shawn avery

there's no way to deny it. i'm a member of generation x. and my generation's musical peak took place during the 90's. the overwhelmingly influential aspects of electronic music from the 90's still affects me today. when i think of making music, in my mind its usually electronically based. the bands i listen to the most are electronic bands. and the albums i have listened to the most have been primarily electronic albums. nine inch nails, aphex twin, cardigans, tears for fears, sneaker pimps, roni size reprazent, goldie, all made important electronic albums during that time. its been a long time since i heard something new to my ears, something worth investigating further. in my view, because of the emergence of insane music technology, and virtual instruments, easy sampling, infinite sounds in sound modules, an electronic artist needs to push the form to get my attention. the last time this happened in a big way was when i discovered tycho, maybe 4 or 5 years ago. ...

the man in black / dark tower narrative the atomic bomb (jughead) saved the world cease to exist theory pushing that button, really was saving the world the package (the importance of desmond) why don't you start at the beginning? (excellent theory of everything) the answer to your question (another theory of everything)

i didn't play on the record, so i'm free to praise it as much as i want to. i've been playing with through the sparks on and off since march 2007. some of the songs on this record started getting performed live almost 3 years ago. finally the record has been released (digitally) and people are starting to hear it. it is by far their best album. and it is short, just 9 songs - but its the perfect length. each song gets your attention. there's a plan for a cd printing soon and possibly a vinyl pressing. here's an over-the-top rave review of worm moon waning , which was released last week. i've updated their myspace page with some fresh images, formatting & code. i'm also doing a beta page for the album site. Through The Sparks - Worm Moon Waning 28. Mar, 2010 - The Southbound Internet Radio Blog What better way to celebrate a fabulous show at SxSW than to release a smashing album of gorgeous songs. Through The Sparks ha...

i can't explain it, but these images actually improve my mood, make me creatively optimistic, inspire me to be a better designer, and maybe even a better person. these are taken from my various flickr sets.

new tascam 424 mkIII - after a few weeks of looking around on ebay, i finally got a retro analog dream machine. it is arguably the best cassette-based four track ever made. it is a tascam 424 mk3 and it has 4 xlr inputs, great channel strip/eq features and a well designed interface. the idea behind getting this machine, is to sift through about 20 or so cassettes containing about 5 years worth of demos from the 90's, and eventually emerge from the other side with a finished, coherent set of songs. i listened through several tapes last night, and a lot of them contain multiple versions of recordings, with different lead parts, or set at different tempos. some are nearly complete, some are just rough scattered musical piles of debris. archived cassettes & gear list - about 10 years ago, i went through the best material from these cassette and bounced it all down to mp3 files for archiving. i messed around with a few of these in 2001-2002 and used some drum loop ideas h...

time loop theory (a theory on time travel). the lost time-line illustration . the complete scientific theory of lost . how lost will end ! the parenthetical seasons theory . who is jacob ? the valenzetti countdown theory . the garden of eden theory . massive covert operation theory . lost - a theory of everything .

during one of my scans of ffffound.com images, i was happily surprised to see a poster from 2008 up on the directory. neato. a direct link to the post is here - sourced from the typography mania site.