Well, I will definitely be attending this event. If you are interested you must hurry to be able to attend. Here's the agenda:
EVENT DETAILS
Event Name The New Efficiency: IT Professional and Developer Technical Briefings Phoenix
Start Date Monday, September 28, 2009
Start Time 9:00 AM
End Date Monday, September 28, 2009
End Time 4:45 PM
Time Zone Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Event Location AMC Desert Ridge 18
Address 21001 N. Tatum Blvd, Suite 32
Phoenix, AZ 85050
Venue Telephone Number 888-262-4386
Link here: https://microsoft.crgevents.com/TheNewEfficiency
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
The Absolute Freedom of Ableton Live!
First of all, it is imperative that you readers understand the crux of this post... A serious explanation of Ableton is first necessary. From the creators themselves:
Ableton Live 8 provides a comprehensive environment for writing, producing and performing music.
Session View
Live is the only music production software with the "Session View": a unique grid for recording and playing musical ideas and phrases. The Session View is non-linear, so you can record and play back your ideas in any order you want. When you're working on a new track, this is a smart, flexible way to write and record. If you're performing music live, it gives you complete flexibility and freedom to improvise.
Arrangement View
Live also has a second view: the "Arrangement View," a complete music production environment. This is the linear counterpart to the Session View and is well-suited to "traditional" recording, arranging and mixing. These two views interact with one another, each with its own strengths and intricacies. Both views are based on the single principle of creative, intuitive music-making.
Uninterrupted creative flow
In Live, you never have to stop the music. Record audio and MIDI on the fly, drop in loops and samples, add effects and swap sounds without ever hitting the stop button: everything happens in real time. You're free to improvise and the computer actually becomes a musical instrument—an expressive and creative tool, perfectly at home on stage or in the studio.
Beats made easy
Live's unique Drum Rack combines drag-and-drop simplicity in a familiar pad-style interface. Each of the 128 drum pads can have its own instrument or sample plus effects. Slice beats, loops or REX files to MIDI for additional control options and use the new groove feature (which includes grooves from the legendary MPC and SP1200 machines) to add swing to your beats.
Creative expression for DJs
Mix and match tracks and loops automatically, remix on the fly, capture audio loops in real time from decks and other external sources, incorporate your own productions into the mix, and much more. Whether it's the centerpiece of the DJ rig or just a creative sidearm, Live gives DJs entirely new worlds of creative expression.
Looping with Live
Not only for guitarists, the Ableton Looper gives you classic sound-on-sound looping without the limitations of a hardware device. Looper is set up for remote operation, so you can record, overdub, undo and more without touching the computer.
Totally compatible
Live works seamlessly with controller hardware and assigning custom MIDI controls is simple. Live supports AIFF, WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files, VST and AU effects and instruments. Live can handle REX files and runs as a ReWire Master or Slave, so it works nicely alongside other DAWs like Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase or Reason. And if you have a multicore or multiprocessor system, Live supports that, too.
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Ableton Live 8 provides a comprehensive environment for writing, producing and performing music.
Session View
Live is the only music production software with the "Session View": a unique grid for recording and playing musical ideas and phrases. The Session View is non-linear, so you can record and play back your ideas in any order you want. When you're working on a new track, this is a smart, flexible way to write and record. If you're performing music live, it gives you complete flexibility and freedom to improvise.
Arrangement View
Live also has a second view: the "Arrangement View," a complete music production environment. This is the linear counterpart to the Session View and is well-suited to "traditional" recording, arranging and mixing. These two views interact with one another, each with its own strengths and intricacies. Both views are based on the single principle of creative, intuitive music-making.
Uninterrupted creative flow
In Live, you never have to stop the music. Record audio and MIDI on the fly, drop in loops and samples, add effects and swap sounds without ever hitting the stop button: everything happens in real time. You're free to improvise and the computer actually becomes a musical instrument—an expressive and creative tool, perfectly at home on stage or in the studio.
Beats made easy
Live's unique Drum Rack combines drag-and-drop simplicity in a familiar pad-style interface. Each of the 128 drum pads can have its own instrument or sample plus effects. Slice beats, loops or REX files to MIDI for additional control options and use the new groove feature (which includes grooves from the legendary MPC and SP1200 machines) to add swing to your beats.
Creative expression for DJs
Mix and match tracks and loops automatically, remix on the fly, capture audio loops in real time from decks and other external sources, incorporate your own productions into the mix, and much more. Whether it's the centerpiece of the DJ rig or just a creative sidearm, Live gives DJs entirely new worlds of creative expression.
