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7:14pm: * "I've had to become more rigorous in my reading, to actually think a little about what to read next & why
* My mental map of contemporary poetry has changed profoundly
* I've had to acknowledge the presence of an entirely new generation of poets & recognize that they really are the "poets of today," however you might care to define that.
* I've met, online & sometimes later in person, a huge number of interesting new people & gotten to know several folks I'd already met quite a bit better
* My correspondence has gone up dramatically
* So has the arrival of books in the mail - twenty books in one week is not uncommon.
* I've been able to spread the word about some poetry I care about a lot.
* My own poetry is being solicited at a much greater rate than I can possibly manage.
* I'm being invited to read more often - so much so, in fact, that I've learned to say No for the first time in my life. I've turned down trips to Oregon, Finland & several places in between as a result.
* Writing here has pushed my own poetry forward in ways I would not have expected & which I don't think (yet) I can fully articulate."

7:35pm: DigitalSamurai
"This bank is full of the kind of evocative sounds that work perfectly for film scoring or cutting-edge electronic music productions. There are 100 patches and 100 combinations including 'Spinners', 'In-Phase', 'Do Not Harm', 'Realize...', 'PodBayDoor', 'CaveDwellr', 'IceBerg', 'Divergence', 'ChainDrag', 'Isolation', 'AnvilOrgan', 'Triple Ork', 'Double-Take', 'Jettison!', 'Pixels', 'Freak Tine'. and many more!"

"Dream-For2"

"Sounds include 'WettPiano', 'FeathrWind', 'GhostSync', 'KnifeEcho, 'SweepBass', 'Taj', 'WoodyComp', 'Invertive', 'Syncster', 'HybridVox', 'PulsePad1', ' Booster' and more."

"Sounds include 'Har Moniks', 'Punch It', 'Wetland', 'TrekStar', 'Sine On', 'Tore Lore', 'Time Warp', 'Air Touch', 'Organride', 'Touch Pipe', 'Cowfist', 'Rad Lead' and more."

"Rock, jazz, fusion, new age and soundtrack composers will all find a wealth of new ideas in this creatively stimulating bank. Sounds include "Liquid Sky", "Cyber Bassix", "Choice Strings", "Stratosphere" and many more. Totally "granular", dude!"

"Sounds include "Anarchy Cuisine", "Timeworm", "Quasi Rendezvous", "Mean Tongue", "Belew Me Away", "Cyber Dream", "Predator", and much more!"

"TYPICAL SYNTH" "FineWine"

"Manhattan Collection" "California Collection"

"FutureBass" "BitOne" "RoboBass"

7:25pm: "hard-edged, 'meat-and-potato' patches"
"The MASTERAM Collections are designed to aide in the creation of many types of contemporary music. It has provided artists with some of the most unique analog, digital and emulative textures available anywhere.

Sounds include 'Frog Piano', 'Digital Wow', 'Xylo Repeat', 'Tubular Bells', 'Thunder/Descent', 'African #1', 'Dreamy', 'Heavy SyncSweep', 'Bright Analog', 'DX Lead', 'Combo Organ', 'Resonant Echo' and more."

"The MASTERAM Collections;
Sounds include 'Fuzz Pluck', 'Pulse Funk Bass', 'Small Animal', 'Whotta Bass', 'Space Waves', 'Moon Voize', 'Flexitone', 'Childlike', 'Heavy Metal', 'Dicreet Eno', 'Claps', 'Trumpet', 'Talking Drum', 'Pitchfall Gong' and more."

"The MASTERAM Collections;
Sounds include 'DX Rhodes', 'Alpha Juno', 'VibroRise', 'Wet Funk Bass', 'Sick Cat', 'Storm Wind', 'Chrome Lead', 'Ethnick', 'Analog Slow', 'Water Skimmer', 'Bottle Bells', 'Evolution', 'Word Up', 'Far East Release', 'Whaeow' and more."

"'Nylon Synth'"

"Sounds include 'Architectronics', 'Edge of Awareness', 'Jungle Shadow', 'Slide Me &Glide Me', 'Ghost Factory', 'Human Tribe', 'Percussion FX 1-9' and more."

"Sounds include 'Harmaniac!', 'Ethnic Pan', 'Life Force', 'Ice Caves', 'AriesNight' and many more."

