Music
1988.06 -1988 10 WAZOBIA
Yeah, the interview jam went well enoguh.
But Geoffrey later told me he had already decided to hire while I on-time set up “showing great love for my instruments.”
It was a kick; played all over NorCal. We were the house band at the infamous Club Afrique in the now eradicated Whiskey Gulch area of Palo Alto.
The drummer Lemuel was insanely good. He sat in for Kotoja, our rivals. It was like a gang. Geoffrey was hot one night and he was saying in his Nigerenglishian: “We gonna go out and we gonna kill doze guys witht our tunes.”
I only played with them—throghout Northern California—through the end of the year, but it was a great experience.
Audio Engineering Society New York (concert and panels incl. Wendy Carlos, Laurie Spiegel, Joel Chadabe, et. al.) live electronic performance, shipped my whole studio cross-country.
These four pieces ended up on the Inner Film CD. Of the collection my keyboard teacher at the time, Tom Coster too kindly said: “Reminds me of the best of Wayne Shorter.”
This code was for non-realtime software synthesis in Pla at CCRMA’s Sambox. Output was at least the tape used in Inner Film/Earth Sighs generated by this score. I explain he process more fully in the Keyboard article about CCRMA that followed.
In this session I met the remarkable Bill Scottstaedt, who guided my coding and from whom I also picked up wavesequencing and traveling loops (“Leviathin”) for Sequential; he former essentially creating the Wavestation.
Cassette of improv sessions with Rick Davies, Matt Isaacson and Chris Meyer. AUdio coming.
1987.08 First sale of music: “California” pieces to Stanford AEA Electronics Ed foundation $100. Tape available.
That track is long-lived; in 2009 I used it for the same purpose; intro and outro for the Entanglement Science videos.