MUSIC
Rosin Coven Rehersal
Tapes & unrelease tunes
(most recent to
least recent)
Trilogy
- 6/12/05
Barry
Syska - track 1
Barry
Syska - track 2
Beth
Snip - 3/13/05
Arrow -
3/13/05
Lila -
3/8/05
Carrie Snip
- 3/8/05
Beth
Snip - 2/22/05
Justin
Snip - 2/22/05
Lila
- 2/15/05
Carrie 1 - Mid
Feb?
Carrie 2 - Mid
Feb?
Historical files of stuff that was never recorded
elsewhere
Water
- March 24th
Water
- July 11th
Water
- July 27th
Neckbones
- Plough, 03
Magpies
- burning man decom, 2003
Magpies
- Plough, 03
Piggies
- Plough, 03
Heyho-lament-thorax
- Plough 03
train-water
- rehersal 9/28/04
queen
jazzy lucky 9/28/04
queen-jazzy
9/28/04
Bunhenge
- 10-24-04
Witchcraft
- 10-24-04
Rock
Lobster
Gimple
the Fool - 1-1-03, teahouse NYE
Rosin Coven's still plugging along. With all the Ann stuff, it's
been hard for me to contemplate new projects, but I'm starting to
now.
For me, it's still all about the cello. Sometime mid 2002
I seemed to have an ephiphany about soloing, and reached a point of
intunation that was exqusite. I haven't been able to reach it again,
but I know it's out there.
I've got a new acoustic instrument.
It's a Chris White from 1999, and it's amazing. I would really like
to get ahold of Chris, if anyone knows him.
RC's new album
(Menagerie) should be out by the end of the year.
If you've
read this far, you deserve a treat.
United Airlines smashed my Cello right around the change of the millenium. Answer: don't take a cello checked with a plane change in Chicago near Christmas. And if you really need to, get something like the Gage travel case. Standard cases just don't do the trick.
The rig I'm currently playing through is my new acoustic (and sometimes the electric) into either a small stage amp, or a large amp. The small amp is a Crate "taxi", the larger version called the "limo". This amp is great because it's battery powered, small, and can be placed at an angle. Using that for myself, and going through the house, works pretty well. I can turn up the treble and get myself right in the ear, so I stay in tune. It's been a great boon. It's only a 50W amp, so it gives that deep cello bass only at moderate volumes, which is good enough for some situations.
The large rig is something like what I've been using previously. I'm still using my ADA MP2, but as a preamp for a Crown PowerBase 1 that I got used a number of years ago. The PowerBass sounds *terrible*, but it does have power. I put that mono-bridged into a stage monitor cube that has the name "Harbinger" on it. It's a rather standard enclosure with a JBL 15" and some kind of horn, and has a nice flat sound (like monitors should). It's heavy, but has that combination of deep in the lows and sweet in the highs that I like.
I'm still using my Barcus Berry, but am thinking of trying something else. I don't like taking it on and off. It is a nice, hot signal, but the Check him out!
I've been playing music for almost longer than I can remember. It's an integral part of my life. I've been branching out into other instruments, but I keep coming back to my first, the cello. It's a fabulous instrument. I have two of them, one a college-student grade acoustic, and one a custom electric cello made by John Jordan of Concord, CA.
I'm interested in all kinds of playing. I've given up on classical music, as it isn't as accessable. I still listen occasionally, but I spend more time listening to more recent music, stuff that has more relevance. I'd like to play good improvisation, or anything else that has relevance.
The acoustic is unremarkable, but I've had a fair amount of experience amplifying cellos. My electric sounds pretty good. It has a barcus-berry piezo on a standard bridge. The cello itself is a hybrid, and has a sound chamber. This allows me to get some of that ol' cello sound. However, it still doesn't sound as good as a real cello. I'm starting to think about opening the cello and placing a mic inside, but I'm a bit afraid. I'd like to hear from someone who has experience doing that.
John Jordan is a great guy. He does all kinds of custom work. He has a number of his own crazy projects, like an 8 string fretted electric violin. His electric violins are more sucessful than the cellos, and I think I've got the last one he ever sold.
I've been using an ADA MP-2 tube pre-amp to get some basic volume control, eq, and some softening of the sound through distortion. Right now, the MP-2 is very noisy. If someone can give me some info about this unit (tubes? Caps?), I'd sure appreciate it.
My current outlet is Rosin Coven. I'm quite excited about this band. I hope you can join us at some performance, or at least stop by and listen to the streamin' MP3.
A previous band was Kala Din. Meet the Din's old friend Monstro. If you're a friend of Kala Din, give a shout. KD's motive force was Tim Walters.
It's reasonable that we should have some decent audio over the internet. Compression has allowed processing power to triumph over thin pipes, at least enough to get us audio. My favorite radio station is KFJC, overlooking Silicon Valley. It's the closest to what I grew up with, strange college radio. It's not the kind of radio where you like everything they do, but if you here something there that you'd never hear anywhere else, it's worth tuning in once in a while. They have a great internet audio feed, based on Java. If you've been thinking that Java is too cumbersome to do anything interesting, dig this.
Other stations, like KUSF, and WBRU have decent real audio feeds, which require real audio. 'BRU has good late night jazz. Real Audio kind of sucks, though, because it's hard to choose a higher bandwidth. The interface of the GTS system KFJC uses is that you can choose something bigger if you have it.
Here's a feeble
sound