Looping with Live
Not only for guitarists, the Ableton Looper gives you classic sound-on-sound looping without the limitations of a hardware device. Looper is set up for remote operation, so you can record, overdub, undo and more without touching the computer.
Totally compatible
Live works seamlessly with controller hardware and assigning custom MIDI controls is simple. Live supports AIFF, WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files, VST and AU effects and instruments. Live can handle REX files and runs as a ReWire Master or Slave, so it works nicely alongside other DAWs like Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase or Reason. And if you have a multicore or multiprocessor system, Live supports that, too.
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Now that being said, the most important issues to glean from this are the various ways of implementing such a diverse and obviously mind cultivating application. First, I will delve into the VST plugins that are actually exterior (some internal and embedded) to Ableton, simply because expanding on their capacities in turn reflects on the absolute creative freedom Ableton supplies.
Stay tuned for the first in a massive and probably never-ending mass of blog posts touting this paradigm of software.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
The brilliant works of Bourbonese Qualk
Second installment of the blog which should be taken as an extension of the prior Dedication to Bryn Jones, this is an honorable mention of yet another inspirational force, and also a fantastic opportunity in and of itself for you to experience this firsthand. We speak of Bourbonese Qualk.
First, let’s dispense with the resources and such… Bourbonese Qualk (Simon Crab’s manifestation) has created an archive site – in their words: “bourbonese qualk archive is the official archive of the work of the group bourbonese qualk. the site documents their work from the beginnings in 1980 until the end in 2002. following the death of guitarist miles miles in october 2002 the remaining members decided to disband the group and release no new material. the archive is regularly maintained by former members of the group.” Visit it here: bourbonesequalk.net
The site offers the complete discography of Bourbonese Qualk, including compilation appearances, rare findings, and links to other projects, such as simon crab’s blog “the stalker” crab.wordpress.com. As a sidenote, check out the freely available tracks from Simon and Andy Wilson in the form of sunseaster split into two very difficult pieces at http://www.faust-pages.com/transfer/sunseastar/STAGE_B.sunseastar-set1.mp3 and http://www.faust-pages.com/transfer/sunseastar/STAGE_B.sunseastar-set2.mp3.
First, let’s dispense with the resources and such… Bourbonese Qualk (Simon Crab’s manifestation) has created an archive site – in their words: “bourbonese qualk archive is the official archive of the work of the group bourbonese qualk. the site documents their work from the beginnings in 1980 until the end in 2002. following the death of guitarist miles miles in october 2002 the remaining members decided to disband the group and release no new material. the archive is regularly maintained by former members of the group.” Visit it here: bourbonesequalk.net
The site offers the complete discography of Bourbonese Qualk, including compilation appearances, rare findings, and links to other projects, such as simon crab’s blog “the stalker” crab.wordpress.com. As a sidenote, check out the freely available tracks from Simon and Andy Wilson in the form of sunseaster split into two very difficult pieces at http://www.faust-pages.com/transfer/sunseastar/STAGE_B.sunseastar-set1.mp3 and http://www.faust-pages.com/transfer/sunseastar/STAGE_B.sunseastar-set2.mp3.
Tribute to Muslimgauze (Bryn Jones)
Greetings from the Land of Phrygia…
Our first installment on this blog was blaringly obvious. We are going to introduce you to some of our core influences, along with some background and links to free music.
Phrygia is the brainchild of david m boosamra, and thus subject to the mindset he imposes upon the “we” of Phrygia – basically a mild schizophrenic association to the third person. That being said, we will continue…
One of the most prolific and mind expanding influences we have ever encountered revolves around the works of the late Bryn Jones, better known as Muslimgauze . The first time we ever heard his music was on a tape that was stolen from a party. The music was circa early 80’s and featured on the “Elephant Table Album” (http://www.discogs.com/release/102803). This compilation was top shelf difficult music, arranged by Dave Henderson, with artwork from Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound). The artists were of such caliber as Bourbonese Qualk, Coil, SPK, Lustmørd, Nocturnal Emissions, Legendary Pink Dots, Nurse With Wound and of course, Muslimgauze.
This music completely shattered our comprehension and position in music, which adhered strictly to hardcore punk and subversive underground at the time. Forced to reckon with a new reasoning and approach to music, these Industrial (sic) / Noise / Minimalist artists set our minds forth on a repositioning of political, philosophical and social understanding. It wasn’t only about despising the system and screaming about it – it also could be conveyed in thoughtful, abstract and completely absorbing avenues as well.
