pencil, ink, acrylic and gouache on cardboard, 1990s
11 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches
"Inkling"
"Inkling" [mp3 moved to Bandcamp]
The Sidstation is a synth built around the sound chip for the Commodore 64 (a 1980s home computer). The Octatrack sequencer that I used to make this track (triggering the Sid and recording its notes) originates with the same company, many years later. (Am trying to avoid writing ads here - if I wanted to read them I'd spend more time on Twitter.)
This starts out video-game-y and then changes gears with some fuller-sounding beats sampled from... another company's product.
"ChamberVirus 2013"
"ChamberVirus 2013" [mp3 removed]
A redo of a 2006 tune that I modestly described as:
Tech house Morton Subotnick using 2 softsamplers and some Access Virus effects sounds and drum hits from the Drat Fink Archive.
It's not house but more like polyrhythmic chamber music (that modesty again) using commercial, dance-oriented electronic drum samples. In 2013 (yesterday) I shortened it, added a wistful pad melody so there is more contrast with the pristine elements and the blatty noise music.
bob ross stays home
Here in America, a nation of fun-lovers, we are busy rehabilitating George Bush Jr. as an adorable pet painter, but other countries have longer memories. Mr. Art Man had to cancel a fun trip to wacky Europe recently out of fear of being arrested as a torturer. Buzz kill, man.
digital testaments
On the topic of Rio players and dedicated U2 iPods, above is a Bible pod from the Walmart website (hat tip mashedpo). You could theoretically use any mp3 player to hear the Bible being read aloud but the Audible Audiobooks versions have restrictive DRM to make them unplayable outside Audible's own proprietary software and besides, there is the hassle of loading the player. Hence this beeper-sized audio Bible that has only one (canonical) text.
Walmart also offers this blackberry style Bible in text-only.