"Sounds include 'WindsWood', 'WateryFlange', 'Lokar Movie', 'Unreal Layer' and more."

"'MTV Break'" "'ThunkaBass'"

"R&B/Pop contains 80 crystal clear, extremely usable drum sounds needed and wanted by today's working drummers, keyboard players and producers."

7:19pm: Greysounds
"Welcome to the Post-Industrial Age! This bank of 64 sounds will usher you into the future with new concepts in MT-32 sound development. From stark sonic slashes a'la Skinny Puppy, to fat textural pads, you'll find a cyber-tech toolkit brimming with inspiration for your musical forays into the multimedia landscapes of tomorrow!

Sounds include "Cyborg," "Rapbeat," "Hitchcock," "Zlith," "Tribbles," GhostHorns," "Nihilist," "Cyberwisp," "Chiba City," "Mutants," "2muchinfo," "Haiku," "Acid Rain" and more."

"Here are 64 new MT-32 timbres that you'll turn to again and again for your rock, R&B, and even rap musical projects! The Top 40/Dance soundbank contains a broad range of useful and more realistic patches like acoustic pianos, authentic DX7 Rhodes, brass, strings, bells, basses (with real bass content), synthesizer pads, leads and comps, and even some vector-synth type FX sounds and cutting edge drum loops!

Sounds include "Miami Grand," "DX7 Rhodes 1," "Juno Bass," "Synthorgan," "Jamblast," "RezoSynth," "Amazon," "CS 80," "Plastic," "CD Snip," "Mr. Jazz" and many more. With the introduction of the MT-32, Roland broke new ground by making an affordable multi-timbral programmable synthesizer module with unprecedented flexibility. Unfortunately, few instruments have been so poorly documented, and a surprising number of MT-32 owners are not even aware of its potential. Of course, part of the problem is that the MT-32 can only be programmed by computer via the MIDI port, and the on-board RAM memory is volatile, meaning once the unit is turned off, any user-defined programs are erased and must be re-loaded upon power-up. Thus, the vast majority of users have been confined to the factory presets."

4:17pm: "Greetings. A small group of extremely cult underground metal personalities are looking to occupy a very grim house/shed/etc for a few months starting in February. Ideally there would be a basement or other subterranean lair suitable for rehearsal/recording for our colossal extreme doom/black metal supergroup, which is what we are going to the area to accomplish. It is okay if there is no running water as long as the dungeon is suitable for very cult metal. Electricity is not necessarily a must but nonetheless would be very convenient. Also it is necessary that there be some area where it would not be a problem to have torches burning eternally, as well as an occasional raging bonfire. It needs to be pointed out that we are all quite poor, and do not need some posh/modern/professional/clean/etc sort of place to live, simply a torture dungeon where we can turn up our amps loud and carry out sacrificial blessing rituals as well as epic strength training, at a cost that is not the result of fancy interiors and cool-looking anything. Let me know if you know anywhere that sounds like it might work. You can live with us there too, I suppose, as long as you are obscure and have a dark personality."

1:26am: They Write the Right Stuff
"1. The product is only as good as the plan for the product.
2. The best teamwork is a healthy rivalry.
3. The database is the software base.
4. Don't just fix the mistakes -- fix whatever permitted the mistake in the first place."

"The most important things the shuttle group does -- carefully planning the software in advance, writing no code until the design is complete, making no changes without supporting blueprints, keeping a completely accurate record of the code -- are not expensive."

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/06/writestuff.html

4:01pm: surf stats (from my laptop)
12/09 21,244 urls
11/09 25,525 urls
10/09 16,926 urls

10:37pm: Rhizome ringtone/rhiztone readme.txt
This ringtone is a truetone, just an MP3. The music originated from a MIDI file I wrote for an unfinished skate video started in 2007. I used the seashore General MIDI instrument to represent the sound of skateboard wheels on concrete. General MIDI high hat and snare drum wasn't working for the rhythm track, so I tried representing them with maraca and short guiro.

Choosing music for your ringtone is delicate, because you express yourself whenever it plays in public. I use "Afternoon Chill" and "Well-balanced" on my phone now and loved "Ambient Mood", "Moonlit Haze", "Illumination", etc. on my old RAZR - ringtones that instantly set a mood without being too intrusive. Something to wake up to and go out to.

Also, if your phone plays MIDI ringtones, you might want to try using the original MIDI file.

