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Forward to 2006 part 2

27th April 2006

I'm not even sure if I agree with him or otherwise.

18th April 2006 - What the ?

Just saw the film "What the Bleep do we know?"- Wow.
What a total load of s**t.
"The aztecs couldn't see the ships arriving"? *cough_the spaniards slaughtered everyone they found, how exactly was this 'fact' passed on as folklore?_cough*
Biased manipulation disguised as factoids.
m@

10th April 2006 - A few deserved reviews

The World's Fastest Indian: Go see it Now. It's great to see a film celebrating the better parts of our culture onscreen. Far more exciting than I thought could be possible from the blurb-
Citizen Kane, fully deserves every accolade that has been awarded to it- Orson Welles also stars in:
The Muppet Movie, now remastered on DVD - Orson plays the director the muppets meet at the end of the film - it's ahead of it's time, the opening lines are: "Help, help, I'm lost!" Kermit: "Have you tried Hare Krishna?".
Dragon's Den: Full of arrogance and hatred.
The River Queen: Full of romanticism and wafty poetic images, but lead actress's melodrama spoils an otherwise erstwhile film.
Totoro: Watched this back in 1997 (or thereabouts) and it's not lost a cent of meaning or romanticism for me - amazing wee film from that Lord of the Japanese imagination, Hayao Miyazaki.
Metropolis (Japanese Anime): Wow.

27th March 2006 - No Logo

I'm a bit weary of Zen being used to sell product whenever simplicity or a symbolically-pure aestheticism is called for -
if Zen is reduced to mere aesthetic, it ceases to be zen in the same way that christain iconography does not suddenly become christainity.
Zen as with any spiritual path is a living discipline so if you poke it, it should bleed. Mere surface representations do not equal Zen. Largely the discipline is being sold out by Japan and China, where the Zen temples have either become corrupt (Japan) or have been destroyed (China)-
The point should be, when you take everything else away there is something remaining, even if that mere something is simply a spot of awareness trapped in a void. Unlike nihilism, with which zen and buddhism are often co-mentioned, there is a fullness in the silence of the empty-
therefore, the commercial with the whitewashed room and floaty tunes do not capture the spirit of zen any more than donkey s**t does.
If Zen is in that commercial it was there before the room was manicured and floors polished. Similarly, Jesus is not in the church- He is everywhere- assumedly.
m@

26th March 2006 - Ho ho ho

All the hoopla about pimping & hoing in the music video industry at the moment is certainly understandable, but they're missing one thing:
Any parent who lets their child think that these people are role models is a complete moron. Any person who chooses to imitate them is a total moron. At the end of the day it's at least partially down to individuals and education (we are talking from the liberal soapbox here). Frankly, this stuff is laughable: really, here's some of the stuff you've got to choose from:
(a) Hypersexualised, pseudo-post-feminist depictions of girrrl-power with wysogyny posing as self-validation.
(b) Guys sing about relationship problems while models dance besides them.
(c) Creed. No wait. They split up.
The degradation of culture is not complete without your participation.
m@

25th March 2006

Geeknote: I don't know why PC-lovers are clamouring for OSX on PC. Okay, so Mac's changed their hardware to be even more in line with a pc than it was already- and???
Mac's have been in essense outdated & underperforming PC's, with clever marketing, for at least 10 years...
Technical excellence asides, OSX is the worst OS they've ever created, at least from a usability perspective.
The dock is one of the saddest pieces of HUI-destruction, ever, bar command-line interfaces.
And they're importing it into Windows Vista (the next version of windows). UGH. It shows you that the HUI designers aren't in charge any more. It's the graphic designer's turn - with no real understanding of user-interface design and no real breakthroughs or changes in GUIs in the past five years, plus a need to market, companies aim to please the eye, not the mind-
there are some exceptions - Tracktion (the software I use) is one example of good user interface design done very well-
it's a pity more people don't take after him (Jules, the guy who designed Tracktion) in keeping interfaces both simple and versatile (man, I hate that word). m@

24th March 2006 - Can you find the definition of irony for me?

