greg

Thank God.

Replay value

alright so i stole the name of this post from one of my good friend's/mentor's blog.  fuckit.  

here's a cool song that is definitely worth replaying:

Passion Pit - Sleepyhead (Neo Tokyo Remix)

i'm a little slow on what's "mad hot in the streets right now" as they say, so for all i know everyone could be sick of passion pit. however, i assure you this remix is dope.

i feel like every once in a while a group or person or whatever comes by that gives all the right ingredients but doesn't put them together right.  and then a bunch of people come up and remix the tunes and all of a sudden they're excellent.  

i thought passion pit was going to be like that but i haven't found any other good remixes... (still have my fingers crossed though)

also, here's a remix of one of my favorite tunes by the streets:

the streets - blinded by the lights (nero remix)

not the most amazing thing i've ever heard but i would imagine it's more suitable to hear at the club than the original (what with the more standard quantization of the drums and the um er uh bass line there... and less of mr the streets mumbling around on the uh beats there uh).

alright, well i would be stoked to hear it in the club/bar/house/party/tunnel party/back alley/in a car.

aaaaaaand for the sake of googlebombing here's previously mentioned good friend's/mentor's blog

RIGHT HERE

nvm i can't find the link... maybe next time.

Kuras?

this guy
Christian Kuras


is coming to the banff center this summer. I'm excited.
My brother told me this. Apparently they are friends. <-- [also exciting]
He told me that I am supposed to meet him.
I am excited.

a toast

"Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the 'good life,' whatever it is and wherever it happens to be."
~ Hunter S. Thompson

uh yeah, disregard this

soo... i feel like im going to get chewed out for posting this... it's pretty lame. but, im feeling pretty lame and i thought it was kind of nice to read. also: don't ask why i read the blog it came from

"Abruptly and awkwardly you kiss her right into her smile and maybe, sort of, that smile turns into a kiss for a bit then she pulls away, but not that far. You can't even tell if you're about to get the friends vibe or not. She laughs gracefully and says your name in between the ha has. You were the Fonze but now you're Richie Cunningham so fast. Like the birds in Hitchcock, your friends descend upon you laughing and play-fighting and asking the eternal party refrain: "Where are we going now?" But you can't hear a thing at all, like in the Daft Punk video with the Dog Boy when the sound gets muffled in the fridge."

source

new tumblr

woah:
evoke

beautiful
sldfkjsdlkfs

new track

here's a dubstep tune i made today...
Shubba
it will only be up there for the next 30 days. get it while you can!!

im still not sure how i feel about it.
let me know if you dig it!

beauty

The Lost Tribes of New York City from Carolyn London on Vimeo.

flutter!

heheh

more net art!

two pieces i thought were especially nice from wwwwwwwww.jodi.org

1 ____jodi

2_______jodi




this is also a nice one here
its from someone else tho
"Lucas Kuzma's mouse-position predictor tracks the movement of the cursor across the screen and offers predictions about where it will go next. The site appropriates the language of science and statistics ("expected vector," "weighted average," "standard deviation") as it purports to predict the unpredictable: the next decision of a free, impulsive human being. Kuzma's splash page raises issues of free will and determinism, as well as surveillance and privacy, since it reminds us that every movement on the internet is recorded. It is representative of the artist's interest in generative systems and their potential to create organic action."

paper...?

[ffffound here]

this is a magazine about nothing

http://www.thisisamagazine.com/lovetheuniverseandeverything.htm

check it out! pretty neat stuff...

frankie wilde and anatomy of pitchfork

I read this blog post just a couple seconds ago:
anatomy-of-a-pitchfork-record-review-or-diagnosing


I have no idea who any of the bands they reference are... but the review of the review is really sweet and I really dig the way the writer breaks it down. Very cool.

Also!
These fuckers totally stole my idea:
mixtapes
no, not really but i really do think tapes are great and that this is a wicked idea. and i cant say i dig it being that nauseating valentines day gimmick. but! it would be cool to go to a tape party where everyone brings a mixtape and then everyone just listens to mixtapes all night. that way we could take our eyes off the dj for one second and realize that there are all these great people on all sides.
not that i dont want to frankie wilde from it's all gone pete tong for one day, but... you know.

gaaah!
-greg

right. track listings...

iLLphabetik.Com Mix [by my gloomy machine] TrackList :

