new Buchla videos

Buchla Videos

So I've been working on a Buchla 200e for some time but due to technical limitations I havn't been able to make any videos until recently these are my two first Buchla vids.

patch 1


patch 2


I'll make another video tonight.

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Still working on the Dante Project though lots has taken place since my last post.

my wife and I had a baby! and I went out and got a job apprenticing with a contractor in the interim I have been doing more work now in the studio with the raw audio from last year and creating the first of what I hope will be three CD's worth of music. I will then either have to start paying for my sound cloud account to post all the tracks there and here or I will have to find some other way of hosting them. I'm thinking of going with Sound Cloud because then I can embedd things here and others can find it easier.

anyway more when I have it as well as some new music I hope, that is for the one follower this blog has and whomever stumbles on it by accident.

I think this blog is a failure

I've concluded that this blog as a medium for editing my rendition of the Divine Comedy has been a genuine failure on at least two levels.

first: I tried to use this blog space as a medium to do interactive editing on my version of Dante since I started no one has made a single comment on anything.

second: I've had fewer than ten viewers every day since I started doing this. I've sent this url to everyone I can think of who I thought would be interested in this and I doubt if it's been very interesting to them

third: the snails pace at which I have been transcribing the Comedy has made this blog a very boring place to visit often I have cut up the gaps between installments with youtube stuff which is largely irrelevant to the subject matter (Dante).

I think that this is becoming a useless exercise in naval gazing and is just adding an extra step to my process. A step I thought would be helpful and fun but which is becoming tedious and constantly apologetic. That's not good reading and it sucks to write.

I'm not giving up on Dante and I'm not giving up on Wiresource but I think the two together is like nuts and gum: great on their own terrible together.

I'm not sure what I'll do with this url now but I hope it's more enjoyable than telling you why I'm sorry the Dante transcriptions are late this time.

peace.

modular problems

so I'll spare you the epic version and go with the coles notes:

I ordered a custom synth case that never appeared and had to put the whole music project on hold as a result I'm getting my refund in the mail very soon.

I also got the replacement case I ordered and the past two days have been spent trying to fit everything into it. I think I've got it mostly figured out. It's smaller than the one I was promised and as a result I'll have to dump some modules to get everything to fit but in the end I think this is a good fit. Once I've moved and set up in my new studio I can get back to work on the musical side of this project. in the mean time here's a picture I've named them: the smaller black one is called Dante the larger multi coloured one is called Virgil:

Canto 16 Listen

Listen, a dull roar
As we near the circle's edge
The sound of mad bees

Three souls run 'tward us
They can tell I'm from Florence
As they speak, they dance

Circling clockwise
They were once warriors
They ask me for news

I have none to give
The same wars, new fighters
Do they have remorse?

Eyes fixed, heads turning
I'm supposed to feel for them
In some ways I do

Before they leave us
They want remembrance
It's how they live on

The roar of the stream
Has burned away every sound
We have reached the edge

Hell's Niagara Falls
We peer down through the warm spray
Virgil takes my belt

Tossed over the cliff
It falls with my confidence
to wake up our ride

There's something moving
It's swimming up through the air
The demon of Fraud

I met Sandow Birk yesterday

that's write, one of the translators and the illustrator of the text which inspired me to do my own Dante was in town for an art opening and he met up with me to talk about the poem, he was very encouraging and offered to read what I've got up here he also gave me some names and advice on how to break into the larger Dante community (apparently there is one and it's global!) I could really use that right now. one thing I have been dissapointed over is the lack of real criticism of the cantos I have published here, slowly more readers are trickling in and that's a great thing to see but I'd love for someone to really take me to task over my rendition of the work, I want to get into the meat of this text and create a condensed interpretation which really captures something of the original work while also offering something new and contemporary and poetically integral.

c'mon people who read this blog get mouthy with me over Dante I'm serious, I need poetic feedback and constructive criticism.

more cantos tomorrow