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April 22 – post_moot 2010 a 2nd convocation of unorthodox cultural and poetic practices
Oxford, Ohio
Over fifty poets, artists, musicians, etc.! Oh my!

April 23 – t.b.a.

April 24th – New York City Bent Festival
The Tank, Hell’s Kitchen, NYC
Bent is primarily a circuit bending festival that has opened its doors to other experimental, homemade, and bizarre musics. We play sometime on the second day of this three-day festival.

April 25th – t.b.a.
Philadelphia, PA

April 26th – t.b.a.

April 27th – ?

Please contact me or KBD if you can offer and assistance with t.b.a. dates.

Been recording a bit… here is a little sampling of some of the stuff I’ve been working on.

Recorded live with a small four channel Behringer mixer acting as a no-input mixer sent to a large Mackie mixer with several channels of effect loops running to several other channels. The “rhythms” and “tempos” are altered slightly by changing levels of equalization and input throughout the first part of the piece before the effects are brought in to eventually take over the “organic” rhythm. I sort of sounds to me like a bizarre drum circle of analog hippie aliens in the forrest of a two dimensional world somewhere. The abrupt ending was done by simply unplugging the inputs.

Also really wanted to re-experiment with Drop.io as an audio-sharing tool. Wish the background wasn’t white

Last week, in a bit of preparation for the upcoming winter break–it really cannot come fast enough–I started taking apart my effects board to add the second keyboard stand and try to make it all travel worthy. With a few shows coming up in the Spring, I need to figure out how to get this stuff on a plane… oof.

A few cords hang about, but the mixer is largely alone. A ukelele and a reverb tank. One may not get used the next time around. Some sticks, drum and chop varieties.

I think this is nearly all my pedals. Some are pieces of junk and won’t get used. Others are pieces of junk and will get used.

Contact microphone storage is a cinch with this old metal case from a socket set. I like to use radio shack piezos. I remove the plastic shells, making the microphones fragile. I add a little bit of Gorilla Glue on the back and use that green sticky stuff used to put up posters.

Next… a more completed board.