what is going on in your musical life

that looks like a wonderful setlist DJP

Our actual set list is going to look more like:

In Bright MAnsions
Joshua fit de battle of Jericho
Soon-ah will be done
Old Man Lazrus
Way up in Beulah land
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
Ain't-a that good news?
I can tell the world

Solos that I will be splitting with the other adult include some of the following (the first 7 are hers):

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
My Lord, What A Morning
Just Another Day
Balm in Gilead
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
I love the name
Stand still, Jordan
Been in the Storm
Ride on, King Jesus
You may bury me in the east
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
I want Jesus to walk with me
Deep River

Balm in Gilead is a beaut, one of my favorites

The only church music I know is "you saw me crying in the chapel" which, by the use of the word "you" introduces a third party, which really isn't necessary.

The Society of Rockets sounds really great.

thx
just booked an album release show for 2/5 with these guys http://www.conspiracyofbeards.com/

btw, my gig went shockingly well considering that I was singing with high school students who were freaking out about singing at a private party

I ended up singing You may bury me, I want Jesus, Been in the storm, and Deep River. Didn't think to record it, oops.

So ~gulp~ I posted my first thing to Bandcamp. It's basically novitiate synth music done in iOS over the last 9 months but I think it's at least flavorful and hopefully engaging enough despite my (inherited from my guitar days) penchant for annoying additive rhythms?

https://algaemetric.bandcamp.com/album/sixteen-seasons

Awesome! Can't wait to dig in.

playing a memorial concert on Sunday. haven't played out since the summer.

what kind of stuff are you playing? solo?

i am on one of the tracks that jon posted! in two days i am supposed to play a show but first i have to extract my car from the city pound ;_;

it's a long story.

it went better than I expected.

excellent to hear, sorry you had that specific occasion to play

yeah, there were some press people there, which I hadn't even thought about when I volunteered to play, but when I saw them with their cameras, I said to myself, "Of course." Pretty much whenever I saw someone come up to me hauling pro camera gear, I turned my back to them. Fortunately, my instrument was conducive to that.

glad it worked out; it's a tough situation all the way around

on my end of things, I sang in our annual "half-hour Messiah" recital where a quartet from my church choir sings several Messiah arias and then does a Hallelujah chorus singalong with the audience; it went well and my wife's Rejoice Greatly was pretty good considering she has a massive cold and this was her first big solo sing post-surgery and post-chemo

this is happening

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C0TiNVdUQAAdu7f.jpg

xp - your wife is amazing.

hey Sarah you performance looked/sounded so rad from what I saw
hey Shakey I'll be at that show

I came out with a new free EP of weirdo lo-fi Chaki funk http://chaki.bandcamp.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DmhRMcE53Y

xp Shakey that rocks. And that poster is amazing btw.

all shakey's band posters look like that.

looks great shakes, is there going to be a bootleg of it?

Terrifying cover art Chaki

I've been struggling lately to master L Cohen's fingerpicking on The Partisan.

I upgraded to Live 9 Suite
now I just need a laptop to run it on
and to set up the rest of the gear in my new basement
oh and buy some gear

really that's more "what is going on in your consumerist life"

I'm in one of those phases rn where I just feel like selling all my gear bc I've had no creative impulse at all for months now.

I thought that was when you were supposed to buy new stuff, so you feel obligated to use it

It'll come back, Nick.

I am getting a new EP mastered and feeling very positive about the production end of things, although starting again with a blank slate is always both freeing and scary.

I also was feeling very positive about starting to dj, until I realized that using a controller is very different from using CDJs and that beatmatching by ear is a drag.

i dont know how i'm going to perform my new ep live. i think im going to use a roland sp 404 + live bass guitar + one of those korg monologues.

What kind of EP, Jordan?

Someone asked me to write a 10-string guitar piece for his 2018 Master's recital, which should be fun. I'm planning to start getting a new electric piece together over this holiday and maybe start writing another string quartet movement.

xp - your wife is amazing.

:-) she really is

Sund4r, have I asked you if you know of these guys? i was friends with the guitarist when he lived here and i figure the new music guitar world must be relatively small.

