February 15, 2004
studio ear
as i understand it, there is a semi-legitimate condition called, "studio ear." basically, when you've recorded and re-recorded a tune approximately 3 billion times, you start listening to and nitpicking every little thing. that definitely happened with the first two tunes i'm posting today. i've been working on these tunes for a couple of years, and they've gone through several incarnations. i decided to post them because, especially in the case of pathways, i'm getting pretty sick of playing them.
- pathways (Christensen)
- ghetto queen (Christensen)
- scattered thoughts (Christensen)
The third tune listed is a piano piece i wrote. it's probably going to end up split into two parts, to be played by two pianos. of course, finding Serious Pianists™ that would want to play them is another issue altogether. ;-)
the lyrics to ghetto queen are on the next page...
continue reading "studio ear"February 13, 2004
some info
I got a message from someone who was interested in pooking around InnerSpace today, and spent enough time providing some starter instructions that I figured I'd post them here.
thanks a lot for writing. i'm glad some people are checking this out...
right now the codebase isn't really meant for public consumption. i do this primarily as a personal exercise, and although there are many parts of it that are very functional, other parts aren't so refined...
i've attached a tarball, which contains some sparse documentation. i don't know what your level of familiarity is with Python and the Twisted library (http://www.twistedmatrix.com), but some basic concepts from those areas can get you up and running.
First you'll want to install Twisted if you don't have it already, and run the setup.py script to install it in your python path.
then you'll need to do the same with InnerSpace (python setup.py install) which should also build a JAR file of the client for you.
first build the server "TAP" file by running mktap innerspace mktap supports some options, like specifying the port number, and SSL options, but for now it's probably best to leave them as is.
then run the TAP file with twistd -nf innerspace.tap, which will run it in the foreground (removing the -n option daemonizes the server).
then, run the client with:
java -cp build/is-client.jar inner.space.client.Client
i believe the default u/p is phil/phil or wizard/wizard
besides "look", there aren't too many "real-world" verbs, as i'm working on the programming interface right now. @verb <verb> on <obj> will let you edit verb code, although i think most of the installed ones are predefined. However, this is functional enough to create new verbs, although the API for verbs is under heavy construction...you can also see the beginnings of the object editor with @edit <obj>
anyways, that's about as much as i can tell you, for now. i'm not really providing any support for this project yet; it's open-source for philosophical reasons, but i'm going to be the sole developer until i reach a certain point, and there's no sense in me writing any serious documentation for it until the API is complete...
anyways, lots of luck! feel free to email me with any questions you might have, i'll try to help you out whenever possible...
-phil
February 04, 2004
death to spammers
awhile back i had to turn off comments for my weblogs, as i was receiving that oh-so-familiar viagra and penis enhancement spam in my comments. i've recently installed a plugin by James Seng which should allow me to turn them back on. it makes use of the CAPTCHA technique for detecting spambots.
i'm giving it a quick try on this message, and if it seems to work out, i'll be turning it on for good.
UPDATE: DAMN! it's been so long since i used comments, i forgot how i had never fixed the colors or whatnot. It also seems the plugin is having an error, i'm going to hack away and see if i can get it to work.
UPDATE: sweeeeeeet......
February 01, 2004
old stuff...
i thought it might be nice to put up some really rough original drafts of some tunes that i've done. most of these particular ones i haven't even recorded legitimately yet.
some of them are particularly hilarious because they feature larry's unique vocal stylings. sometimes i really think he's more suited to being a rock star than i am...now if i could just get him to play an instrument... ;-)
- lot trash (Christensen/Hovish)
- man tears (Christensen/Hovish)
- harvest friend (aka harvest) (Christensen/Hovish)
- Volcano (Christensen/Hovish)
