A friend of mine asked that I explain my latest parlor-trick approach to music making. There are lots of different ways of making tunes on computers, but I’ve been fiddling around with a sortof “live layered jam” approach where I cycle through a loop, adding an instrumental part each time through. Loads of fun to do.
So click HERE to listen to this 11 minute podcast of a little 12-bar tune being built up layer by layer.
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Richard, and the rest of the crew of the tall ship Bounty, are heading out in a couple days. They’re leaving from San Juan Puerto Rico with a destination of St Petersburg, Russia — so this is a two-way crossing of the Atlantic.
I decided to dedicate this little tune to the Bounty. It’s long, much like this voyage — and the many watches that they will all be standing. It’s a little boring, which is my fondest hope for the voyage as well. It’s in the key of E, so Rich and his crew mates can jam along on just about any instrument that’s likely to show up on the ship. It’s a bit of a lullaby, for those moments when things are hard. But it’s also a little jaunty, which describes Rich and the rest of the crew to a T.
Best listened to under headphones (think, iPod) — the bass part totally disappears when I listen to it on my PC.
Safe journey and smooth sailing.
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Hey! It’s my 60th birthday today AND this is the 60th Geezercast. How ’bout that? This one is really short — just a 5 minute intro to a new tune that I built to learn about “slicing” — a musical technique that Robert Perry (son of Marcie’s cousin Joan Perry) taught me about when he came to visit a month or so ago.
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A long hiatus in Geezercasting — but now the deadlines and holidays are past and here’s a Geezercast to celebrate.
Two topics — the need for us whiners to give Obama a freekin’ break for cryin’ out loud, and a nice expose of a major national polling company by Nate silver of FiveThirtyEight.com fame.
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Couple ideas in this one. First, why the heck does Congress get to ignore insider trading laws that all the rest of us have to follow? Second, ruminating about fixing stuff.
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I know, it’s a weird combination of topics, but I’m taking a breather from writing Broadband Task Force report-drafts and that’s what’s caught my fancy.
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Marcie and I are off to fight prairie-invaders today so there’s a little about that, and then there’s commentary about Al Franken’s arrival as our second Senator (with a dash of Sarah Palen).
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A quick Geezercast to settle me in to the new Vista/Mac world after a month of computer transition. Kids graduating from college and etc. are featured in this one.
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This is a true Geezercast — capturing my thoughts for the grandchildren 50 years from now. I was at the ICANN meetings in Cairo the night of the election, so I have a few stories to tell about that too.
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Mom died this month and this is the “lessons learned” Geezercast. A few words to my unborn grandchildren for when I do the same. It’s not as gloomy as that sounds, but it’s not wild entertainment either. Just some words…
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