It’s a dangerous thing to go into Trader Joe’s without a shopping list. I did better than usual today, but still ended up with some rather bizarre things in the cart.

It’s musical happyland today as I received two new Kiln discs, Ampday and Sunbox. Their sound seems to be just what I’m craving these days. It is reminiscent in many ways of the music of my ADU classmate Robb Monn and his crew. He needs to write more; well, I need to write more too.

But I’ve not been idle. I, despite my terrible cold, spent a sizable amount of time in the studio yesterday working on Jitter patches for a new piece with Orlando, which is going to be a great deal of fun. My two favorites so far are Slicer and Melter, both of which employ various kinds of visual feedback, where a frame is manipulated and then back into itself. This is quite a bit different than my previous patches, which dealt more with altering a video stream in real time.