Yesterday, I did something that I haven't done, or been able to do in over a decade. I bought a new Guns 'N Roses album. Now, I won't go into my complicated review of it, since, really for those who read this blog, it wouldn't exactly fit on a thematic or conceptual level. But, once thing I do want to say, is that I have respect for those musicians who clearly get stuck in something, and find their way out. So, though I doubt what we do fits his tastes, cheers to Axl Rose for putting demons aside and making a new record see the light of day.

This week, you'll see our latest podcasts. Black Holes for the Hell of it is El Plan De Aguavodka's return to well worn territory, voids and infinite chasms. Barry Seroff delights us with another surrealist journey with Thing NY! and Night Swim. Finally, the Painful Leg Injuries give us the fourth part of Numbers, One Thousand One Hundred and Eleven.

No podcast update next Monday, we return for the final two 2008 episodes of our podcasts on December 8th. Enjoy the Thanksgiving weekend.

Welcome back.

This week's podcasts include another awesome trip of retro-sci fi soundtrack gorgeousness with El Plan De Aguavodka's great new episode, 2L84H84FR. Barry Seroff's series of his collaborations with his Thing NY! ensemble continues with the relatably titled It's So Rare That You Have Two Pianos. The first time I caught the title I didn't get the joke, and shame on me! This track features our good friend Barry and Paul Pinto on two pianos, with Paul's voice floating throughout. One Hundred and Eleven is the third episode in the latest series of compositions from the Painful Leg Injuries, Numbers.

Also, check out the latest issue of Make, #16-Spy Tech, I wrote a little review of Screenfashion.org's Mote Daemon product, enjoy. We will return next week.

What a difference a week makes, last Monday my blog post came right smack in the middle of pre-election day jitters all around, now we are in the midst of a collective sigh of release. Well, most of us.

This week's new podcasts are served up for you. First up, Barry Seroff's latest podcast series begins with All The Thing You Are. This time Barry is teaming up with other members of the Thing NY! improvising collective, a wild, dada-ist collective. In addition to our old friend Barry, this track features Paul Pinto, the leader of the collective on vocal; Gelsey Bell: voice, Stefanos Tsigrimanis: guitar, Noah Palmer: piano, Jeff Young: violin, Andrew Livingston: bass, Ilias Pantheon: drums. This lively pie reminds me of the Alterations or Terry Day's work.

The latest miniature from El Plab De Aguavodka is the wonderfully brief Nobody Believed They Would Survive. I love John's latest ventures in vintage sci-fi soundtracks. Though short, it's totally fitting for genre John's working in, very hauntology.

Finally, Eleven is the second episode of The Painful Leg Injuries series of self-sampling compositions called Numbers. I think you find the requisite level of chaos here.

Until next week take care.

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.