Friday, February 10, 2012
Monday, February 06, 2012
Pictures of People Taking Pictures
Travel photos, pt. 3: "Taking Pictures of People Taking Pictures." An old hobby of mine, resurrected for international hi jinx!






Labels: Trips
Friday, February 03, 2012
Graf Misc. East Coast
Travel photos, pt.2: graffiti from Montreal to New York.
In Montreal, outside the cemetery:

In Burlington, VT. Good one, hippies:

Down the block from our old place in Bay Ridge (er, "Bay Radge"):

On Broadway, north of Canal. An ad, maybe (?), but still the largest paste-up I've ever seen:

In Montreal, outside the cemetery:

In Burlington, VT. Good one, hippies:
Down the block from our old place in Bay Ridge (er, "Bay Radge"):

On Broadway, north of Canal. An ad, maybe (?), but still the largest paste-up I've ever seen:
Labels: Trips
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Graf BCN
Not entirely sure how best to post our travel photos from December, so I'm starting with the "Graffiti in Barcelona" section. Enjoy:































Labels: Trips
Monday, January 30, 2012
Photos from Saturday's show
Running with the "Lightness & Darkness" theme, Jess and I played Thingamagoops on Saturday through the following pedals:
Jess:

Peter:

(I used the 4-track as a looper (there's a tape loop in a cassette in there))
This guy (AJ Cesena) built a tent out of thin cloth and mic stands before his set, which looked great:

...and these nice people wrestled around on the floor while we played, which happened some three and a half hours after it was scheduled to:

We recorded the set, but something went a little haywire and what we got was 25 minutes of silence. A shame!
Jess:
Peter:
(I used the 4-track as a looper (there's a tape loop in a cassette in there))
This guy (AJ Cesena) built a tent out of thin cloth and mic stands before his set, which looked great:
...and these nice people wrestled around on the floor while we played, which happened some three and a half hours after it was scheduled to:
We recorded the set, but something went a little haywire and what we got was 25 minutes of silence. A shame!
Labels: Events, Other bands we're in
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Holy shit we're playing a show tonight!
We're playing at a book release party tonight for Lightness & Darkness at the Happy Dog (1542 N. Milwaukee, Second Floor). We'll be backing up readings by Taleen Kalenderian and Nicki Yowell. Starts 9ish, we go on second.
See you there!
See you there!
Labels: Events, Other bands we're in
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Speers tape in the wild
We've been on the road for the past couple of weeks, and before we put up a travel Mega-Post, I thought I'd mention first that the Speers cassette can now be found at the following record stores (there are two copies in each):
Montreal:
Phonopolis
Brooklyn:
Academy Annex
Desert Island
Barcelona:
Discos Paradiso
Luchador Records (no website yet-- NEW STORE!-- but it's next door to Discos Paradiso)
We'll be stopping by shops here in Chicago this week as well (Logan Hardware and Permanent for sure) and with any luck they'll carry them too. UPDATE: Logan Hardware now has one. These are the only Colonial tapes to be sold in a store ever, aside from the one time our pal Lucas found a copy of the first Iran Contras album in an Oakland Salvation Army. What a score!!
Anyway, if you're near any of the above and are looking for a copy, stop on by. We're pretty much out all 50 at this point, but will have a couple of new tapes out in the coming weeks. Details soon...
Montreal:
Phonopolis
Brooklyn:
Academy Annex
Desert Island
Barcelona:
Discos Paradiso
Luchador Records (no website yet-- NEW STORE!-- but it's next door to Discos Paradiso)
We'll be stopping by shops here in Chicago this week as well (Logan Hardware and Permanent for sure) and with any luck they'll carry them too. UPDATE: Logan Hardware now has one. These are the only Colonial tapes to be sold in a store ever, aside from the one time our pal Lucas found a copy of the first Iran Contras album in an Oakland Salvation Army. What a score!!
Anyway, if you're near any of the above and are looking for a copy, stop on by. We're pretty much out all 50 at this point, but will have a couple of new tapes out in the coming weeks. Details soon...
Labels: Other bands we're in, Trips
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Pagan Feelings live in New York!
Everyone's favorite Summertime Fun Band of 2011, Pagan Feelings, will be playing at Cameo in Brooklyn on Thursday, December 22nd. Also on the bill:
Blood Revenge (Ben of The New Colossus)
Face Blindness (Chris and Lindsay of Radical Dads)
and... mystery band... still figuring that one out...
Anyway, ours is the late show, doors at 9pm. 93 N. 6th St., Brookyln. Cheap entry, good vibes aplenty.
Also, there will be copies of the Speers cassette and an even rarer CD-edition (10 copies) of the upcoming Pagan Feelings tape (Colonial Recordings USA #105). Be there and get your beautiful hands on them!!
Blood Revenge (Ben of The New Colossus)
Face Blindness (Chris and Lindsay of Radical Dads)
and... mystery band... still figuring that one out...
Anyway, ours is the late show, doors at 9pm. 93 N. 6th St., Brookyln. Cheap entry, good vibes aplenty.
Also, there will be copies of the Speers cassette and an even rarer CD-edition (10 copies) of the upcoming Pagan Feelings tape (Colonial Recordings USA #105). Be there and get your beautiful hands on them!!
Labels: Events, Other bands we're in
Tuesday, December 06, 2011
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Here's something I've been working on this semester:
It's a series of live mixes, using a modular synthesizer, sheets of metal and reverb units as the sound sources. The "presentation version," which I'll be debuting in a couple of hours, features two 7-foot sheets of aluminum, wired as reverberant amplifiers, as the rear channels of a 4-channel playback system:

It's a series of live mixes, using a modular synthesizer, sheets of metal and reverb units as the sound sources. The "presentation version," which I'll be debuting in a couple of hours, features two 7-foot sheets of aluminum, wired as reverberant amplifiers, as the rear channels of a 4-channel playback system:
Sunday, December 04, 2011
Doepfer A-143-1 for sale!
We're selling our Doepfer A-143-1 Complex Envelope Generator-- one of the true gems of the Doepfer catalog, in my opinion-- on eBay. If you're in the market, Buy It Now!
EDIT: SOLD (12/5)
Here are a couple of videos with the very 143-1 mentioned above from what Vimeo is telling me was three years ago (that can't be right, can it?):
EDIT: SOLD (12/5)
Here are a couple of videos with the very 143-1 mentioned above from what Vimeo is telling me was three years ago (that can't be right, can it?):