Travis Hallenbeck
01/01/2010

anotherunknowntime.com

5:35pm: complete list for the original ringtones for the RAZR
001.mid - Alert
006.mid - Bells
007.mid - Bits and Bytes
013.imy - Chimes high
014.imy - Chimes low
016.imy - Chord high
017.imy - Chord low
019.imy - Claps
020.mid - Cosmic
026.imy - Ding
028.imy - Drum
032.imy - Fanfare
039.mid - Harmonics
041.mid - Interlude
042.mid - Latin Loops
050.imy - Notify
056.mid - Provincial
057.mid - Random
061.mid - Snaggle
064.mid - Standard
066.imy - TaDa
071.mid - Triads
073.mid - Up and Down
075.mid - Wind Chime
094.mid - Moonlit Haze
105.bas - Illness
106.bas - Ology
107.bas - Spooky
108.mid - Ambient Mood
118.mp3 - Sharp Edge
137.mp3 - Moto
150.mid - Nocturne
167.mid - Power Surge
183.mid - Digital Signal
199.mid - Fluid
202.mid - Exotic
203.mid - Illumination
208.mid - Motion
209.mid - Radiance
210.mid - Sensation
214.mid - Pulse
218.mid - Urban Style
224.mid - Fashion
237.mid - Waves
242.mid - Clouds

2:35pm: clothes lost II
aqua blue t shirt with small pocket

12:47pm: Vans AV Era
"Anthony Van Engelen's first signature skate shoe, the Vans AV Era, was tested and perfected by him, based on the original Era from 1976, only rebuilt to survive the punishment of modern street skating."

11:08pm: more Sakamoto
"The result is, that it takes an electronic impulse about 130 milliseconds to go around the world once. Translated into pop music vernacular, that's an ordinary 16th note. If part of a musical composition is always one 16th note behind the rest, the piece will give you a kind of musical motion sickness. People will imagine that it is a mistake in the performance. Ears are far more sensitive than that. We've got to get around the speed of light or the performance won't work."

10:55pm: Sakamoto
"Once things have been made digital, expressed in digits, it doesn't matter how the hardware or media changes, the data gains a semipermanent state."

2:17am: Vangelis
"He explains his customary method of approach. As soon as the musical idea is there, as many keyboards as possible are connected to the control-desk, which in turn are directly connected to the applicable tracks of the multi-trackmachine. The idea now is to play as many keyboards as possible at the same time. That way as broad a basis as possible develops which only needs fine-tuning. After that it's a question of adding things or leaving out things."

4:24pm: clothes that I've lost over the years, part 1
blue windbreaker (Portland)
brown, acrylic sweater
plain, black t-shirt

9:57am: "That link is about a artifical program to create glitches in a video/video games. This is just created with a sega genesis and a camera. Theres dif types of glitches. Some people do databends."

9:33am: koto
"The kinuta is primitive machinery for refining cloth materials. Though this machine no longer exists, the sound of the kinuta has often been described in poetry and music and suggests the sad monotones of the fall season. The rustling leaves and the voices of insects always accompanied the sound of the kinuta when autumn arrived."

"(kengyo is an honorary title given to blind koto masters)"

10:52am: "... I think drumkit has some wrong sounds. 47th, 45th, 43rd and 41st drum sounds are wrong. 45 is louder than 47 and looks like 38, 41 is a little pitch downed.
But anyway it is still the best converter! And it is so good to have this for free!"

"I put a lot of bagpipe in my songs, and I put electric guitar too.

But I find the bagpipe (109) sound of the set #1 a bit "cheap". But the bagpipe of the set #5 is quite realistic. Could you replace the bagpipe of the set #1 by the bagpipe of the set #6 ?"

"When using the Instrument Set #4, if you have a song with synth strings, it plays the notes normal but theres a high pitched noise with it. It's annoying as hell and I wanna know if it will get fixed."

"We are probably not going to fix any instrument in any instrument set. In the future, we are going to let users choose the sound for each MIDI track in a MIDI."

"They are essentially a set of 128 instrument soundfonts plus drums soundfonts. There's many way to make soundfonts, one of the way is by live recording of the instrument note by note."

1:17pm: "sooner or later celly phones will take the shape of brain implants which will include all the regular features of a celly phone and then some. this flickr stream "cellybrain" is an attempt make those technology companies hurry up by maxing out the features of celly phones and letting them know we need implants and we need them now."

