Month: October 2018
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$13 Is Cheaper than a New Blu-Ray Player
A number of years ago I bought a nice Yamaha Aventage Blu-Ray player. I bought this model because it’s a so-called “universal” disc player, able to deal with nearly any format in existence, including high-resolution SACDs and DVD-As. On top of that, reviews gave it very high marks for its audio quality for just playing…
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Weird Dreams
Weird dreams last night make for a weird morning eat some yogurt and granola try to shake it off
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Sunday errands
Today I bought light bulbs salsa freeze-dried cat food then had a beer and poutine now I’m writing this
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To Make Sound Art You Just Need a Recorder
Dictaphone, cassette recorder, microcassette recorder, digital voice recorder, smartphone. That’s it. Hit record, make sound. These are the fundamentals I have to remind myself of every so often, when I get too obsessed with fidelity and having really good microphones and recording with many more bits and samples. Sure, there’s nothing wrong with quality, until…
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Keeping It in the (Sony NEX) Family
After writing this post about how much I still love my 8-year-old Sony NEX-5, I did actually buy a new camera. Well, not so much a new camera as a newer camera. I bought the last model in Sony’s NEX line, before it was consolidated into its Alpha line of cameras. In the process of…
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FS09 – ELEPHANT – As (1984)
French 1980s electropop cassette. Sublime. At Internet Archive.
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Uncreative Writing and Sucking on Words
I think Kenneth Goldsmith may have rekindled my love for writing.