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- arti31023 — BELIEF: NEW REMIX by SUBLIMINAL
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- Yo, Boys & Girls! Well, 'es only gone and done it, ain't he? The Master of the Mind Manipulation, The (un)Scrupulous Subjugator of Subconscious Suggestion, SUBLIMINAL has done a Mind F**k on me and subverted the course of normal remix procedure by eliciting a bunch of vocal samples from me (while I was sleeping!) and produced a fab remix of my song BELIEF, called A COMFORTING SOLUTION ... OR DID HE??? Maybe I sent them of my own free will; you know, asked him to do it in the first place. "Hmm ..." See ...? That's what 'appens when you get involved with a top notch spoon bending psychic like SUBLIMINAL/TRIPLE M/THE MOUSE MANIPULATOR FROM THE LOWLANDS. Anyway, enough of my nonsense, check out A COMFORTING SOLUTION and let him know what you think. Thank you, Michel. Nice! read more...
- arti31023 — LOVE ME, LOVE MY MONSTER ...
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- Aah yes, as any seasoned campaigner will tell you, Love, is a double edged sword. So be careful what you wish for, boys & girls, as undoubtedly it will appear ... just not quite in the guise you expected. Ain't that always the way! Anyway, if you want your very own digital copy of The Monster to have, hold, and hum along to, go here ... ARTIE Q/BEAUTIFUL MONSTER or here, ITUNES read more...
- arti31023 — COLLABORATION WITH MINDMOVIE #4, OR IS THAT 5?
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- "THE BIRTHING" on MyMi7COLLABS page. All details, notes, & lyrics posted there. Check out the wonderful musical world of MR. AMBASSADOR, here. (MINDMOVIE) read more...
- rodney — computing humor
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Quotes of the day:
Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up. ...The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind. I thought we had reached a low with Windows Network places or the messages I get when I try to use 802.11. (don't you just love that root certificate message?)
Now you're thinking "oh God, another Linux zealot going off about Windows"... until you see who wrote it: Bill Gates. Full story at Gizmodo Note: this is actually an old story about Windows XP. Vista, as we all know by now, is even worse. read more... - rodney — Symbian is Free Software
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- News just in is that Nokia have bought up Symbian, and intend to release it as Free Software (under the Eclipse Public License) as of today. As far as I'm aware Symbian is currently the most widely used Operating System in the world - there were 100 million phones running Symbian in 2006 - so this means that as of this moment Free Software is now more widely used than proprietary software. That's a pretty significant shift in the way of things, especially considering Symbian own 67% of the smartphone market, with Windows Mobile holding only 13%... read more...
- rodney — Real World stuff
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- Oh, forgot to mention in the last post: I've been spending some time recently talking with The Cedars, winners of the MI7 Real World contest. Looks like the plan is for me to produce the session at Real World Studios sometime next month, if all goes well. I'm very much looking forward to it, they are a great band, and I think we could create some damn fine tracks there. Let's see... read more...
- rodney — back from being a hermit
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I haven't been posting much in the past couple of months, mainly because I've been taking time to work on a new book and get some personal business stuff out of the way.
Things are looking interesting though... we've been approached about a new record deal, and asked to play some more festivals at the end of the year / beginning of next year. So the plan is to spend as much time as possible in the studio over the next few months and finally finish off all of the things that have been sitting on the hard drive for ages in a half-finished state.
So someday soon I might even get round to putting some new songs on the music player! :-)
read more... - Live Ullmann — New website
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Check out www.liveullmann.com
read more... - arti31023 — COLLABORATION WITH JEF DE CORTE: FALLING ...
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- HERE. The Aerial Architect behind the fab combo AERONAUT, Jef De Corte, offered up "Dreams Are Buried Here" music files for me to mess with and see what came about. Musically, we wanted to see how Jef's music worked with beats. His original piece was at 70 bpm, which was just a little slow for a kind of hip hop groove I was toying with, so I upped the revs to 90 bpm, and it just felt right. He offered me his music as midi files, but I wanted those unmistakably beautiful Aeronaut sounds (not just the notes he played/the way he played them), so I decided to work with his pre-recorded sound files at the new speed. I had already done some voice work for one of Jef's DREAMS series, and was fascinated by his lyrical theme: The unrealized hopes & dreams of those whose lives are cut short, way before their time. Jef's initial idea was the tragic loss of children, but I was strangely driven to the stories of young men or women who give their service to their country in a time of war. In a nutshell, I wanted to make it a 1st World War "Saving Private Ryan" scenario, but the vernacular is hardly of the 1920's. Oh, well. So, vocal melodies established themselves first with the line: Falling down/Getting up and falling down ... The rest just fell into place. Hope you like it. RTQ read more...
