It was a rather eventful weekend here with a film project and then a bit of unexpected excitement around a show at Berkeley Arts last night featuring Pitta of the Mind. In the end, everything went well, though Luna would have preferred less excitement. Here she is coming out of hiding after my friends from the film project left and reclaiming her territory.
She is quite fond of this toy piano. I have even heard her press the keys, though I haven’t been able to capture it yet.
Submitted by John F. Elberstein via Twitter. The keyboard being danced upon is obviously a Nord Lead, but we are leaving identification of the lower keyboard as an exercise to the reader 🙂
My final show for the World of Wonder on San Francisco Community Radio aired last Thursday (10/10). The podcast is now online.
For a full playlist, please visit Spinitron.
It was a lot of fun to do this show for a year, but as my own musical work expands and other responsibilities continue, it is no longer sustainable. I hope to start a more modest podcast series next year, though, and don’t rule out returning the SF Community Radio in the future. Please visit SFCR’s website to find out more about the work they are doing and the great shows that will be continuing.
Emily sings in front of a modular synth and sequencer. Â I also see a Korg mini Kaoss pad.
Submitted by Gunfire Horibly via our Facebook page.
Primus (the cat) sits next to an Akai S-20 sampler. Â Submitted by Gunfire Horibly via our Facebook page.
Here we see Primus checking out a modular synth:
There is a mixture of stress, melancholy and chill in the air. So it seems like a good time for another fun with highways. Today we look at the southern extension of the Bronx River Parkway. It veers away from the verdant parkland along the river that contains the Bronx Zoo into a dense section of the central and south Bronx, crossing both the Cross Bronx (I-95) and Bruckner (I-278) Expressways before ending at an odd ramp onto Story Avenue in the Soundview neighborhood.
It was built in 1950s, long after the northern more park-like sections of the parkway were built. It does have a small strip of parkland to either side for most of the length, but with the surrounding neighborhood quite visible, include the commercial strip along Westchester Avenue and the elevated tracks for the 6 subway line. Indeed, the parkway is visible from the platform at the Morrison-Soundview station over Westchester Avenue.
[By David Shankbone (attribution required) (Own work) [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons]
The southern terminus is a bit unusual, with ramps south of Bruckner Expressway to Story Avenue through bare parkland. It looks as if something more ambitious was planned here.
The Soundview neighborhood has a lot of the large brick apartment buildings found in other parts of the Bronx. These ones look to date back to the 1940s, though I can’t say for certain.
[Photo by Wikiki718 on Wikimedia Commons.]
The deep sunset light off the buildings is something sees quite often in the city in the late autumn and winter and the days shrink. I find the image fits my mood at this moment.
By Crawling Wind via gearslutz.
“Savu prefers the Ensoniq sound!”
There are actually some Ensoniq sounds that I miss, though I was able to re-create most of them in E-MU Emulator X.
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Bon alors, mi ré ♪ ♫♪♫
Submitted by Polly Moller via Facebook. You can read more about our most recent collaboration here, and find out the latest on our band Reconnaissance Fly, including our upcoming show on October 8.
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