Email it to me-
Woke up from a dream about losing all my computer data, and so decided to back up my data in case the inevitable happened, but in the process of backing up (on a partition level) copied from the empty drive to the one with data on it, destroying my data. Irony? I can't remember. Alanis Morrisette was wrong for an entire song, so perhaps I am too-
At any rate, spent the better part of two weeks getting it all back, and then the drive I got it back onto died. That happened to be the drive that I originally had all the data on in the first place- but I had, by that stage, copied the fubar'd partition to another drive for safety purposes...
So- Providence? Divine influence? Bartering with fate, or just plain, atheistic coincidence?
Who gives a f*ck. What concerned me was that I almost lost my entire music collection (which I'll have you know, is by-and-large legit) and programming I'd been working on for months and months.. and months.
But it's hard to back up when you've got 150GB of data to do it with. Strangely, when recovering the data, half the files were overwritten with songs from one of William Shatner's two albums - either The Transformed man or 'Has Been'.
And the most commonly incorrectly-named filename was the title from my favourite Atom and His Package song: 'If you own the Washington Redskins you're a cock'.

26th February 2006 - No analogue robots here.

Just to re-iterate:
this website is not a document of my structured opinions- it is a record of my current quantum flux- ie. Thoughts forced into a singular state via observation, photocopied to hardware for future posterity-
I don't have that many fixed opinions. Asides from on shaking babies. You just shouldn't shake any babies, no matter how evil they are- Anyways,
finite state machines are only useful so far as computers are concerned- not reality.

25th February 2006

From my post here:
"you can't make money from music anymore, despite the fact that it should be -easier to do so- now than ever before- millions of people pirate music every day, just for the hell of it - and because they're not paying for it, they tend not to value it - they go through music like popcorn, never really appreciating it for the amount of time and personal energy that went into it -
unfortunately, things like soulseek, while they have a positive, 'try before you buy' aspect to them, rely on the ethicality of the users to establish and maintain ethical behaviour - and THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN.
It's a lose-lose situation - eventually the record companies, the artists themselves, will give up, and there'll be a situation like there is in China, where you can't make money from CD's, you have to do corporate tie-ins and sponsorship deals to get any money as an 'artist' or performer- I honestly think the internet spells doom in capital f*cking letters for the music industry, in one form or another... call me cynical, but it's happening-"

24th February 2006 - The New Hamilton Slogan

A friend came up with this tonight; it's more accurate (or funny) than anything they've tried so far: "Hamilton: Cows, Bogans & Hookers".
(For those in the international audience, Hamilton is a small town in New Zealand which constantly change's it's slogan to appear much cooler than it is. And a bogan is a New Zealand-specific colloquialism which refers to someone of (usually) caucasian descent who listens to heavy metal, has long hair (and occasionally a "mullet"), smokes drugs and/or drinks beer, and tends to be stupid. Basically the guys from Waynes World - you've probably got your own names for these people - email them to me).

21th February 2006 - Mental perspective(s)

Bin thinkin tonight about how 'old' I feel - like the life that I felt in my early twenties's been pulled out from under me- I guess part of that has something to do with being sick, perhaps.
Thyroid conditions (either hyper or hypo) do physically age your brain, apparently- while I no longer feel the 'brain fog' I experienced in terms of forgetting s**t and generally being bemused in the early stages of my illness, I do feel older, somehow- then I realised that in fact, some of that is simply social conditioning- at the age I am (late twenties, though you wouldn't know it because of my stunning good looks) people around me and generally people that I know or associate with are doing the late-twenties stuff - giving up, settling down, dying inside and being perfectly comfortable with it thank-you-very-much.
I don't have to conform to those social pressures if I don't want to- and while it probably would be a good idea, financially, for me to start doing so- houses are expensive, after all-
that's a path I have a choice about following, whether I decide the lures and allures of those choices are enough for me is still my decision- I could for example, choose not to give up, and to continue making music on a paupers wage until I die early in some slum in wellington (that means YOU, Newtown! And you just *know* I'm looking sideways to you Karori!!).
or I could choose one of many different career paths and keep the music on the side, constantly glaring at the new bands and their stunning good haircuts, all so modern and shiny-
point being, it's about perspective - and the choice I make will inevitably be the one I feel contributes most to both myself and the world. And I've got all the time in the world to do so, given that we're most of us going to die within fifty years...
takes a load of your mind, doesn't it?
Time to take out the trash.

12th February 2006 - An Interesting Comment

From here: "It often upsets people in restaurants at neighboring tables, when they over hear that a person is requesting food without meat, as it brings up the idea of cruelty to animals, at least in an unconscious sense. No one wants the blame for being cruel to animals, they just want to eat their dinner, the same as everyone else, but when someone, and oddball of society comes in and is overheard requesting "I will have the Veggie Burger please", people at neighboring tables gag on their food, smiles turn to frowns..."

11th February 2006 - 'anti-life', Buddhism, and Mr Hesse.

