Showing posts with label just like now. Show all posts
Showing posts with label just like now. Show all posts
11/08/2011
10/11/2010
24/09/2010
14/09/2010
has something gone wrong around here?
no posts for far too long. it really must be a hiatus.
we have a gig in a few weeks time and if we'd like to get some new things ready, as blake said, we should have a few rehearsals. any preferences for times? i'm free most nights except every second wednesday (this week being one of those), and the next 2 fridays.
i have booked the red rattler theatre for sunday, november 7. telafonica, lessons in time (?), karoshi, st jambience will be playing, and hopefully andy rantzen will do something in some guise, as might andrew maxam/loopsnake. i've also been talking with marcus whale and we're thinking it might be a good opportunity to launch the 3" cd-r ep on his curt label at the event. i'm reviving the 'just like now' moniker for the thing.
the tibet benefit thing looks like it will include telafonica, that's on saturday, november 27.
we have a gig in a few weeks time and if we'd like to get some new things ready, as blake said, we should have a few rehearsals. any preferences for times? i'm free most nights except every second wednesday (this week being one of those), and the next 2 fridays.
i have booked the red rattler theatre for sunday, november 7. telafonica, lessons in time (?), karoshi, st jambience will be playing, and hopefully andy rantzen will do something in some guise, as might andrew maxam/loopsnake. i've also been talking with marcus whale and we're thinking it might be a good opportunity to launch the 3" cd-r ep on his curt label at the event. i'm reviving the 'just like now' moniker for the thing.
the tibet benefit thing looks like it will include telafonica, that's on saturday, november 27.
13/03/2008
25/02/2008
gigs to come
well, there's a few gigs lined up for the next couple of months, so we should get a move on with starting to try and put it together and rehearse. so far, there's the one on good friday and paddy macguires with underlapper and sui zhen. i've also booked us in for just like now at mars hill cafe on may 10 - i think it's going to be the last of the regular just like nows, so i thought telafonica could finish it since telafonica started it. we'll be playing with karoshi. there's also a possibility of a gig on april 5 at midi in the city at the loft bar at uts. we played there last year but it's a bit more of a laptop type of thing than a band kind of scene, and there's also the possibility of a clash with another gig with some friends from melbourne called koshowko, so that one's not confirmed yet. and lastly, we've just got another gig on thursday, may 29 at the excelsior hotel in surry hills. again, underlapper look like they'll be on the bill as well as someone else yet to be determined. if everyone could let me know which of these dates they are/aren't available for, that would be excellent.
lastly, are saturdays a good time for a rehearsal or would another time suit more?
lastly, are saturdays a good time for a rehearsal or would another time suit more?
15/02/2008
02/02/2008
19/08/2007
to finish things, that is the question...
artwork - not sure yet. could we use something along the lines of the stuff you designed for the monstrous now a bit earlier, david? possibly even use it?
for september the 8th, we were thinking of basically playing all the tracks from the new album through. do you guys have any time this week to do some preparation for it? i'm happy to come in to your place. i'll need to get a few of the tracks broken down because some we haven't done live before.
i'll bring a copy of everything as far as it is recorded at the moment. there's still a few things to do, mostly vocally, but other field noise things could be good as well - we've started getting them on there, probably about 4 tracks have things so far, but some more segues kind of things would be good, i think.
send away is one that's kind of bugging me - just the last section - but i had an idea a few days ago, of taking some of the already recorded vocals and really cutting them up and programming them, so it's a vocal thing happening, but very obviously not sung. at the moment, it just repeats the second verse so feels kind of pointless and not like it really goes anywhere. my original thought would be that it was an instrumental section, which it kind of used to be but again without much point. i'll play around some more, but if you have any ideas let me know. i think we even discussed the option of cutting the final section completely out. that could also be looked into.
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for september the 8th, we were thinking of basically playing all the tracks from the new album through. do you guys have any time this week to do some preparation for it? i'm happy to come in to your place. i'll need to get a few of the tracks broken down because some we haven't done live before.
i'll bring a copy of everything as far as it is recorded at the moment. there's still a few things to do, mostly vocally, but other field noise things could be good as well - we've started getting them on there, probably about 4 tracks have things so far, but some more segues kind of things would be good, i think.
send away is one that's kind of bugging me - just the last section - but i had an idea a few days ago, of taking some of the already recorded vocals and really cutting them up and programming them, so it's a vocal thing happening, but very obviously not sung. at the moment, it just repeats the second verse so feels kind of pointless and not like it really goes anywhere. my original thought would be that it was an instrumental section, which it kind of used to be but again without much point. i'll play around some more, but if you have any ideas let me know. i think we even discussed the option of cutting the final section completely out. that could also be looked into.
