It turns out that guitar pedal shop Electro-Harmonix has a pedal guru, Bill Ruppert. He’s been showing what you can do using pedals as modules in signal chains in which one leans into the so-called Send loop, into which the Wet sound, or effect-alone sonic product, is fed.

He gets impressive, even magical at times, sounds–as this video demonstrates.

Moving effects into the DAW using GuitarRig and other software makes doing similar sonic transformations even more accessible.

At the neatly named tumblr anyone can make electronic music, I relate to its author’s admission,

I write and record music on my iPad. It is equally a source of peace and frustration. I write under the name of Cult of Janelle as an artistic outlet from my other life.

An earlier post, AppAddiction, a reply to Pants of Death’s iconic confession, AppRegret and AppForgiveness, got passed around a lot. (Also, see PoD’s app regret series; December edition.)My own view is: it’s okay to stockpile apps as long as you don’t, for example, starve the cats.

April 1st he offered a nicely controlled Gestrument piece via Soundcloud. I’ve been using Gestrument a great deal over the past weeks.

My raw sonic load depicted above was SCAPE on the iPad; DrumJam on the iPhone; meeblip se synthesizer controlled by a PCR-M80; and, an Industrial Rail lap steel sounded using a cello bow. Experiment: combine programmed, and generative, and, ‘through’ sound designed, audio in real time. My Focusrite Saffire interface was out of commission, so I routed the four track mixer right into the single stereo input of my back-up single input interface.

Under the Seat I & II

Rheyne Music on youtube

There are always a bunch of camps dueling in what I term the ‘fat middle’ of clubby music making. On the edges most controversies fade away. For example, at the time software synthesizers matured, late nineties, hardware purists rose to denigrate computer-based synths. More recently, the strong and fast moving wave of IOS (iPad/iPhone/iPod,) music making has evoked a reaction.

These arguments neither get resolved, nor matter.

What I’ve been doing with generative music is making systems — in the particular case we’re talking about, an app — which generates music. The way it generates, it is somewhat under your control, somewhat under my control, and some part out of either of our control. That’s a move from the picture of the composer as a kind of architect, to a picture of the composer as a sort of gardener. So you now think of the composer as somebody who plants some seeds, and then watches them grow. Brian Eno

Composer Dave Stafford inspired me to revisit Eno & Chilver’s deep generative app for the iPad, Scape. Stafford has been posting examples of his own “Scapexperiments” on youtube. It is a very deep app in the class of audio apps for IOS I term configurative-generative.

This melding of configurative with generative captures the entwined fundamental concept of this class of apps: the user/composer configures the app and then lets the app generate the sound world. The user/composer can dip back into the configuration if he or she wishes and guide to some extent–often to an unknown extent–the subsequent re-generation.

There is a lot of meta hanging in the background because, given generatively, in the operational context are features that are: random, guided by hidden formulas, emergent, uncontrollable, unpredictable, indeterminate, and, autonomous.

One crucial meta aspect of such operations is that the user/composer is neither the controller or conductor. Making sound this way is to partner with a mysterious colleague, to join with the ‘machine,’ and to come face-to-screen with contingencies driven to highlight the chanciness of production.

This chanciness is part of any robust creative processing and production. However, usually, the creative effort is asserted to be necessarily centered on control rather than submission to chance.

iTunes podcast about Scape by Brian Eno & Pete Chilvers

Three apps plugged into three separate tracks Logic (on a laptop) and then being let loose to generate their magic.

The initial goal of the experiment was to see if Mike Giesen’s Drone FX would behave and play properly as a web-based application. It worked fine, running on an old MacBook. Drone FX’s interface was set to randomize the instruments and progressions, although I did do some responsive ADSR programming as it tipped into new configurations.

I used a dark, slow patch I devised on Scape on the iPad. And, the last track was input from an iPhone 4S using Immersion and another patch set to simply run and evolve.

The over-arching goal was to let the soundscapes evolve. This half minute video shows the set-up running.

Here’s an example of the raw three track rough mix.

I intervened a couple of times to refine the Scape patch and ride the envelopes in Drone FX. Later, after reviewing more than an hour of raw recordings it became clear that the ripest soundscape could be derived from melding the three track raw mixes together. This was a conscious decision to utilize the rough three tracks recordings and build up a finished track from, in effect, layering edits (or slices,) on top of one another.

full track:

Dub Collision 2.0 encompasses my own efforts to compile enjoyable mixes for public consumption, as I have been doing–on and off and on–since I first got a cassette player way back in 1976. I am, as it stands right now, not going to provide downloads. The new mixes will exist in the cloud, starting with the cloud provided by Grooveshark.