An article I just read called Buddhism, as well as Christainity and Islam, 'anti-life'- from my own reading and experience of buddhism, I would have to say this is a fact, but perhaps only a partial fact. By-and-large, the question of buddhism is not about ignoring, suppressing, or denying life - more often it is focused primarily on how, why and with which techniques we can reframe life in a spiritual context. Don't ask me to define the word 'spiritual', cause I'll deck you.
Go here or here if you're really worried about it. Anyways, the 'anti-life' question does come up often and fairly appropriately, as any spiritual discipline worth it's salt involves taking a long hard look at ourselves and questioning whether the motives and drives intrinsic to the human form are in particular, adequate, or ethical-
Sensuality, for example, is not an intrinsically ethical drive, though many would like to see it as such. It is quite easy to enjoy sensual delight without worrying about the consequences to the animal you're eating or the person you're sleeping with. Herman Hesse was very mistaken in his equivalence of sensuality with spirituality - there is little commonality between the two, though at times they serve as strange bedfellows-
Buddhist writers have often criticised Hesse for misleading the general public as to the substance and nature of enlightenment with his book 'Siddhartha', which equated 'life experience' in a life fully lived with enlightenment- a messy form of enlightenment, if ever there was one. It's not a bad book, I've read it- but it postulates that 'life experience' is the same thing, or inevitably yields the same results, as practised religion or spiritual discplines. This is utterly, utterly farcical...
I like Hugh Hefner.
I think he's a funny fellow.
But when he's in bed at night with his two million playmate 'girlfriends' (I haven't been keeping count), I doubt his mental state is much the same or of a similar kind to people such as, say, the Dalai Lama.
A friend once remarked to me that 'the spiritual stuff' just comes with life anyway, so you don't actually need to focus on it or obtaining that path -
theres a tiny grain of truth in that, but despite life bringing experience your way, without a spiritual discipline (meditation or prayer or some other individual or group practise) of one kind or another, you're unlikely to be capable of viewing those experiences within a context which makes an interdependent sense of them, and thereby depriving yourself of a more connected or meaningful sense of interaction with reality en generale.
...It's sort of like trying to explain what the feeling of eating an orange is like to someone who's never eaten citrus.
I guess Most things in life are not particularly communicable, but I'd say spirituality is certainly one of the -less- adequately communicable concepts/feelings to be explored.
But I think there is a happiness and a kind of holistic purity which very rarely occurs naturally outside spiritual disciplines- (perhaps only because these are the few activities humans engage in where a genuine focus on pure intent and non-manipulation are the norm rather than occasional occurences - and in any case, even if it is only a meme, or psychological state, it still serves the purpose(s) it's intended for) and even if the character in Siddhartha managed to obtain that outside of a pre-imposed spiritual structure, he'd be the one in a million that successfully comes at it from the long-way-round and succeeds in his doings. The rest of us need a little guidance-
It's like learning to play the violin-
sure, you could teach yourself - but you'll be at it a long, long, time before you accomplish anything...

9th February 2006 - Unpacking the "Baggage"...

A friend denoted a book to me about polyamorism, humoristically entitled "ethical sluts". I haven't read it yet. As a strong monogamist, and fairly unabashedly so, I don't really give a f*ck (speaking whimsically, of course)-
Frankly, polyamorism seems pretty cheap to me. The more didactic proponents remind me of early androgyny theorists telling everybody they're all, by default, biological bisexuals but that society has warped their minds and they just need to 'grow' to accept their "true sexual nature".
A review I read of the book celebrated it in terms of thinking, but critiqued something I've also found in people I've known who've been polyamorists- a frank and disrespective attitude towards monogamy, a thinly-veiled high-minded self-righteousness.
Defense-reaction? Probably- but I don't trust anyone who spits at the mainstream simply because -it is- mainstream-
My thoughts go out to this quote (here): "...isn't it curious how polyamorous relationships replicate the disposable throw-away values of our capitalistic society, treating other people as objects to satisfy our cravings, interchangeable as we please, useful to us only as long as they work for our own purposes?" It also seems an extension of the high-self-esteem fad that's running headlong through society currently. And we only have to look at the US to see how receptive and open high self esteem makes people.
I think there is economy in terms of how close you can get to a person, or many people- we are not magical-mystical-energy-beings and we have finite resources. Time, energy and tolerance are things that we only have a certain amount of, any given day. If you disagree with me it's because you have never become chronically sick for a consecutive long period of time- that teaches you exactly what you do and do not have within your body and soul.
Broadening your social strata on intimate levels may decrease the level of intimacy attainable, because of this. You have to think in terms of what creates intimacy, and why.
That pretty much sums it up for me- where the f*ck is the incentive in investing time and energy into things such as growth, understanding, learning, being receptive and -changing the way we relate to one another- if it's just as easy to change to someone else? It's the social equivalence to moving house every three months rather than dealing with the emptiness you feel once you've unpacked your baggage. Which I am certainly guilty of-
That's assuming you have "baggage" to unpack, of course. I don't know. I don't care if people do it, if they're happy and comfortable with it, then good. But I don't agree that it's a more productive or more righteous path. Nor do I see it as the 'future of relationship's, or the most positive possible majority future scenario. I think it's an option. For non-limerant oversexed folk with high appetites for shallow intimacy... well look at me. Defense-reaction? Perhaps. In retrospect, I'd say that so long as people are thinking about this sort of thing, and making decisions based on reality, not fooling themselves or anyone else as to the real reasons why one path is more attractive, there's hope. Not necessarily happiness, not necessarily fulfillment, but certainly hope-
m@

