my newest ukulele hero

It's 1:11 am and I'm waiting for some cinnamon-raisin bread I'm making to bake in the oven. I tested it with a knife, and it's still not done, so I have some time to write my first future folk blog post ever.

This guy I met used to work at the same community radio station I do recommended that I listen to ukulele-collage-ist Tune Yards (aka Merrill Garbus) a couple of weeks ago. And so I did. And then I listened to it again. And again. I've been listening ever since.

This is Tune Yards:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=5902638

Isn't it great? It reminds me of the recurring dreams I used to have when I was in middle school of swimming with my clothes on but staying dry: joyful and eerie and unreal. Plus, I'm just a sucker for the ukulele.

Okay, the bread is finally done! Maybe I'll bring the leftovers to my string quartets seminar class tomorrow.

-Aliza

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you think you can joust? i’ll tell you who bought your mouse and you remind me about the letter frequency i detailed by satellite convergence-
FIRE SEA OF A FAD BAN

ominous tree vampages bungling blind drip stains portal precious conjunctions.
food stains on chin. eating to stop qua lude control regional kibble brace kit stong boss finger finnick. you argus finnick! wharkin zebetrim ping orlfayger podge. measels whyling crrinkicky pastlegess mon r key whinglipr.

advancing a stance

Three Sundays ago
I went from brigadier General
to brigadier seminole-
I swear I am awful thirsty.

kind of luxor friendly,
conviviance snies.

true dear shin through
dear knee.

Awful oblong and oblagato.
Je cruz kai moleinda.

Walk your tracy train
as its greatest hits pulls in the station.

Sorely I’ve missed a view
and greased bills for naught-
but lace me away for I am prepped.

Tele van Angel
moped, turkey leg!
and agro-indicated lemming lowry....
dressing down the dialtones
miss Junior Executive.

cool water gown;
misty chips
and a side of legumes
with your pay increase.

Seeing Space

Lebbus Woods; on Seeing Space

Artist-In-Residency call for submissions. (Boston)   "Willoughby and Baltic is dedicated to the advancement of physical computing and industrial arts as a medium by providing work space, education, public programming, and exhibitions. " Link

Tacheles

Article about Berlin Art Commune/Squat

"interactive" tour of Tacheles

Arts Stimulus

Interesting read about government funding for the arts. 

news for news

http://www.democracynow.org/

An acquaintance of mine Manuel has been doing some crazy stuff  lately with midi. He recently built a "mididuino" which is an AVR based midi controller running the Arduino Software so that its super easy to program for non-nerds.  If none of that made sense, it is a midi controller that lets you easily make things like polyrhythmic sequencers based on the euclidean algorithm. (huh?) well, the theory of all music having mathematical formulas that govern their rhythms doesn't let you listen to Dancehall the same again. (Godfried Toussaint's paper called "The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms" talks about this) Manuel is starting to do some cool things with generating sculptures and graphics from music too so his site is chock full of cool things these days.  

data is nature is a real cool site worth checking out. Its a blog about art, science, artificial intelligence, nature, and computers creating and working together.

More Boston Folk

Hey all, Invisible Circle here.

Everybody check out Prince Rama of Ayodhya, a Boston band associated with the Whitehaus Family thing posted about earlier.

www.myspace.com/princeramaofayodhya

Their record, Threshold Dances, is pretty great, great tunes and great jams, and Taraka has a great voice. But to really experience this band, you've got to see them live. The drumming REALLY kills live, and they hand out instruments to the entire audience. One of the most fun shows I've seen in a long time.

If any of ya'll will be around Brookly/Queens on February 20th, Invisible Circle will be playing a show with Prince Rama at the Silent Barn in Ridgewood, Queens. Other rad bands too, and I'll be DJing world folk music with my pal Turner.

Oh hey, if anyone wants, I have this photoblog that I made while I was traveling in Asia. Check it if you want surprisingshocksofbeingthere.blogspot.com. I might even start updating it again.

Dave/Invisible Circle

Spring Mxxxtape

I've been playing around with Opentape on my site which is like the short lived; but really cool Muxtape. So to get out of the winter slump here is my spring mixtape full of reggae and dub cuts.