Grooveshark allows me to compile mixes from their resources and embed the resulting playlist here. Other similar providers, when I find ‘em, may also join the Dub Collision 2.0 toolbox. I’m not sure how it will work with my more outre interests, such as jazz.

For now, rock and pop music mixes will comprise of seven tracks and be approximately 30 minutes long. This allows the savvy user to listen to the mix in a tab and go about their other business in the browser. I term this model of mixology: the sevens. I will use a four selection model, the fours, for other genres.

Grooveshark does suck in one obvious respect: it does not provide an app to stream audio playlists from an html5 player or other equivalent technology to an IOS app and to a ‘non-jailbroken’ IOS device; iPod, iPhone, iPad. Supposedly they have been working on it for two years–however it seems Grooveshark are Android homeboys.

In another aspect, Grooveshark does not guarantee predictable fidelity, but the entire audio universe is rolling down that hill for over ten years!

By all means, feel free to tweet, Facebook, G+, or otherwise promote any mixes you feel are worthy.

This first mix is just a bunch of old hippie music, or music for old hippies. Hiya! Make love, not war.

Dub Collision 1.0 was the iteration of compiling and mixing and rendering “sets” that the internet made possible once I centered my musical interests here on the nogutsnoglory studios blog. Most of the mixes were turned into mp3 versions and uploaded to file lockers, such as Rapidshare. But, the file locker ecology has been imploding for several years, and this includes the deletion of all my uploads. These were deleted when I ended my premium accounts.

Because all the download links for the three years of Dub Collision mixes located at various file lockers have been deleted by the hosts, such as Rapidshare, the Dub Collision 1.0 era has ended. I’ve moved the page of mixes to this post and now it will drift off the front page. I didn’t necessarily make copies of the mp3 mixes–I hope you did–and so I’m okay with their being gone. Obviously the files are only gone as much as anything can come to the internet and then, later, disappear.

The Dub Collision 2.0 beta era now begins.

Dub Collision 1.0 archive of covers and track listings:

