(dead air space?)

the cathode ray tube suite


This film object got premiered at last week's ear poke concert, the EMU's end of year sha-bang.

copyright fun

an interesting read...

telstra sucks...

...and i'd rather be on a beach with an acoustic guitar. but back to telstra for just a moment:

i have now got the internet @ home, and let me tell you my experience with my new ISP:

-terrible service-
after being sold on the "30 minute rapid transfer" deal, i waited for a day before i let concern for my new ISP over boil. i contacted Telstra and was -instead- promised that i would be waiting through a downtime of four to five working days. not even eighteen days later, yes - 18 DAYS L8ER - had i got the net. no no. by then i (potentially) failed on blogging my music technology projects. now i have the net again twenty-two days later. that's right, some 34, 560 minutes!!! as compared with the original deal of 30. excuse my math, but that is 1, 152 times longer. during this i fraught with many IT helpers @ telstra, and all they could provide were lies with what they were going to do for me. lies, eg-

T: tomorrow your modem will arrive in the mail.

J: ok
receives modem a week later

what kind service is that? how is the service at telstra??? terrible! terrible service.

-worst website ever-
what can i say about bigpond dot com? don't go there unless you crave frustration. the search bar *does not work*. the adds are 100% unblockable, 100% unavoidable and 100% liberal propaganda. the web design is some of THE worst that i have ever scene. ever.

-what age we live in-
after all this trail & tribulation, all this stress (right when i didn't need it) my broadband finally gets connected on monday... so you ask, how is it? what are the speeds like?
average and worse. really nothing special, and i have had unexpected cut-off times. although i think im ready for anything inconvenient from telstra right now.

what an age we live in... i just wish i were apart of it!


end of rant, i just needed to make the time to let you all know:

Telstra,
Thankyou for nothing.

weimer arena

Weimer Arena Session.mp3 (1.1 mB)

Making sound assets for own spin on the open-source game "Open Arena" was at first a little daunting, but a task I enjoyed throughly. In some ways I really feel like it put my "computer skills" (whatever that means?) to the test, particularly in the area of audio design. It's certainly something I would never thought of doing, which is a little strange, because its task that Trent Reznor was involved with in making the original Quake. The fact that Trent Reznor was involved in the early making of this, now open source version of the game, in a strange kind of way made me feel apart of a collaboration with him (in quite a 21st Century sense of course). Nevertheless - "Trent Reznor," "me" and "collaboration" - equals :)

A version of my version of an open source game, as well as other students, will be available somewhere, somehow at some-point. We are still figuring this out, because the edited game files are obviously quite large; unable to be posted on a free file server.

a tribute to syd barrett - behind the scenes

This is the elusive score for my ElectroAcoustic peice 'a tribute to syd barrett' which I was unfortunately unable to digiTise, scan that is, until today. These different coloured shapes represent the three different ambiance layers of the piece, which I improvised over in a psuedo-Alva Nota & Ryuishi Sakamoto vein. The shapes were drawn using the golden ratio: 1 to 0.5(√5 + 1). This is similar to how I used the line object in my program:


Here is a screen-shot of the OSX version of my application 'barrett grain', which was built using Max/MSP. Send me a email or comment if you would like a copy of the program.

offline

Encase anyone reading this may be wondering why this blog has died down somewhat lately, it is because I am in ISP limbo. I foolishly signed up for Telstra's 30 minute rapid transfer about 25920 minutes ago, but in hindsight should have just stayed with me old ISP iinet.

More on this subject and my Music Technology projects when I get the internet at home again. Currently I'm at the library, reading Crusader by Sara Douglass.

Sneez

the crazy diamond

a tribute to syd barrett
jake morris
4’01

“A Tribute to Syd Barrett” is a quiet instrumental track, one that a small child might fall asleep to. It explores a dark, ultramodern world through the combination of various ambiences. Mixed together these textures paint the otherworldly soundscape, in which the listener is subtly immersed into. Eventually a small voice is brought out of this world, in the form of poorly recorded upright piano. The strange sound of this piano plays gently through the dissonant lines.

The inspiration for this piece is again the 2005 collaboration of Alva Noto Ryuichi Sakamoto, 1979s The Wall by Pink Floyd, and finally the life of Syd Barret.

The overall form of the work matches with the life of Syd Barrett. The early rise and fall of tension in the electronic part represents Syd Barrett’s time with The Pink Floyd Sound. However, there is no real intension for the listener to recognise such features of the piece – it is just something I happened to be thinking about when writing it.