Join me for a 60min. set of original ambient/chill-out/downtempo live electronic music.
I’ll be kicking-off the day long event in the park, Free Flow 2009 with some chilled-out beeps and techno beats, for all ages and persuasions.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the creative work I come across, whether in person or online. I’m a big fan of the critique and can lend a critical eye/ear/voice most of the time. I think it’s important to judge a work on its own terms, in a variety of relevant contexts in order to offer constructive tips on how to make something better or more effective. With that, I’ve formulated the following breakdown:

• 50% of all work is sub-par or unremarkable, i.e. upholding the status quo.
• 45% of the remainder tends to exist for shallow issues only, i.e. as decoration, current fashion or surface styling only.
• 5% is great and to be appreciated and recommended.

YMMV.

Here’s another recent sketch in Processing. This screen version is the basis for a short run print and painting series I’m working on.  View sketch_june09_comp_Screen1.

I have uploaded While We Sleep (Adrift in Tangier) (15:38min, 27.7Mb MP3), a reworking of a favorite track from Departure Lounge, for your consideration.

I have uploaded the first draft of a recent track I’ve been kicking around,  Antipode (v.01) (10:55min, 22.2Mb MP3) for your consideration. At the moment, I’m digging some of the spacious things happening in the background. I’m not so happy with some of the more rigid rhythmic elements, but I thought I’d offer a peek at a work-in-progress.