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.

Alright, folks you might want to sit down for this one.

We've got a very big announcement, it looks like our next release will be the very exciting collaboration between our own experimental composer and avant-guitarist, Marco Oppedisano, and legendary noise-ician David Lee Myers! It's called Tesla At Coney Island, with 13 blistering tracks, that are full of the widely colorful palette that is Marco's signature, and DLM's gorgeous and powerful electronics. I've put up a bio page for David Lee Myers, if like the kinds of sounds you listen to here, and you are unfamiliar with DLM's work, you should really check out some of his releases.

Stay tuned to this site for details on when the album will be available.

Alright now to this week's podcasts, which are pretty awesome, imho.

Barry Seroff's third episode called Primary Colors 2 (Electric Guitar) is a ferocious beast of a improvised guitar solo. If you dig Lightning Bolt, Sonny Sharrock or Metallica, you should listen to this.

The Painful Leg Injuries conclude the Improvisations for Gameboy series this week with the sixth episode IGB6.

El Plan De Aguavodka's latest, Radiating Lines to Indicate Light is absolutely lovely, as radiant and colorful as it's title suggests.

Next week, we won't be updating the podcasts in light of the holiday, we will return the following week, 6/2.

Welcome back everyone. Our latest release The Harmful Free Radicals' Duplicate Factories of Washington State is now available for download at iTunes.

Click here to go to the Harmful Free Radicals on iTunes.

Here's this week's new round of podcasts. Barry Seroff's new podcast will definitely surprise with it's second episode, Primary Colors 1 (Suitcase) an electro-acoustic exploration of the world around Barry, highly minimal (but not minimalist) and experimental.

For the latest from El Plan De Aguavodka we have Ite Missa Est a gorgeous collection of sweeping winds. John wanted me to include this quote with it -
"It is done. Once again the Fire has penetrated the earth.... so naturally has it flooded every element, every energy, every connecting-link in the unity of our cosmos; that one might suppose the cosmos to have burst spontaneously into flame." --Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Mass on the World

The Painful Leg Injuries' podcast this week is the latest in a series of improvisations for a Gameboy synth. Tune in next week for the sixth and final episode of this series.

Take care, until then.

Hey folks, this is a big week for us.

First, Barry Seroff, long time friend of the label, former member of future weirdo punk legends Little Ricky's House of Chankletas, highly trained musical avant-genius, begins his all new podcast. He's a multi-instrumentalist, who challenges the notion of how one's supposed to play an instrument. He's also got the musical chops to know what he's actually doing. It's a bit of a departure from our other podcasts that primarily focus on electronic abstraction what we have here is just as abstract, but also largely unplugged and plug-in free. The first episode is Flute, part of his first series of solo improvisations on six different instruments. Expect Barry to be doing collaborations in his future series.

Click here to check out Flute.

While we wait for iTunes to put up his page in the iTunes store, you can copy/paste this link - http://oksrecordingsofnorthamerica.com/
podcast/bs/bspodcast.xml to your favorite RSS reader or copy/paste it to iTunes
Advanced>Subscribe to Podcast. iTunes is pretty cool about getting new podcasts up quick so, they will likely have it up by the end of the week.

For the Painful Leg Injuries' Podcast this week I went a little nuts, here's an agressive 10 minutes of Gameboy improv, enjoy. This episode marks the 120th PLI podcast. El Plan De Aguavodka also delights with a nicely textured miniature that's full of awesome surprises, with Selective Testing.

Take care, and we'll be back next week.