Music, Robots, and Robotic Music

So I’ve been in Fargo since the 21st or so of December.

Nothing has really changed too much; it is still an aging, frozen shithole. The 19th Ave Taco Bell burned down. I think everything else is pretty much the same.

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So most of my time has been consumed by music. For the most part all I’ve been listening to is Orchestral Music and Jazz, namely Classical Minnesota Radio, Cello Sonatas, and Freddie Hubbard (who by the way, passed away this 29th of December ). He was one of my favorite trumpet players to listen to. If you want to hear a spectacular Jazz album, listen to Red Clay.

Been trying to get up to speed with the cello (took a break for a month or so), which has been going pretty well. As for finding a good private lessons instructor, I’m basically screwed, because I think I have to take from the instructor from Concordia to play in the orchestra, and the amazing professor who used to teach here retired. Some idiot who apparently has no idea what he’s doing is teaching cello there now, despite other inarguably better candidates not getting the job. Hooray for the idiots and conspiracy.

I also just finished an experimental electronic album called Nectar, which can be downloaded here: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yyghlgq52j5

But way, way, way cooler is the collaborative project I am working on with Paul Wiesenborn, who is a musical genius. His jazz-like piano parts as well as just a natural talent for arranging things is pretty awe-inspiring. The project is called Polychaete, which I would describe as kind of an experimental progressive effort. Some tracks can be listened to here: http://www.myspace.com/polychaete

Newer tracks will probably feature more guitar, cello, and vocal parts as far as my contributions, as I am pretty digitized out, what with Nectar.

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I’ve seen a few movies this break, but the one that probably stands out the most was Wall-E. It was pretty amazing, although it kind of makes you lose faith in humanity from the start, and without Wall-E’s help, the humans in the movie wouldn’t have realized how “trashy” their lives got.

That was a lame pun. Goodnight.