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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
(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 [...]
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 [...]
Silencio draft#5 (about 22:00) Appr. 22:00 long ©2009 tim p scott (click (>) to play) Going through old ideas I I decided to put back my Eno/Budd/Lustmord hat and the result is a new ambient/soundscape piece. It still needs some tweaking but in any case we’ll put up a player with the current draft on [...]
Update stardate 4 Sept 2009 I’m liking this site more and more. If nothing else, their FAQ is the most fun to read of any site. They obviously understand “Web gruettiquette” and “independent music” well. The little player tool that embeds into wordpress stuff doesn’t look so hot. I went back to their site to [...]