My new EP is more experimental club music on the same label as the last one, very physical found-sound drums and synths mostly made from sampling audio and running it through my ES2 pedal.

where is the master spreadsheet of y'alls links and bands and labels and stuff

That's really a thing?

nah (unless...jaymc.xls?)

I don't know them, Jordan. I should get better at that networking thing. I'll check out more of their stuff. Cool that they did Ferneyhough! And the EP sounds cool.

house-sat for my parents for the week after christmas, was bored out of my mind cept for taking the odyssey, a couple pedals and my zoom recorder with me - this is the best of what I did

Yesterday, I participated in a workshop about how to create grassroots new music scenes and organize concerts. I took a bathroom break and was informed by text that Future was asking for clearance to sample one of my songs. Today I am scoring a commercial for Wal-Mart. Interesting times.

:)

do you still live in mtl? i'm afraid our few remaining diy spaces are about to go the way of toronto's :( saw some stuff on fb recently about strange ppl taking photos around some of the van h0rne/beaub1en area spaces... i was p devastated when cops shut down 'the cove', took a while for people to rebuild

i was asked to play drums in a band then the guy who asked me to join disbanded the band and then i asked the remaining members if they wanted to start a new thing w/o him, and they all agreed, and now i'm playing guitar and so far it's going REALLY well

I lived in L.A. last year but moved back to Toronto for a scoring job that never got past the demoing stage. I do not understand why DIY spaces are being shut down.

the Oakland fire inspired an alt-right/4chan campaign to snitch on diy spaces, which they think are loci for the 'radical left'

Oh I see. Hmm. Maybe we could take some time to focus on historically what happens to fascists and Nazis once their power structures are overthrown

Yesterday, I participated in a workshop about how to create grassroots new music scenes and organize concerts.

curious about this! (the workshop and context)

Yesterday, I participated in a workshop about how to create grassroots new music scenes and organize concerts. I took a bathroom break and was informed by text that Future was asking for clearance to sample one of my songs. Today I am scoring a commercial for Wal-Mart. Interesting times.

― fgti

"I am not afraid," ze said
~ skrrt skrrt skrrt ~
"Of the non-believer within me"
~ Thought it was a drought, thought it, thought it was a drought ~

(seriously, you had a good day fgti <3)

I bought a relatively cheap iRig 2 thing to connect a guitar to my laptop and I'm trying out demos of the modeling software that's out - Amplitube and Bias and etc.. Playing through headphones isn't as satisfying as the few times I've played through a bigger amp turned up but compared to a 5W tube amp at bedroom or living room levels it's pretty sweet. If I ever moved back to a small apartment I think I'd be content to just use something like this or the expensive Kemper Profiling thing with studio monitors.

Amplitube is a helluva scam, though - $149 for the basic package then they sell you amps at $35 each or in bundles and pedals are $5-10 each.

the Oakland fire inspired an alt-right/4chan campaign to snitch on diy spaces, which they think are loci for the 'radical left'

there's a pretty great iOS amp modelling/multitrack recording thing called ToneStack, by a company called Yonac. Price for the basic app is modest and the additional amps and pedals are only a few bucks each, with good bundle pricing. The built in 4 track recorder is a paid upgrade that IIRC was less than 10 bucks. If you have an iPad it is more than capable of handling your guitar adventures. IDK though if that particular iRig works on iOS in addition to desktop. I think the one I have is specifically for iOS.

on desktop, some of the amps that come with Garageband are pretty good too.

organized/hosted, performed, recorded 2 completely different jams within a 7 day period, lost one set of recordings, but have two shows with my other band coming up, an EP on the way, and maybe a tour in june if all goes well. i'm coming up on 4 year anniversary and i'm not counting thousands of hours, but i'm getting there.

related plea for assistance: does anyone have a recommendation for a recording device that:
-- has usb input
-- can export (via USB?) in a variety of formats
-- easy to use; does not require acquisition of a large vocabulary in order to operate/troubleshoot
-- is less than $200
-- is not a piece of garbage

i will be recording in a basement, probably some other places too but definitely there.