5th February 2006 - Escape into a private fantasy island

Back!!! -back like star wars, like Michael Jackson, like fluoro colours.
I've been updating my website anyway, even though I haven't had a phoneline to dialup from and upload to...
scroll down to see what I've been up to-
I'm moving again - not sure where to. Guess I'll find out - I wonder if they have dialup in the gutter???
Packing my crack pipe now.
:)m@

3rd February 2006 - Distributed systems

Been thinking a lot recently about distributed intelligence ala ants and other such hive minds, and how they perform comparitively to relatively enclosed systems such as human's and their individual brains-
given that there is (or at least was) the same weight of ants on the planet as humans - I have to say equably well, however there are caveats - we, for example, have the power to eradicate all human, plant and animal life from the planet, were we stupid enough to do so -
a mere ant cannot claim this weight of leverage for the survival of it's race-
given this, it seems obvious that evolutionary outcome cannot be measured solely in terms of efficiency of replication of genomes, but also in terms of the ability of those genome-sets to render complex behaviour in their external environment(s).
Humans can be considered both a distributed system of intelligence in terms of a society, but also a closed system in terms of individuals and their capabilities - which unlike ants, can be considered equally important to the survival of the species.
On yet another tangent, I wonder whether the random and complex behaviours of various plant lifeforms can be considered 'intelligent' when grouped together in overwhelming numbers - from both a macroscopic timewise angle and physics angle - would we then begin to see emergent patterns of behaviour and/or change along the lines of those observed in hive minds, albiet much simplified? If so, then, where is the black and white dividing-line between flora/fauna? Categorisation? Or merely our scope-of-focus?
Obviously there's more to this than I've studied, plus I know there's some people visiting here who think about this stuff - so by all means email me-

30th January 2006 - 'o' News!

Apparently, o is going to be screened on Auckland's "alt tv" at some point(s). This should be exciting, although as a fledgling station local to Orcland, not many people will see it - however, it is also playing on http://www.demoscene.tv/ (online tv).

24th January 2006

Well, I've been very tense for a while now - probably need more fluoride in my water supply, as my friend Stephen says - apparently fluoride isn't too good for you - or it's an antidepressant, or something.
Just a quick update to say I'm not updating at the moment - I have many things to write, but can't be bothered, and my internet connection is down, which makes uploading a little chronic.
I'm moving in a couple of weeks too- so that can't be good on the nerves - particularly as I haven't got a place to go to as yet-
News for aesthetes: The 'art' page is back up (Links page, again), plus I've added a new work called 'fiercerabbit" in the top row-
News for nerds: Have added to the Links page my two new game guides: Serious Sam and Freespace.
m@t

14th January 2006 - Prix Ars electronica

Well, they are german. The Prix ars electronica competition must stand for some non-euphemism, but I don't know, as yet, what that is...
anyways, the cd and DVD they sent me as a result of me entering "o" into last years comp, is the biggest mental-musical turn-on I've had in a long time-
and I mean that non-euphemistically. Really great stuff - reminds me of the mind-churn I got from early autechre - the feeling of mental gears sliding out-of-place, colliding with unknown forces.

13th January 2006 - Firefly&Chobits

Again, Firefly manages to combine two things I didn't think I could like - A. a western series and B. a scifi series - into something which I think is pretty amazing - something I never thought I'd say. I get a belly-laugh from each and every episode - not an easy task-
as for Chobits - WTF?? Just... WTF. Those crazy japanese...
m@

11th January 2006 - Calm down, Witch-doctor!

