This Week's Updates: Update 6/2

Hope that everyone enjoyed the memorial weekend holiday. Here in Texas, the sun is beating down with vengeance and it's only June.

An article I recently wrote on using the Nintendo Wiimote as a music controller is now published in issue #14 of Make Magazine.

It's on page 145. I take readers through various set-ups for using the Wiimote to control music software, soft-synths, and even MIDI retrofits of some of my favorite circuit bends. Make was kind enough to give spot on their site for links to the freeware, software, videos, and other bits of associated information, click here to read more.

Also, if you'd like to hear the results of musical experiments with the Wiimote, my band the Painful Leg Injuries have released a free download album called The Rich Man's Godforesaken Driver's Seat, with 13 tracks of

Wiimote-controllled music.

Click here to listen and download

Keep your eyes on this blog for updates on the upcoming release of David Lee Myers and Marco Oppedisano's awesome full length collaboration CD, Tesla At Coney Island. It'll be available very soon, for right now, check out this track, Roog.

Now, we can talk some podcasts. The Painful Leg Injuries begin their 25th podcast series, Hobnox Multiplication. Using the web-based music app, Hobnox Audio Tool, on multiple laptops, I created long improvised tracks. The first was performed on a trio of laptops called Trio: Totally Faked On A PVC Pipe.

El Plan De Aguavodka delights this week with freak out noise-fest miniature called Forms Auto Fill. Barry Seroff's latest is the third of his Primary Colors podcasts called Primary Colors 3 (Acoustic Guitar). Imagine John Fahey in top form slowly getting plastered.

Until next week, take care.

posted by Bill # 11:50 AM

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Update 6/2

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