- Live Ullmann — New album coming up soon
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- Please have a taste. read more...
- IDealAudio — Product Presentation Al.SO Dynax2
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- Alternate Soundings (al.so), Olivier Bolling will show the new Dynax² (Dynamic Sound Shaper) and the Modual 500 Series. As a French musician , mastering engineer and maintenance technician for world class recording and mixing facilities, Olivier Bolling perfectly knows the needs of recording and mixing engineers. His philosophy is:"doing what other manufacturers don't". The AL.SO Dynax² is more than an ordinary compressor, it is designed as a Dynamic Sound Shaper, a creative tool meant for the creative sound engineers. Conceived around very low distortion circuits, the Dynax² allows for a wide range of effects, starting with the smoothest and most transparent compression, and going to the harshest and most spectacular sound designs. Both "attack" and "release" knobs permit a graduated change of values to reshape the sound and create a new envelope. During this workshop, Olivier will explain his design and maybe show some new designs. Famous Al.SO Dynax users: Russell "the Dragon" Elevado (The Roots, Erykah Badu, Alicia Keys…) Goh Hotoda (Madonna, Prince, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Ray Charles, Marcus Miller, ...) Tom Durack (B-52's, Etienne Daho, Diana Ross…) ... More info: http://www.alternatesoundings.fr  Price: Free! Moderator: Olivier Bolling Date: Th 29 may 2008 - 20h Location: Foyer Het Depot, Martelarenplein 12, Leuven Subscribe: matthias@idealaudio.be read more...
- arti31023 — HEY, LOOK AT ME; I'M AN ILLEGAL ALIEN ...
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- rodney — looking for the mouse
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- Very possibly the best article ever written about blogging, MMOs, and the participatory culture of the Internet: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus read more...
- rodney — April is the cruellest month
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Well, April is nearly over now, and I can't wait to see the back of it. It's been a horrible month. My home office got burgled twice - and the second time while I was still at home! I lost a ton of my gear, computers, phones, passport, credit cards etc.
Luckily all my data was backed up and I'm slowly getting back to normal, but it's taken some time. So if you've been trying to get hold of me and didn't get an answer, now you know why...
read more... - arti31023 — ACTING: THE MONOLOGUE OF THE 20th CENTURY on film,
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- for me, is Naked. And the music is pretty wonderful, too. From the movie, that is, not the trailer. In fact, the use of cellos in the film is reminiscent of the way that Mi7's audiotechnica sometimes uses them, with a wonderfully melancholy feel. read more...
- arti31023 — "MOIST TOWELETTE MAN" AUDIO.
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- I know, I know, I know ... I know it's not music, but it is audio, it is mine, and it was requested ... and who am I to deny the democratic will of my public? Friends, Romans—"All right, all right RT, calm down now. Calm down." Anyway, here without further ado, I give you MTM read more...
- rodney — back in the studio
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Been up in Manchester at the studio last couple of days, and it's been fun so far. Managed to recreate the lost backing track of a fabulous Cassandra Complex song that we've never been able to play live before, so I think we'll be premiering that at the Bath gig on Friday. Also I think we may have finalised work on a cover song that we'll be playing there too. So far everything sounds fantastic... let's see what the gig itself brings...
read more... - arti31023 — MY CD, "FINALLY ..."
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- At CD Baby or IndieRhythm.com I can't believe it, Boys & Girls. It's here. Or, rather, there and there. I owe a Huge Thank You to Mi7—the web site and it's supportive community members—Amazing. Thank you so much. "Hmh ..." Strange. Strange, how love and support are to be found in the most unlikely places. And, when you're not looking. RT read more...
- rodney — linux starting to hit the mainstream
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Seems like the market for low-cost Linux-based laptops is just a teeny bit bigger than was previously thought:
Since its launch in October 2007, Eee PCs have shipped more than 1 million units, as of the end of March, and Asustek is optimistic that it will reach its goal of shipping 5 million units of the low-cost notebooks in 2008, the sources said.
That's pretty staggering. I think the discussion of "Is Linux ready for the average user?" is pretty much over now. It's still not trivial to install Linux on machines that weren't originally designed for it, but actually using it is not an issue any more in the great majority of cases. read more... - rodney — The Cassandra Complex in Bath
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For any UK members in the South West, we're playing in Bath next Friday...
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