Sunday, June 14, 2009

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.)

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

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.


(c) Brian D. Kelley

Sunday, June 07, 2009

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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Tuesday, June 02, 2009

China blocks Twitter, Flickr and Hotmail ahead of Tiananmen anniv

Umbrella Protection!


China blocks Twitter, Flickr and Hotmail ahead of Tiananmen anniversary





Saturday, March 21, 2009

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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Friday, December 19, 2008

My Twitter extension Dwigger is alas no more. Here's what I discovered much to my surprise this morning without any indication it was coming.


Goodbye from Dwigger.com

Dwigger is no more. Sometimes you get an idea you're certain has to work but... it just doesn't. We thought that community voting for Tweets would be a sure-fire thing. Alas, we were wrong. So, we'll saunter off to lick our wounds and head back to the mothership at VideoSift. You can find us there until we hatch our next scheme to take over the world.

We thank everyone who supported Dwigger during its unfortunately short lifespan. We hope to see you on the Sift.

- Brian & Rommel
Copyright © 2008 - Sift Partners, Inc.


I will probably be using http://ping.fm more in the future

Thursday, December 18, 2008

St Trudpert Steps Tia


St Trudpert Steps Tia
Originally uploaded by nlnnet.
Tia and I were at this site for an Alpha course. We were doing the music. It was a singular pleasure for me to do this with my daughter. Strange how something so simple can mean so much. It meant a lot to her as well. Cool!

Lea Tia Andy BW 01


Lea Tia Andy BW 01
Originally uploaded by nlnnet.
The photo is older than the current date, but it is so good that I had to share it here. This is of Tia, Andy and Lea (Tia's cousin and Andy's niece.)

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Top Cli.gs of 2008

Top 10 Cli.gs of 2008 (We only started using cli.gs at years end but still...  ;-)






Monday, December 08, 2008

RoughMix 133 - Free Form





















RoughMix 133 - Free Form



The cast about how music is made....

Recorded as I made stuff up without an agenda of anything. It was music in free-form - another tool in the craft of writing music.

Shoutouts to listeners in, Rome, Italy; Ankara, Turkey; Dubai; New Delhi, India; Chai Nat, Thailand; Canberra, Australia; Calgary AB, Canada; Lake Tarpon FL; USA and many other places as well. Thanks so much for for listening!

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