tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35548962008-04-29T15:23:45.612-07:00adrian chanBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554896.post-1161292233500479412006-10-19T14:10:00.000-07:002006-10-19T14:10:33.513-07:00

Hey folks, I finally have a table of contents to all four of my blogs: Social software; Cultural Commentaries; Film; and Music. If you're like me, you probably don't navigate blogs by archive postings; so here's to one of the most basic navigation inventions ever, the TOC.

adrian chantag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554896.post-1161200378628342452006-10-18T12:25:00.000-07:002006-10-18T12:39:38.646-07:00

Here's a verbatim exchange between a couple friends of mine, named Kylen and Pete, on the merits and demerits of the guitarist on tour with Roger Waters at the moment, who performed at Shoreline Amphitheatre here recently covering Pink Floyd tunes (including Dark Side of the Moon, in its entirety). We all know that David Gilmour is a legend in his own right, as a guitarist and as (my preferred)

adrian chantag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554896.post-1160671423230515662006-10-12T09:30:00.000-07:002006-10-12T14:19:48.086-07:00

Virginia Woolf, in The Waves, captures the miracles of childhood by allowing her characters to speak in the unformed language of children still experiencing the world without the words and tools by which to name and measure it. The characters grow up, and riding successive waves of time, find their voices, their phrases, their eddies and habits... Personalities emerge, each a series of waves

adrian chantag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554896.post-1152813692296221522006-07-13T11:01:00.000-07:002006-07-13T11:01:32.313-07:00

WINED AND DINED Wined and dined, oh it seemed just like a dream! Girl was so kind. kind of love I'd never seen only last summer, it's not so long ago... just last summer, now musk winds blow... Wined and dined, oh it seemed just like a dream! Girl was so kind. kind of love I'd never seen Wined and dined, oh it seemed just like a dream! Girl was so kind. kind of love I'd never seen Chalk

adrian chantag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554896.post-1147100412375473052006-05-08T07:53:00.000-07:002006-05-08T08:00:12.386-07:00

I heard it said that OnHollywood last week that ringtones are illlogical. I wish I could remember who it was, but the point the speaker (!) was making was that it's illlogical to listen to music in a format as short and unlistenable as a ring tone. Heard that way, of course it's illogical. But the logical fallacy is misplaced here. It's illogical to think of a ringtone as a song. (I'm tempted to

adrian chantag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554896.post-1144966036628764142006-04-13T15:05:00.000-07:002006-04-13T15:07:16.640-07:00

Bob Ostertag last night at a Creative Commons event at Shine made an interesting reference to Walter Benjamin's Work of Art in the Age of Its Mechanical Reproduction. His point was that in the age of digital media consumption, we have moved beyond the distinction between original and copy, a distinction near and dear to critics of mass re-production. Beyond the distinctions between copies, even (

adrian chantag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554896.post-1134195566738167232005-12-09T22:12:00.000-08:002005-12-10T03:05:28.103-08:00

I ran across this description of a pipe organ design tonight. It got me wondering about the design challenges of musical instruments. So I looked up a description of Sasha's custom Maven controller and they're both included here. It's not that audio software is today's pipe organ, but the two have a lot in common: sound production. I like the concept of "lyrical intensity." It's one of those

adrian chantag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554896.post-1131516865149482542005-11-08T22:13:00.000-08:002005-12-02T21:54:03.403-08:00

The Dead have released a cleaned up and stitched-together vault recording of shows performed at the Fillmore in 69. No way I can afford one, seeing as they're selling on Ebay for $700 (they did a run of 10,000 for $80 each; not enough apparently; there's still life in the dead...). What's cool about these shows is that the Dead were the first to record live on a brand-new 16 track machine. 1969

adrian chantag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554896.post-1130529228919751362005-10-28T12:46:00.000-07:002005-10-28T14:17:57.100-07:00

He's the c razy guy (who's actually a really nice guy) onstage at Qool on Minna Wednesdays. There he performs our local equivalent of the Napoleon Dynamite dance, tamed around the edges perhaps, but as singular and unique a maneuvering of body parts (arms especially) as can be executed a foot from a hanging set of turntables. According to Spesh, "It looks as if Qoöl's beloved stage dancer

adrian chantag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554896.post-1127852797647504832005-09-27T13:25:00.000-07:002005-12-07T07:06:44.673-08:00

The soundboards of Dead shows long available at archive.org are gone -- we can stream those still, but only audience "tapes" are available for download. Glad I got mine in time! I guess this was coming? The Dead's future is its past, its archive and vault, and no, I suppose we can each have a key... Get on those releases then. And bring us a sparkling Cornell 77 first! The vault of memory, the

adrian chantag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554896.post-1126658314566939312005-09-13T17:33:00.000-07:002005-09-13T17:38:34.570-07:00

There's a line in a Marillion song that goes "the quick and the dead." Now, having just returned from burning man, where i encamped at the Vogon sake bar (bless their souls and spirits, for they are a superb lot), I recently came across the historical detail in Dennis McNally's book "A Long Strange Trip." This one may be a bit out there as connections go, but I do believe the line in the

adrian chantag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554896.post-1126656384065219872005-09-13T17:04:00.000-07:002005-09-13T17:07:21.576-07:00

I've been laughing out loud reading a book on the Dead. This passage, while not one of the comic bits, is testimony to the close proximity between artistry shared by jam bands and djs alike. Deadhead ravers have always grooved on this -- the Dead after all were masters of the transition from song to song. The link that follows this quote is to a stream of the song in question: "The Other One"

adrian chantag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554896.post-1115081885729638892005-05-02T17:57:00.000-07:002005-05-05T09:17:51.513-07:00

Holy shit SACD can sound good... Gabriel's Passion (as opposed to Gibson's Passion). Damn Bloody Good! (Can I say that?)

adrian chantag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554896.post-1070066141508293282003-11-28T16:35:00.000-08:002003-11-28T16:36:30.090-08:00

Met a guy named Doug Mallach the other day and we got to talking about Darkness on the Edge of Town for some reason. Can't remember exactly how it went. Anyways, if that's not the best Springsteen album ever, i'm missing something. I know most people would say born to run, but Darkness is more raw. By Doug, you're right--it is the best Springsteen!

adrian chantag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554896.post-774348482002-06-06T14:38:00.000-07:002002-06-14T19:23:56.000-07:00

"A dance is a walk structured to be felt." I can't remember where that came from, though I think it was a Russian architect or composer for some reason. I've always liked this quote. Thinking about it today though I began to wonder if it misses the point somewhat. Dancing is social. You can dance alone, sure, but i think the point here is made with social dancing in mind. Or perhaps there are two

adrian chantag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554896.post-773560592002-06-04T19:08:00.000-07:002002-06-04T19:21:22.000-07:00

John Digweed's MMII is out and I'm at home, a happy and intrigued listener. If it’s safe here to invoke Darwin for but a minute, then this record is an example of the swift flow of evolution we have come to love and expect from electronica, trance included. Emergent breakbeat, a thinner bottom end, elements of trance and space but no longer hung on the formidable edifice of deep or progressive

adrian chantag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554896.post-773136122002-06-03T19:27:00.000-07:002002-06-03T19:29:58.000-07:00

Digger's new one is out tomorrow... excitement barely contained... make purchase in the am...

adrian chan