Tag: music
Chickens, Kittens, and an Opossum
October 1st, 2001, No Comments
We spent a fairly quite weekend doing some work on the lawn. Susan did some weeding and I trimmed some dead branches from one of the trees. Saturday night we went to the Dallas Symphony. This week it was Wagner’s Overture to the Flying Dutchman, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, and a work for Orchestra and [...]
And the Butterflies Begin To Sing
September 19th, 2001, No Comments
I picked up an interesting CD on eBay: Morton Subotnick’s and the butterflies begin to sing for string quartet, bass, MIDI keyboard, and computer. The computer’s part is to listen to the MIDI instruments and processes the notes through an algorithm that controls the mixing and amplification of the other instruments as well as algorithmically [...]
Life Slowly Returns to Normal
September 17th, 2001, No Comments
Saturday the DPRG held Roborama 01.b as planned. There were a few interesting new robots competing as well as a couple of records broken but, overall, I think attendance was down a bit due to the terrorist attacks. The events for walking robots were delayed a few weeks and may evolve into a seperate contest. [...]
Assorted Plastic Cups Contain the Deluge
June 14th, 2001, No Comments
It’s late and raining like mad outside. The windows in my office are leaking again but assorted plastic cups sit on the sills to contain the deluge. The sounds of drips and splashes are fighting with the sound of Blitzkrieg Bop. For the moment the Ramones are winning out.
Wildflower Arts & Music Festival 2001
May 20th, 2001, No Comments
Friday, Susan and I spent the evening at the Wildflower Arts & Music Festival. It was mostly music. And the music was mostly 80′s bands like the Go-Gos, Flock of Seagulls, The Romantics, and a bunch of others. Overall, it wasn’t a bad deal for 10 bucks. The Go-Go’s did a nice cover of I [...]
Hey! Ho! Let’s Go!
April 18th, 2001, No Comments
Good news and bad news. The bad news is that Joey Ramone of the Ramones died Sunday of cancer. He was buried Tuesday in Woodhurst, NJ as Deborah Harry, Cris Stein, Joan Jett and assorted other musicians looked on. A boom box in his hospital room was playing the newest U2 CD (delivered personally by [...]
Lalo Schifrin, Peeps, and BBQ
April 17th, 2001, No Comments
I better post a news update while I’ve got a few minutes free or it’ll probably be another week before I get a chance! Let’s see, last friday night I stopped by a local Colter’s BBQ to hear some live R & B played by a group that included Kenny Stern on drums along with [...]
Deep Ellum Arts Festival 2001
April 9th, 2001, No Comments
Last week was another busy week. Lots of Perl and a smaller amount of C programming. More progress on robots.net. The robomenu is now working. The robomenu is a database of robots with photos and descriptions. I’ve only managed to get about half the records into the database (they were originally static pages) but it [...]