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03/07/2007
calling all troglodytes
o.k. so i've been trying to track down the issues with running the telafonica and 4-4-2 websites. this is all i can discover - using firefox, it recognises the root as my i.p address at netspace. however, explorer tries to use 'index.htm' as the root for the telafonica site, and the c: drive on my computer for the 4-4-2 site as the root. therefore, neither site works past the opening page in explorer (and the image doesn't even load on the telafonica site as it also needs to get to the correct root to find the image). my html skills aren't enough to help me detect the problem in the code, but that is basically what's happening - explorer is looking for the wrong root address. is it worth me going through and manually changing them to the full address on each link (yuk!) as a workaround?
marcella, we've got sophia's birthday on saturday morning - is there another time to get some vocals recorded? i haven't had a chance to play with what we did on the weekend yet.
just as a forewarning, i've booked us to play at just like now on september 8. it's alongside sound it out.
also, andreas has asked if we'd like to contribute to a netlabel compilation he's putting together on electrolyt. this is what he says about it -
"the compilation will be called "seek and destroy..." . there are no real guidelines when it comes to the style. electronic in some way i guess. and always keeping in mind: interruption, destruction...then i came to relax on the beach. :)".
i'm thinking maybe 'hearing but never understanding'. any other suggestions?
marcella, we've got sophia's birthday on saturday morning - is there another time to get some vocals recorded? i haven't had a chance to play with what we did on the weekend yet.
just as a forewarning, i've booked us to play at just like now on september 8. it's alongside sound it out.
also, andreas has asked if we'd like to contribute to a netlabel compilation he's putting together on electrolyt. this is what he says about it -
"the compilation will be called "seek and destroy..." . there are no real guidelines when it comes to the style. electronic in some way i guess. and always keeping in mind: interruption, destruction...then i came to relax on the beach. :)".
i'm thinking maybe 'hearing but never understanding'. any other suggestions?
07/06/2007
non-format
o.k.. this is going to take incredible self control - NO FORMATTING on this post!!
most of the stuff down the side of this blog is reasonably related to what the actual blog is for - i put a 'recent inspiration' thing there for if we ever want to just add a link to a site that may have something to do with what we are discussing or just something we might take on board - you suggested something like this a while back to save making a complete post. so i guess it's kind of like the allb blog, but specific to telafonically inspiring things - feel free to use it.
same with the reviews - i figure the music i'm listening to and what i'm thinking of it will help contextualise the music we make - likewise the allb blog as it relates to visual inspiration.
i put the telafonica releases up but have to agree in thinking they're probably not quite that necessary here as to make them dominate so much. i've streamlined the compilation section and am thinking i'll probably do something similar with our own releases once i get home and can resize the images etc (none of that uploading large images and have html code to resize it down - makes for very ugly residue - something i learned from some obscure designer).
i'm keen to keep as many links to our things as possible there because, especially with the links in from cyclic defrost etc - it's a place that there is a reasonable chance people might make first contact with us, so i think it's good to be able to direct them out from here.
i'm also beginning to like the virb site quite a bit. we had our first friend requests in the last couple of days - 5 in all. as a social experiment, i decided to make 5 friend requests to start with (things like caribou/manitoba, underworld etc) and then see how it grows by itself from people making friend requests to us. probably a bit of an egotistical process, but i'm interested to see how it goes! i also think that the virb site is the one most likely to work as a content base - full release details (there's separate pages for each release on virb), photos, gigs etc. it can be manipulated around as much as the blogger site, so we can keep their aesthetics reasonably close.
i spent last night around at andy rantzen's place - we're planning a retrospective of some sort on 4-4-2 music. it will be a combination netlabel release/limited edition cd-r release/discography website thing. wanna help me!!??
lastly - i'm thinking that a july gig/cd launch may be a little close! how would you feel about playing just like now in september? the band already booked for then is an electro kind of thig called 'sound it out'. their demos are getting a bit of buzz on fbi (including ajax playing it regularly and calling it one of his favourite local things at the moment) and it will be their first ever gig. i think we could fit in reasonably well.
most of the stuff down the side of this blog is reasonably related to what the actual blog is for - i put a 'recent inspiration' thing there for if we ever want to just add a link to a site that may have something to do with what we are discussing or just something we might take on board - you suggested something like this a while back to save making a complete post. so i guess it's kind of like the allb blog, but specific to telafonically inspiring things - feel free to use it.
same with the reviews - i figure the music i'm listening to and what i'm thinking of it will help contextualise the music we make - likewise the allb blog as it relates to visual inspiration.
