Using the Nintendo Wii remote and nunchuck for music and sound design.
on WNYC’s Radio Lab:
What is music? How does it work? Why does it move us? Why are some people better at it than others? In this hour, we examine the line between language and music, how the brain processes sound, and we meet a composer who uses computers to capture the musical DNA of dead composers in order to create new work. We also re-imagine the disastrous 1913 debut of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring…through the lens of modern neurology.
Between music, culture, a rock, and a hard place.
Chaim and Billy both lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, just blocks away from each other, in worlds that almost never collided. Chaim was a Hasidic Jew — he’d never heard pop music or watched MTV. Billy Campion, known as the rocker Vic Thrill, was the star of an underground band. Billy put Chaim, who took on the name Curly Oxide, into the band, and in just one year, he leapt from the 19th century into the 21st. Read More
Ticky-Tacky…
Megan and I took a crack at record our own version of the Weeds title sequence “Little Boxes”, written by Malvina Reynolds. Read More
Deconversion Mix
As part of Nine Inch Nails’ remix extravaganza, we decided to form an entirely new base of “Survivalism”, leaving only the melody.
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An incredible Tom Waits interview from Playboy, 1988.