Current Figures (slow music – 2011) | post	1 Glenn Jones – Menotomy River Blues 1:30 2 Barn Owl – Midnight Tide 5:16 3 Ellen Fullman – Flowers 9:56 4 Erik Wollo – Silent Currents 2, Part 6 3:15 5 Julia Holter – The Falling Age 9:14 6 Tim Hecker – Sketch 3 1:20 7 Trouble Books & Mark McGuire – Life in a Peaceful New World 4:47 8 Aidan Baker & Kevin Micka – Figures 14:42 9 A Produce & Loren Nerell – String Theory 3:54 10 Nauseef, Mori, Parker, Laswell – Majuu 3:33 11 thisquietarmy – The Pacific Theater 11:58
Fire Farewell (world songs – 2011) | post	1 Kaysha | Bien plus fort que les mots 4:03 2 Tiê | Já É Tarde 2:45 3 Aurelio | Bisien Nu 3:35 4 Malika Zarra | Leela 4:24 5 Anelis | Bola com os amigos 4:47 6 Hindi Zahra | The Man I Love (Unplugged) 3:19 7 Banco de Gaia | Farewell Ferengistan 6:13 8 Chico Barque | Nina 3:07 9 Hamilton de Holanda & Andre Mehmari | Bebê 1:34 10 Menahan Street Band | Make the Road by Walking 2:59 11 Seu Jorge & Almaz | Cristina (Vou Ver Cristina) 3:09 12 Boban i Marko Markovi Orchestra | Caravan 3:18 13 Dengue Fever | Family Business 3:38 14 Arat Kilo (f. Rokia Traoré) | Get A Chew 6:39 15 Jadid Ensemble | Llamar 3:43 16 Karsh Kale | Man On Fire 4:41 17 Sussan Deyhim | Fire Within 6:07 18 Hazmat Modine & Kronos Quartet | Dead Crow 3:45
Too Many Drivers | post	1.Allman Brothers – One Way Out 5:08 2.Bob Dylan & Grateful Dead – Gotta Serve Somebody 5:50 3.Matthew Sweet – Back Of A Car (Big Star) 2:32 4.Willie DeVille – Miracle 4:50 5.Jesse Ed Davis – Washita Love Child 3:49 6.‘Til Tuesday – Voices Carry 4:20 7.Dinosaur Jr. – Anodyne 4:49 8.True Believers – Hard Road 4:04 9.Georgia Satellites – Red Light 2:53 10.Better Days – Too Many Drivers 3:22 11.Lynyrd Skynyrd – Call Me The Breeze 5:58 12.Los Lobos – Route 90 3:22 13.Cream ’2007 – Crossroads 4:25 14.John Hiatt – The Crush 4:11 15.Robert Palmer – Sneakin’ Sally Thru The Alley 4:25 16.Little Feat – Apolitical Blues 3:49 17.James Gang – Walk Away 3:35 18.Pete Townsend – Gonna Get Ya 6:22
Groovin’ High | post	1 Dizzy Gillespie-Groovin’ High 2:44 2 Billy Eckstine-Good Jelly Blues 2:54 3 Bud Powell-It Could Happen To You 3:16 4 Milt Jackson-Evidence 2:34 5 Dexter Gordon-The Chase (Parts One & Two) 6:49 6 Dizzy Gillespie w. Charlie Parker-All The Things You Are 2:49 7 Dizzy Gillespie-Manteca 3:08 8 Thelonious Monk-Eronel 3:04 9 Fats Navarro-Dextivity 3:01 10 Bud Powell-Un Poco Loco 4:46 11 Howard McGhee-The Skunk 3:03 12 Wardell Gray-Easy Living 4:24 13 James Moody-The Fuller Bop Man 2:59 14 Al Haig-Yardbird Suite 3:06 15 Dizzy Gillespie-Cubana Be 2:43 16 Dizzy Gillespie-Cubana Bop 3:21 17 Tadd Dameron-Lady Bird 2:52 18 Miles Davis-Webb’s Delight 2:54 19 Charlie Parker-Klactoveesedstene 3:05 20 Don Byas-Mad Monk 2:42 21 Charlie Parker-Salt Peanuts 7:37
Devil in Disguise | post	1 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band-Billy in the Low Ground 00:56 2 The Dillards-Man Of Constant Sorrow 1:24 3 Jesse Winchester-The Brand New Tennessee Waltz 3:09 4 Linda Ronstadt-Keep Me From Blowing Away 3:09 5 Buffalo Springfield-Kind Woman 4:11 6 The Byrds-You Don’t Miss Your Water 3:49 7 Dillard & Clark-Train Leaves Here This Mornin’ 3:53 8 The Flying Burrito Brothers-Christine’s Tune 3:04 9 Rick Nelson-So Long Mama 3:28 10 The Grateful Dead-Mama Tried 3:03 11 New Riders of the Purple Sage-I Don’t Know You 2:27 12 Neil Young-If I Could Have Her Tonight 2:21 13 The Band-King Harvest (Has Surely Come) 3:38 14 Barbara Keith-The Bramble and the Bush 2:55 15 Crazy Horse-Dance, Dance, Dance 2:13 16 Michael Nesmith-Propinquity (I’ve Only Just Begun To Care) 3:00 17 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young-Teach Your Children 2:53 18 Beau Brummels-Jessica 2:21 19 Jerry Jeff Walker-Backslider’s Wine 3:35 20 Cowboy-Seven Four Tune 2:42 21 Ian Matthews-Biloxi 4:17 22 Moby Grape-If You Can’t Learn From My Mistakes 2:36 23 Little Feat-Texas Rose Cafe 3:41 24 Poco-Just in Case It Happens, Yes Indeed/Grand Junction/Consequently So Long 9:36