i put the telafonica releases up but have to agree in thinking they're probably not quite that necessary here as to make them dominate so much. i've streamlined the compilation section and am thinking i'll probably do something similar with our own releases once i get home and can resize the images etc (none of that uploading large images and have html code to resize it down - makes for very ugly residue - something i learned from some obscure designer).
i'm keen to keep as many links to our things as possible there because, especially with the links in from cyclic defrost etc - it's a place that there is a reasonable chance people might make first contact with us, so i think it's good to be able to direct them out from here.
i'm also beginning to like the virb site quite a bit. we had our first friend requests in the last couple of days - 5 in all. as a social experiment, i decided to make 5 friend requests to start with (things like caribou/manitoba, underworld etc) and then see how it grows by itself from people making friend requests to us. probably a bit of an egotistical process, but i'm interested to see how it goes! i also think that the virb site is the one most likely to work as a content base - full release details (there's separate pages for each release on virb), photos, gigs etc. it can be manipulated around as much as the blogger site, so we can keep their aesthetics reasonably close.
i spent last night around at andy rantzen's place - we're planning a retrospective of some sort on 4-4-2 music. it will be a combination netlabel release/limited edition cd-r release/discography website thing. wanna help me!!??
lastly - i'm thinking that a july gig/cd launch may be a little close! how would you feel about playing just like now in september? the band already booked for then is an electro kind of thig called 'sound it out'. their demos are getting a bit of buzz on fbi (including ajax playing it regularly and calling it one of his favourite local things at the moment) and it will be their first ever gig. i think we could fit in reasonably well.
28/04/2007
focusing on the finer points now
i like the new web stuff in principle. i do think it needs a slight bit of tweeking in terms of creating greater continuity - the movement of the dots, while i like, get annoying to me fairly quickly, and don't seem to quite be part of the same aesthetic as the images. keep the movement, but slow it right down and animate it rather than randomly positioned dots flickering on and off. and the dots themselves could possibly be played with a bit as well so that they fit with what they're sitting on top of. get it up as soon as you can though, i reckon. i'll post you the ftp details in a private e-mail.
i also like the 'i saw this...' (see, i CAN abbreviate) title. i'd like to state a case for 'am i my brother's keeper?' as well, though. i don't know a whole lot about the 'bra boys phenomenon, but it certainly has little to do with it. it's more about asking what is the responsibility of one human to another, and it is what most of the lyrical content i've written, and from what i can guess, you and marcella as well, is about. obviously it's a quote from cain when god asks him where his (dead) brother is, and to me it kind of sums up the attitude of western culture at this point in time. i think it's one of the most powerful stories in the bible. i also had a student a couple of years back do a rather impressive body of work based on the phrase, which has always stayed with me - i'll try and track down some images of it. ultimately, i like it mostly because it's a powerful, memorable phrase which relates very closely to the lyrical themes of the album.
could you possibly post the list of critiquing we did on thursday night up on the blog? i don't actually have a copy. it was good to go through and do that again. i'll work on what we've discussed and we can do it again in a few weeks.
also, you didn't give me the files for 'the sun sets on the age of the instrumentalist'. could you possibly get those onto one of the cd-rs and send it to me?
so when does telafonica want to play just like now again. i figure now there's some monetary incentive, we could probably play with any band we want who is willing to play. what about o||o? anything from july on is free.
i also like the 'i saw this...' (see, i CAN abbreviate) title. i'd like to state a case for 'am i my brother's keeper?' as well, though. i don't know a whole lot about the 'bra boys phenomenon, but it certainly has little to do with it. it's more about asking what is the responsibility of one human to another, and it is what most of the lyrical content i've written, and from what i can guess, you and marcella as well, is about. obviously it's a quote from cain when god asks him where his (dead) brother is, and to me it kind of sums up the attitude of western culture at this point in time. i think it's one of the most powerful stories in the bible. i also had a student a couple of years back do a rather impressive body of work based on the phrase, which has always stayed with me - i'll try and track down some images of it. ultimately, i like it mostly because it's a powerful, memorable phrase which relates very closely to the lyrical themes of the album.
could you possibly post the list of critiquing we did on thursday night up on the blog? i don't actually have a copy. it was good to go through and do that again. i'll work on what we've discussed and we can do it again in a few weeks.
also, you didn't give me the files for 'the sun sets on the age of the instrumentalist'. could you possibly get those onto one of the cd-rs and send it to me?
so when does telafonica want to play just like now again. i figure now there's some monetary incentive, we could probably play with any band we want who is willing to play. what about o||o? anything from july on is free.
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