motel de moka

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LFSRs are usually chosen to have periods of exactly 2n-1. Linear congruential generators have periods that can be calculated by factoring. Mixes (no restrictions) have periods of about 2n/2 on average, usually after walking through a nonrepeating starting sequence. Mixes that are reversible (permutations) have periods of about 2n-1 on average, and the period will always include the original internal state. Although PRNGs will repeat their results after they reach the end of their period, a repeated result does not imply that the end of the period has been reached. (wiki)

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“Pseudo Random List”

01. Tortoise - Why We Fight
Late Night Tales : Four Tet (Late Night Tales, 2004)
02. Art Ensemble of Chicago - Rios Negroes
Selected Recordings (ECM, 2002)
03. View To The Future - Pacific Stereo
The 7th Seal (Low Spirit, 1997)
04. Ursula Rucker - Libations
Ma’at Mama (K7, 2006)
05. Philip Glass - Wichita Sutra Vortex
Solo Piano (1989)
06. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - The Dead Flag Blues
F# A# (Infinity) (Kranky, 1998)
07. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
St. Elsewhere (Downtown, 2006)

Note: Somebody ask for a list with no theme. Here it is. It’s semi random. (I never turn on my ’shuffle’ on, so you have to live with semi random.) It has transition and can loop, with no same style a row. It’s the closest thing to random I can do. Put the list in shuffle if you must. :D

image: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], [2, 3, 4], [2]

They were chanting,

To the uncountable living beings living in uncountable universes to the east,
May they be free of danger,
May they be free of anger,
May they be free of sufferings, and
May their hearts be calm and peaceful.

-The Chant of Marching Monks. Rangoon. Friday, September 21, 2007.

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Around 1:20 or 1:30pm, I heard someone saying that the police/army started shooting in the air. Someone from abroad messaged me on GTalk, and says he’s hearing reports of shooting. So I asked around to be sure, and went to look out. I saw the people still standing on groups, and the buses were still running. I heard that they were shooting in the air, so I told him back that. I messaged to someone who’s at work near Sule Pagoda Road, and he confirmed that they were shooting in the air. Also, reports of monks being hit by batons on Shwedagon Pagoda were already spreading on the net.

At 2:00pm, I heard that buses have stopped running on Sule Pagoda Road.

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I was watching the news when it came on at 8:00pm. The first news that came was to report if anyone was forced to donate money and food to the protesters. Then, what came next was other unimportant news like planting jatroba curcus, and visiting factories and stuff. On at the end of the news, it was announced that during the clash on Sule Pagoda Road, 1 unidentified person was killed and 3 were injured because of the shooting, and that some police officers were injured. (Blog entry. Rangoon)

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“Myanmar. Sept 27”

01. Mogwai - We’re No Here
Mr Beast (2006)
02. Thuja - Track 1
The Deer Lay Down Their Bones (1999)
03. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Clear Day
Bavarian Fruit Bread (2001)
04. Elixirs - Tithenai (web)
Ceallian (2007)
05. Mary Lou Williams - Ode to Saint Cecilie [#]
Free Spirits (Steeplechase, 1975)
06. Tortoise - It’s All Around You
It’s All Around You (Thrill Jockey, 2004)
07. Explosions in the Sky - Greet Death
Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever (Temporary Residence, 2001)
08. The Album Leaf - Brennivin
Seal Beach EP (Better Looking, 2005)
09. The Third Eye Foundation - Push Off My Wire (Matt Elliott Vs Chris Morris)
I Poo Poo On Your Juju (Merge Records, 2001)

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Note: About what happened in Burma. I have to make this list. There is something about the idea of certain form of peace expression in face of state violence. People determine to face guns and say no more. It’s manifestation of the subtle force of history and the people’s memory against raw form of state apparatus, troops standing with guns.

History always repeats itself until everybody learns they say. It’s karma.

I hope this list work, sort of gently brewing to paint melodies. It’s atmospheric, slow, but urging. I put my fav abstract ambient track at the end. cheers.

see also: SF reports
Image: Dust Mason, [1, 2], [Dust Mason]

Joy Division - Heart & Soul
(Closer / 1980)
Echo & the bunnymen - the killing moon
(ocean rain / 1984)
Arcade Fire - ocean of noise
(Neon Bible / 2007)
Tom Waits - clap hands
(Rain dogs / 1985)
Stay Cats - Stray Cat Strut
(Stray Cats / 1981)
Sam the Sham & the Pharoas - little red riding hood
(lil’ red riding hood / 1966)

Why, in the middle of an average week, when nothing’s hanging for dear life onto the monkey bars of your mind, do you find yourself, without the addition of caffeine or other additives (besides beet juice early in the night), pacing the floors until five in the morning?Who’s to say.