Cubana Guajira | post	1 Rumberos de Cuba-Habana De Mi Corazon 5:07 2 Rumbaprofundo-Medley: Robby and Negro Opening Time / Pensamiento 4:18 3 Afrocuba de Matanzas-Palo Yaya 6:27 4 The Havana Sessions-Maria Elena Lazo 4:15 5 Grupo Afrocuba-Que Sensacion Cuando La Vi 6:07 6 Omara Portuando-Ritmo pa mi 3:15 7 Xpanish Harlem Orchestra-Rumba Urbana 6:33 8 Chucho Valdez & Ruben Gonzales-Como Siento Yo 2:59 9 Felix Baloy-Despues de esta noche 3:06 10 Cubana Mayor-La Habana Buena 3:57 11 Danay-Guajira 8:35 12 Radio Bakongo-Macaco Mata el Toro 6:21 13 Robert Sanabria f. Tito Puente-Ran Kan Kan 3:58 14 Doble Filo f. Pepito=Que Tu Te Crees 4:58
A Cover Album Volume One | post	1 Dillard & Clark Expedition – Don’t Be Cruel 1:49 2 Rusty Dean – Only Daddy That’ll Walk In Line 02:22 3 Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis – Losing Hand 5:14 4 Barbara Streisand – Free the People 3:12 5 Albert Lee & Hogan’s Heroes – Rad Gumbo 5:28 6 Golden Smog – Spooky 4:50 7 The Grip Weeds – Hello, It’s Me 3:38 8 Emmons & Pennington – Deep Water 2:53 9 Wilco – 100 Years From Now – Wilco 2:47 10 Bill Frisell – I’m So Lonesome I Should Cry 7:34 11 The Imagined Village – Scarborough Fair 6:45 12 Brinsley Schwarz – Day Tripper 2:42 13 Robby Turner – Call Me The Breeze 4:47 14 Steinar Gregertsen – Pali Gap 6:03 15 Bobby Womack – All Aong The Watchtower 3:20 16 Neil Young & Pearl Jam – Baby, What You Want Me To Do 7:45
Yesterday’s Children | post	1-Ana Y Jaime-Nina Nana 3:16 2-Bharat Karki & Party-Dancing Rope 2:43-Disco Blaze-Jump Back [Comm' Of The Fireballs] 5:38 4-Soreng Santi-Iron Man 3:31 5-Erkin KorayKarl? Da?lar 3:35 6-Hailu Mergia and the Walias-Yenuro Tesfa Alegne 1:48 7-The Peels-Tinggalkan Ku Sa Orang 2:19 8-Pat Thomas & Marijata-We live in Peace 4:13 9-The Loving Darks-Complicado 2:23 10-Omar Khorshid-Rakset El Fadaa 7:47 11-Yesterday’s Children-Providence Bummer 3:40 12-Baris Manco & Kurtalan Ekspres-Sari cizmeli mehmet aga 4:23 13-Ton & Sérgio-Vou Sair Do Cativeiro 2:51 14-Ofege-Gbe Mi Lo 4:15 15-Moha Jamin-Raks Raks Raks 2:35 16-Yuya Uchida & The Flowers-Greasy Heart 3:55 17-Ros Sereysothea-Bong Rau Roub Khnyom 3:30 18-The Impossible-Do It (Till You’re Satisfied) 4:42
Is There A Message? | post	1. The Pioneers – Sample Man 2. Alton Ellis – The Winner 3. Melodians – It’s My Delight 4. Burning Spear – Get Ready 5. Keith Hudson – In the Rain 6. Congos – Days Chasing Days 7. Cornell Campbell – My Conversation 8. Yabby You – Take My Hand 9. Scientist – Separation 10. Leroy Smart & Bunny Lee – Dub You Madly 11. Junior Byles & the Upsetters – Beat Down Babylon 12. Sandra Cross – Is There a Message/Dubwise Message 13. Niney the Observer – Tribulation Version 14. Bob Marley & the Wailers – Running Away + Crazy Baldhead (live)
Shadow Sutra | post	1 Beaver & Kraus::Nine moons in alaska 3:08 2 Terry Riley::The Ethereal Time Shadow (Excerpt) 8:52 3 Coil::Dark River 6:29 4 Wendy Carlos::Winter [Out Take] 5:23 5 Pauline Oliveros & Reynols::We Are Still Thinking About The Title… 2:30 6 Susan Alcorn::Heart Sutra 4:32 7 Zoviet France::Degen 2:49 8 Thomas Koner::Nuuk (night) 4:12 9 Paul Schutze::The Falls 3:02 10 Lights In a Fat City::Dolphin Dreaming 4:24 11 Nadja::You Are as Dust 10:09 12 Robert Rich::Passing Terrain 6:09 13 Sunn0)))::Grease Fire 2:25
Spiral Dilemma | post	1 MJT+3::Richie’s Dilemma 7:17 2 Booker Ervin::Sweet Pea 5:34 3 Lee Morgan::Ceora 6:23 4 Bill Barron::Playhouse March 5:23 5 Joe Harriott::Pictures 5:08 6 Bobby Hutcherson-Harold Land::Spiral 13:40 7 Freddie Redd::Melanie (Alternate Take) 5:24 8 Wayne Shorter::Virgo (Alternate Take) 7:02 9 Elvin Jones::Cecilia is Love 10:07