11:04am: Gmail tasks
brick fuse with each brick different color
transcribe Sound Club to MIDI
Tu Mondo Privado
custom modded Mario Paints
MIDIs through filter
The Muse in the Machine: Computerizing the Poetry of Human Thought
Mirror Worlds
Or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox: How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean
Zeroes and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture
MIDI microphone
cart
big, plastic chain necklace
dark grey/grey on white brick
splash page random b/w tile
tumblr RPG
DOD FX25
cellphone MIDI
fuse plaid
exposed brick wall fuse
tinypic animation movies
cheap shirts with markers
turn old b/w printer into rainbow printer
custom sweaters
scripts for certain kinds of Paint/gif animation - gradient strobe, shift, etc
LED
tile type
low end tile business
laminate color printouts on colored paper
magnet TV pics
glossy poster
stacked MIDI modules
Prince, "Scandalous", Sade, 90's airy string rap
custom hats
Point Break, Mark Isham
solar panel
send book to Chad Wiener, _____
Flam (Grace-note) and Shuffle on 707
coloring book, postcards
hallenbeck.com
photo "processing" services
smiley tongue with sunglasses shirt
sculpting concrete blocks
tour with Alex Vivian
duotone all photos
"cache" system for thumbnails
next year's proposal, next vid, next application
handstyle bitmap fonts
MS Paint "Callig Tip" book, Kid Pix drip pen, DOS Graffiti
side 1 orig samples, side 2 all house bass and 707
animated gif of Apple II random gr using emulator screenshots
animation between greyscale and color scan of marker
bitmap sports tees and tanks - basketball, Chicago font city and name, marker colored in?
link to mobile tumblr from site
youtube thumbs
gossip AI
youtube playlists
Apple II random & stuff in keyed out zones
TimeLord album one day
Command Prompt
models for shirts
put up mt-32 sysex or databases
Dee-lite, 808 state
poster, video for projection
have someone mix another mt-32?
fabric markers canvas shoe
switcher has midi learn feature
grant - virtual tour
ringtone - Sim City MIDI
custom icons as basis for Mario Paint movie
2 step64s - 1 double tempo or different shuffles!!!
Mario Paint - rotate in cells
double exposure album
future police twitter
.info
light bright pegs in foamcore
Lego... elements of master show
Sound Club - Times New Roman black sweatshirt with text

2:37pm: "I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life but that great consciousness of life."

11:14pm: "There are only theories on why people with Asperger's tend to avoid eye contact, find banal interactions so stressful, and seek solace in repetitive activities. Humans are a social species; Asperger's turns social interaction into a source of suffering."

"I always knew that I was real different," he says. "It's like everyone else has a bucket for dealing with people and I only got a cup. When my cup gets too full, then I shut down."

"the video is set to classical music, because Clay thought it made the promo seem more sophisticated."

"When Quiksilver asked him to do a short promotional video for a new line of boardshorts, he delivered a characteristically blunt assessment on camera. "They should be a little longer. Maybe with better material, too," he said of the neon-pink trunks. "And I don't like the color." It's only at this point that Clay realized he might have said the wrong thing. "Why, do you want me to like them?""

"he likes being home, where he can raid the fridge and edit his videos."

"A big part of the problem was the need to compete for waves in the lineup—what surfers refer to as "hassling." Not surprisingly, Clay finds these negotiations tiresome and frustrating. "A lot of the stuff you have to do [to win contests] is bullshit," he says. "If the waves aren't good, then it's just a paddle battle. It's not about real surfing.""

3:41pm: "Space Quarks was probably one of the more widely-distributed games for the Apple. Apple included it on the "Apple at Play" compilation disk that came with Apple II computers, making Space Quarks the Apple home computer equivalent to a console "pack-in" game (like Super Mario Bros for the NES)."

12:52pm: "if you woke up one day and found your monitor was applying a "smoothing" filter to everything it displayed, and you couldn't switch it off, how many stories would it fall when you threw it out the window?"

11:38pm: my dad accidentally turning on italics in an email and not knowing how to turn it off

What key did I push to get italics?    testing, testing...  t t t t t   ( I better get used to this)

It's late

Hope you are o.k.   Take care of yourself

Love from all.