Joseph Rhodes's blog

wanted:

experimental musicians to jam, record, potentially self release, and potentially play live.

what i have to bring to the table:

home made instruments, custom home sample sets, kaossilator, several modded and unmodded zounds, various DS music software...

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i'm interested in recording live, and swapping music files, in an effort to patch together my own unique vision of experimental music with other like and slightly like minded individuals. i want to create something groundbreaking, something that transcends boundaries, something that ties together the analog and the digital, the organic and the modified. i'm interested in re-creating the idea of a "band" with modular instruments, where microcosm music stations build together to create something out of this world. i'm interested in heavy jam sessions, recording everything, mixing and remixing everything from the onset through to the very end of post production. i'm interested in releasing this music, and inviting others to listen to this in live sets, where everyone invited has the chance to participate, even if just creating a mood. i've taken the idea of the drum circle and expanded that to the digital drum circle, and now, over a decade later, after a long and unnecessary hiatus, i'm ready to go the next step and create a sonic music circle.

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i'm looking for all types of musicians, button pushers, DJs, mashup destroyers and audio tweakers.

i want to experiment.

i want open minds.

if this sounds intriguing, hit me up. the mad scientist awaits...

woohoo! more drunken electro house for your dancing pleasure. play loud or not at all...

01. all about house music
02. eat me
03. slip and slide
04. evil tribe
05. put the record back on
06. let's take drugs
07. bleep
08. blitzkrieg
09. chopper
10. alone with you
11. streetgirls
12. shingaling
13. believe
14. put your hands up for detroit
15. i am not drunk

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this is the same with any other podcatcher...

looking at the dl numbers on the uncanny valley podcast. we're hitting some decent numbers lately, i like it when i know that someone is listening, especially with all of the hard work we've been doing to that podcast. thanks all...

only 3 plays? you can do better than that...

because i really want a korg kaossilator...

it's weird, amazon is out, guitar center is out, musician's friend is out, ebay has 1, the only other place i see them is on thinkgeek.com.

if you don't know what i am talking about, check out my previous blog entry.

my gig in nashville went off without a hitch last night. amazing time. will post a bit of video later and you guys may even get a snippet of the set...

sorry everyone about no vault friday. dealing with some personal issues so life is booked. be on the lookout though, i am posting this month's LftC a little early.

01. off and gone - decaying orbit
02. cevin key - bird
03. download - sorcear
04. phil western - the sign (existing out of body)
05. plateau - bubba
06. cevin key - meteorite / doubting thomas - love somebody
07. plateau - dutch flowers (extended remix)
08. phil western - pontiac pigeon
09. download - uhm
10. cevin key - bob's shadow
11. kone - mound
12. doubting thomas - turn a new leaf
13. plateau - crypto
14. phil western - stalker
15. download - bell ringoor
16. doubting thomas - thc
17. cevin key - daytrip
18. phil western - ja bay
19. zz bot - mackdaddy
20. phil western - kent the fly
21. download - attalal (biosphere remix)
22. download - eruption
23. plateau - the kind
24. phil western - getting old

Someone just pointed out to me that thinkgeek is selling the kaossilator, a small 199 dollar synthesizer with only a couple of knobs, and a touchpad. Don't get me wrong, this thing is cool, way cool.

But i do see it as a mix of instrument, and toy...and i am fine with that.

These sort of devices have been brewing in the distance for some time now, with mostly tinkerers and DIY'ers creating these odd little instruments to take with them to shows to amaze, or simply get one thing done very quickly in a way that is still artistic enough (as to not be a tape loop or cd playing in the background.

Then came the monome, and that sort of changed the game. It was a pretty box consisting of nothing but white buttons with red LEDs in them. It did not do anything on it's own however and the greatest link it has to toy instruments is it's ease of use. After programming it to do whatever it is that you needed it to do (sequence, sample, loop, look pretty) it was quite handy as an instrument to call up loops and beats, create keyboard cascades without having to interact with the laptop (this is in the burgeoning field of "laptop musician")

The laptop is functional, but let's be honest. It took the sexy out of music. There's no Fender or Flying V appeal here, just some dude looking at a screen. It appeals to scientists and people who adore scientists, but no one else.

The monome has clean lines, brings in that attractiveness that apple computers enjoy, and is very pretty to look at. It brings the form back to the function, while being extremely functional itself.