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Category Archives: Music
Attack of the KRUI DJ Sets
The past 2 Saturday nights I spent in the KRUI studios playing vinyl. I make no great claims for my mixing skills, but I guarantee this is 100% real for better or worse. Rather than, as I have in the … Continue reading
Posted in dj mix, Live Recordings, Music
Tagged disco, dj mix, house music, krui, Noise Radio
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KRUI Noise Radio — DJ Mix
There’s some overlap in tracks played with my September DJ Mix, but this mix is longer, and starts out with a sampling of the many amazing tracks by the recently-departed and deeply missed Aaron Carl Ragland. The funny thing about … Continue reading
Chaircrusher September Mix
This is what Google Image Search comes up with if you search for “UK Bass” Sequenced live in Ableton Live — 45 tracks in 99 minutes. Starts at 100 BPM and ends at 142. I find it hard to stick … Continue reading
Dance to the Dance to the Techno Beat!
At the Iowa City Goodwill:
Video of me interviewing Leslie Hall @ the Iowa State Fair!
Leslie Hall is, as far as I know, the biggest wacky internet sensation to ever come from the state of Iowa. Hanging out with Leslie at the Iowa State Fair was quite the experience. The woman who shot the video, … Continue reading
The Awl: The Phantom Tollbooth, or The Democratizing Principle of Literature
Maria Bustillos nails it on the Awl Blog “…I cannot help but think that it is flat wrong to teach anyone that he or she should not read, or love, or identify with, any book he or she pleases.” George … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Music, politics
Tagged Burning Spear, Ferron, Malcolm X, Maria Bustillos, Norton Juster, Omar Souleyman, The Awl, The Phantom Tollbooth
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New Track: Expemsible
All the hootenanny about PaulStretch got me playing with it again, and this is what I came up with. As my vrave buddies used to say ‘very ambient.’ http://www.cornwarning.com/chaircrusher/Chaircrusher-Expemsible.mp3 The source material was a couple of samples downloaded from the … Continue reading
Keith Fullerton Whitman/Star City Recorded Live 2010-08-23
http://www.cornwarning.com/xfer/2010-08-23-KeithFullertonWhitman.mp3 http://www.cornwarning.com/xfer/2010-08-23-StarCity.mp3
Posted in Live Recordings, Music
Tagged Keith Fullerton Whitman, Star City, White Lightning Warehouse
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Forensic Examination of the Slowed Down Justin Bieber “Love U”
This will be my last post on the subject. It’s been fun to get a lot more site visits, but just for perspective, my friend Jerry’s Retarded Ravers Of America site was getting ten times the traffic ten years ago … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Music Software, Silliness
Tagged Justin Bieber, Love U, Mac OS X, Paulstretch
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Paulstretch for OS X — the Justin Bieber Edition
GO HERE FOR LATEST AND GREATEST Well, someone may — or may not — have posted a slowed down version of Justin Bieber’s “Love U” and as a result my janky little blog is experiencing a 25-fold bump in traffic. … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Music Software
Tagged Justin Bieber, Love U, Mac OS X, Music Software, Paulstretch
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Sarah C’s Extra-Pop-Special Mix
One of my wife’s employees at her store, Sarah C gave her a CD of her favorite dance tunes. Now, I’m a dance music snob, who would never normally play most of these tracks in any context, and many of … Continue reading
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In Russia, the violinists jam in nightclubs?
I give you Stefaniya
Cooly G Dub Organizer 7: Review + Minimix
http://www.cornwarning.com/xfer/CoolyG-DubOrganizer7-Minimix.mp3 I’ve been accused of having a crush on Cooly G. Why wouldn’t I? She’s talented, beautiful, and even cursory internet stalking on-line research indicates she’s got a bubbly, charismatic personality. But my real crush is on Cooly G’s talents … Continue reading
Iowa Cicadas
I started my summer DJ mix with a track of sorts I made with my Zoom H4 of insect sounds in the evening here in Iowa City. Here is the track independent of the mix: http://www.cornwarning.com/chaircrusher/Chaircrusher-IowaEvening.mp3 This is actually done … Continue reading
Summer 2010 DJ Mix
It’s been mad stupid hot in Iowa City this summer. I like it that way! There’s nothing wrong with sweating. Which is something you learn if you like to go dancing in a club. Somehow the hotter and sweatier it … Continue reading
Theme From Ozone Avenue, by Lucy Kent Blake-Williams
My niece Lucy began taking music lessons. This is her first attempt at manuscript. And since she put in more intentionality than, for example, goldfish swimming or birds on telephone wires, I thought it deserved to be arranged.
Posted in Family, Music, Silliness
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Again with the Granular Synthesis — Granite VST
New Sonic Arts has come up with a new granular synthesis tool they call ‘Granite.’ It is similar to many other of the granular synthesis tools, and yet has it’s own unique sound qualities. This was announced last week and … Continue reading
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Even More Granulosity – PaulStretch
GO HERE FOR LATEST AND GREATEST When I did the OS X build for PaulStretch, it became the most popular and enduring blog post I’ve ever done. Paulstretch has kind of a funky user interface, but the way it sounds, … Continue reading
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More Granularity — Christopher Hipgrave’s Ambient Software
Christopher Hipgrave’s Ambient is a piece of software distributed by Audiobulb. Ambient is based around granular synthesis of any audio file. It’s pitch shifted, delayed and filtered, and there are several controls you can tweak to control the sound, though … Continue reading
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