I know there are parts here that i really like and that really work and other sections that dont. let me know what you would change.
i may upload to soundcloud when i get a chance since i like the way you can comment at a particular point in a song on there player.
it was a a weekend spending time with a couple of friends that we dont see nearly enough. time and schedules and general patterns of life that have not synced up. the internet being what it is we still were pretty up to date on each others life in the vague sense…the details of which were discussed over beers or food or after a film. greatness!
also saw some awesome art. calder at the MCA then random art and music at the Milwaukee Ave arts fest . I already had Danny Think Tank show on my radar as i am a fan/friend of Cole Pierce and looked forward to seeing this in person. I did not realize that this would be playing here too. watching the whole thing was very trance like. its one of the few(only!) times that i listened to my music with a continual video playing. the video Cole made works amazingly well. i really had no hand in making it. i didnt even suggest the idea of using my music. the serendipity of the world in just neat. i just post stuff hoping that atleast ppl might listen. the fact that someone decided to not only listen but use it to create even better art is really nice.
sometimes the world is not a cold dead place
..this stuff until someone tells me to stop
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the keys are missing because i have discovered that i have to short circuit it to get it to start. its a very picky little thing but once i figured that that out its been pretty fun to play with.
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What a great show. i felt that it sounded pretty good on my end. Attempting to set up my gear in the very dim light was a pain and resulted in things being set way different from what i usually do. I had my twin up louder then I wanted, and the volume on the space echo way too high which resulted in some pretty heavy feedback. I managed to keep it in control and work with it, but I had thought some of the noise was one of the amps of the next band being driven to hard. Walking over to that amp mid set I realized there was no sound coming from that amp and stopped worrying that I was destroying it. (that was the other consequence of setting up in the dark, grabbed the wrong end of the cable and sent right channel of laptop into his guitar..not his amp..doh!)
Again, trying to use bebot on my ipod in a live setting proved difficult. I got some sounds out of it, but not what i really wanted. I made it work but still feel that I do better with that thing in practice.
I liked having a set time and I think I used it pretty well. I will probably continue to start with a short 5 minute piece to get my bearings and well its kinda neat to get applause.
I made a post like 4 years ago and in it I mention this almost euphoria about playing in front of ppl. I think it stems from pushing my brain to really be instantly creative combined with the pressure of delivering something worthy of the ppl standing in the audience. Thus my sampling and mixing live is very “first thought best though” because i dont want to waste time. the set is only so long and the music already challenging enough that I dont want ppl watching me think about what I want to do next. At my last show at the hotti biscotti (which i didnt write about afterward, but I should have) i felt like the piece got away from me. last night even during a section of just loud noise that I didnt know where is was coming from I figured out how to reign it in and work with it. this didnt go unnoticed as a number of ppl afterward commented about that section only asking if it was accidental because of my walking about during it look at amps.
this was prob the largest amount of ppl I have played infront of and also the largest percentage of ppl I knew in the crowd. Its really great to have friends come out, but I also feel bad. I feel a bit self centered and well the music I make is not going to be very broadly liked. Its not like i am doing a fun rock show where you can hang out and maybe dance or sing or jump or something. It was nice to hear from someone that walked in as I was playing that the whole crowd was silently wrapped in attention. I liked that I couldn’t see anyone or really just like a fuzzy blob of ppl when I looked out. it was both comforting and much needed pressure. The time I played a small art studio in the flat iron building where I could see clearly all the ppl in watching me, and when they started to talk to each other, made for an altogether different experience. at that show i started to get angry at the ppl talking that used that to fuel the piece which afterward I felt bad about.
my friend leigh made buttons, and everybody so far said it sounded good and really liked it. Also the sound guy really like the set and said it was a good soundtrack to the book he was reading “good bye 20th century” about sonic youth (I believe he was currently on the chapter about glen branca) i am thankful for all of that. i feel really great today.
ps..also was told again by a few different ppl that I should have projections that I score. i guess i really need to get on that. maybe i should bug cole 
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I just dropped off a few cassettes to Permanent Records so now if you are there getting other cool stuff you can grab a copy of drone.dump. whee.
Also I believe all 3 Reckless’s have them (even though this search only shows Milwaukee ave and Loop).
Dont live in Chicago? Paypal is the way to go. cinchel AT gmail DOT com $6USD (maybe $7 if you are really far away..but really i just want you to have and hear it, so whatever you can do is cool).
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This write-up here says way more nice things than I could.
To bore you, on a technical level the recordings that make up the substance of this release come from recordings done between 2006 and 2008. All done at the apartment we were living in at the time which had a really neat, and small, walk-in closet. It was going to be a darkroom but as digital photography consumed the Mrs it became an actual closet which would house my Fender Bassman 10 and other guitar ephemera. Most of the tracks are single take with minimal post editing. I get into phases where I try to test myself with simple ideas like tuning the guitar to an opening tuning and get it to gently feedback and then slowly change the tuning. I have always thought about creating an hour long piece but it has always been difficult to focus for that long, so it was interesting to put this together and realize that over 3 years I had inadvertently done it.
So, how do you get ahold of one of these fine cassettes. Well I am not sure (actually not really comfortable that is..):
1) If you live in Chicago it would be really cool if you went to reckless (and possibly permanent records …i am still not sure if they will have any) and grabbed it. I only say this not because I want you to buy my cassette there because it would be cool for me to say, but because I want to let these places know we really appreciate the counter space and the local support. If they decide to carry them, they wont have them until after March 2nd 2010 (as the box is still sitting on my dinning room table).
2) If you live in Chicago and know me say hi. I will prob have a tape or 2 in my bag most of the time.
3) Paypal me cinchel AT gmail DOT com .. like $6..and i will ship it to you ..anywhere in the world..sure…seriously.
4) There is talk of some other shops maybe getting a few copies (places like http://www.aquariusrecords.org/ and http://www.othermusic.com/ ..when I know more definite places I will post links) So if you live near those places hit them up, show some love.
5) There is talk of a “release” show in April with Chicago band Implodes and my friend Travis Bird . This tape will be available at that show with the possibility of another recording also being available (CDR or another tape).
What you get. One cassette with a handpainted j-card, hand numbered. My eternal gratitude and 60min of music.
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