One Track Mind | post	1-Ike & Tina – Funkier Than a Mosquita’s Tweeter 2:33 2-Finger – Téléphone 3:50 3-Graham Central Station – It’s Alright 3:48 4-Un Aio Black – Yeah Yeah Yeah 3:05 5-Fred Wesley – Out Of Sight (feat. DJizzle) 2:23 6-Roland Stone – Honky Tonk Woman 4:33 7-Fishbelly Black – Brick House 5:44 8-Groove Robbers Feat. Dj Shadow – Last Stop 2:25 9-Talking Heads – Slippery People 3:55 10-Nightmares On Wax – What I’m Feelin’ (Rae + Christian Mix) 6:21 11-Jeff Beck – Grease Monkey 3:32 12-Mr. Scruff – Nice Up the Function (feat. Roots Manuva) 3:52 13-Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings – Give It Back (live) 3:21 14-The Cinematic Orchestra – Channel 1 Suite 3:44 15-The Meters – Hang ‘Em High 3:23 16-Afros Band – Right On Right Off 2:44 17-Fila Brazillia – Speewah 3:53 18-Herbie Hancock – Nobu 7:07 19-Otis Grove – Basket Case 3:47 20-Docteur Nico & African Fiesta Sukisa – Canchita 3:55
Open Shadows | post	1-Tisziji Muñoz-Fatherhood 4:26 2-Jeanne Lee & Ran Blake-Living Up To Life 3:02 3-Steve Lehman-Open Music 3:30 4-Sonny Sharrock-Soon 7:58 5-Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra-Eric Dolphy Medley · The Prophet · Serene · Hat and Beard 17:07 6-Wadada Leo Smith-Growing to be Shadows 9:09 7-Satoko Fujii Orchestra-Around The Corner 4:25 8-Cecil Taylor-Last 25:48
Clinging | post	1 All India Radio-Black Satin 3:47 2 Forrest Fang-Little Angklung 8:21 3 Timeless Pulse Quartet-Light 9:51 4 Robin Guthrie-Harold Budd-Hidden Message 4:48 5 Pete Namlook and Dr. Atmo-Faith 11:26 6 The American Dollar Band-Oil And Water 2:58 7 Siram-Atma 6:49 8 Nadja-Clinging To The Edge Of The Sky 16:21 9 Kamelmauz-Pair Of Keys 7:11
Seventeen In a Perfect World stream | post	1 Jack Rose-Woodpiles On The Side Of The Road 3:10 2 Bobby Charles-Rollin’ Round Heaven 4:22 3 Lloyd Cole-Man Overboard 2:44 4 Eliza Carthy-Prairie Lullaby 3:48 5 Brian Wilson-Nothing But Love 3:24 6 Jackson Browne-The Next Voice You Hear 9:08 7 Los Lobos-Jupiter Or The Moon 4:22 8 Cindy Bullens-In a Perfect World 3:39 9 Richard Thompson-Sidney Wells 7:34 10 Alejandro Escovedo-After The Meteor Showers 4:38 11 Jamey Johnson-Even The Skies Are Blue 3:55 12 Anne McCue – Broken Promise Land 2:58 13 Eels-This Is Where It Gets Good 6:18 14 The New Pornographers-Moves 3:52 15 Elizabeth Cook-El Camino 2:43 16 Earl Greyhound-Out of Air 5:26 17 Mumford & Sons-Roll Away Your Stone 4:24
Mama Told Me Not to Come | post	1 AARON NEVILLE Bridge Over Troubled Water 4:59 2 ALLEN TOUSSAINT St. James Infirmary 3:51 3 GLEN & MARKETA Falling Slowly 4:50 4 BOBBY WOMACK Fire And Rain 4:30 5 BEACH BOYS God Only Knows (a cappella) 2:47 6 JAMES TAYLOR & CAROLE KING Something In The Way She Moves 4:38 7 WONDERMINTS Getting Better 2:49 8 BOBBY CHARLES Tennessee Blues 5:29 9 BOB DYLAN If Dogs Run Free 3:40 10 JACKIE DESHANNON The Weight 3:04 11 AMOS GARRETT River’s Invitation 3:46 12 DAVE LINDLEY Bye Bye Love 2:55 13 THREE DOG NIGHT Mama Told Me (Not To Come) 3:19 14 CAT POWER (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction 3:05 15 BRAD PAISLEY Let the Good Times Roll (feat. B.B. King) 5:28 16 NEW PORNOGRAPHERS Moves 3:52 17 JELLYFISH All I Want Is Everything 3:12 18 FEIST My Moon My Man 3:06 19 FLEET FOXES Meadowlark 3:11 20 THE WOOD BROTHERSThe Truth Is the Light 2:40
Blues for Harvey Pekar | post	1 Fats Navarro-Lady Bird 2:52 2 Bud Powell-Wait 3:05 3 Thelonious Monk-Introspection 3:12 4 Art Pepper-Surf Ride 4:42 5 Max Roach & Clifford Brown-Sandu 4:59 6 Thelonious Monk-Let’s Call This 5:07 7 Miles Davis-Tadd’s Delight 4:31 8 Art Pepper-Arthur’s Blues 15:22
