Here's a little Sunday night rant for you...

The more astute readers out there will likely have already noticed the new three-column format of the site. Congratulations on your keen eye for detail.

The names have been drawn and the winners have been notified. I'll post a list of the lucky SOBs later. I also wanted everyone who didn't win to know that I'll be doing this again sometime.

One final reminder to enter for the Win Free Controlled Dissonance Crap contest. Here's a picture of the final prize pool:

Some pictures from last night's show:

Those of you who know me know that I'm not really big into software these days.

There are some changes afoot at Intelligent Machinery. While we wait to see how things all shake out here, I thought it would be a good time to set up this blog on my own server, now that I have a web package that's fully able to accommodate such things.

New blog home:

http://blog.sighup.ca/

New RSS feed:

http://blog.sighup.ca/feed/

Update your bookmarks or RSS readers. It is a work in progress as I learn how to use and refine Wordpress effectively. All of the old content has been ported over, minus the comments, as I had no way to export them.

I still hope to be doing stuff around Intelligent Machinery, just not blogging, so I'm not leaving this fine and wonderful collective of ours.

Some 20 mins live improv by the IM master himself

Download link

Thank you once again for a superb performance John!

Tomorrow is the end of my self-imposed "30 Days of Activity" project, and I willingly admit that I failed. It wasn't necessarily a failure to take action, as it was a failure of resolve.

This weekends show:

LIVE! Controlled Dissonace

Other highlights are:
Anime Hill - Anime Hill
Burial - vol3
Given Willingly - Little lights in the masses
Sobria Ebrietas - Sampler

And all the president's men...

Couldn't come up with shit for me to write tonight.

Ooohhhhh.

Just kidding.

Highlighted albums:
Con Cetta - Sclerosis
Koutaro Fukui - Between objects
RoseRed - Childhood Traumas, the trauma continues
Aneurhythmics - Fathom
Jan M Iversen - Moments

Why not listen in:

I can only thank James, from the very bottom of my heart, for posting this. This is the greatest thing I've seen in a while.

I just don't have anything to say.

Tonight's big order of business is the new Controlled Dissonance video single, RangeGainMix.

Another dive into the realm of aggro-ambient, featuring layers of circuitbent Casio SK-1, manipulated with a Pocket POD and a Boss RC-20.

RangeGainMix

But I'm no engineer, so technically can kiss my ass.

My nose is bleeding. I blame the dry desert air.

Little over three hours to go yet, but what to expect then?

Highlighted albums:
Elefancia - Descenso
Jeff Gburek - murmurs, then, grains of drought

To make up for my recent malfeasance, I spent some time this afternoon gathering some new field recordings for the Sounds Found project.