Showing posts with label longcat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label longcat. Show all posts
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
yr3wk52 rhodes & cymbal
yr3wk52 rhodes & cymbal from longcat on Vimeo.
again getting to the wednesday before i've done the improvisation chores... slack...
this working lark really does take it out of one...
x
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Monday, December 08, 2008
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Yr3wk24 longcat with m
just to record waking up today...
dinah up and getting ready to leave @ 8:30am... she brings me a tea and wakes me with kisses at exactly the moment it's ready to drink...
then more kisses a little later just before she leaves...
drifting in and out of sleep now... balthazara wakes me up around 9:50am and we commune for awhile, i find something on the back of her neck, some thing like a tiny scab, just in that place where mum's pick up kittens, the place cats are programmed to accept...
so for awhile i'm stroking her trying to find this small patch of skin there and she's purring really loudly, she settles into the valley of the duvet between my spooning legs and my torso...
pretty much awake now my final alarm goes off @ 10:20am and i clamber out bed...
this being sunday's improvisation, i'm going over to SLP in south london to meet uncle T and plan out tomorrow's recording shortly x
dinah up and getting ready to leave @ 8:30am... she brings me a tea and wakes me with kisses at exactly the moment it's ready to drink...
then more kisses a little later just before she leaves...
drifting in and out of sleep now... balthazara wakes me up around 9:50am and we commune for awhile, i find something on the back of her neck, some thing like a tiny scab, just in that place where mum's pick up kittens, the place cats are programmed to accept...
so for awhile i'm stroking her trying to find this small patch of skin there and she's purring really loudly, she settles into the valley of the duvet between my spooning legs and my torso...
pretty much awake now my final alarm goes off @ 10:20am and i clamber out bed...
this being sunday's improvisation, i'm going over to SLP in south london to meet uncle T and plan out tomorrow's recording shortly x
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Herbert Deutsch invocation
more on the moog,
it was designed after Bob Moog left the moog company in'77, designed by herbert deutsch who had worked with mr moog back in the 60's on the 1st moogs,
bob moog died recently, herbert deutsch is very much alive, he teaches for hofstra university, and i tracked down his email address...
i sent him a hello, with a link to last week's improvisation (featuring the moog),
i sent it on saturday and on monday he emailed back...
"thanks for the improv and the red wine. The opus sounds nice. might be a bit better shape than my old one. Keep up the improvs. I don't think they are "a little bit stupid".
Herb Deutsch"
in that improvisation i was sipping wine (rose as it goes) and midway through (around 10 minutes in i think) i accidentally stopped the recording with my foot, i fixed it but i was kind of muttering about being "a little bit stupid"...
this has kept me a little bit lifted off the ground for a couple of days...
not only did this man who designed my moog, reply to my email, but he watched the 20 minute improvisation as well...
x
other moog related news being that the string section, which it was sold to me as being not working, has life...
i've known of a kind of life it has for a week now but i found other life, in a different form, and it sounds fantastic...
this has just come through leaving the beast on all the time... it's gradually finding itself... i did open her up the other day and clean her a bit and that might have done something... who knows? anyway,
this happens when all the outputs are turned off, it shouldn't be making sound, but it's bleeding through, and it's exactly the sound i want to work, it's just not going through the right amplification bits...
when it works (which it will), there is a circuit which looks out for really high resonance and switches something off, to avoid distortion...
this ghost in the machine sound doesn't have the turning off circuit, so it distorts like nobody's business and this is how i found it...
yesterday i recorded a brief improvisation with the ghost sound, turned up a whole load... turned up some more once in the computer, running it through noise reduction twice to scare off the hiss that came with it...
i love it...
i think i'll put it on my myspace, but maybe the out there version of my myspace...
i'll let you know if it goes up, it's worth hearing at least once...
on listening to it it occurred to me that it was like an invocation...
i've called it invocation to a long dead god and i'm thinking of something like the god that the prehumans invoked, before homo-sapian, some early homo erectus...
maybe they could make a sound that pleased this god, or could call it... but with our evolution into homo-sapian out throats and mouths evolved to such an extent that we could no longer make the sound and the god fell away...
that's the god i'm invoking with this tune x
it was designed after Bob Moog left the moog company in'77, designed by herbert deutsch who had worked with mr moog back in the 60's on the 1st moogs,
bob moog died recently, herbert deutsch is very much alive, he teaches for hofstra university, and i tracked down his email address...
i sent him a hello, with a link to last week's improvisation (featuring the moog),
i sent it on saturday and on monday he emailed back...
"thanks for the improv and the red wine. The opus sounds nice. might be a bit better shape than my old one. Keep up the improvs. I don't think they are "a little bit stupid".
Herb Deutsch"
in that improvisation i was sipping wine (rose as it goes) and midway through (around 10 minutes in i think) i accidentally stopped the recording with my foot, i fixed it but i was kind of muttering about being "a little bit stupid"...
this has kept me a little bit lifted off the ground for a couple of days...
not only did this man who designed my moog, reply to my email, but he watched the 20 minute improvisation as well...
x
other moog related news being that the string section, which it was sold to me as being not working, has life...
i've known of a kind of life it has for a week now but i found other life, in a different form, and it sounds fantastic...
this has just come through leaving the beast on all the time... it's gradually finding itself... i did open her up the other day and clean her a bit and that might have done something... who knows? anyway,
this happens when all the outputs are turned off, it shouldn't be making sound, but it's bleeding through, and it's exactly the sound i want to work, it's just not going through the right amplification bits...
when it works (which it will), there is a circuit which looks out for really high resonance and switches something off, to avoid distortion...
this ghost in the machine sound doesn't have the turning off circuit, so it distorts like nobody's business and this is how i found it...
