02008-03-23 | Music, Poetry
The halo of the moon,
Is it not the scent of plum blossoms
Rising up to heaven?
– Buson
Moonlight, reflected by the river, with birds conversing and a train crossing the iron bridge.
Street Light. The yellowish light of street lanterns, reflected by wet cobblestones. Clouds of cigarette smoke, the sound of footsteps nearby and car-horns in the distance.
Unscented beeswax candles nevertheless have a certain scent.
Firelight. Shadows dancing. TV for the stone age. Stare into the flickering shadows and create your own story.
02008-03-22 | Internet
Listening to: silence
Currently reading: Assassin’s Cloak
Momus did it 2 years ago and wrote about it for Wired.
I did it today.
If a person wants to find out about my music or touring schedule they can enter my name in that little google search window.
Good-bye thousands of friends…
02008-03-22 | Copyright, Internet, Music
The Royalty Scam – New York Times
The musicians who posted their work on Bebo.com are no different from investors in a start-up enterprise. Their investment is the content provided for free while the site has no liquid assets. Now that the business has reaped huge benefits, surely they deserve a dividend.
Good article by Billy Bragg in the New York Times. Also see this blog on CNET, which carries the following quote by Nick Carr at Rough Type:
“Exploitation is exploitation, no matter how lovingly it’s wrapped in neo-hippie technobabble about virtual communities, social production, and the gift economy.”
02008-03-22 | Recording, Santa Fe
This fine Spring morning I put on my antique Burton jacket, the one with the controls on the sleeve that work with my antique iPod (the one before the video iPod – 3G?) and walked to Ohori’s for coffee. When I woke I thought I should give my ears a rest, but then I had to listen anyway… It’s an interesting obsession with detail. A year from now I won’t hear the details that are driving me crazy now. I remember a story about Steely Dan including a song in a greatest hits compilation they had flatly rejected a couple of decades ago, saying they had no idea why they rejected the song in the first place. And while I know that, I am driven to make these small changes that won’t matter a decade from now.
Got my coffee mug filled and walked to Downtown Subscription. Ordered a green chile croissant and found a seat outside.
Walked back and went back into the cave to make adjustments. Almost done. Final stretch.
And to answer Steve’s question left in the comments yesterday. AIF files contain location code and will spot into the right place. And I if send a file of a certain length and the other musician sends me back a file of the exact same length (in samples, not in minutes and seconds) they will synch also.
