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fwdthought's blog
15 Jan 2007
Share: One Year Strong
FREEZING cold here in San Diego. Undaunted, the Share crew celebrated it's one year anniversary with an evening of noise, happenstance, new friends, vintage gear and new software. Graced by the prescence of members of Trummerflora, Broken Beat along with the Share SD crew the evenings sonic sculptures ranged from Klaus Schulz/ John Cage inspired industrial drone to Eno-esque dreamscapes to Krafwerkian robotics.
25 Dec 2006
Do You Know This Man?
Rob Jones has been an integral part of SHARE SD from the start. Rob wears many hats: planning, support and just plain dropping dope, next level grooves. Oh, yeah, he's also an active duty US MARINE currently serving in Iraq. If you ever get the honor of spending one on one time with Rob you will find that he is a thoughtful, intelligent man with a wide variety of interests: politics, technology, spirituality and music to name a few. You know the coolest thing about Rob? He also takes an interest in YOU and how you are making your way through this life. So, check it out. What am I doing here on Christmas eve, jamming some CS2, changing dirty diapers, promising my wife that I will not stay up until 5AM? Thinking of Rob. Thinking how blessed I am. Celebrating small miracles. Planning the next stage of my life.That's what. Anywho- We're "Hookin' It Up For Rob". We figure it was time to get our collective asses in gear and get a care package out to our man in Baghdad! The Box is leaving first week of January! So get on board and get your contributions to Morgan or Louis. (What to send?) Good question. We're trying to figure that out ourselves! So, Rob, brother, if you are reading this...what do you and your buddies out there need? Let us know! Oh! Real important! How's about an address??
14 Jul 2006
Blurred by The Speed of Life
I should be doing other things right now. My brain has been handed to me in a brown paper bag. I am fried. It has been "one of those weeks".
...and how lucky am I?
SHARE 7: Full moon rising. HOT. New friends absorbing into our ever expanding orb. Experimental circuitry exchanged.
I had some great questions from curious onlookers:
"How can I join SHARE?"
"What are you looking for?"
"Do I have to have a laptop?'
"Can I bring my guitar?"
My general answer: Come as you are...be nimble, be quick. Be resourceful. Be SIMPLE! I have seen people make awesome sounds with obscure freeware on their laptops, vocoded/ processed human beat boxing with simple microphones and small effects processors, etc. Laptops and smaller sound modules work best for this. I show up many times with my trusty 12" Electribe MX and it's FOUR (count 'em) FOUR waveforms that I bend/ combine into solo and accompanied mayhem. I think back to the very first SHARE when I showed up with MY ENTIRE RIG: workstation keyboard, laptop, personal mixer, sound module and effects processor. Even my own workstation FURNITURE! I used NONE of it that night. Nowdays, my gear fits under my arm and I'm off and running...Jack be nimble, Jack be quick!
13 Jun 2006
CRACKING SKULLZ AT SHARE 6
Thank you all for coming out to SHARE 6. We had an intimate gathering of the loyal, some new friends, and the usual suspects. Highlights: DARRYL: WOW!: Hands down the evening's highlight, from leftfield and places from beyond. He brought a dream like trance of ethno-sonic-fusion to our space. A real joy. We hope to see and hear much more from him. (...and check out Christian, supplying the on fly synth percussion from the "mothership"...) Morgan and Louis: fwdthinking-memeshifted circuit bends. The techno beatdown. Man vs machine. Thanks, I needed that. HOW ABOUT THAT STEVEN KID? Was that a hoot or what? Throwing down the MPC bluegrass beats! Hope we get to see and hear much more from him.
15 Apr 2006
Down to Earth
What's up?
Back from a little vacation in El Salvador and Honduras. Lots of rest and relaxation. Nothing fancy. Family, food, humidity, lots of stray dogs, large bugs, lonley, dusty roads, friendly strangers with smiles, few rules.
People just doing their thing.
I really needed to get away. School projects and music projects had me moving at a pretty insane pace for about 6 weeks. Morgan and I got to hang out for a minute before I left. He got to see me at my wits end and we just blabbed and drove aimlessly. Excellent.
One of the music projects that I had been working on fell through. Too bad. Lots of work involved, but it came down to a third party not digging on my music. ("Hey, Rob...uh...y'know that machine I just let you borrow?... can I have it back?...")That's cool. That's how it goes. The planets need to be aligned 'just right' for these things to come together.
