When I was working on The Shape Of A Note I was assisted by the Penrith Regional Gallery in trying to find works that could be described as musical. Obviously it’s easiest to do that in the era when painters themselves used music as a guide – Kandinsky and Mondrian are the obvious references but [...]
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Indonesia
March 12th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
One of those Internet moments : I was looking up one thing (the novels of Alfred Bester) and somehow became immersed in the recent history of Indonesia. Australians have a hazy relationship with this nation; you’ll hear endlessly about Obama this and that, but Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono isn’t trembling on everyone’s lips, despite Indonesia being [...]
Hugo this way I’ll go that way.
March 7th, 2012 · 9 Comments · Uncategorized
I wrote several thousand words on Hugo and the evils of retrospective editing of a real man’s life. No one should be forced to read that but by God it made me feel better to rage it out. I will now give you the essential crib notes: Fuck you Scorsese for allowing the life of [...]
Focus is over, if you want it.
February 19th, 2012 · 8 Comments · Uncategorized
The Lytro camera is on sale in the United States, at this stage only a toy and expensive for that. But the Lytro is an equivalent of the old Diamond MP3 player, also an expensive toy that presaged the end of the music industry once the big players woke up, bought up, and mercilessly expanded [...]
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My Ferrari neighbour.
January 31st, 2012 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
My Ferrari neighbour drives a Ferrari. I know this because he drives it out of his garage once every hour, taking some considerable time to rev it and navigate it around my small street. He then goes off down the road at a luxuriant and dignified pace, only to return roughly 15 minutes later, navigating [...]
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John Blades died.
November 30th, 2011 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
First he had multiple sclerosis for most of his life. Than he got cancer. Then he died on Friday. I think he deserves a refund. I’m thinking that we are becoming rare, and we’re only middle aged. http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/bridging-disability-and-music-for-a-busy-life-20111201-1o918.html
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Belgium. Absolutely Final. Right?
November 15th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Oh goodie. Zack Parsons has flipped his wig again and is running, well not an ARG, but certainly some weird shit delivered over multiple levels. Start here, read very carefully and make sure to click on the insect. So, absolutely final? Yes it is. When you promise Gary Numan that you’re winding it down then [...]
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My Max4Live patches
May 5th, 2011 · 10 Comments · Ranting, Uncategorized
I am transcendent with joy to announce that I have spent all afternoon coming up with some Max4Live patches. You can download them if you have Max4Live or just anyway. Read my review at the bottom! Schneiderton This plug in sends a MIDI sequence according to your distance to Florian Schneider. When Florian is asleep [...]
Worst Ghost Photo of All Time
November 14th, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
Lady Hehir was photographed while taking her wolfhound Tara for a walk in 1926. When she saw the photograph, Lady Hehir saw that Tara appeared to have the head of another dog on her rear end and … Do I really need to go on?
Do not get out of the vehicle
October 13th, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
(New Guinea 1964. Photos by my old man)
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