But the bayou’s nice. There’s always fog. The dog’s at a friend’s and i don’t have to be at work for another five hours. Anyone wanna come over and take a walk? wanna skip stones in the bayou down the street, walk to the coffee shop and share an everything bagel with cream cheese? anyone up for watching the sunrise over the neighbor’s house, walking half a block to where our street crosses tentatively over interstate 45 and into downtown. Anyone want to paint things on one another’s bellies and flash to oncoming traffic words like panqueques or exhilirate?

This is how things go sometimes, sometimes as in lately (because i’m a buttery nothing — everything — for lawrence raab right now and feel like answering rhetorical questions):

Isn’t that how things are every day? People laugh and you don’t know why, though it could be you, some note they’ve scotch-taped to your back.

- Lawrence Raab.

… I’ve always liked the parts where the music stops and drifts along - you get some ridiculous string orchestra, then it just slips a bit, the pitch goes or they slow it down or something. Then the drums come back - it’s completely meaningless! I like that… What is a pain and can sometimes dilute it is the repetitive - looped or sampled - vocals…

The funny thing is, I’ve never heard a jungle record, all I’ve heard has been off the radio - the only piece of recorded jungle I’ve heard is by Ninj! It obviously operates at a different level… - Derek Bailey, interview

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“Non Metronomic. IMS no.1”

01. Harold Budd & Brian Eno - The Chill Air
Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mir (Astralwerks, 1980)
02. Tortoise - Reference resistance gate (web)
Remixed, 1996 (Thrill Jockey 1998)
03. Rachel’s & Matmos - The Precise Temperature Of Darkness
Full On Night (Touch and Go Rec., 2000)
04. Martin Leclerc - Sauf dans la brume (iConcert 9)
(iConcert 9 / Saison 2 (2006-07), 2005)
05. Bjork/JC Lemay - Hidden Place (web)
(Vespertine triphop remix by JC Lemay, 2001)
06. Arovane-Phonem - valid fard
AER (valid) (Vertical Form (UK), 2002)
07. Skolopender - Sondert Kokkomundur
(Teaterarasjens Kompressor compilation)
08. Harold Budd & Brian Eno - The Pearl
The Pearl (Editions Eg Records, 1984)
09. Derek Bailey - Concrete (cement-mix)
Guitar, drums ‘n’ bass (Avant, 1997)
10. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
The Last Set At Newport (1972)

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Note: A late night DnB list. Originally this was about a blog post [@pandagon], what is music appreciation and being a music snob in general. And I thought I should make the snottiest list possible for a chuckle. Believe me I tried to build DnB + experimental rock, but it wasn’t listenable as a list. I don’t have enough interesting one and the sound ended up a complete scatter brain. So I made this DnB list instead. This list is amusing and more listenable, if only because of all the tracks are from great albums. The basic idea: this list is beat pattern drill. After one doze of beat, a short rest, then another beat pattern followed by negative pattern (dark ambient), repeat. I end up listening to this list the whole nite. It’s fun. Must have in the list: Rachel’s & Matmos (I think it’s their only collaboration. excellent mix of acoustic and electronica). Tortoise (out of their compilation albums, remix by Jim O’rourke) and Derek Bailey doing DnB in his very memorable album ‘Guitar, drums ‘n’ bass‘ . There is also an experimental modern classic by Martin Leclerc , which has crazy sound landscape. Don’t worry, there are several “melodical tracks” that can be downloaded separately if you are not into DnB (Harold Budd, Dave Bruebeck).

But embrace the future, for it is endless permutation of hyper-active beat and twisted electronic sound.

see also: Brian Eno, Derek Bailey

image: Brice Marden. (American, born 1938). Annunciation Study I. 1978. Graphite and wax on paper, 22 1/8 x 29 5/8″ (56.8 x 75.2 cm), jbushnell, fatman, 2

Paper - underground
(As as / 2007)
Other people’s children - On a clear day
(On a clear day 7″ / 2001)
Lali Puna - nin-com-pop
(Scary world theory / 2001)
Chrisma - c-rock
(C-rock / 1977)
Wilco - spiders (kidsmoke)
(a ghost is born / 2005)
Harmonia - dino
(Musik von harmonia / 1974)
Neu! - Fur Immer
(Neu! 2 / 1969)
Beyond the wizard’s sleeve - I swim around (hallogallo rework)
(Spring / 2007)

Repetition is a form of change. Each memory is exhausted as soon as it occurs. There are imperceptible gestures at every instant, there where we think nothing is ever happening, conversing in extinct languages. The human brain adores and actively seeks out patterns, and the easiest, most fundamental pattern is simple repetition. The Krautrocker’s mantra. Repetition is a form of change.