Sini Lindele [Homecoming] | post	1 Tribesmen – Kalahari 15 1:06 2 Durban High Stars – Lapha eSandlwana 02:43 3 Philip Nchipi Tabane – Lalavuka 2:36 4 Simphiwe Dana – Vukani (mix – modjadji) 5:06 5 The Dark City Sisters – Sihamba Kancane 2:15 6 Letta Mbulle – Noma Themba 3:19 7 Thekwane & the Sound Brothers – Sakubona 3:28 8 Reggie Msomi – Midnight Ska 2:25 9 Aaron Mbambo – Selishonile Ilanga 3:02 10 Eric Nomvete’s Big Five – Pondo Blues 4:13 11 Mahlathini & The Queens – Umkhovu 3:26 12 Hugh Masekela – Ha Lese Le Di Khanna 3:07 13 Amompondo – Salawena (Smith & Mighty dub remix) 5:49 14 Nganeziyamifisa No Khambalomvaleliso – Sini Lindile 3:15 15 West Nkosi – Inyoni Yami 2:17 16 Holy Spirits Vhoir – Baba Wethu Baxolele 3:10 17 Abdullah Ibrahim – Hamba Kahle 2:38 18 Robbie Jansen – Bokaap Kwela 03:58 19 Brenda Fassi – Ngiyakusaba 5:14 20 Zim Ngqawana – Anthem 9:14
Nothing Over | post	1 JAMES PLOTKIN & BRANT GUTZEIT Sand Scroll 9:26 2 CHRIS & COSEY Over Abyss 4:35 3 LIGHTS IN A FAT CITY Aluna 10:31 4 IONE & PAULINE OLIVEROS Dear Thunder 6:05 5 NADJA-AIDAN-LEAH Hypostasis 10:19 6 BRANNAN LANE Unfamiliar Territory 8:39 7 PHILIP GELB & JOELLE LEANDRE Omissam 15:36
Life Is a Carnival | post	The Band – Daniel and the Sacred Harp 5:02 Anne McCue – All I Need – Anne Mccue 3:35 The Mavericks – Blue Bayou 4:28 Neko Case – Deep Red Bells 4:12 The Del-Lords – Poem of the River 6:09 Cher – For What Its Worth 2:22 Rick Nelson – A Flower Opens Gently By 3:13 Bonnie Raitt – Just In Case Both Are Wrong 4:07 Wilco – 100 Years From Now 4:29 The Byrds – This Wheel’s On Fire 7:14 Aimee Mann – Little Bombs 3:52 Professor Louie & Crowmatix – Life Is A Carnival – – 3:55 Valerie Carter – After The Gold Rush 4:36 Uncle Tupelo – Everybody Knows This is Nowhere 2:56
Girl in Winter | post	1 Stone Roses – One Love 5:03 2 Quantic – Blackstone Rock 4:09 3 Eleventh Dream Day – Dream of a Sleeping Sheep 3:15 4 Radiohead – These Are My Twisted Words 5:31 5 Double Naught Spy Car – Someone’s Creeping In My Yard 5:20 6 Kings of Leon – Spiral Staircase 2:55 7 Ben Watt & Robert Wyatt – A Girl in Winter 03:43 8 Rain Parade – This Can’t Be Today 04:00 9 Grateful Dead – Cosmic Charlie 03:01 10 Henry Kaiser – Cold Rain And Snow 04:50 11 Kaleidescope – Taxim 11:23 12 Anton Fier – Bait And Switch 05:34Mallard – Rockpalast 1974 13. Back On The Pavement 3:36 14. One Day Once 3:23 15. Reign Of Pain 4:39 16. A Piece Of Me 4:07 17. Mama Squeeze 4:08
Cheap Blues | post	1 Jay McShann – Some Kinda Crazy 2:41 2 Bob Brozman & Djeli Mousa Diawara – Maloyan Devil 5:59 3 Kelly Joe Phelps – Little Family 3:57 4 Imperial Kings – Love Blues 4:20 5 Geoff Muldaur & The Texas Queens – Hard Time Killin’ Floor 4:19 6 Papa Mojo – Bunkie Boogie 3:01 7 Jim Dickinson & Chuck Prophet – Down In Mississippi 4:07 8 John Campbell – Lockdown 3:51 9 Tab Benoit – What I Have to Do 5:00 10 Joe Barry – Rollin’ Bones 2:15 11 Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood – Driftin’ 5:41 12 Better Days – New Walkin’ Blues 6:17 13-14 Robert Randolph – You Got to Move-Goin’ In the Right Direction 12:48 15 The White Stripes – Death Letter -> Motherless Children -> Death Letter 8:01 16 The Black Keys – When The Lights Go Out 3:13
Saxophone Gladness | post	1 The Heath Brothers f. Jimmy Heath – Prince Albert 14:23 (Dec. 1, 1983, Tokyo) 2 Benny Golson – Whisper Not 9:34 (1988, Kyoto) 3 Lucky Thompson – On Green Dolphin Street 6:35 (Nov, 22, 1968, Rotterdam) 4 Dexter Gordon – Society Red 16:17 (Sept. 13, 1988, Tokyo) 5 Booker Ervin – You Don’t Know What Love Is 8:13 (Feb. 18, 1966, Hilversum) 6 Sonny Rollins – Night & Day 11:31 (1965, Stockholm)
Magnolia | post	1 OWEN TEMPLE – I Don’t Want to Do What I Do 03:14 2 JACKDAWG – Wild Night 04:01 3 JAMIE OLDAKER – Magnolia 03:56 4 THE BYRDS – My Back Pages 03:14 5 THE JAYHAWKS – Desperate Serenade 03:42 6 DONNIE FRITTS – Adios Amigos 02:52 7 NEKO CASE – Poor Ellen Smith 02:07 8 ELVIS COSTELLO – Heart Shaped Bruise 04:07 9 DOWNHILLS HOMES – Pluto’s Blues 04:11 10 DAN PENN – Rest of My Life 03:47 11 TOMMY TALTON BAND – On Your Way Down 11:00 12 MARKOWSKI – Magnolia 04:38 13 BERNIE LEADON – God Ain’t Done With Me Yet 04:59 14 GOSDIN BROTHERS – One Hundred Years From Now 02:48 15 DIANE IZZO – Oh Death 04:54 16 JORMA KAUKONEN – A Walk With Friends 04:30 17 THE EVERLY BROTHERS – Not Fade Away 01:58 18 THE BYRDS – Willin’ 03:24