Rawclaw - Noobish Head
Bulletdodgers - Method Acting
Broch - Radio Rape
Nais - Nixon Beat
+1 - Them Girls
Porngroove - Limehouse Blues
Roger 5 From Krypton - Rise
Apzolut - I Can Still Smell Your Stench
Les Sécrétions Romantiques - Philatéliste Suicidaire
Severin Von Haubtkopf - Spell and Speak Acid
Retape - Rejvstar
.exe - Color Stripes
Choplifta - Phusical Interlude
Au2pilot - Calviym
Pronoxis - Erozium
Oxygenfad - Why Didn't You Tell Me?
Chronic Malfunction - Yuppie Scum
No Trebles - Unleash the Fury
Microphyst - Wriggle Rave
Lisbent - Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Sandvagina Bitch Remix)
Tunefreak - Bad time
Rekombinacja - Organiczo Potrzeba Bespieczenictwa
Yinx Knight - Psycho Woman From Psycho Desert
OTPEI - Hvad Det Er
J.Robot - Agressive Blisters
Thye - Arthropod
Randomatik Blast - The Last String
Spastic Line - Innerchild
Orphica - Reaching Quietus
Solem - Fallible and Flawed
Leigon - Masoch
Access To Arasaka - Station
StRAIT - PuNkMoTHAr fUCKas
The Scythian - INsign
MitHra - Élire N'est Pas Un Élixir
AM/PM Programme - Old School Strangers (MitHra Remix)
Wood Ammo - On Your Trail
Massju - Mouse Motion Listener
Ultratron - MudretMelankoliMelodi
Meconium - Dysphoria
Helico Bacter - Meds
Knap - Play-01
Vituel - Gaseous
INvbaei - Mviena
Nukage - There's Been Some Mistake

Weird and Wired.Net Mix [by my gloomy machine] TrackList :

7oi : Impress Numerically
Bleary-eyed Globe : Prima Facie
No Trebles : Dreams
Helico Bacter : Held
Toxonic : Aurum
Massju : Blue Lobes
eN.Ti : Yarmff Glarmff
Mr.KindHoover : Matin d'été
Mr.KindHoover : Aspiration
Toxic Chicken : We are Freaky Aliens
Helico Bacter : Mercury
MitHra : Strangers
MitHra : Et Si...
All Things = : Irresponsible Breaks
Caspa Houser : Condensed V2
Nikolailash : Amniotic
Gynorg : The Citadel Dream
Wolfseule : Unreleased Track
FoX : FaFiFoFu
Grekore : Spastz

"my gloomy machine" mixes

two mixes by a good friend of mine on his myspace i just downloaded.

http://www.myspace.com/mygloomymachine

he used to go under the name mithra and produced a shit load of awesome stuff under that name as well. (my fav album of his is called nightmares death but my favorite songs are "stealing souls from machines" [cant find this one on the web. fuck!] and "blessed and blissed" [he's on ill and waw and sociopath])
he told me to download his illphabetik and weirdandwired mixes:

weirdandwired mix
illphabetik mix
[they're both temp links so get em while they're hot]

im going to listen to them tomorrow, in the meantime, im sure you can make your own decision whether you like them or not. they should be good, he's a wicked guy.

what do you do?

[edit: turns out that bit i just deleted may not have been true. oops]

what do you do when your "friends" hold that shit over your head and try to make themselves feel good for being your friend because they say "a lot of people hate you" at your school?
[edit: what do you to your blog once they apologize?]

nothing. that's what im going to do. just keep to my own and not bother with all the bullshit drama. we're not in fucking high school. this isn't fucking "cute", it's stupid. i wish everybody would just grow the fuck up and/or leave me the fuck alone.
[edit: this still applies ;) ]

jpegs of nude women on floppy discs...

"should I buy a vintage Windows 3.1 computer, play Ski Free all day, ‘jerk off’ to JPGs of nude women on floppy discs, and then ‘off myself’?"
-Carles


wow. good question.

bleh

I dont want to go to sleep. and i dont want to stay awake.
i want to work on my music video. i want to release this album. the music is ready, its just sitting and waiting for everything else to be done.
i wish it was warm. i want a cigarette. and a coffee. i dont want it to be night time. i want to stay awake forever and not be tired and grumpy.

i feel like my fucking blog sounds like this: http://www.hipsterrunoff.com
i wish it wouldnt. i wish i could say whatever the fuck i wanted and i wouldnt feel like i'm being judged. or rather, i wish i had the courage to not care if i was being judged.

i want this shirt.

