This Week's Updates: Update 11/3

Good to be back again.

Marco Oppedisano, the avant-garde's answer to Eddie Van Halen (cross-bred with Mozart) was recently profiled in this newly published book, STATE OF THE AXE: Guitar Masters in Photographs and Words, by legendary photographer, Ralph Gibson. Samples from the book can be seen here:
http://www.ralphgibson.com/axe
http://www.ralphgibson.com/current

It is available for purchase in bookstores and is currently available on many online bookstores. You can order it from Amazon, click here for more details.

Marco is given some long overdue recognition for his stunning axe-wielding, and he is indeed in good company alongside Arto Lindsay, Nels Cline, Les Paul, Lou Reed, Alan Licht, and bunch of other very high profile folks.

Images from the book will be exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston running through late January 2009.

The Painful Leg Injuries' set from the Maker Faire is now up. It's probably the most noisy and chaotic set we've ever done, it mostly focuses on material from the Wiimote album, The Rich Man's Godforsaken Driver's Seat. I focused on this material in light of the article I wrote on Wiimote controlled music for Make #14. This is album is a free download from this site, click above to get it. Download the Painful Leg Injuries live performance from the Maker Faire called "Oh, That White Wizard's Wily White Wand Witchwork!"

Check out my radio interview the JB and Sandy show on October 16th, talking about circuit bending and Wiimote music. Bill from PLI interviewed on JB and Sandy.

This week will begin the final Painful Leg Injuries Podcast Series of 2008, our 28th podcast series, entitled Numbers. This series comes from a project I have gone back to periodically over the past 4-5 years, where I make extremely brief compositions, lasting about a second, maybe even less in some cases. Over the years I've made roughly sixty of these, and the six compositions in this series comes from plugging them into my MIDI sequencer as samples. The first one is somewhat non-ironically called One.

Barry Seroff concludes his amazing trio series with Daniel Carter and Candiria's Ken Schalk with this week's episode Panoramic. El Plan De Aguavodka's latest podcast, Penn Station Is For Dreaming, is a delightful miniature for field recording and tone generator. We'll return next week.

posted by Bill # 6:47 PM

Monday, November 03, 2008

Update 11/3

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