Yesterday was my first ski run of 2011-2012. Embarrassing, I know, but I got sick during Christmas and I’ve been busy since then. I just now realized that my skis are in their ninth season. They seem to be holding up fine, but I imagine they don’t have too many more years left.

These are what I have. I really like them, but I have no idea how to navigate the great variety of equipment for sale now, especially in comparison to what I have now, as Salomon has an entirely new set of trademarks for their current lineup.

I like to ski fast, but I don’t race. I am not terribly interested in terrain parks and tricks, but I will catch air (on purpose) when the trail is bumpy. I generally stick with medium to large-radius turns, although my current pair really loves short turns. The only thing I don’t like about the Crossmax is that they wobble if I’m not turning.

I know I could probably go to a store and talk to a salesperson, but I am also a giant nerd and want to understand why different skis perform well in different situations. You’d think 30 years of skiing would help but it’s hard to do research when everyone only seems to want to sell me stuff.

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I’m now a member of Google+. My profile is here.

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I will be playing some records at the Get Together on Saturday, April 23. Get there early! I start at noon! The format is “some weird and beatless stuff, transitioning into chill daytime beats”. It will all be stuff that would be appropriate for a record fair/fashion show/experimental concert.

This event is part of the Boston-wide Together festival which starts this coming Monday and goes for over a week!

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In reference to this post, my decision is to acquire either a Kurzweil K2000RS or a K2500RS, a Korg Z1, and a cheap 1U rackmount line mixer. I came to this decision after checking the prices on eBay for all these things. I’ve also decided to spend some time playing with my music toys at least once a week, even if it’s only for a half hour on the train.

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Every year I buy myself one (1) music toy. Here are the options this year:

1. Replace my crappy Behringer mixer with something nicer and with more channels (Mackie, Soundcraft, Yamaha, A&H) – The Behringer is starting to sound really weird and awful, and I constantly have to re-organize what’s plugged in since I don’t have enough channels to fit everything. Perhaps I could relieve this problem with a patchbay instead?
2. Kurzweil K2000R or K2500R, (no Mac editor for the K2600 as far as I can tell) – I really love the way VAST synths sound, and they are CHEAP. I could also get the keyboard version and dump my CS1x.
3. Korg Z1 or Yamaha AN1x – I like VA synths, but they don’t sample.
4. Elektron Machinedrum or Octatrack, or Yamaha RS7000 – This would replace a Yamaha RM1x.
5. Korg microSampler – Hee! It’s cute!

I had briefly considered buying a new computer, but I bought a new-ish MacBook late last year which got hijacked by my wife while I was setting it up as a replacement workstation. We will switch. She will get my old PowerBook for email and Pandora; I will use the new MacBook for music-y things. I also have this old Shuttle PC at work that I can take and repurpose for a PureDyne machine, as well as the netbook we loaned out should come back some day.

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I accidentally blew away all of my RSS feeds. If you have a blog besides LiveJournal, please let me know here.

Webcomics? Programming or music blogs? I need 'em.

I’ve been playing around with some new things, namely Google’s Go language and the SuperCollider music programming environment. Go, intended to be a systems language for writing long-running server processes, feels also apt to write sound applications (to me anyway). I started a SuperCollider project under the Republic of Nynex umbrella that I abandoned after my Go language prototype sounded terrible. Since I like the Go language so much more than the SuperCollider language, I think I’m going to start a new project to control the SuperCollider synth server from a Go program.

The SuperCollider programming environment is actually a totally separate process from the synthesizer. It compiles all your code into OSC messages that are then sent over TCP to the server process. There are many other systems that can interface with SuperCollider over OSC, and Go has no OSC implementation, nor any bindings to other OSC libraries. The first question to answer is whether to create an OSC implementation in Go or bind to an existing implementation with cgo.

I think I’ve nerded enough for everyone reading this though.

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title from Reber Clark’s In the Brain of the Moon

All of my old posts on my blog are gone, safely backed up in one or two places. My previous host allowed PostgreSQL databases. My new one does not support them, and my old s9y blog was set up for Postgres. Now I am back on WordPress because s9y wouldn’t let me turn off the freaking emails from spam comments.

Anyway, Hi.

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Last night, Deftly-D asked me to sub for his High Voltage Circumcision Show on WZBC. As usual, I did not have enough time to play all the music I wanted to, but here is what I managed to fit. The show will be archived at ZBC Online for two weeks.