Family Blessing | post	1 Marcen Oles – Law Years 2 Billy Harper – Insights 3 Amina Claudine Myers – Blessings 4 Arthur Blythe – Miss Nancy 5 Harry Miller – Family Affair 6 Art Ensemble of Chicago – Ancestral Voices / Old 7 Sun Ra – You’d Better Mind What You’re Saying 8 Joe McPhee & Po Music – Pithecanthropus Erectus
Lookout Cleveland (Back on the Porch volume 1) | post	1 JACKIE DESHANNONI Won’t Try to Put Chains on Your Soul 3:04 2 LEVON HELM Don’t Ya Tell Henry 4:02 3 LONNIE MACK Plain Jane (In A Mustang) 3:49 4 DAVID LINDLEY & HANI NASR Her Mind Is Gone 4:02 5 DANNY GATTON Sun Medley: Mystery Train/My Baby Left Me/That’s All Right 5:05 6 BOBBY WHITLOCK Rocky Mountain Blues 2:52 7 ANDERS OSBORNE Oh Katrina 4:27 8 JACKIE GREEN Look Out Cleveland 3:12 9 AMOS GARRETT & GEOFF MULDAUR Small Town Talk 6:31 10 MARCY LEVY Lay Down Sally 3:41 11 BOOKER T. & PRISCILLA She 4:02 12 DAN PENN & SPOONER OLDHAM Do Right Woman, Do Right Man 4:48 13 ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO People (We’re Only Gonna Live So Long) 3:23 14 GENE PARSONS & MERIDIAN GREEN I Must Be A Tree 3:22 15 BEN HARPER & THE 5 BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA Well, Well, Well 3:15 16 J.J. CALE & LEON RUSSELL Lies 3:21 17 BONNIE BRAMLETT Can’t Find My Way Home 3:47 18 LOU ANN BARTON Brand New Lover 2:27 19 JESSE ED DAVIS Washita Love Child 3:47 20 DELANEY & BONNIE Comin’ Home 3:14
True Man, Magic World | post	1 Irene Schweizer – Yaad 5:16 2 Taj Mahal & Culture Musical Club of Zanzibar – Catfish Blues 6:22 3 Philip Tabane – Vhavenda (Revolution Rmx) 5:49 4 F. Robert Lloyd – True Man Coyote 3:41 5 Kip Hanrahan – Stealing The Boogaloo 2:54 6 Kora Jazz Trio – Goree 3:02 7 Jimi Tenor & Kabu Kabu – Magical World 8:55 8 Examples of Twelves – Part 2 The Madness? III 4:56 9 Louis Moholo-Moholo – Sondela 8:50 10 Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra – Body And Soul 7:13
Exclusivity | post	Part 11 Thievery Corporation – 08-33 Degree 3:47 2 The Cinematic Orchestra – To Build A Home 7:43 3 As One – Amalia’s Mode 4:33 4 The Matthew Herbert Big Band – Pontificate 2:52 5 Kid Loco – Horsetown In Vain 5:51 6 Jazzanova – Morning Scapes feat. Bembe Segue 4:12 7 Tosca – Brian Emely 4:53 8 Nightmares On Wax – Moretime 5:21Part 29 Red Snapper – Moving Mountain 5:03 10 Jimpster – Slow ‘N’ Low 05:48 11 Juice Loosers – E Variations 5:39 12 Nils Petter Molvær – Solid Ether (Funkstörung Mix) 4:53 13 The Hafler Trio – Exclusivity On an Aquatic Theme 4:24 14 HiM (Doug Scharin) – Sea Level 9:23 15 Kaya Project – The Source (featuring Deeyah) 4:37
Our Man Flint (I Need to Volunteer Today) | post	1 Radio India – Trolling The Crossroads Of Bliss 05:36 2 Alan Watts – The End 06:15 3 Belgrade Dixieland Orchestra – Hello Dolly! 03:26 4 Bim Sherman – Dub World 01:49 5 Essence of the Earth – Night Spirit Walking 05:31 6 Tom Ze – Filho do Pato 03:14 7 Cyro Baptista – Tutuboli 02:59 8 Mulatu Astatke – Kulunmanqueleshi 02:11 9 Deti Picasso – Angel 04:43 10 Sekolah Tinggi Seni Indonesia – Gendhing Munggang 02:35 11 Chants liturgiques arméniens – Antienne 03:15 12 Huun-Huur-Tu feat. Sainkho – Ovyur Hadyp 03:56 13 Edward Vesala – Tahden Lento 03:11 14 Menahan Street Band – Make The Road By Walking 03:02 15 Omar Sosa – Rojo Changó 03:31 16 Sjahin Durin f. Arto Tunçboyacýyan – Turqum Trance 05:46 17 Rabih Abou-Khalil – No Mar Das Tuas Pernas 02:46 18 Karya – Chi 03:13 19 Ngqoko Women’s Ensemble – iNxanxadi 01:44 20 Chinese Percussion 04:18 21 Barack Obama – One Day I Volunteered 03:00 22 Lee Perry – Our Man Flint 02:33
Afro-Bloo | post	1 Cassandra Wilson Band f Marvin Sewell – Afroblue 11:31 2 Chief Ebenezer Obey – Ijesha 3:12 3 Up, Bustle & Out – Aqua No Ma! 4:55 4 Karim Ziad – Sandiya 4:36 5 The Pyramids – The River Ganges 11:05