Tintin in the Congo has to be one of the most hilariously offensive pieces of cartoonery bar Family Guy-
unprinted for 40-60 years due to un-pc-ness, see Tintin: * Call blacks lazy!
* Go elephant hunting and carry back ivory!
* Trick ignorant africans!
* Slaughter a herd of gazelle!
Brilliant.

p.s Some songs are getting uploaded to download.com at 192bps - links added on music page - so far only anger cloud and "guns of tibet"-
that means faster downloads and better quality for those on broadband - dialup users should still use the old links. Cheers-
m@

8th January 2006 - Miller's Crossing

Never thought I would find a coen brothers film I liked, nor a gangster movie I could tolerate.
Surprisingly, Millers Crossing does both tricks, and is pretty darn solid in the mix. The gangsteriness is undercut by humour, the humour is masked with rapid gunshots. A good piece overall.
-m@

7th January 2006

Music I have been listening to recently:
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Autechre - Gantz Graf Incunabula & Chiastic Slide
Stone Temple Pilots - 4, Tiny Music
Boards of Canada - Maxima, Campfire Headphase, the additional Japanese track on Geogaddi
Clannad - Legend, Magical Ring, Macalla
Tom Waits
Keven Realsmash Bernard
Bola - Gnayse
Ochre
Amon Tobin - Supermodified
1 Giant Leap
Porcupine Tree - Sky moves Sideways, Signify
Blind Melon - Soup (would listen to the first album if I could find it)
Cocteau Twins - Pink Opaque
Madredeus - Ainda
Deftones - Around the fur, White Pony
A couple of tracks off Marilyn Manson's Golden age of grotesque
Nitin Sawney - Prophesy
Rammstein - Reise reise
Massive attack & Mos def - I and I - off an hip-hop cd made for me by an ex girlfriend. On repeat. Almost counts as an album in itself.
m@

3rd January 2006 - GITS2 (Ghost in the shell 2)

The more I watch Ghost in the Shell 2, it seems the more I get -
no longer do I view it in the cyberpunk preset which was the previous film's pretext, but rather, more in the mode of 1940's detective-noir-crossed with asimovian robot-poetry-
the philosophical pretext of the film is something I'm beginning to understand, but only just. The concept of dolls as zen-consciousness entities devoid of soul, and thereby encompassing everything without effort (in 'the realm of gods'), is beyond my current grasp, but goes way beyond the kinds of futurism I'm currently acquainted with-
though the film draws heavily upon such writers as Kurzweil for it's concept of the Major, who, without giving anything away, appears as something more than human, more than machine, but beyond both. It supports Kurzweil's concept of futurism in the idea that something machine need not be something inhuman, but would in fact only extend the scope of what we consider humanity.
It's an interesting film. The scene in the second half responds obliquely to a kind of nietzeien horror of being explained, reduced to the sum of parts. The philosophy is more inclined to decieve and confuse easterners than westerners, as most quotes are from western sources. Regardless, it's worth watching, watching again, and perhaps by the third time through you might get the whole of it.
m@

3rd January 2006 - another year

It has been a year (or two) of ups, downs, sideways, quadrilaterals, and
perpendiculars to any axiom one could dare to imagine...
that being said, I have never been idle- chronic fatigue
notwithstanding- so here is:


***The three big things I have done last (and previous) year ****
***(in ascending orders of magnitude and importance to me, personally): ****

1. My film, 'O'
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This music-film is now available for free download (all 1 hour 10 minutes of it):
http://www.archive.org/details/o_movie/

You may also direct-download from the film's own website,
http://www.omovie.cjb.net

The download is roughly 698MB - too big to download if you're on dialup,
but about the right size to fit on a single cd-
two smaller (46MB and 58MB respectively) sections of the full thing are
also available for download in case you want to see what it's like
before commiting yourself to the whopping full-film download:
http://www.omovie.cjb.net/downloads.htm

You will need Divx (download here) installed on your machine to view it -
I strongly recommend turning up divx codec quality levels as high as you
can fathomably push them, and turning off 'film effect' (should
you find it turned on!). Divx6 is recommended.

