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1920 Gibson A-Style Mandolinhome away from home with fun tools and toys for ears and eyesWhen we moved from Austin, TX to Chico, CA in 2014 we bought a wonderful historic home and it had this cool detached structure that appeared to have been used as a pottery studio (complete with a room for a kiln and pottery wheel). I quickly made the decision to convert this space into a dual puprpose studio space for music/audio and video. Over the …
– SERIOUSLY, IT AIN’T WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE… -Musings and photos from my inaugural years in the rafting mafiaI started guiding on rivers in 1995 on the Cache la Poudre just outside Fort Collins, CO, and have been a proud and filthy river rat ever since. The Poudre is a tight and technical river, and is still my favorite river in the USA. It’s a gem that doesn’t get as much attention as the Colorado River or the Arkansas in …
Analog Vs. Digital – What’s that all about?This is part two of an unnumbered series of addressing the two categories of synthesizers: Analog and Digital. In 2002 I bought my first synthesizer, the Moog Voyager Performer (see the adjacent image). That one purchase fundamentally changed my understanding of music and how it’s made. Bob Moog (pronounced like “vogue” with an M, not “moo” with a G at the end), who is considered to be the grandfather of contemporary synthesizers, unveiled …
Synthesizer Basics | Part 3: Monophony & PolyphonyIn the previous chunk of words we looked at analog vs. digital synthesizers. Now we’ll dive into a the terms that describe the number of simultaneous sounds a synthesizer can produce. Not all synthesizers are alike! The adjacent photo is a Moog Voyager: a monophonic synth. What does “monophonkjnngsfrdqmcvikl” synth mean?Understanding the terms, monophony and polyphony:Like numerous classical musical instruments, Moog synthesizers are monophonic. The distinction between “mono vs. poly” is an important …
We want good. We need good.Word form the recent convention is that democrats are still somehow fractured. If we don’t lock elbows and present a unified front, that fracture will turn into a compound fracture. If you’ve ever had compound fracture then you understand how incredibly difficult and time-consuming they are to heal. We don’t have time for that. That is not good. Audrey Denney is good. She’s a good leader. She’s a good listener. She is a good person. …
It’s on us now. We are the adults in the room. I’m a proponent of privacy rights and digital information & identity security, and as such I’ve been paying close attention to the first section of the Mueller report. That’s the section deals with Russian election interference primarily in social media. I picked up the audio-book version of the Mueller Report from Audible and you can too – it’s free. The audio-book is 19 hours long and is read by …
Maybe not, but it’s one of the exports for which Costa Rica is known.Coffee clearly has cultural and economic significance in Costa Rica. Before looking at the chart below, our friend and guide, Marco Vargus, takes us through a video tour of a coffee plantation in Corel Santilana where he shows how coffee beans are harvested and processed. The highly specific tools and timely handling of the coffee beans are illustrated and show us how much care and thought goes …
It will be a fine thing to elect a different president in 2020, but if we actually want to make change we’ll also need to ditch Mitch. If you’re already sold on why he’s got to go skip ahead a couple of paragraphs to the part about Kentucky’s bad-ass democratic Senate candidate, Amy McGrath. As the Senate Majority Leader, Mitch has halted several pieces of legislation that have passed through the House with bi-partisan support by blocking them from reaching …