Books and Space

Dalkey Archive had a summer book sale so I got a bunch and they showed up yesterday: The Great Fire of London, The Loop, and Mathematics by Jacques Roubaud; Mulligan Stew by Gilbert Sorrentino; The Tunnel by William H. Gass; The Inquisitory by Robert Pinget; Witz by Joshua Cohen; and Springer's Progress by David Markson. I also finished that song I'd started the day before. As I'd said, my goal was to use all my synths and I pretty much succeeded. The Avatar is apparently not functioning (which is lame) so that was out. I didn't use any of my drum synths as they wouldn't be appropriate to its harmonic, arrhythmic nature. I ended up with ten tracks: Prophet, Voyager, SK-1, Taurus, Korg Lambda, Wasp, dot com modular, Moogerfoogers as their own little modular thingie, Liberation, and Monotron. The Monotron was added at the last minute and I ended up mixing it pretty low 'cuz it stood out and kinda sounded bad if you could hear it a lot (the way I recorded it made its ribbon controller less than ideal, for this reason I didn't bother with the Gakken mini-synth). Anyway, the way I recorded it: I played every track without hearing what I was playing, I also was not listening to any of the song while I was playing "along" to the old tracks. I knew which key it was in and the notes it was focusing on and I had an idea of what I was doing, but it was consistently removed of context. I think it ended up being pretty sweet. The bass is pretty heavy and awesome. I'm gonna put the soundcloud for it down there. I recommend real speakers or headphones if you wanna listen.