Tia's Herbstausstellung (2nd Grade)

Most posts now short..

Most of what I now post is on other networks focusing on the short and sweet. For that you can get the info at: BrianKelley.info

But I have been trying to write more light material as so much of what we all read is so negative.

I have not forgotten what I do, but I am choosing to share more of the silly and funny percentage wise. If you disagree feel free to comment. I read all comments (eventually.. ;-)

RoughMix 149 - Breathy

RoughMix 149 - Breathy

After months of international travel, a dead computer upon return RoughMix has been on hiatus for awhile, but we are back never having intended on being away for so long

This episode takes a vocal effect and uses it to determine the rough. I also employ some slapping and some harmonics as I play on my Fender acoustic

Everything is being created live and I am just capturing whatever appears.

SHOUTS:
Special hellos to listeners in: Vimont, Quebec (near Parc de Naples); Seattle, WA USA; Eskisehir, Turkey; near Peabody, KS USA; Moskva, Russia; Guangzhou and Shenzen, China

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Headed to Germany

We will be airborne in about 20 hours. More will be available at my facebook account

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Northern New England Break

It has been a very long time since a break, but we have one now in Vermont. I was finally wise enough to actually plan a break far enough in the future so that it worked. It feels good!

We are together with good friends for a week in Warren, VT. The weather is hot and the time so far is most enjoyable, apart from a very bad mattress upon which I am trying to sleep :-(

On Saturday we head south again and back to work, but for now I am enjoying not having a schedule.

If you ate your own tongue

If you ate your own tongue  [created 2009-6-14 00:10 am]

[Idea : if you consume what you need for your existence what are you left with. This is an example of songwriting driven by text/lyrics for future usage on http://RuffMix.com]

If you ate your own tongue
would you taste the loss of taste
as you swallowed?

If you blinded your eyes
would you see the loss of sight
in your viewing?

If you deafened your ears
would you hear the loss of sound
as you listened?

If you bludgeoned your feel
would you feel the loss of tact
as it touched you?

If you dampened your smell
would you feel the loss of breath
as you inhaled?

(c) Brian Kelley - 2009 June 14

This song was strangely enough inspired by a Tweet I posted in 2009-06-14 where I asked: "If you accidentally ate your own tongue, could you taste it?" I wanted as an excercise to use a crazy random phrase as a tool or beginning point to write a song. As I write this, there is no song - only the text. If it were earlier I would play with it musically. My family is now in bed and I cannot make the noise required to create a rough of the music. But I now have a unique starting point that I hope will help me to creat a new tune that is unique. (It is perhaps my greatest challenge not to write music, but to create new music that is both new and very different from what I have done before.)

Twitter 3rd Part apps I use and why

Twitter 3rd Party apps I use, and why

• http://www.peoplebrowsr.com/
  - it allows for the best browsing of everyone connected to a given
  twitter account. It allows for access to MANY other sites as well
  including Facebook and FriendFeed. It is a VERY powerful tool for users who want to use all of the tools. (If it seems to complicated, set the mode to lite.) The best tool is the downloadable AIR version. It also works online at http://www.peoplebrowsr.com/
• http://Ping.fm - I use this app when I want to post to more than one social network. Peoplebrowsr.com now supports it, but the send later function is unstable, so use this function with care.
  
• http://twitterfall.com - it allows for a single column following of search terms and Twitter timelines
• http://Tweetgrid.com - It is a great search tool and extremely customizable
• tweetdeck - I now actually use this only as a backup to peoplebrowsr.com (you need to download Tweetdeck for it to work. It has the benefit of working on the iPhone.)
  
• http://Twuffer.com - programmable send later app for on the hour delivery. Simple interface
• http://TweetSpinner.com - programmable send later app allows for easy list usage and minute by minute delivery. The free version allows for 25 tweets to be pre-programmed.

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(c) Brian D. Kelley

RoughMix 147 - Pop, Scratch and Ham

RoughMix 147 - Pop, Scratch and Ham

The cast about how music is made....
I was playing around with a kind of scratching sound on the guitar and decided to experiment with some other effects. By effects I do not mean anything electronic. I mean doing gimmicky things on the guitar itself, likes this kind of scratch, some popping (where I place a thumb under a guitar string, pull it up and let it snap back to the fretboard) and a few other things.

Effects, gimmicks and tricks do not make a song, but they can be tools to help the creative process. My technical abilities continue to grow, but creativity oftens only thrives when something fresh is done or a new approach is taken. This episode takes one listen at approachingly freshly using what I am Pop, Scratch and Ham.

In the second clip the effects I use include slapping (which I do with my thumb) slap harmonics and then a combination of these things as well.

There are two clips: the first is called "Pop and Scratch", and the second "Ham is OK" (see if you can figure out why.)

This episode is sponsored by http://NeverGoodToHear.com  - Add your own phrases that are never good to hear.

Shoutouts to listeners in: Casablanca,
Morocco; Ghana somewhere north of Wenchi; Cameroon somewhere east of
Foumban and to many friends in China and the rest of the world. If you
send a short voice mail we can maybe share what you are doing in
songwriting with others in the RoughMix community. [http://RuffMix.com]

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China blocks Twitter, Flickr and Hotmail ahead of Tiananmen anniv

Umbrella Protection!

• http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2009/06/03/vause.chang.tiananmen.anniv.cnn
• Chinese using umbrellas to block reporting from Tiananmen Square
•  added 4 June, 2009

China blocks Twitter, Flickr and Hotmail ahead of Tiananmen anniversary

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jun/02/twitter-china

• Chinese censors blocked access to Twitter and other popular online services on Tuesday afternoon, two days before the twentieth anniversary of the crackdown on democracy protests in Tiananmen Square which cost hundreds of lives.

  The
  move came as authorities detained a leading dissident and ordered
  another to leave Beijing in an indication of the intense sensitivity
  around Thursday's anniversary....

• http://mashable.com/2009/06/02/china-blocks-twitter-and-almost-everything-else/
• It seems that as of today, the Chinese authorities have blocked internet access to Twitter, Flickr (), Bing, Live.com, Hotmail.com and several other sites. Wordpress (), YouTube (), Blogger () are also blocked...

• http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0602/breaking30.htm
• Access to the popular social networking service Twitter and e-mail
  service Hotmail was blocked across mainland China late today, two days
  before the twentieth anniversary of a bloody crackdown on Tiananmen
  Square.

RoughMix 141 - Must Be Something More

RoughMix 141 - Must Be Something More

The cast about how music is made....

Sorry that it has taken so long since the last post. It is not for lack of music, but for lack of time to create the cast from the raw data.

This episode is one where I am intentionally raw, also vocally. I am actually trying to make my material rougher for the cast so that we continually get at the main point, that music starts out rough before it ever gets to its polished presentable format.

Shoutouts to listeners in: Laval, Quebec; Butler County, Kansas; Swords, Ireland; Muscat, Oman; Melbourne, Australia, and many other places as well. Thanks so much for for listening!

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