Following my first epiphanies, my initial apprenticeship of chords, and later realisation that I still didn’t know the instrument, I set out on a new quest to find a guitar learning method of some sort… There are hundreds if not thousands of guitar lessons on-line, but they are uneven and far from comprensive (and mostly…
Catégorie : Making Music
Guitar, part II
Following my first double-barreled eureka, I decided to try and figure out the chords I had played on Maubert, Dark Indigo etc, because by then, my usual amnesia had already set-in. So I painstakingly backtracked and figured them out. However, because I had cheated profusely, I was incapable of comfortably playing any of the songs…
Guitar, part I
As I’ve mentioned many times before on sknoblog, I’ve been more or less learning the guitar for the past few years. When I say more or less, I mean that I haven’t been doing it systematically and super-seriously, but I have actually been learning the instrument, and learning how to play old or new songs…
More Sons of Sarookh: Ummm
I told you a while back about the Sons of Sarookh, Matt Love’s collaborative music-making-over-the-Net endeavour to which I have participated before. A few weeks ago, Matt sent me « Ummm », another semi-random piece of music. Well, I whipped out my crappy classical guitar, ran it though a few effects, and proceeded to spontaneously lay down…
Coming up for air
Haven’t had any time for sknoblog or any other artistic activity lately. I’ve been doing software localization and translation work to feed the kiddies. Most translation work in the Internet age is outsourced by software companies to China and India, and translation rates have fallen dramatically (generally to a few lousy cents per source-language word).…
Crazy Frog
I don’t know what’s worse: That the French voted massively against the proposed European constitutional treaty (mostly to sanction local politicians who have superbly ignored previous local election results), or this. In case the link goes cold, here is the content: LONDON (AP) – A cell-phone ring tone appeared set to top the British singles…
Surprise follow-up
A while back, I wrote about « surprise » in music. How most people prefer their music to be nice and predictable rather than nice and unpredictable. I was discussing this with my significant other who is an artist, and her question wasn’t if this was the case, but why? Her take on why surprised me. She…
Awww…
When I post a link to a new song on « sknoblog », I’m loathe to post anything else for a while cuz I don’t want to bury the post in « less-important » junk. So following last month’s posting frenzy, I’m cutting down to keep The Playground of the Baby Giants prominently featured on « sknoblog ». So if you’re…
The Playground of the Baby Giants
[kml_flashembed movie= »http://vincent.knobil.free.fr/media/tinyrv_23_the_playground_of_the_baby_giants.swf » height= »178″ width= »150″ /] Finally, here it is (after a silly setback): The Playground of the Baby Giants is open to the general public! Lines forming now. No pushing and shoving please. 25/09/06 Update: Now with a tiny Radio Vince player!
April music-making news part III, follow-up #2
I spent today re-recording the vocals on The Playground of the Baby Giants (having deleted the first take by accident if you recall). My ears are still humming, and my throat is real sore, so I need to rest a bit before I can begin to judge if this version is worthy of your time…