Movin' right along...dig-a dun dig-a dun

Footloose and fancy free!

Here's the latest run down:

* sold the house (yay!)
* went to cali and met the audio team/ saw the dev studio (yay!)
* quit my day job last day Nov 8th (yay!)
* mass packing and trailer hitching to ensue (meh)
* launching me, 3 ladies, and 2 cats down I80 from MN for 5 days to CA (eek!)
* staying for 2 weeks in a short term furnished apt (wooo!)
* hunting for a rental in fairfax, CA (yarr!)
* starting officiially on Dec 1st (yay!)
* trying to assimilate smoothly into a new climate/ work routine (????)

Be good!
LCL

pickledonion - the new magic

These days it dosent take much to wow me.
Gone are the jaded days of hard to impress stoicism and ragamuffin impishness.
A full on return to beauty everywhere and innocence abounding is just what mother nature calls for on days like these.


Enter pickledonion, a little 3 instrument step sequencer by Andrew Allenson that really delivers on the splendor of spontaneaous bliss.

Once shockwave loads it into your browser the clock starts ticking away and you're free to add/subtract notes & increase/decrease the number of notes played during the loop.

Something about the full on majorness of it that wouldnt allow an off note brought me straight back to rainbow colored xylophones and childhood nostalgia.
A much needed reprive from the recent intecsity around here.

Well done!

Also see: Musical Boxes

UPDATE:
Pretty cool, if you let in run in the background and your computer starts chugging away on something, it will hang up the sequencer in a really cool Aphex Twin stuttering kindof way. Now I just need to get a knob installed in the program to do it on purpose!

Going to California

"
Made up my mind to make a new start, Going To California with an aching in my heart.

Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,
Telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems.
"
-Led Zeppelin

Pedal Board

Alot of people who come here like to look at my pedal board (dont ask me why...maybe it's sexy? I have my own reasons for taking piles of pictures of it)...mmm...look at it...sooo pretty, how I miss you since I left you back home in MN.
Built from 5/8" ply-wood, it's got a nifty fold up design that allows fo either a side-by-side configuration or a two-tiered monster stomper that quickly converts into a giant sized self contained case. All self powered with the help of an old Juice Box, and wired directly to all the noise chomping love infested boxes of goodness. When not serving drinks down by the pool, it enjoys long walks in the moon light, warm Californian winters, and feedingback on itself in a squealcher-ific feast of brain damaging sweetness. Hear it for yourself!