10:03PM / Phylyps / Trak / Trak / Basic Channel
10:14PM / Rhythim Is Rhythim / The Beginning (Ken Ishii Remix) / The Works + The Unreleased and Unexpected / 70Drums
10:19PM / Moritz Von Oswald Trio / Pattern 4 / Vertical Ascent / Honest Johns Records
10:27PM / Prince Far I / Deck of Cards / Under Heavy Manners / VP MUSIC GROUP, INC
10:30PM / C.M. Marquinho Coreba / Seu pastinha / Cantigas de Capoeira /
10:32PM / Ulrich Schnauss / Here Today Gone Tomorrow / Goodbye / Domino
10:38PM / Nekochan / Minimal Bump / Minimal Bump /
10:44PM / Anthony Shakir / Simpatico / Frictionalism 1994-2009 / Rush Hour Recordings
10:52PM / Robert Hood / Unix / Minimal Nation / Axis
10:54PM / Hrdvsion / The Mohana / The Mohana / Wagon Repair
11:03PM / Coil / Amethyst Deceivers / Moon’s Milk in Four Phases / Eskaton via World Serpent
11:09PM / Claude Young / Dear 1 / That Dear Green Place / Djax Up Beats
11:13PM / Visitor / The Last Time / Basement Life / D1
11:18PM / B12 / 32 Lineup / Last Days of Silence / B12
11:26PM / Convextion / Desolate Hub / Convextion / Downlow
11:34PM / Jeff Mills / Track 5 / Time Machine / Tomorrow
11:40PM / My Brother Daniel / Scene 7 / The Runner Theme /
11:42PM / Delta Funktionen / Nebula / Delsin II /
11:50PM / Aaron-Carl / If There Is a Heaven (ICAN Remix) / Electrevival / Wallshaker
12:00AM / The Black Dog / Lounge / Music for Real Adverts /
12:00AM / John Cale / Movement 11 – From Kiss / Eat / Kiss: Music for the Films of Andy Warhol / Ryko/Rhino

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Originally published at The Hydrogen Project. You can comment here or there.

Last night, Deftly-D asked me to sub for his High Voltage Circumcision Show on WZBC. As usual, I did not have enough time to play all the music I wanted to, but here is what I managed to fit. The show will be archived at ZBC Online for two weeks.



10:03PM / Phylyps / Trak / Trak / Basic Channel

10:14PM / Rhythim Is Rhythim / The Beginning (Ken Ishii Remix) / The Works + The Unreleased and Unexpected / 70Drums

10:19PM / Moritz Von Oswald Trio / Pattern 4 / Vertical Ascent / Honest Johns Records

10:27PM / Prince Far I / Deck of Cards / Under Heavy Manners / VP MUSIC GROUP, INC

10:30PM / C.M. Marquinho Coreba / Seu pastinha / Cantigas de Capoeira /

10:32PM / Ulrich Schnauss / Here Today Gone Tomorrow / Goodbye / Domino

10:38PM / Nekochan / Minimal Bump / Minimal Bump /

10:44PM / Anthony Shakir / Simpatico / Frictionalism 1994-2009 / Rush Hour Recordings

10:52PM / Robert Hood / Unix / Minimal Nation / Axis

10:54PM / Hrdvsion / The Mohana / The Mohana / Wagon Repair

11:03PM / Coil / Amethyst Deceivers / Moon's Milk in Four Phases / Eskaton via World Serpent

11:09PM / Claude Young / Dear 1 / That Dear Green Place / Djax Up Beats

11:13PM / Visitor / The Last Time / Basement Life / D1

11:18PM / B12 / 32 Lineup / Last Days of Silence / B12

11:26PM / Convextion / Desolate Hub / Convextion / Downlow

11:34PM / Jeff Mills / Track 5 / Time Machine / Tomorrow

11:40PM / My Brother Daniel / Scene 7 / The Runner Theme /

11:42PM / Delta Funktionen / Nebula / Delsin II /

11:50PM / Aaron-Carl / If There Is a Heaven (ICAN Remix) / Electrevival / Wallshaker

12:00AM / The Black Dog / Lounge / Music for Real Adverts /

12:00AM / John Cale / Movement 11 - From Kiss / Eat / Kiss: Music for the Films of Andy Warhol / Ryko/Rhino


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