Signal Artifacts will be released in a few days. Christian has done a great job with the release and has some excellent photos of the CD set – far better than I could do.
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A little content
New video at YouTube.
New graphics at flickr
Busy updating the website in anticipation of the new music release on Resting Bell
Lots in progress and moving at pace
Flat out busy rationalising projects and getting ready for my next batch of marking. The new CD packaging for Venus Vulture – Signal Artifacts is nearly ready. I’d forgotten how much work it is to put these things together right. It will be available when the official release comes out on Resting Bell soon. I’m putting together a “shop” page for the website to make it more straightforward to get things.
I’ll post again when there’s something tangible 🙂
New Venus Vulture track available
I’ve joined reverbnation to use their promotional tools – especially the widgets that can be embedded on other sites. Now I need to figure out how the embedding works … at the moment the link on the top right should be a little media player, but I can only get the line to work. I’ve uploaded a new ambient track on my page there – Tolela visiting the ghost July 1913. Have a listen, become a fan (as I type this, you would become my number 1 fan).
Yeah – new stuff uploaded
Gathered together some new things and something old to keep the interest up:
New video at Youtube – August Sleep – a minute and a half of dream swirls.
Old music – the remix I submitted for the Post Piano Open Remix Project from Taylor Deupree and Kenneth Kirschner a few years back – here on archive.org. Including some of the working files, and the graphics too.
New computer images – A new set of 25 images. This makes a nice slideshow, the images run across each other; August Sleep.
Busy August, but more stuff coming
August has been flat out with marking creative writing portfolios, preparing for the open mike show and writing a book review of Andrew Davidson’s new novel The Gargoyle. I’ve got some new pictures to upload and some old music to put up from from the archives. I will do a post when there’s new stuff.
Multimedia night – 20th August
I will be reading from Sassere – forgotten trees as guest poet at the library’s Stand Up Poetry Launch. The open mike poets will do their thing, then I’m going to read from the book with a slideshow of the photos on the bigscreen with the soundscape playing over the PA. Excellent.
Pen and ink picture
My sister Jane has been photographically experimenting with a pen and ink picture I did for her a few years back – you can see the results here. Cool. Now maybe I need to photograph or scan some of my old hand-drawn/hand-painted stuff and put it up myself … so much of what I do these days is digital anyway.
angles-moire video on YouTube
I’ve put up a new Venus Vulture video on YouTube . It’s a more blocky thing than the earlier videos, with some drum patterns built across the drifty soundscape.
Moire patterns (there’s an acute over the e, and I guess there’s some way to put that on here, but I can’t figure it) are interference patterns created by intersecting sets of lines – say when you’re passing a wire fence and the lines of another fence beyond interact to create highlights and lowlights. In the video the striations on the blocks seem to bend a flicker a little as the pixels of the image can’t quite manage to show the details. Some artifacts from various compressions through the process, but still intriguing.
Review online as part of Community Reads
The Palmerston North City Library (where I work) is having a Community Reads promotion. One of the books is Two Little Boys by Duncan Sarkies, which I had reviewed for The Christchurch Press earlier this year. They’ve kindly given permission for the review to made available online here (.pdf file) on the library’s site during the promotion.
Triple V Publishing 