dj ar

This is my latest mix.  Techno.  Sometimes atmospheric, other times scare-the-children, always driving.  I imagine this is what would happen if the Cantina in Star Wars went late-night.
You can listen and see the waveform right here right now:
While you listen, download the mp3.
DJ AR - Dubious Trip
01 - STL - Silent State (Original Mix)
02 - […]

Ears and Brains - Article 1

Ears and Brains - Article 2
the two halves of our brain work differently.  one article describes it this way:
the left brain is better at processing “rapidly changing sounds”
the right brain is better at processing “drawn out sounds, like music.”
sometimes in music there are not just drawn out sounds, but also […]

My friends and I started an internet radio station.
www.goodfridayradio.com
Live broadcasts, downloadable mixes, podcasts.
We’ll be starting a mailing list for live broadcasts:

Weekday afternoon live DJ sets broadcast to folks sitting at their desks
Live transmission of the DJ set from one party to another party
Live handoffs from DJ in location A to DJ in location B.

How ridiculous […]

there’s another frontier to this idea, though, analog vs. digital. i think you can use “analog” and “digital”, or simply “relative analog-ness” (analogity? analogicalness? analogicality?), to describe the relative quality of an artist’s experience, the artist’s experience as they make their art. and maybe even: the more analog the artist’s experience, the better their art. […]

digital vs. analog
the age-old argument. or at least as old as the loop machine, cd player, sampler, mp3.
how digital is something? how analog is it? does it matter?
which is better, vinyl or cds? it’s a sensitive topic sometimes among audiophiles and djs. maybe more sensitive than it needs to be.
usually […]