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Style: noise, shoegazer, doom

Portland, Oregon, USA

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About me

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My Gear

Cello
Ableton Live
Electribes
Drums
Guitars
Juno
Pedals
Korg Prophecy
Nord Micro

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Origins of Butterzone?

Tags: zones, butter, hackers, balls

OMG, I think I found the origin of the butterzone. I was watching "Hackers" the other day (for some reason, it's a stupidly enjoyable mo (Click here to read the rest)

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RIP Bebe Barron

Tags: sad, Bebe Barron, RIP

Bebe Barron, half of the Electronic Music composing team of Louis and Bebe Barron, died today. They were best known for composing the "Forbidde (Click here to read the rest)

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Glenn Branca Wants You!

Tags: Glenn Branca, Balls, Guitarists, Bass

Glenn Branca wants you!

Just got this in an email. If you're a seattle guitarist/bassist, this looks like an awesome chance to be part of a major (Click here to read the rest)

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happy bday mlbot

Tags: geezer sequel, balls

Hey!

It's mlbot's birthday today!

Make him feel old! (Click here to read the rest)

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Direct Note Access

Tags: wtf, balls, for realz?

From: link

[quote=celemony]Celemony, developers of the Melodyne pitch-correction application, have announce (Click here to read the rest)

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My (new) Cello

Tags: Consumer, Balls, Cello

Edit: added a couple of bits o' bach for your listening pleasure: link

After about a month of searching, I am gl (Click here to read the rest)

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Doofgoblin + The onion

Tags: Doofgoblin, onion, balls

Hey Doofie,

Evidently you got picked as one of the worst band names of 2007: link (sc (Click here to read the rest)

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pdx show tonight

Tags: balls, oo-ray, positive jam, umami

Hey!

One last attempt to get peeps to come to the em411 lovefest that is tonight.

3 em411ers on stage! In portland! It should be awesome. Umami (Click here to read the rest)

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Once (movie)

Tags: once, movie, balls

Finally got to see the movie Once ( link ) today:

I'd heard it was great, but I just found (Click here to read the rest)

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RIP Stockhausen

Tags: RIP, Stockhausen

link

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Cello in December

Tags: cello, performance, depression, balls

It�s been a while since I played a live show, but when it rains, it pours. I�m gonna do 3 shows in december, all pretty different�

December 6 - at (Click here to read the rest)

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Tantan Lives!

Tags: balls, tantan is alive

Just a blog to let you know that tantan is all right and he's at home now, starting the slow process of healing his broken leg. So I decided to post (Click here to read the rest)

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eep

Tags: starvingbuthapp, balls

Hi Folks,

Glad to announce that now I have an EP released at ckid and nicholas saez's (not-so-new) netlabel, starvingbuthappy. Free, free, for y (Click here to read the rest)

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Cello at 31 (w/ sample)

Tags: Balls, Progress?, Cello

Well, it�s been a year since my last birthday resolution to start playing the cello. And I wanted to reflect on how that year has gone. (Recap of my [ (Click here to read the rest)

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I'm on disquiet!

Tags: balls, disquiet, cello

My oo-ray live set got mentioned on one of my favorite ambient music blogs, Disquiet! link

Disquiet is a (Click here to read the rest)

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Oo-ray on YooHooTube

Tags: balls, Video, PooTube, cello

Thanks to everyone who came to the show last night! It was great to meet lprof (ross), Candlelight (Jim), and cubestar, as well as reconnect with oth (Click here to read the rest)

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em411 meet @ apotheke?

Tags: ambient, balls, cello

Hi all, just a lil' reminder:

I'll be playing this friday for opticecho's ambient night at Apotheke in Portland. Apotheke has all sort of crazy (Click here to read the rest)

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Cello in July

Tags: 3 gigs, panic, balls, shoegaze disco

After a long time of not performing solo (close to three years), I'm playing three gigs this month. I didn't mean for it to happen this way, but it (Click here to read the rest)

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Otek's Drum Programming Guide

Tags: Drums, programming, Balls

Nice drum programming tutorial: link

Some nice thoughts on drum programming such as the following:

[quot (Click here to read the rest)

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Harry Partch Had No Balls

Tags: balls, lackthereof, intonation

While reading some more about the composer Lou Harrison, I came across this page where people submitted stories/remembrances about him: link (Click here to read the rest)

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Ableton Live Wiki

Tags: This, is, cool, balls

I am slow when it comes to finding things. But I think the Ableton Live Wiki is great: link

I esp (Click here to read the rest)

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Rostropovich RIP

Tags: Peace, in, Rest

Mstislav Rostropovich, the great cellist and conductor, died today. An amazing fellow and tremendous cellist - he did a lot to champion new music of (Click here to read the rest)

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We Are Miniwave

Tags: band name, Help choose

Hey all, Mlbot and I would like to ask your opinion of the following band names for our project.

Our top choice right now is miniwave (kinda like m (Click here to read the rest)

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My First Paper

Tags: publishment, non-music

Hey, finally got word that my paper based on my master's thesis is finally published. This is neat for a few reasons:

1) I'm first author
2) T (Click here to read the rest)

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mlbot = geezer

Tags: mlbot, birthday, geezer

Now the cat's out of the bag ( link ), let's all wish mlbot a happy birthday!

Geezer.

P.S. why didn't y (Click here to read the rest)

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