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Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You're on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go.

You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care.
About some you will say, "I don't choose to go there."
With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet,
you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.

And you may not find any
you'll want to go down.
In that case, of course,
you'll head straight out of town.

It's opener there
in the wide open air.

Out there things can happen
and frequently do
to people as brainy
and footsy as you.

And when things start to happen,
don't worry. Don't stew.
Just go right along.
You'll start happening too.

OH!
THE PLACES YOU'LL GO!

You'll be on your way up!
You'll be seeing great sights!
You'll join the high fliers
who soar to high heights.

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the
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Shamu Is Dead

Not that this is news to anyone. Anyways, I decided to put this up.

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Time Goes Backwards

Yeah. My guitar was out of tune. I have a long way to go…

Mr. Magoo’s Poop Experiment – Time Goes Backwards.mp3
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Thursday Mixer

Mr. Magoo’s Poop Experiment – Thursday Mixer (Featuring J-Ali).mp3

This song was fashioned through the use of copy and paste layering. The mixer is the the only active instrument in which the mute button’s are mapped onto keys. Steve Zigler showed me this in Reason and I thought I’d create a song showing it’s power. It is similar to what artists would do with an analog 8-track mixer and use of up/down-sampling.Continue reading...

I Don’t Sleep/Fall With Me

I’ve changed this song around alot and finally got something that sounds better than that crap Viola patch (I used to have ‘I Don’t Sleep’ on here but have reworked the song). The distorted guitar sound is the same patch I use in “Goodnight Moon, Goodnight Stars” (Bass Plucked Pizzicato) except with a Scream4 distortion filter ontop. Here it is:

Mr. Magoo’s Poop Experiment – Fall With Me.mp3
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Goodnight Moon, Goodnight Stars.

Mr. Magoo’s Poop Experiment – Goodnight Moon, Goodnight Stars.mp3

I had to experiment with the Bass Plucked Pizzicato patch I picked up for the NN-XT. There are 9 wave file samples of a cello transposed onto a range of 1.5 tones. The transposed sounds are indistuinshable. The distorted guitar is actually a Subtractor Patch with a Phased Oscillator and a high frequency filter. The drums are filtered with a Tape Filter to produce a high-bass deteriorated analog sound.
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GUT

Terry Riley
In C


Performing Directions:

All performers play from the same page of 53 melodic patterns played in sequence. Any number of any kind of instruments can play. A group of about 35 is desired if possible but smaller or larger groups will work. If vocalist(s) join in they can use any vowel and consonant sounds they like.

Patterns are to be played consecutively with each performer having the freedom to determine how many times he or she will repeat each pattern before moving on to the next. There is no fixed rule as to the number of repetitions a pattern may have, however, since performances normally average between 45 minutes and an hour and a half, it can be assumed that one would repeat each pattern from somewhere between 45 seconds and a minute and a half or longer.

It is very important that performers listen very carefully to one another and this means occasionally to drop out and listen. As an ensemble, it is very desirable to play very softly as well as very loudly and to try to diminuendo and crescendo together.

Each pattern can be played in unison or canonically in any alignment with itself

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Tropicalia


Tom Ze.

In an interview by Josh Kun:

Zé conspired with Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Os Mutantes, and others to pummel Afro-Brazilian folk with hallucinatory psych-rock, embrace Carmen Miranda while drinking Coca-Cola, and pledge allegiance to Carnaval while butchering the national anthem on live TV (ahem, before Woodstock). It was all a riff on what the Brazilian modernist poet Oswald de Andrade called cultural cannibalism: devour all the First World pop you can find, grind it up with local teeth, then spit it up transformed.


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The Echo Nest

Brian Whitman, Ph.D. MIT Media Lab: Music, Mind, Machine. On the subject of the Eigenradio.


All those stations, playing all that music, all the time… Who has enough time in the day to listen to them all? Eigenradio plays only the most important frequencies, only the beats with the highest entropy. If you took a bunch of music and asked it, “Music, what are you, really?” you’d hear Eigenradio singing back at you. Eigenradio makes its optimal music by analyzing in real time dozens of radio stations at once. When our bank of computers has heard enough music, it will go to work on making more just like it. What you hear on Eigenradio is the best of New Music, distilled and de-correlated. One song on Eigneradio is worth at least twenty songs on old radio. This season, as a present to friends worldwide, our system listened to as much Christmas music as it could handle. When it was done it synthesized these sixteen new timeless classics.


Get the Christmas album

Try it out
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