Clarification and Context
I think I'm going to start writing in this more frequently.
Some context and perspective on the last few years of my life also seems appropriate.
I'm now in my 5th year at UC Santa Cruz. Mrs. Darling Manifest is dead, but we're all still friends. Mike dropped out of college around two years ago and went to audio engineering school in LA. He's now working at a studio in Calabasas doing what essentially amounts to being Rob Thomas' bitch. He's enjoying it though, it seems. A small part of me is envious that he gets to work in a studio every day and hang around large Trident consoles, Coles 4038 microphones, and Neve preamps.
Adam graduated last spring and has been in LA for about a year now. We've grown distant, which makes a small part of me feel empty and devoid. When we hang out, it's just like old times, but we never talk anymore.
edit -- oh yeah, and Sean's getting married. (!!)
In two weeks, I'll start my last quarter at UCSC. I'll be finishing up a major in Computer Engineering and a minor in Electrical Engineering. I almost double minored, adding Electronic Music, but I haven't taken some bullshit History of Western Art Music class, so I don't meet the requirements for the minor. I've done all of the synthesis and studio classes though.
I haven't recorded any music in ages. I've been playing my monomes off and on, trying to develop a proper composition/performance software interface between classwork. So far it's been unsuccessful. The monome online community is a big part of my life though. I contribute a lot of minor patches and a fair amount of hacks to existing patches. Everyone in the community is great. Many posts in the forum call it the friendliest place online. I'll be meeting up with some LA monome users this Saturday after an IEEE banquet.
Oh, yeah, I'm the president of UCSC's IEEE student branch. We won two student branch of the year awards last year, one for the Region 6 Central Area, which includes schools like Stanford, Berkeley, etc., and then one for Region 6, which is pretty much the entire west coast of the US.
On February 1, 2009, I applied to the graduate program in Electronic Music and Recorded Media at Mills College in Oakland. They told me I'd hear back in about 6 weeks. I still haven't heard back yet, and I'm anxious as hell.
For our senior design project in engineering (basically the capstone requirement), we are designing a large multi-touch table, similar to the reactable. We're using the same technology, but scaling it up to support many projectors and many cameras. I'm also planning to build myself a touch table to do musical interface research.
It's now 1:43 on st. patrick's day, and i have a horrendous cough and thrashed throat. I need to clean out the garage. The bloodbath (the garage at my old place where I hosted a handful of shows and recording sessions) is no more. Now I live in a really nice house near UCSC with 3 beautiful women, one of whom has carved a niche in my mind and steals most of my romantic thoughts. The house is for sale, our lease is up at the end of June, and the garage (my old bedroom) is a substantial mess. I've told the housies that I'll clean it up by tonight at 8.
I'd better get on that...
Some context and perspective on the last few years of my life also seems appropriate.
I'm now in my 5th year at UC Santa Cruz. Mrs. Darling Manifest is dead, but we're all still friends. Mike dropped out of college around two years ago and went to audio engineering school in LA. He's now working at a studio in Calabasas doing what essentially amounts to being Rob Thomas' bitch. He's enjoying it though, it seems. A small part of me is envious that he gets to work in a studio every day and hang around large Trident consoles, Coles 4038 microphones, and Neve preamps.
Adam graduated last spring and has been in LA for about a year now. We've grown distant, which makes a small part of me feel empty and devoid. When we hang out, it's just like old times, but we never talk anymore.
edit -- oh yeah, and Sean's getting married. (!!)
In two weeks, I'll start my last quarter at UCSC. I'll be finishing up a major in Computer Engineering and a minor in Electrical Engineering. I almost double minored, adding Electronic Music, but I haven't taken some bullshit History of Western Art Music class, so I don't meet the requirements for the minor. I've done all of the synthesis and studio classes though.
I haven't recorded any music in ages. I've been playing my monomes off and on, trying to develop a proper composition/performance software interface between classwork. So far it's been unsuccessful. The monome online community is a big part of my life though. I contribute a lot of minor patches and a fair amount of hacks to existing patches. Everyone in the community is great. Many posts in the forum call it the friendliest place online. I'll be meeting up with some LA monome users this Saturday after an IEEE banquet.
Oh, yeah, I'm the president of UCSC's IEEE student branch. We won two student branch of the year awards last year, one for the Region 6 Central Area, which includes schools like Stanford, Berkeley, etc., and then one for Region 6, which is pretty much the entire west coast of the US.
On February 1, 2009, I applied to the graduate program in Electronic Music and Recorded Media at Mills College in Oakland. They told me I'd hear back in about 6 weeks. I still haven't heard back yet, and I'm anxious as hell.
For our senior design project in engineering (basically the capstone requirement), we are designing a large multi-touch table, similar to the reactable. We're using the same technology, but scaling it up to support many projectors and many cameras. I'm also planning to build myself a touch table to do musical interface research.
It's now 1:43 on st. patrick's day, and i have a horrendous cough and thrashed throat. I need to clean out the garage. The bloodbath (the garage at my old place where I hosted a handful of shows and recording sessions) is no more. Now I live in a really nice house near UCSC with 3 beautiful women, one of whom has carved a niche in my mind and steals most of my romantic thoughts. The house is for sale, our lease is up at the end of June, and the garage (my old bedroom) is a substantial mess. I've told the housies that I'll clean it up by tonight at 8.
I'd better get on that...