Previous metronomic goodnes: Krautsusigkeit. The beds burn the pagans dance. (revealing it’s the 3rd time I post “on a clear day” in a playlist and even more, that there’s no sign of Can’s music anywhere to be found.)

Image(s): Tycho, Moholy-Nagy & Human Empire.

... each relationship system-between sun and pressure field, between pressure field and geometrical structure, between the individual bones of the geometry, and between bones and skin- was precisely defined, together they generated movements and outcomes that were nonlinear-that were more than the sum of their parts.

-Ali Rahim, Catalytic Formations

1. Telefon Tel Aviv - TTV
2. Telefon Tel Aviv - When It Happens It Moves All by Itself
3. Ashekanzy and Previn - Suite No. 1 for two pianos
4. The Album Leaf - We Once Were (Two)
5. Country Joe & The Fish - Section 43
6. Dosh - Um, Circles and Squares
7. The Dukes of Stratosphear - 25 O´Clock

A great deal of events have occurred since my last post oh so many weeks ago. I find myself stranded in a new dilemma that has forced my physique as well as my psyche to struggle in a way that has not been beneficial for neither of the two parties. All of my time, stamina and tears have been reserved for work related activities only, it is not so much that I NEED to do this, but rather… that I want to.. well, in a way, one might say that I do need these short-lived self-destructive periods. I really cannot explain why, but sometimes, there is just a certain pathos that locks on to my basic programming and takes over, and does not unlock until I have rendered myself semi-unconscious in my study room while my heart pumps nothing but pure unadulterated caffeine. I have still not been able to shake off my current destructive trend, but one thing is for sure, I really missed the Motel, my sacred resting ground.

Images: LOW

[...] I think that every person, whether they play music or don’t play music, has a sound–their own sound, that thing that you’re talking about. You can’t destroy that. It’s like energy. Your sound, your voice, means more to everyone that knows you than how you look tomorrow. You might grow a beard or shave your hair. They say, “I can’t recognize you.” But as soon as you talk, “Oh yeah, it is you!” It’s the same thing. If it’s that distinctive, then there must be something there. It’s amazing that everyone has their own sound. Only actors are the one that try to cover–when they imitate somebody–but then they’re imitating that sound. - Ornette Coleman.

“Tomorrow is the Question!”

01. Ornette Coleman - Naked Lunch
Naked Lunch OST (1992)
02. Ornette Coleman - Focus on Sanity
The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)
03. Carl Cox - The Latin Theme
Phuture 2000 (1999)
04. LFO Demon Aka Mental Hell - Empire
Genocide memoria (Sprengstoff Recordings, 2004)
05. Carl Cox - Black Shaolin
Phuture 2000 (Moonshine Music, 1999)
06. Alice Coltrane - The Ankh Of Amen-Ra
Universal Consciousness (1971)
07. Ornette Coleman - Tomorrow is the Question!
Tomorrow is the Question! (Ojc, 1959)
08. Ornette Coleman - Peace
The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)

note: An Ornette Coleman request. It’s a difficult list to make since I only know two of his well known albums and not intimately. (Tomorrow is the Question! and The Shape of Jazz to Come). Within these two album I can say I “listen” and like the slower songs. My free jazz taste is downright pedestrian. Everything feels out of place and directionless, except for very few pieces that I feel connecting. (Anthony Braxton’s No.23J, Ornette Coleman’s Lonely Woman, few of Vandermark) Onto the list: My impression of free jazz/Coleman in general. Sort of undescribable melancholy, grasping toward a grand future that no present thinking can capture. Like asking, what is the color of dark sun going nova. It can be written in certain form, but never fully seen. Metric, dynamic, compositions are all over the place. So, anyway, this is my simplistic exaggeration of what a short moment in free jazz sounds like. enjoy. (maybe?)

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see also: Ornette Coleman (wiki), Alice Coltrane
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