The first in a series of Dub Collision 2.0 mixes.

“The officially unofficial video.” — Thurston Moore

Members of band:
Thurston Moore (gtr/vocals/songwriter)
Keith Wood (gtr)
Samara Lubelski (bass)
John Moloney (drums)

review

2012 was the year of Audiobus. Audiobus provided tunnels out of the IOS sandbox by allowing a simple input-effects-recording chain to be instantiated. Audiobus ends up on my list of top apps for the year, but this was a year when I spent much less time in the sound studio than I originally thought I was going to spend, so I ended up not digging much into the new world of Audiobus possibilities. I ran steel guitars through the iPad’s Audiobus chain and next into Audiobus on the iPhone and then out to the laptop’s DAW–crazy possibilities abound in leveraging two devices worth of IOS processing power and goodness.

Over last year I stockpiled almost every synthesizer, as each was released on iTunes. I spent the most time with Animoog and Alchemy, but the riches are seemingly endless and deep when I consider the sweep between, say, Wolfgang Palm‘s two wavetable synths, WaveGenerator and WaveMapper, and the parametric flexing of Grain Science.

I spent a lot of time with four apps that provide innovative interfaces: Gestrument, a GM and soundfont resynthesizer, Orphion, a hybrid instrument interface, TC-11. a gestural synthesizer, and, Borderlands, an odd granulating sample player. On the generative side, old pal Mixtikl, Peter Chilver’s and Brian Eno’s Scape, and DroneFX sucked up spare minutes.

I came to appreciate apps I could dive into without any fussing around, such as DroneFX. I spent the most time with Gestrument. These two end up being, for me, the IOS audio ‘apps of the year 2012.’ They share a single glaring deficit too: there’s no easy way to plug in your own samples, or, import a modern format like the sample format used in Kontakt. Soundfonts do not rock. Still, in a testament to where these wonderful tools stand with me, I devoted extra time to imagining how much better both could someday be.

(DroneFX, has a free browser version.)

The bonus to the surprising power of an iPad, and to its touch paradigm, is running audio out into the DAW (via a Focusrite I/O interface,) and, so, plugging it into Logic. For example, I can chain Gestrument to Reaktor effects and other go-to inserts, like Camel Space, WarmVerb, and, Absynth. My big vision for this year is setting up the iPad to control Absynth and Reaktor and Mixtikl/Noatikl, and launch the generative-gestural balloon.
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