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

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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

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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

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Dance to the Dance to the Techno Beat!

At the Iowa City Goodwill:

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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

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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

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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

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Omar Souleyman live!

As-Salamu Alaykum!

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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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