Looprock

I meant to write about this a while ago, but I went to Barcamp here this year and I'd have to say it was a really interesting event. Lots of discussion about Location based services, some inspiring talk about xmpp, and lots of drupal and openID thrown in the mix. These happen regularly all over the US, so I'd highly recommend checking it out if there's one coming to your neighborhood.

I designed a new interactive piece in Second Life called "Temple of the Cog". I don't want to give too much away, but it's a co-mingling of a very old piece of mythology and some very new technology. You should just go check it out for yourself:

Temple of the Cog (SLURL)

I've started messing around with the various SL (Second Life) <-> RL (Real Life) I/O and there are some real possibilities there. Given my fascination with -making things talk- I have a pretty decent skill set, email parsing, minimalist web apps, XML-RPC, to potentially do some interesting things there. As a matter of fact, this blog is currently getting transmitted to cubes in second life that will post the latest entry when someone touches them. How's that for coming full circle.

Thanks to my friend Michael, Vocoid now has a venue in second life for live performances. I'm working on a launch party right now, which will hopefully coincide with the release of the second medl album, coming soon!

If you wanna check out the space (or just hang out and listen to the SomaFM digitalis stream):
Club Vocoid

I know, it seems like I was just saying this (okay, maybe not) but I have yet another new album. I just finished my submission for the RPM Challenge (rpmchallenge.com). You can check out the fruits of my labor of putting out an entire album in a month on Vocoid:

Challenged

I just "released" my first set of tracks, I guess it used to be called an ALBUM, on vocoid. I've been working on them for a while, and had actually hoped to have one more finished, but decided that 3 was better than none. Sometimes you just have to kick things out the door. I hope you enjoy them!

http://vocoid.com/?q=dsl/releases/triad

Also, I updated the Sight link to point to both my youtube page, and my flickr page. There's not a whole lot there right now, but more is forthcoming.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/looprock/

I added 3 new entries to the Code page. They're all command line tools I thought people might find useful. There's an ssh wrapper, system lockdown script, and the original script that became 'upbeat'. If you're sys-adminish, you might want to check them out.

I wrote my first GUI applescript app this weekend. It's allows you to enable and disable some system parameters to increase system responsiveness for heavy IO and CPU related tasks under OS X. If you think it'd be useful, you should check it out Here.

If you haven't already checked it out, most of my work these days is going into a music project with DJ Squelchy, Medl. We just release our first full length album Medly, and are currently trying to pimp it out to labels. I'm also investigating the possibility of taking submissions for vocoid, and maybe one of these days making it into a more "real" label.

After a very log vacation from working on any full tracks, I'm proud to present Bridges and Gates.

I figured out a new method for composition, and I think this track is substantially different (yes, read "better") than my previous work. As always feedback is appreciated.