The Guide

Recorded at Sept 29th meetup of DORKBOT Regina.

The calm after the storm on July 26, 2012. These clouds were such a surprise to find after the intense weather buildup during the day. more info about the clouds here: Mammatus_cloud  ofcouse the music is mine ;-) : http://guidewire.bandcamp.com/album/moog-cycles

Here is a recent Guidewire track. This is the 3rd part of three pieces that will make it up sooner or later.  Hope you enjoy it Fine with me3 by guidewire ------------------------------

Here are two older tracks I've put up on bandcamp. Thought I could make a quick buck off these killer tunes ;-) "Dondon" is an early exploration my MFB synth lite 2 <p><p><p><a href="http://guidewire.bandcamp.com/track/dondon">Dondon by Guidewire</a></p></p></p> "Atari" was made using an Atari Punk Console that a local guy made and gave to me.   <p><p><p...

This is a nice film my family made for the One Take Super 8 film fest last year in Regina.

Here are 3 musical experiments I've sent to the "online".  3 different areas of exploration. In Closed system I was experimenting with recording an old synth to make loops to layer with.   Closed system by guidewire Palmer was a straight recording of myself playing in an old organ in a church.   Palmer by guidewire This recording is basically testing out different parameters on a virtual Korg Electribe drum machine on an iPad.   Terror korgs end by guidewire And if you wish to hear more all the rest can still be found up at  http://soundcloud.com/guidewire  or on band camp ------------------------------

This is a collection of recordings from the LAST "Waves Of Fury" in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan last night (May 16th, 2011). My set is the first in the list. Very happy to have been a part of an event like this. It's fairly rare to have something like this happen around these parts. It was also awesome to hear what everyone else had going on. Must thank Mark Lowe ( Lowebrau ) for putting all of these events on. WAVES OF FURY 12 by LOWEBRAU ------------------------------

and here is an interesting tribute to his original animation ------------------------------

Nice little interview with Chad VanGaalen about his animations, his music and performing. Here is a new EP of his where 100% of the profit goes to Japan ------------------------------

I thought this combination would be nice together. Curious about the idea of "church music for atheists". ------------------------------

Currently I have been reading a biography on the brilliant Canadian thinker  Marshall McLuha n.  It was written by brilliant (or so I've heard) Canadian author and artist  Douglas Coupland .  I've been curious about Marshall for a number of years and the book has made me eager to go look deeper into his ideas. Hopefully I can gather up his ideas and discuss them on this blog at some point in the future, but I'll just send you around to a few links to get the ball rolling. I recently stumbled across this amazing blog called Binary Heap  full of awesome posts about music software, music theory, generative art and lots of amazing topics. I found a post on Marshall here  that gave me the urge to post a few things here. The Medium is the Massage - which can be found on Ubu Web along with other here: http://www.ubu.com/sound/mcluhan.html  I've listened to this many times in the last few years and every time I find something new in...

The other day I noticed that I hadn't updated this in awhile and I was also thinking about this good old city of Regina, Saskatchewan. I felt like promoting some of the local talent here that isn't just a band. So here are a few Regina electronic artists that deserve a little more of a showcase. Archie Cooper Latest tracks by Archie Cooper Limbo / Neontetra Latest tracks by limbo / neon tetra / rcid Pulsewidth Latest tracks by ernst.pulsewidth ------------------------------

Here is a map of my home town of Regina Saskatchewan that I started on google maps. It's supposed to be a collection of "places worth of note". Currently there are 8 contributors, but I would love to have more. If you have a google account and would like to be contacted, please drop me a line. View Larger Map

So, I played the "opening" set, in the chill tent, at the Connect Electronic Music Festival this year. It started around 6pm on the friday of the festival. When I got there to set up some other guys had been playing there for 2 hours already...so it wasn't totally the "opening" set, but it was close enough. I had a fun little setup of my computer, midi keyboard, delay pedal, and microphone. There were some sounds set up in ableton live (Clark, Matthew Dear, Guidewire, sound scapes, beats....so on) and some strange sounds coming from my voice. I captured about 3/4ths of it, but I find its a pretty decent, fun mix. It's definatly something to listen to more than once. » Check it out « more sets found here

I was just listening to the album "Situation" by Buck 65 and I was pleasantly surprised. The last few times I've heard his music I was slightly disappointed. Generally I listen to his music and I enjoy his choice of words and the production, then I see him perform and get distracted and off put by the wordiness. Situation was produced by Scratch Bastid and it's got some nice sounds. Totally enjoyed it. SCRATCH BASTID IS AWSOME.!..!..i might ad. I'm thinking I should try my hand at music reviews here. I'll keep you posted.....if there is a you. I'm trying to work on a nice report of a trip I took to Toronto recently. I saw a bunch of great concerts worthy of note and visual documentation. Hopefully I can gather up something to note. I'm slightly discouraged by the whole BLOG thing. I can see some of the benefits of it. But, then you sit down and try to write a little something and it goes nowhere. I suppose it has something to do with Engl...

So, I encourage people to add to these two wikipedia entries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina%2C_Saskatchewan#Culture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Saskatchewan I'm kinda curious about building up a database or collection of all the present and past musicians in Saskatchewan. I think a lot of artists can end up spending may years working on their creative en devours without any recognition. So, I feel like it would be nice to start up a good collection of names and stories.

I think there may be an influx of new shows from myself in the coming months. I had two shows about 2 weeks ago and I've gotten to putting one of them up on the net and I'll be nice and try to space out the other one so you guys out there in the "net" can think about what you listened to and then maybe try to match it up with the other show. You listen and download the show and I would love to hear any feed back. I have my other shows up on my " guidewire " show page. I'm kinda trying to figure out what I should be using the page for. At this point I was planning on putting up mostly my performances, but I've thought up putting up some remixes and such that maybe couldn't be sold but would still be fun to hear. I'm also still into the idea of "selling" music of mine, but don't really seem to want to "buy" it. Also, I would love if people felt it in their hearts to donate/tip/fund to my musicalness, but I'm a...