Alright, what a week. Right after my SXSW performance, my Macbook Pro suffered an "invalid node structure" error. It recovered, then after a great weekend of SXSW shows, I get sick. Now, I've recovered, and we can get back to the business at hand.

New podcasts this week by The Painful Leg Injuries and Barry Seroff are now posted.

Also check out this great review of Marco Oppedisano's recent OKSRNA releases. Tokafi.com has been a big supporter of Marco's excellent work, and this is of course no exception. Thanks!

I wanted to begin this week by letting everyone know my SXSW Interactive performance was great and I even got a nice mention of the BBC's site.  The brits have always been so good to me.  

First, this Saturday, March 14th, I'll be doing a solo performance of some Painful Leg Injuries music following a brief lecture on my Wii-mote controlled music at SXSW Interactive with the Austin chapter of dorkbot! I go on first a 6pm. It's being held at Brush Square Park on 5th and Neches. I'll be demonstrating Wii music, and then I'll be playing a few tracks from the next Painful Leg Injuries album The Anomaly That Had Gotten The Better Of Me. If you are available, come by!

Next, the latest issue of Make Magazine, Issue 17, has an article written by yours truly on page 161 called "The Stealth Mic". This is basically a tutorial on building your own binaural microphones. Binaural mics, are mics that are placed roughly where a person's ears are are great for capturing sounds that preserve the real-life stereo image. They've been used on albums by Radiohead, Brian Eno and Can.

New podcasts this week, starting with Barry Seroff and his crew, Screwtape's latest grindcore jazz melange, Fuck The Establishment. Wow, I haven't heard that phrase in a long time. Also the latest from the Painful Leg Injuries, With Time Everything Goes Away is the third part of our latest series, Spoken With (Forked) Tongues, compositions made from sampling audio clips of people speaking in tongues.

Unfotunately, our good friend John Ibarra has had a laptop pass away and there won't be a new El Plan De Aguavodka podcast for a bit. We will keep you posted on when John's able to resume.

Until next week.

Welcome back.

This week, we've got a new exciting jam from Barry Seroff's new ensemble Screwtape (featuring Mo Kofuma: vocals, Barry: guitar, Daniel Carter: sax & trumpet, David Dovo: bass, Gerry Tuohy: Drums"). Peter is the second episode of this exciting new direction for Barry. Imagine 70's Miles Davis, with freestyle rap. Don't miss it.

El Plan De Aguavodka hits us with another glorious drone piece full of prettinesd and rough textures with Seven New People Born. Also this week the second episode of sampled speaking in toungues from The Painful Leg Injuries with Why Does the Spirit Sound So Upset? This time I used my recently acquired Casio SK8 to play this piece so it will feature some lo fi samples from some lo fi video clips.

Marco Oppedisano has put up some new clips of his recent jamming with drummer Martin Urbach, check out Marco's YouTube page to see his new direction here.

Take care until next week.