Yes, another mix of SPP4.

Transferred a couple hundred trip pictures from my phone to my computer. Maybe by the end of June or July I’ll have the data from the past six months organized and uploaded, finally. Maybe not, there’s thousands of photos and hundreds of hours of sound.

Rehearsed for the upcoming Copy Lake/MD*ME tour of Cascadia in July.
And recorded some new cymbal sounds for the CL cassette. Have about an hour of new cymbal experiments to cull through and edit.

But that will have to wait, for my friends Chuck and Barbara called and I’m heading out to Venice now for a bike ride and a BBQ!

OMFG, my life is good!

For starters let me say, Damn I wish google wave was launched a year and a half ago, it is very much what I wanted for Disembody. Two years in the making at Google by the team that built google maps. Obviously Jonny could have built it for me if he’d really cared!

So, another day another mix of SPP4. We’re getting really close, basically tweaking the finer points of the doublebass and piano. For this recording we used a great studio, with awesome separation (by our standards), but we do have bleed from the piano and rhodes in the doublebass mic. That’s requiring a good deal of finessing. In the past we had no separation on mics, and that made mixing easier, as we had far fewer options. With these really clean tracks I can do a lot more in the mix, and the final record will sound a lot better. But having bleed in just one mic (out of 19), and unfortunately one of the most important mics, introduces a world of conflicts. Very time consuming. OTOH, I’m learning a ton about mixing and EQing and balance and the like.

I updated my photos and resume at IMDB today. I think I will be able to get work as an extra in scenes in biker bars and insane asylums now.

Tonight, more updates on vime. And recording my backing tracks for Copy Lake.

The garoffice is well on its way to being bigger and better than ever, I’m delighted to say. The big news is that the Torus Trooper arcade is up and running. So, now the 23E office has that most modern of corporate requirements, a rec room. Only it’s more of a rec corner, but whatevs.

In other arcade news, Nightmare City will be in LA this weekend and they are taking their arcade back home to the sweaty city council offices.

In SPP news, this evening I made a new mix of Wichi-tai-to. It is now off in the ether for my compatriots on the fourth record to sound check.

Other music news, plans for Copy Lake and My Daddy Ate My Eyes to tour this July are moving along. Though I haven’t done any of the FW? recording I need to do for the Copy Lake demo. FW? are guesting on the cassette being released by Nightmare City records.
On the tour I’ll being playing bass and cymbal and home-made tchaudiotchkes (pronounced cha-dee-oh-ch-kees). It will be a return to my pre-Ableton days. Weird. And super-exciting. The new garoffice will feature a rehearsal space with my Arp and tchaudiotchekes and X-Station to hang out in. The porch will function as the work space for building tchaudiotchkes.

And now to wind out the evening, I’m watching some Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Vile Dead research.