Hipsters and the so called "quiet" Generation

two interesting articles i stumbled on recently:

http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html

http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/your-generation-hypocrisy-begat-my-apathetic-one

yes. you will enjoy reading them.

...im so confused

i just found out that the person that posts my favorite tumblr is 16. SIXTEEN!!!
wtf?!
im so confused... especially because im confused about what is confusing me about that. why cant she be 16? you dont have to be... not 16... to collect pictures on the internet. you dont have to be ... not 16...
this is totally making me feel like a pedophile or something.
just to clear up.
this person:
courtney
posts on the tumblr
waif & co.


i dont know. i just think its weird. especially because i've been checking these couple tumblr's almost religiously for the past couple weeks and have been feeling really inspired. and now i feel like that's not ok for some reason. that's its lame or something to be inspired by someone who's younger than you. you know, even as i type this i realize how ridiculous it is. fuckit. i still like waif & co. however, i've learned my lesson. im not going to try and find out who the people are who are posting on the other tumblr's i like. because sometimes... it's better to just not know.

also,
FML

btw! 2 new releases!

Here they are!

this switch:
http://illphabetik.com/releases.php?release=1382

mym_use:
http://www.weirdandwired.net/Woulg.htm

they were supposed to be simultaneously released, although you wouldn't know it. it was actually a bit of a splatter effect with the weirdandwired one coming out a LOT earlier than the illphabetik one. apparently there was a bit of a miscommunication on all counts. no biggie. they are out and i am proud of how they sound. hope you dig 'em too.
leave feedbacks!

-greg

end of 3rd life/ start of 4th

\as my third life draws to a close and my fourth life is about to begin...
i'm feeling a little down. at least my third life ended with a bit of a bang. i guess we'll see what happens in my fourth, frankly, im a little nervous. 7 years is a long time... a lot can happen. and i kind of feel like my fourth life is going to be my most important one.

beh,
i guess i've turned into quite the new age hippy. ah well, fuckit.

-greg

more tumblrs

http://ghostheart.tumblr.com/
http://cosmic-dust.tumblr.com/

augh. so amazing. im officially hooked.

it's just so pleasing to look at images of things different people find and little quotes and snippets of text and oh baby. i cant get over this.

tumblelogs

here's two cool tumblelogs i found. i think that's what they're called. not much text just images and video.

http://landlocked.tumblr.com/
http://smut-to-go.tumblr.com/

whadda ya think!?

resonatorrrrr

this is what i want to see at the next party i go to.

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/resonatorbldg.html

nmb.kmbn

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fuck.

good and haard.

...that's what she said. about this net label: http://www.zardonicrecs.ve.tc/
they were alright back in the day but their newer releases have been consistently quite good. and if you want something a little more chill i recommend downloading their various album or getting the fuck off that site. because its exactly like the name of the post says: good and haard.

also, apparently pk sound has a new website and they want us all to check it out. they make some pretty good speakers and throw some wicked ass parties.
http://www.pksound.ca/

-greg

... some dismal ass quotes.

i hope the dude who sent me this email is ok with me posting it on here... i definitely didnt ask him. sorry!
anyways, i figured he would rather be left unnamed so, if he finds this and tells me to remove it or credit it to him then i will...

" >> > That EBN one really brought back some 90's art school memories. I also
>> > remembered one of the reasons I stopped making work like that... I made a
>> video
>> > with the Ed Dwyer clip (the guy who shoots himself with that huge handgun)
>> for
>> > an Aesthetics of Editing class. I got my hands on the whole clip (it was a
>> news
>> > conference after he was convicted) before and after the shot to the head.
>> It is
>> > one of the worst things ever to watch. Way more blood than you would ever
>> > imagine comes pouring out of his head for a really long time. Anyway, I
>> edited
>> > it into a 6 hour video on three tapes and put it in a nice box set called
>> > Guilt. I've only shown it once. Stupid.
>> >
>> > J."


