Author Archives: A. Person

Raised by gypsies because the wolves wouldn’t have ‘im.

Some notes on software guitar processors

June 5, 2010 – 6:45 AM

I’m not much of a guitar player, and the guitar I have is of equal quality. So, can using VST guitar plugins make the proverbial silk purse out of a sow’s ear? Yes and no. Here are some notes about a few demo and freeware versions I’ve used. Your mileage will certainly vary, but at [...]

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Google AdWords and the New Marketing

May 15, 2010 – 3:46 PM

I don’t know. There’s a big part of retro me that really resents the New Marketing. This is where you scramble, lie, cheat, and do whatever’s necessary to drive traffic to your site and sell stuff.* Yes, we want to sell tracks and CDs. But I just hate the concept that New Marketing is the [...]

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Snapshots from around the studio

April 8, 2010 – 4:02 PM

Crow Caw Music Works International Headquarters Gimme that comfy country vibe! There’s a wealth of interesting detail here (depending on your personal understanding of the word “interesting”…) Notice the high quality $20 First Act guitar amplifier you can just see the top of under the desk. I’ve since relocated it a little bit and covered [...]

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Welcome to the Crow Caw Music Works International Operations Center

February 22, 2010 – 3:15 PM

This rather forbidding looking entrance is the front door to the CCMW IOC.The loading docks and executive towers are on the other side of the building. As mentioned elsewhere in this site, the hardware components are inexorably being taken over by software. The main production is handled by a big computer named Colossus with lots [...]

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New tracks: “Whispers of Doom” and “Robot Monster 3″ – technical details.

February 18, 2010 – 7:55 PM

Updated 2010 02 22 I’ve just finished “mastering” two new tracks that have been in the laboratory for a few weeks. “Whispers of Doom: is pretty much like everything else I’ve been doing lately. “Robot Monster 3″ is more fun as it uses extensive dialog samples from the 1953 grade-Z science fiction movie “Robot Monster” [...]

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NWEAMO festival in San Diego – Oct 2009

October 3, 2009 – 8:06 AM

Experimental Music Concert at San Diego State University NWEAMO is a cool organization now in its 11th year (as I understand it). Its mission is to maintain the connection between classical music and avant garde and popular. It makes sense the way they explain it. They support performances in Europe, the US and elsewhere as [...]

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Moving into the new century…

July 19, 2009 – 8:50 AM

Well, not quite. As usual, I’m the last person in the world to adopt something new. In this case, I’ve finally bought a laptop. I’ve been wanting to get a portable computer for some time. I’ve been waiting for a decent laptop under $400, but nothing was really suitable. There are Atom powered “netbooks” but [...]

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Where’s the new music?!

May 26, 2009 – 2:45 PM

(June 26) Well, it’s not really “NEW” but I’ve uploaded a nice copy of my Buddha Machine 2.0 remix (info on this page: http://crow-caw.com/40-listen/44-buddha-20-remix/) OK, I can announce that I have at least uploaded something new! It’s a fairly long (7:23) piece from the loops from the second version of the infamous Buddha Machine, generously [...]

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Brainstorm!(?)

May 19, 2009 – 7:48 AM

Really…just more like random ideas for future “enchantments” to the site… At some point we plan to implement some “customer only” pages under the various release pages. You’ll be able to access them by entering a password; possibly something that only a CD purchaser will be able to tell from the packaging. At first, they’ll [...]

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Warning

March 1, 2009 – 12:40 PM

I’ve written about this band before. Basically it’s one of the primary influences on me and my music. Even though they only released 2 lps (that I know of) in the 1980s, I still hardly ever get tired of listening to them. I was just making up some MP3s for my portable player, and listened [...]

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