Archive for October, 2008

MC Lars and ytCracker are Internet Superstars

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Of course most of us already knew it, but now it’s official: MC Lars and ytCracker are Internet Superstars! Lars and YT were in town last week recording their new e.p., tentatively titled “The Digital Gangster E.P.” (according to the interview embedded above), and I got a chance to hang out with both of them. [...]

This morning’s bent improvisation

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

When constructing music using circuit bent instruments, I tend to spend 10 minutes improvising to a click track then combing over the resulting audio and extracting the most interesting moments to be later chopped and sequenced in Reason. Basically, I’m the enemy of the “purest” bending community. My goal isn’t to make deconstructionist audio collages, [...]

Mark plays the handlebars

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Mark Growden plays the handlebars from Doctor Popular on Vimeo.