n0mad23 From Montesano, Washington United States

From : Montesano, Washington United States

Joined : Sat 18th Apr 2009

Last Logged : Thu 10th Dec 2009

Sex : M

Birthday : Unknown

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Jack of all trades and master of most.

Musically I'm interested in psycho-acoustic phenomena - hidden melodies, visual hallucinations, etc., but in conjunction with the emotional effects that music causes. I mean, hey aren't there traditions about this stuff going back to the dawn?

balalaika, mandolin, godji, rebab, gembri, didgeridoo, genggong, guitar, talking drum, African drums, tablas, balaphone, molo, kalimba, nose flute

Started a few months ago playing with Audacity, Psycle, I AM THE MIGHTY JUNGULATOR, Livid Looper, and trakAxPC - now the 2009 Jungulator (yes! I tracked down the programmer) and Lloopp (a copyleft program). All free or donationware. Found myself happily lost in the Max MSP runtime environment.

Now I'm doing less of the above and learning Ableton Live 7 LE. After exploring the above, I'm finding Live to be a somewhat familiar ground. It's amazing what's possible in 2009 that wasn't even 4 or 5 years ago.

Battalion 101 CZ-9 Ultra laptop - dual core 2.0 gHz, 4 gigs of ram, 3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard

M-Audio Axiom 25

Laney Linebacker amp (1980?) and a Boss DD2.

Currently on a loop listening to Lee "Scratch" Perry. Adrian Sherwood. Audio Active.

And lot's of tracks from this site, both online and now downloaded.

On-U-Sound Adrian Sherwood's Slash & Mix, Wire - "Pink Flag", Habib Koite - "Maya", Congotronix, Super Rail Band du Bamako (any lp), Tinarewin (any of their rebellion music), Ali Farka Toure "Niafunke", The Clash - "Sandanista"

People around the world playing music - My childhood was spent in Cameroon and Indonesia and I think it's pretty evident in my musical choices.

Playing music with people that were a whole lot better than me.

my music sounds - which is why the subject of musical genre really throws me for a loop (pun intended).

Recovering English professor, writer, digital artiste, happily married father of 2 (and listening to my sprog play trumpet, sax, violin, flute, and piano!