the gig was fun and rocking ... Daniel's pal Jesse hooked up some coolpix for me. check 'em on the photo page.

I'll be playing as Cookies, Lines and Hitchhikers, with Alain on drums, Richard on contrabass, Daniel on keyboards with FX and Jacques on trumpet ... promises to be fun.

Change is good huh? sounds eerily revisionist to me, but some change can be good and other changes can show you the good you were missing. Big changes happening at de'f child productions.

First of all, the consulting is moving into new territory, from independent-ish telecommuting work to more structured R&D enterprises.

Similarly, in light of some 12" releases now slated for early 2005 on Zero G, there is the possibility of my registering a de'f child productions record label, under which publishing can occur, leveraging the established distribution channels I have with Zero G . All that and I get to maintain the rights to my artistic output.

All sounds very promising and looks yummily auspicious!

When it rains it pours.

Last night, had a funky dream where I was hanging out at my old secondary school in Abakaliki, which of course in the 15 years since I was there has been built up. a lot. It was a new school in 1983 and when I got there in 1988 to start secondary school, new buildings were still being built. In fact, during my first year a whole new wing was built for the incoming students the following year.

So back to the dream, where I was wondering around the school, taking coolpix on my digicam, enjoying and appreciating the differences. Then all the anachronisms kick in.

I think I recognize several people that at the time I might've known vaguely, they of course haven't changed a bit. Then people that I met at University started popping onto balconies, or I'd recognize them next to someone else ... funny mind games. I don't think I realized the error during the dream until I got hungry in it, woke up, and went to the kitchen to find something edible, all the recent scenarios still fresh and alive. That's when it registered that so-and-so couldn't have gone to Abakaliki 'cos I met them only 4 years later at CMU.

I wonder how anachronisms might work in music and sound. As much music is structured and obviously time-based, not all of it can work chronologically. What does it even mean for a sound to be out of chronologically out of place ??

Is that something like a sound coming from a device that hadn't yet been invented being misplaced within some period soundscape? What if there was not fixed temporal setting (e.g. 1983), then I guess it would be impossible to be out of place unless structurally something was out of place in an arrangement given certain stylistic constraints ....

I dunno ... enough ruminations for one morning ...