Monday, February 18, 2008Update 2/18 Welcome back, everybody.First off, I have to make retraction from last week's report of the break up of Little Ricky's House of Chankletas. Late last week I heard from founding member, Joe Mapplebeck, that he plans to continue the band either with a new line up or on his own. We'll keep you posted. Check out their latest podcast, The Deitheist. El Plan De Aguavodka's podcast will return next week. Finally check out the closing chapter of the Painful Leg Injuries' latest series, Shot By The Hip called The Kind of Spirit You See Can See In Any Blurry Image. It's a translation into sound and MIDI notation of the above image. Next week be sure to download the first episode of my next series Up In The Ether a series of compositions made from sampling my shortwave radio with a circuit bent Casio SK-1. Take care, there will be no update next week, so we will resume the podcasts on March 3rd. Monday, February 11, 2008Update 2/11 I forget the exact quote or who said it, but it goes along the lines of... "there are too many bands and many should break up, unfortunately, it is too often the wrong ones".This week's update begins with kind of a downer, our good friends Little Ricky's House of Chankletas have broken up. We have a remaining episode of their podcast, which we will post next week. We are very proud to have released their second album, 27 New York Antisonnets, to some rave reviews. We support the guys fully in their future endeavors, and hopefully some of those will end up on OKSRNA. Check out their hell-fire preacher, jazz number, Ch.5 - Make Fun of Jesus More! the fifth and final episode of their "How to" series. El Plan De Aguavodka's latest is an airy noise jam called Forced Confession No.5 - Will They Ever Be Quiet dedicated to noisy neighbors on Tuesdays everywhere. ![]() For this week's Painful Leg Injuries Podcast you'll get Large, Red and Fifty Of Them, the fifth episode of my Shot By The Hip series. It's a translation of the image you see to the left, into a raucous freak out. Also don't forget to download our very first free digital download release, my band the Painful Leg Injuries' The Rich Man's Godforsaken Driver's Seat. To give it a listen click here, or to download it click here. This free album is a collection of my compositions and improvisations made by using the Nintendo Wiimote as a controller for music. Take care. Tuesday, February 05, 2008Update 2/5 Big update for today, apologies for the delay. First up, our very first free digital download release, my band the Painful Leg Injuries' The Rich Man's Godforsaken Driver's Seat.To give it a listen click here, or to download it click here. This free album is a collection of my compositions and improvisations made by using the Nintendo Wiimote as a controller for music From the moment I first started reading about the possibility, I've been very excited about the Wiimote as a music controller. When I bought one, and got the software and everything working it was inspiring and I recorded many tracks, and these are the fruits of those sessions. The thirteen tracks in this collection combine compositions with improvisations, the conceptual with the intuitive, and noise with melodies. software, soft synths and samplers, a Pushpin Gameboy Color synth as well as my circuit bent instruments such as my Casio Sk1, Speak and Spell. They are 192 kbps MP3 files, and completely DRM free. Flying Through The Eye At An Alarming Time features recorded samples of me knocking my TV with my Wiimote, samples that were eventually played by his Wiimote. This Is Playful For Diseases is made up completely of improvisations with his Wiimote controlled Pushpin Gameboy synth, and Wiimote played samples of the LSDJ Gameboy tracker software, an anachronistic take on Nintendo gear. Michael Winslow Has His Revenge (On Clever Dated References) features a digital instrument completely made from samples of the 80's actor/comedian.� Thanks in We plan to release free download albums frequently with projects by advance and we hope you enjoy it.El Plan De Aguavodka, The Harmful Free Radicals and The Unevenness of the Moon's Surface on the horizon. Speaking of the Harmful Free Radicals, my weirdo pop band project with OKSRNA co-owner and the man behind the U/M/S, Jonah Goldstein, our debut album The Duplicate Factories of Washington State is being printed this week. We've put up a sample track, Can I Eat The Whole Thing? which can be downloaded here. We'll keep you posted on it's release here. Now for the week's podcasts, let's start with Little Ricky's House of Chankletas. More of their How-To series, this time they do a Smegma/LAFMS style psych-jazz number with Ch.4 - Be A Slick Neighborhood Cat. You will become cooler if you listen this and people will like you. Don't miss them as they perform live this Saturday, February 9th at 8PM, at the Yippie Museum Cafe, 9 Bleecker St, across from the club formally known as CBGB's and it's Free.El Plan De Aguavodka's latest Forced Confession continues his take on taking the Presque Rein concept to the urban environment, with Forced Confession No.4 - An Underground Death for Orange Alerts. Reminds me of just how insane the MTA could make anyone. Lovely, surreal, another great one from John. Finally, The Painful Leg Injuries latest podcast, I Bet Richter Loves My Bloody Valentine. 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