THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE CEDAR VALLEY is an exhibit of art, design, photography, video, original music, ephemera, and other cultural artifacts to celebrate the prolific creative output and rich cultural impact of the underground music scene in the Cedar Valley over the past 30 years.
The gallery will showcase many examples of DIY design, including […]
In addition to getting married, having a baby, and raising an eight year old, I have been busily working on curating a multimedia exhibit which documents and celebrates the punk music scene in my hometown, Cedar Falls, Iowa. The exhibit, called “The Secret History of the Cedar Valley” will open March 17, 2007 at […]
Here are the first 34 measures of a new arrangement of The World Outside my 45’s. I cleaned the cello part up, added a decent rhythm track (beats actually on time!), added the bitcrushed guitar part sooner in the song, and tempered the rhythm guitar to give more space during the verses. Ignore […]
The Huygens probe landed on Titan on January 14, 2005. NASA funded a camera which recorded the descent onto the surface of Titan. They put together a time lapse video (11 MB, QT) which shows the 4 hour descent in 5 minutes.
The most oddly surreal thing about the video is its […]
Introducing Serena-Maneesh, Norwegian musical gods. Saw them in Chicago last week. Live, they send an electric wave of bliss into your eardrums, creating fuzzy spasms of ecstasy as they shimmer and echo. I haven’t had this much fun since Psychocandy was released. The uber-goddess Hilma Nikolaisen and I will soon […]
Another demo complete: Lyrics and MP3 download here. This one a little more exuberant. Enjoy!
Another knife-twister from my hitherto unnamed proto-chamber-goth band: Where Will Love Go?. Forgive the technical sloppiness. Know any cellists? I’m buying a tympani this weekend.
Recorded a very rough version of a song over Xmas break. Lots of flubs and mishaps in recording, plus synth approximations where a cellist and percussionist should be… but other than that a nice little sketch of a song. I feel good about it. The MP3 is here. More to come.
John Dowland was a lutenist and composer in Elizabethan England. His story is rather interesting, and the many works he left behind are still available.
His biggest success, a series of tunes called the Lachrimae–literally “tears”–(a sample of which can be heard here), was composed in the late 16th Century. It is […]
I just saw the film Dig!, which chronicles the brilliant, fascinating, and tragic story of two bands: The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols. Apart from the largely tragic mess that the BJM became, I was completely taken by their amazing music. Even more curiously, their entire musical output is available online […]
Cecil Kleakins is an eccentric academic known for appreciating noise, researching invisible topics, and taking long baths. When he is not feeding grapes to his leopards, he adores a finely crafted claret and, like the Duke of Burgundy, Philiip the Bold, disdains the ignoble Gamay.
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