02007-07-09 | Music
See this post.
I wrote emails to William McDonough‘s contact person and a person at Melcher Media regarding the material used for Durabooks. Wouldn’t it be fab if we could convince a manufacturer to create a DigiPak using that material? A DuraPak? We prefer DigiPaks over Jewel Cases because so many Jewel Cases crack and break in transit. I also like the look of the DigiPak, but I would love it even more if it was non-tree material. I think it would hold up even better, judging by the Cradle to Cradle book I bought.
Update: a person at Melcher Media wrote back that they thought it was a nice idea and passed my email on to the Production Director. More and more artists/record companies are switching away from the Jewel Box these days. Maybe the “DuraPak” can become a reality!
02007-07-08 | Uncategorized
On Tuesday, July 10th, the last three SSRI CDs, One Guitar, Thira and Transit 2 (I added links to our ListeningLounge so you can check out the music before buying the CD) should arrive in U.S. music retail stores.
Here is a link to a PDF from Burnside Distribution that contains all of their July 2007 releases. Our three albums are mentioned on page 15 and One Guitar is featured on the back cover.
02007-07-08 | Uncategorized
Even though we humans are 99.5% identical, that 0.5% makes all the difference in the world and no two people are alike, even if they are siblings. I wrote that none of the software predicting what I might like works for me… This morning I built a bridge between those two statements. The predicting software is assuming that taste is linear, but it is not. Taste is a cloud, just like the genetic mix that makes each person so different. It is personal and cultural and rooted in time… What I mean is that my reason for liking a particular sound or melody is predicated by a very complex and completely different set of parameters than exists for the next person.
Therefore I might love A but not at all like B, while the next person loves both or neither… In fact the painters or authors I like, which poems by Naruda I love, whether I prefer coffee or tea (actually I love both) might be more of a key to which music I like than asking me about musical genres!
Taste is a cloud, not a list. Taste is incredibly complex. It’s like that interview question, the one a journalist might ask when they haven’t listened to your music and don’t have a clue what you are about: what influences you? Hm, how about everything, every ray of light, every particle refracting and reflecting those rays of light, every sound and every surface reflecting that sound, every person I have touched and who have touched me, every story I read, every word I heard, every scent… all that has created my taste, my inspiration, my particular take on things, which is as complex as my personal DNA and which is fluidly changing constantly!
PS: some of this came from a conversation I had with Barrett and a friend of his after watching the documentary film tonight.