yesterday i recorded a brief improvisation with the ghost sound, turned up a whole load... turned up some more once in the computer, running it through noise reduction twice to scare off the hiss that came with it...
i love it...
i think i'll put it on my myspace, but maybe the out there version of my myspace...
i'll let you know if it goes up, it's worth hearing at least once...
on listening to it it occurred to me that it was like an invocation...
i've called it invocation to a long dead god and i'm thinking of something like the god that the prehumans invoked, before homo-sapian, some early homo erectus...
maybe they could make a sound that pleased this god, or could call it... but with our evolution into homo-sapian out throats and mouths evolved to such an extent that we could no longer make the sound and the god fell away...
that's the god i'm invoking with this tune x
Sunday, November 09, 2008
the other longcats
dinah has recently got hold of a G3 laptop, exactly the same era & style as her imac...
i was plugging the internet into it to make sure it all worked so i typed "longcat" into google...
i'm currently the 5th, 9th & 26th search results...
that's 2 on the 1st page... that's alright...
but just above me was a russian longcat over on livejournal who shares my birthyear...
4th to my 5th...
he intrigues me,
the 4chan longcat meme takes up practically everything else,
when i started being longcat i became aware of the 4chan longcat but didn't pay it much mind, every now and again a 4chan longcatter would turn up and question my existence, but in general i ignored them...
earlier this year there was a demonstration in blackfriars, ostensibly against the scientologists but i think it was more random than just that... a load of people in the guy fawkes masks that were used in the film V for vendetta...
there were a few longcat references floating about in that, this, this & this for example...
also tonight i've found a beautiful longcat image on deviantart:
by pseudo-manitou...
i wonder who came 1st? me or them? probably them, but then i've been longcat since... oh who knows? too late @ night x
i was plugging the internet into it to make sure it all worked so i typed "longcat" into google...
i'm currently the 5th, 9th & 26th search results...
that's 2 on the 1st page... that's alright...
but just above me was a russian longcat over on livejournal who shares my birthyear...
4th to my 5th...
he intrigues me,
the 4chan longcat meme takes up practically everything else,
when i started being longcat i became aware of the 4chan longcat but didn't pay it much mind, every now and again a 4chan longcatter would turn up and question my existence, but in general i ignored them...
earlier this year there was a demonstration in blackfriars, ostensibly against the scientologists but i think it was more random than just that... a load of people in the guy fawkes masks that were used in the film V for vendetta...
there were a few longcat references floating about in that, this, this & this for example...
also tonight i've found a beautiful longcat image on deviantart:
by pseudo-manitou...
i wonder who came 1st? me or them? probably them, but then i've been longcat since... oh who knows? too late @ night x
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
yr3wk9 beatnik trio & gig news
and i'm playing a gig @ the cobden club on wednesday, wednesday the 20th of august, going to be me & gareth mitchell, he of the many improvisations he's done with me...
still in a gasless universe over here so we popped over to floopy's to cook & bathe, play chess, cards, smoke, listen to tunes,
an idea for a song came to me while shaving... might come out on wednesday night...
x
Sunday, August 10, 2008
notions
a few different notions floating around my head today...i have thus far made the magnificent longcat logo that floopy made for me into a 3d shape in blender...
and what i want to do, is to make an animation/film, in which the camera floats around the 3D logo before plunging into one of the eyes, coming to rest, then a hatch opens in the side of the passageway and i beckon the camera into the hatch, the room beyond is my room with my rhodes, piano and such...
although it might be better if balthazara was the one popping out of the hatch...
and actually, i went round to see john sinclair yseterday, his computer is being odd and i picked it up and took it to floopy who had a look at it...
the house john was in is up in woodgreen - 5 minutes away on my bike - it's the home of D, who i really hope to get in an improvisation one day soon, also his two kids stay there with him half the time, it's the london home of john and it's soon to be headpress's office, headpress under whose name i bought my hammond organ, but who are a book publishers...
D took me up to the roof room and there's a lovely view south, in the direction of this flat, and if i took a picture of that view, put the longcat 3D logo in amongst it somehow...?
so, on to the techy side of it and all those who wish to not be geeky turn away now please...
so, a little internet research showed me how to easily export from google sketchup into blender, so i can make things in sketchup which i find quite easy, such as buildings... simple buildings of course, nothing too fancy at this stage,
maybe the view from D's house is cut out as a bezier curve, imported into blender, the bezier curve becomes a mesh and it's extruded, exactly how i did the longcat logo,
the picture itself then put on the front of the shape, (something i haven't yet done but it shouldn't be too hard?)
and now i think about it, i could cut out a few different shapes from the picture, several different horizons, then create a kind of staircase effect, looking straight at it it would look like the picture, but as you travelled over it, different parts of it would become visible...
hmmm, makes me want to go over there right now and take a picture...
anyway, a combination of this and sketchup versions of some kind of town in front and behind the longcat logo would be nice...
then flying around the logo is done in blender although i don't yet know how to do it,
then the chroma keying, green screen as it used to be, get a solid sheet and colour it accordingly, (whichever colour is least in either me or balthazara), put a hatch into the sheet, put the sheet at the right angle, camera on the other side, video me opening the hatching and beckoning,
i also thought about using the colour black as the chroma key colour, putting the camera in the loft in compete darkness, pointing at the hatch, then i open the hatch and appear.. easier... i might try it...?
anyway, having exported the blender movie into vegas, chroma key, or maybe just use the bezier mask to cut out the right shape, but it moves of course... hmmm...
so techy thoughts over...
that's what's swimming around my head at the moment,
we watched the first episode of GBH just now and i have the rest waiting for us, although each episode is over an hour and i'm not convinced dinah is really up for it... we'll see...
x
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