In 1985 I wrote a song called: "The World Inside the Crystal". At the time there didn't seem to be any songs about computers, or programming, that weren't meant to be funny. (I think there might have been a few about AI or robots that were meant to be scary. It's entirely possible that this was the first serious computer ( Read more... )

It's a bit of a grab-bag today. I found myself needing to finally learn the melody to a couple of songs that I'd so far only played guitar on, because I want to do them in my upcoming concert at Consonance. You know that thing about dominos? That.

So the only recordings I could find were back in 2009. And, for some ( Read more... )

( raw notes )

( raw notes )

No, I haven't dropped off the face of the Earth, though I sometimes feel as though it might be a welcome vacation. This is just a quick note from Baycon -- I haven't even had time to update my to.do list with completed items. No, I will not tweet them.

High order bits:

The Tres Gique concert kicked serious ass -- probably our ( Read more... )

( raw notes )

( raw notes )

( to.done 20090309 )

( to.done 20090306 )

With Consonance coming up, it seems only reasonable to mention that my band, Tres Gique, will have a 45-minute concert slot on Saturday Sunday, at 1pm. I just got a look at the program grid and there it is. My apologies for the temporary confusion to all the people I told it was Sunday; it got changed quite ( Read more... )