Muslimgauze’s track (Melena Jesenska) stood out from the rest – it contained a dark contemplative verve and of course the hypnotic, almost mathematically perfect beats of Middle Eastern influence, which Bryn performed by hand, then usually manipulated through tape loops, sampling, layers, found sound, etc. The music was so pure and wrenching we had to find more. This prompted an endeavor of searching and collecting music that to this day we still have not fully achieved, and hopefully never will.
Enough about our realization of beauty – see and listen for yourself to the unbelievably massive library of sound that Bryn Jones created here: arabbox.free.fr. One thing that shines about this particular website is they offer a rare and free download of a taped session Bryn created for Steven Wilson (Bass Communion) in the course of a single day in 1996. It’s quite hypnotic and articulates the direction Bryn was heading during that time, but certainly is not fully indicative of all his creations, as they vary from minimal sound pastiches to deafening electro.
This, coupled with the fact that Bryn was an Englishman from Manchester, but totally committed to portraying the atrocities being committed on a completely foreign people (Afghanistan, Palestine, Iran) through their eyes, no holds barred. A dedication such as “Total commitment to the Palestinian cause – all direct forms of action justified…” was not beyond his scope of reasoning. He was and is heralded as a champion of the oppressed and occupied; no other artist we know of dedicated his entire being to causes as he did.
Bryn Jones suffered from a tragic blood immunity failure that quickly ended his tenure on this mortal plane. We are forever indebted to him and his works, which opened unending canyons of thought and creativity. RIP.
Our first installment on this blog was blaringly obvious. We are going to introduce you to some of our core influences, along with some background and links to free music.
Phrygia is the brainchild of david m boosamra, and thus subject to the mindset he imposes upon the “we” of Phrygia – basically a mild schizophrenic association to the third person. That being said, we will continue…
One of the most prolific and mind expanding influences we have ever encountered revolves around the works of the late Bryn Jones, better known as Muslimgauze . The first time we ever heard his music was on a tape that was stolen from a party. The music was circa early 80’s and featured on the “Elephant Table Album” (http://www.discogs.com/release/102803). This compilation was top shelf difficult music, arranged by Dave Henderson, with artwork from Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound). The artists were of such caliber as Bourbonese Qualk, Coil, SPK, Lustmørd, Nocturnal Emissions, Legendary Pink Dots, Nurse With Wound and of course, Muslimgauze.
This music completely shattered our comprehension and position in music, which adhered strictly to hardcore punk and subversive underground at the time. Forced to reckon with a new reasoning and approach to music, these Industrial (sic) / Noise / Minimalist artists set our minds forth on a repositioning of political, philosophical and social understanding. It wasn’t only about despising the system and screaming about it – it also could be conveyed in thoughtful, abstract and completely absorbing avenues as well.
Muslimgauze’s track (Melena Jesenska) stood out from the rest – it contained a dark contemplative verve and of course the hypnotic, almost mathematically perfect beats of Middle Eastern influence, which Bryn performed by hand, then usually manipulated through tape loops, sampling, layers, found sound, etc. The music was so pure and wrenching we had to find more. This prompted an endeavor of searching and collecting music that to this day we still have not fully achieved, and hopefully never will.
Enough about our realization of beauty – see and listen for yourself to the unbelievably massive library of sound that Bryn Jones created here: arabbox.free.fr. One thing that shines about this particular website is they offer a rare and free download of a taped session Bryn created for Steven Wilson (Bass Communion) in the course of a single day in 1996. It’s quite hypnotic and articulates the direction Bryn was heading during that time, but certainly is not fully indicative of all his creations, as they vary from minimal sound pastiches to deafening electro.
This, coupled with the fact that Bryn was an Englishman from Manchester, but totally committed to portraying the atrocities being committed on a completely foreign people (Afghanistan, Palestine, Iran) through their eyes, no holds barred. A dedication such as “Total commitment to the Palestinian cause – all direct forms of action justified…” was not beyond his scope of reasoning. He was and is heralded as a champion of the oppressed and occupied; no other artist we know of dedicated his entire being to causes as he did.
Bryn Jones suffered from a tragic blood immunity failure that quickly ended his tenure on this mortal plane. We are forever indebted to him and his works, which opened unending canyons of thought and creativity. RIP.
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