This Processing sketch looks for faces 4 times a second and writes a thumbnail image of every face it finds. Thanks to OpenCV and the Processing folks I’m well on the way to iPhoto’s face recognition!
My computer has a crush on Nick Stedman. I pointed it at him and two students and it took like 300 of these, and none of the students:
Christine has some great audio and photos (by Ali Eisner) of our Hall & Oates show at the Tranzac. Man, we really looked the part! This is Bryden conducting the singalong. What an amazing picture. Bravo Ali!
More awesome photos, plus audio, on Christine’s site.
My friend Luis (Mandelbrut) just sent me a link to his new website. He’s doing a weekly noise podcast, which can be nothing but amazing. Luis is one of the most interesting, most creative and scariest musicians I know. He’s also hand-built most of his gear, which includes tons of electronic effects, a few physical instruments and several really classy and strange synths.
I think it’s really cool that he’s sharing an album of music with the world for free on a weekly basis.
This has lots of ideas. It needs some specifics. It needs a story.
I’ve (finally) started putting lead sheets for all my tunes into the same electronic place (I’ve got photocopies and handwritten charts everywhere) and I figure I’ll put them here as I progress.
Tim Shia calls Giant things by the side of the highway my indie jazz mega-hit.
Here’s a recording of Christine and I playing it at the Tranzac. We’ve been playing it slower and slower, to the point that now we just play it once through, no solos, otherwise it’s unbearably long. Here we play it twice:
[audio:http://fancydavid.com/_fancydavid/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Giant-things-by-the-side-of-the-highway.mp3|titles=Giant things by the side of the highway]Giant things by the side of the highway (pdf)
Fine print, in which I presume somebody likes this: Feel free to use as you like, as long as you don’t run afoul of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License I’m using. Also, it’s okay to play this stuff on a gig, which is sort of commercial but understood to be cool. Otherwise, get in touch and we can work something out. If you want to use it on a record, please let me know. If you play it at a show and record it, I’d love to hear what you do with it.
It’s a bit of space above my desk. So far it’s just a bunch of words. Now I move things around and see what happens.
Usually I wait until way too late to put stuff onto cue cards. This is only a little bit late.