Most of you already know the story, but basically it's an hour of
instrumental music, loosely-associated series of video clips
slipstreamed baraka-style based around 3D (the demoscene) material and
archival americana/alt-press footage. Despite the fact that film-makers
seem to hate it (they're all weird anyway), the general public liked it,
so I consider it a success - filmmakers seemed to misinterpret the
reasons behind the project, and particuarly the use of the archival material - i.e the 'recycling' thing - more details available at the main
site (again, http://www.omovie.cjb.net). Surprisingly, a year after
finishing, I still enjoy this project, believe in it and the reasons why
I made it.

2. Writing music for Nasa
=========================

Fewer people know about this, which occured at the beginning of last
year (at the same time as I happened to be
working on the visuals for 'O' incidentally). It was clothed in
much secrecy at the time, largely due to the fact that neither Richard
nor anyone else had any concept of what the actual agreement was re:
privacy. Personally I think the bigwigs didn't necessarily
want anyone knowing they were shipping even tiny jobs, like the one we
got, out-of-country so-to-speak - being a (occasionally hysterically)
nationalistic country (and being such a national icon for that country)
I think that's reasonably understandable-
however, after a while, Richard stopped trying to get a definitive
answer on the subject and we both told a few people- and now I'm
telling you:
it started when Richard used to work for a company called Deep Video
Imaging (to be perfectly honest, I had -no- part in securing this work -
it's all Richard's hard work - I just happened to be in the right place
at the right time),
which used to manufacture poorly-designed faux-3D screens (two layers,
one capable of per-pixel transperancy - hence a 3d effect) for special
purposes - they still
may do, I have no idea - anyway, Richard did the animations for these
screens - at some point they toured Siggraph in the states, and
Richard's animation got seen on one of these screens by a nasa rep- a
year or so later, the nasa rep talks to deep video, who talk to Richard
(who is now working freelance as opposed to working for Deep video -
see, it all gets a little confusing), and discovers nasa want him to do
an animation/3D presentation for their next space program, on one of
deep video's faux-3d screens, as a presentational highlight for an
upcoming conference- and various venues after that.
Richard agrees, halfway through the project they
realise he doesn't also do sound & music (duh!) - Richard contacts me, I
say yes - two weeks later, I've done sound/music for nasa! That's it.
Right time right place. The project (on Richard's website) is here:
Fuzzy Realms 3d-animation

and contains some of the prettier screenshots of the piece.

One of the perk-outcomes of that job is that now I can say I've got
something in common with my early childhood influences- the band
'They Might Be Giants' (although to be fair, they did get commisioned to
do an entire album by Nasa (apollo 18) whereas I only got commisioned
for - one song - so not a great comparison, yet a comparison nonetheless).

You may be asking yourselves, am I actually believing
this? Is this an elaborate scam? Is he delusional? Is he going to start
offering us trips to the moon to collect moon-cheese, or wearing funny
hats??? Well, no - I did
actually do this, I actually did get paid to do it, and while it's not
necessarily one of the proudest parts of my life (if only because people
look at you funny (and with just cause, it must be said - I wouldn't
necessarily believe me either...) if I choose to mention it), it's
something to be proud of. Something to note on my CV at any rate (if not
in bold print, then at least in small caps)... stranger things have and
will continue to happen.

3. The "Interesting" EP
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Unveiling - all new music, largely in the electronica genre,
which I've been working on for the past year (amongst many more things):

metamorphosis - 'i want to listen to it'
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Track 1: Blip Blop (punch in) (0:27)
Track 2: the algorithm that generated a star (6:17)
Track 3: rewind for ever (0:32)
Track 4: legacy of the clenched fist (6:19)
Track 5: Blop Blip (punch-out) (0:56)

I recommend downloading from this site as it's a little easier than the
archive.org site:
click here to go to the music download page

but you can always download directly to the archive.org link below:
http://www.archive.org/details/the_interesting_ep/

My website is also the only way you'll find the
'super-secret-mystery-bonus-track!' hidden (terribly) on the EP page :)

The hidden track is a non-essential but it point at some things to come-
dependent on whether I get around to it...
As you may have noticed there's a bit of rebranding going on here, on
account of this being solely electronic output plus a distinctly
different sound from my norm. Hence, the mighty 'Metamorphosis' logo.
I think this is some of my strongest electronic output this far-
but then again everybody always thinks that about all of their most
recent work- if nothing else it is certainly a marked departure from any
previous material. I am somewhat proud of it. :)
m@t

2nd January 2006

This article: click-click - is a good explanation of stuff I feel reasonably strongly about...
Happy new year.

2005 and earlier.

All bullsh*t opinions & general writings (c) Copyright 2006 Matt Bentley except when quoted

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