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This Thursday 12.8.11 I’ll be doing a live set at The Outer Space in Hamden CT.  The Outer Space is the 21+ venue operated in conjunction with Hamden’s legendary “The Space.”

I’m appearing as part of BDUB’s Sway night.  I’ll be on around 830.   This will be strictly a vinyl-only affair… no surprises there.  Have a beer or four as i dig into the best of 2o years spent searching for the secret gems of Nixon-Era rocknroll…  for a preview you can check out my two recent appearances on WPKN FM.  Listen here and here…  and check this link for some recent mixtapes...

The Outer Space:  295 Treadwell Street, Hamden CT: Thurs Dec 8 2011

Walking around Philadelphia I noticed this shop-window.  Wow these people really had my number.   The shop is called Art In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction (h.f. AITAOMR), which is a reference to a seminal essay by Walter Benjamin.  Benjamin was interested in understanding how our concept of value in art was altered by the new processes of mechanical reproduction (offset printing, phonograph records, etc) which became widely available in the early 20th century.  ANYways… AITAOMR is a fine shop with appealling apparel and lifestyle items offered for sale.   They also market their own line of rustic flavored boozes you can sample in the shop  (sold elsewhere at licensed agents).

Turns out that the shop-window display is part of an in-store exhibit of audio-technology that was put together by record producer/engineer Bill Moriarty, who has worked with popular artists like Man Man and Dr. Dog.    It’s a fun tactile display that foregrounds some of the crucial basic processes we use in audio work: editing, mixing, reverberation, ‘effects processing,’ etc.

The exhibit is up for a few more days; you can read more about it in Moriarty’s own words at his blog.

Teenage Pain

Is So Real

I purchased a chromed-the-fukk-out sixties no-name hollowbody for a few bucks at the flea mkt last weekend.  Nothing special, but marker’d inside the case was this piece of folk art.  Too bad it didn’t have a four-track demo of this kid’s music in there too.

Kinda reminds of the best haiku I ever heard:   “Fifteen.” Credit for this one goes to K.M.:

sitting in my room

metallica really rules

I am so angry

See here for more ‘exclusive bonus content.’

UPDATE:

SEE HERE for a film-version of ‘found in an old guitar case’

This coming weekend: November 12+13 2011: we will be having another Open Studio event at our arts building in historic Bridgeport CT.  Forty artists and fine craftmakers will open their studios and exhibit their work and their work-practices in our century-old lace factory, and this is only one part of a larger Bridgeport Arts Trail going on that weekend (read some media coverage of the event here).   Believe-it-or-not, our dusty lil post-industrial town features not one but three very large art-space buildings, and there is some fantastic work to see (and hear…).  After you’ve come by to listen to some of my Recycled Champs, the Model 22277 hi-fi amplifier, and my latest development in all-tube mic preamps (w/ ancient RCA 76 tubes), be sure to check out the work (and amazing studio) of the photographer Tom Mezzanotte, world-renowned quilter and textile artist Denyse Schmidt, and all the odd characters that have assembled in this strange+semi abandoned place that we call BPT.  If you’re lucky, you might even get to commission some print-on-demand work from my wonderful wife E., who will have numerous print-publications of her work for sale.  Details and directions below.

More seventies nonsense

Shit, man, just record all that shit direct!  You don’t need to mic it!   Naturally, a surface-transducer manufacturer would make such a suggestion.  But could you imagine?  Awful.  The sound of a great player with a great instrument can be wonderful.  But put that combination in a great sounding space and (well recorded) you can elevate it immensely. Or just run it direct.  Either way.