organ sale

Greetings earthlings ,

A few changes happening here at chez seed . I have decided to part with my hammond C3 organ and 122R leslie . For those of you not " in the know " , the C3 is the same as a B3 with more timber . So much wood that it is impossible to look at the legs of the organ player during church . The neighbours have been complaining about the noise around here . I tried to convince them that our regular church services where for the good of humankind but they disagree . Consulting various lawyers we attempted to be granted church status and the various tax-breaks it would allow us . If it worked for Chick Corea and Ron Hubbard I figured it would be worth a shot . That turned out to be a dead-end and the landlord is threatening to evict so I have no choice but to sell the beautiful instrument . This organ has low frequencies to die for ( all the way down to negative numbers I believe ) which gives it more than ample penetration . I have attached a video with a recording and photos of the actual instrument .
I am asking a price of $4000 for the old girl which has been well maintained and is in good cosmetic and playing condition .

I am hoping to use the proceeds to purchase a pinball machine and new industrial espresso machine .

There will be no more rehearsals but y"all are cordially invited for an eternal pinball match fired up with the best coffee in brooklyn . If the stress gets too much you can relax with a pie and a lager and a few episode's of "minder" from my complete DVD collection . As Arthur Daley put it best " The world is your lobster "

over and OUT

ehtan iverson's wayne shorter transcription

http://thebadplus.typepad.com/dothemath/2010/02/just-in-time.html

amazing solo

happy new chinese year

In mandarin it is " gong xi fa cai " or " xin nian kuai le "
It's new years eve in the Chinese new year today . My chinese wife Qing made dumplings for me . There were 18 for good luck ( only one is left in the photo as they tasted good and I couldn't wait ) . I stole one of my wife's so now I have had 19 . Not sure what that means for my fortunes ...

predator drone RPV

fictional story of child whose father works in the airforce fighting the war in Iraq at home on his computer flying drone airplanes ..
dad works from home . the kid really likes video games and thinks his dad's game RPV is the best one he has seen


"my daddy is in the airforce and he showed me a great new game
2 can play ... 3 can play

predator drone unmanned RPV .. it's my favorite game online

after lunch dad gets to work in the study
mommy makes a little extra cash on her cam

insurgent is 50 points
civilian is minus 5 "

online music

I would humbly posit that 2010 is the year when online recorded music reached the " tipping point " .
There is so much freely available good quality on the internet that "ownership" seems pointless .
My listening habits have greatly changed ... I remember finding a great album like "thrust" by herbie hancock which took years of searching ( back in 1987 or so ) for me . I would listen to that thing constantly until I discovered something else . Back then my jazz teacher John Bostok told me the "kind of blue" was good and it took me a couple of years to find a copy .

Now ....

For example :

www.lala.com

I spend hours at this site just LISTENING to music ... I rarely purchase any of the stuff .... I just move on to the next great thing I havent heard before

OR

http://neverenoughrhodes.blogspot.com/2008/05/never-enough-live-herbie-hancock.html

There is a sea of live "bootlegs" of great jazz concerts recorded in the last 30-40 years on the internet .... You couldnt listen to all of them in a lifetime if you tried .... Many of these sites now stream this stuff which is perfectly legal for the listener .... Its an interesting philosophical/legal argument about the "difference" between streaming a digital file and downloading it listening to it once and then deleting it .


As a result I have posted all of my studio albums here :
www.seanwayland.bandcamp.com

If someone can suggest a better " business model" in the current climate I would love to hear it !
The cost of a digital album is going to come WAY DOWN in the next ten years . My bet is that in 2020 a whole CD will cost about $1.50 to buy online as a result ....

Cheers
Sean

time playing

finally after 20 years i figured out what was wrong with my time feel ...
i was thinking about what would be the best way to organise accents within a phrase ..
i realised it made sense to dig into the groove at the top of the phrase ( 4 bars say ) and play each 1/8 ( or 1/4) with the same intensity on the downbeat at the start of the phrase so that the rhythms sounded resolved ..
no i can play any rhythms or accents I like within the phrase and its easier to hear the form in what I am doing

digitize me

digital world took my fantasy
you took my mind
you took my imagination

linear ADC will never quantize me or my least significant bit

i'm not a zero or a one
digitize me ,
but you cant sample my soul

on the 7th day Lawrence Roberts created TCP/IP , packet switching

http://www.seanwayland.com/archive/computerdemosaftersept09/digitize%20me.mp3