Also,
we talked in sound class about this disease where you hear a constant ringing in your ears.
there was an ariticle in time magazine i think about it. apparently this one guy who was happy his entire life, very cheery fellow, wife, kids, grandkids, very loving wonderful guy, got it after a car alarm went off beside him... afterwards he told time magazine something along the lines of

"now i go out in thunderstorms and stand by flag poles and pray that god will take me"



i dont know why i posted this... i just thought it was interesting.

more good video shieet

Rick says:

">> some of my video own beatzzz
>>
>> my first two from the disco-nnect project
>>
>>http://transition.turbulence.org/Works/disco-nnect/?p=3
>>
>>http://transition.turbulence.org/Works/disco-nnect/?p=8"

mos def worth checking out.
also check out
jimpunk.com
and
linkoln.net

aaauuuggh soo good

Eclectic Method - Media Hype Overload from Eclectic Method on Vimeo.

check out this stuff on vimeo its reealllly nice.

madame chao

not ok to have friends... .......... !?!?!?!?

all my life i've liked having people around. having friends to talk to. friends to share with, to listen to, to learn from. for me, the best way to solve problems is to talk them out. to discuss them and to bounce ideas around. it's not possible to do this on my own.
recently people have been telling me i need to learn how to love myself. i need to learn how to be alone.
i do love myself. i love my alone time. i love taking a break from all the bullshit. i make music on my own. i read on my own. i appreciate the world around me when im on my own. but why the FUCK do i have to sit and wallow in my fucking sorrow ALONE?
what is this horse shit?
how will i ever solve my problems without outside help? when you have a question in class do you go home and sit in your room alone and think about it? if you were writing your phd would you lock yourself up to "be alone" and wait for the answers and the knowledge to just come to you? ... or would it be more wise to raise your hand and ask questions? to learn from those who know the answers? or at least get their opinions...


so come over, hang out, meet me for coffee, or give me a call. but for fucks sake. dont try to tell me that i need to learn how to love myself.

old glitch set list

the ol' set:
http://www.archive.org/download/sccvsvsv/mix1.mp3
in case you have no idea what im talking about.

here's the set list:
1. Access to Arasaka - xt10.20zp9
2. no trebles - last dimes
3. access to arasaka - 5mc04
4. woulg - this
5. access to arasaka - 5mc04
6. (i cant remember) - mener du det
7. woulg - mmhh
8. edit - ants
9. mithra - strangers (no trebles remix)
10. smashing pumpkins - the beginning is the end is the beginning
11. tipper - adrift for days
12. sadahnmo - sadahnmo stays in a palace
13. mithra - stealing souls from machines
14. mithra - frozen clouds
15. tipper - noise cannon
16. synaecide - werewolf
17. solem - fallible and flawed
18. silencide (i think) - robbery
19. synaecide - taking control
20. edit - ashtray
21. woulg - drink
22. access to arasaka - highway

New Downtempo set

http://www.archive.org/details/MusicForUnderwater1
hope you dig it! it's only 30 mins or so. but imagine it would be pretty hard to stay underwater for longer than that...

set list:
1. azeda booth - (i dont know what its called because i dont have the track names)
2. tipper - odd from every angle
3. phasme - le silence
4. modeselector - the rapanthem / cocorosie - k hole
5. woulg - a comforting disconnection
6. burial - you hurt me
7. helico bacter - held
8. flying lotus - los angeles
9. tipper crunch bithop kima edit
10. woulg - deer hide
11. atmogat - salute
12. au2pilot - nude remix
13. access to arasaka - market square
14. autechre - pir

NEW TRACKS on old space

myspace.com/notrebles

2 new ones:
Givin' It. - a Red Hot Chili Peppers remix. Glitch hop sort a thang goin on... its funky, there's a lot of fucking sidechain. hahahahahahah! MWAHHAHAH! but, regardless, turn it on, turn it up, dance around a bit. it will be a good time.

Hyup. - some diggable phidget haowse. i think. i dont know what house music is all about.. there's a new fucking subgenre ever god damn day. "wadda you gad damn kids call this shit?" i dunno. it's dancy, its funky. also conducive to "having a good time" as people seem to be calling it these days...

...so out of touch... but still so funky...

[EDIT: I took down givin it. but i put up a new one called "tick tick"
Mass Repeat says: "sounds like laid back oizo" and then "yeah this is a good one"
so there you have it. straight from the horse's, er i mean, a producers mouth]

yours truly,
-greg

here's some glitch hop mixes i nabbed from some other blog or forum or something... they werent linked, which always pisses me off. so here they are, linked and ready... well, some of them. i get lazy too. fuck off.

http://www.boreta.net/newmix/boreta-sike!.mp3

[EDIT: turns out they were all dead links except this one here. What a bummer. Fucking internet. I'll try and find some more]

amazing.

http://heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.com/
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/

https://twitter.com/tao_lin
https://twitter.com/hipsterrunoff

i have a dream.

one day,
someone will read my blog...


...some day...


also check out my other blog... galork.blogspot.com