telling my coachella story again, about the first 24 hours there. recorded in audacity on my mac, then added justice background music with a filter in ableton live.
my story.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Thursday, May 8, 2008
art statement
originally posted back on april 20th as my artist statement
My goals as an artist would pretty much be my goals as a DJ. The first and most obvious goal I have as a DJ would be to learn how to beatmatch vinyl without a BPM counter or any assistance. I have mainly been DJing with CDJs and on a computer for most of my time, and both of these have BPM read outs. Even the turntables I have have a BPM counter on them, although they are rarely accurate. Beatmatching is pretty must the foundation of DJing, and I have never really been able to do it the way it is supposed to be done. I guess another musical equivalent would be that I can play a song on guitar, but I can't read music. To the audience it sounds the same, but your missing a vital part of being a musician. Another thing I would like to do as a DJ is learn to scratch. I've been listening to turntablism for a while now, and have always been fascinated by this art, and its really the only way to physically manipulate the records to actually call yourself a real musician. It is also probably the sexiest thing in DJing, and the hardest, but when you tell other people who might not understand it as well as you do, they think that by being a DJ you are automatically a turntablist, which is usually not the case. Most of these things require real vinyl and DJing on actual vinyl turntables, which is what I would like to do in the future: become an authentic vinyl DJ, without a lot of the modern assistance I have now.
My goals as an artist would pretty much be my goals as a DJ. The first and most obvious goal I have as a DJ would be to learn how to beatmatch vinyl without a BPM counter or any assistance. I have mainly been DJing with CDJs and on a computer for most of my time, and both of these have BPM read outs. Even the turntables I have have a BPM counter on them, although they are rarely accurate. Beatmatching is pretty must the foundation of DJing, and I have never really been able to do it the way it is supposed to be done. I guess another musical equivalent would be that I can play a song on guitar, but I can't read music. To the audience it sounds the same, but your missing a vital part of being a musician. Another thing I would like to do as a DJ is learn to scratch. I've been listening to turntablism for a while now, and have always been fascinated by this art, and its really the only way to physically manipulate the records to actually call yourself a real musician. It is also probably the sexiest thing in DJing, and the hardest, but when you tell other people who might not understand it as well as you do, they think that by being a DJ you are automatically a turntablist, which is usually not the case. Most of these things require real vinyl and DJing on actual vinyl turntables, which is what I would like to do in the future: become an authentic vinyl DJ, without a lot of the modern assistance I have now.
Monday, May 5, 2008
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
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drsaith said... haha the best part of this ad is that lebron was a year old when larry bird won his last title, so i doubt he remember when he saw that. first time i saw this ad i was like wait isn't lebron like 21 years old?
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- drsaith said...
its funny because ive been to a million dj sets and ive never actually tried this. in fact, just this weekend this girl who doesn't really listen to much electro asked me if i could do that rave ball thing, and the saddest part was that i really couldn't...
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Monday, April 21, 2008
a summery of my day. times are approximations.
10.20am- woke up
10.25- shower, got dressed
11.30- blog class
1.30pm- got lunch (meatball sub), watched espn
2.30- math class
3.30- math webworks
4.30- the office "the carpet"
5.00- more webworks
8.00- mountaineering meeting
8.40- more and more webworks
10.40- talked to my little sister Shivani, who is visiting USC
10.50- finished webworks
12.00- day done, dishes still dirty
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haha how appropriate.
April 30, 2008 11:42 AM