The Guide

Here are two variations on a jam I was playing with recently.   The Invite by guidewire ------------------------------

Here is the followup documentary to " Triumph of the Nerds " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerds_2.0.1 ------------------------------

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 ------------------------------

Just finished watching this documentary from 1996.  Very interesting to see where all this stuff came from right before the internet took off. The doc was done in 3 episodes on PBS and have been nicely compiled into a playlist of 18 segments on youtube. I would love to see a real follow-up to this ( apparently there was a sequel 2 years later about the internet, but I think much more has happened) Here is the wikipedia article on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Nerds ------------------------------

If you have a large amount of time and love Buckminster Fuller you should have a sit down with these recordings. The whole collection of talks amounts to around 42 hours, but some lovely people have broken it down nicely onto youtube. It's pretty packed full of ideas and probably worth a listen to some of it. I'm defiantly going to try and get through it all (in a few sittings). Here is the site that the tapes first came from https://conversationswithbucky.pbworks.com/w/page/16447435/FrontPage Enjoy ------------------------------

I made a little jam session for myself about a month ago. Thought it was all rather nice and this came out of it. I think I'll probably post all of the 58 minutes some times soon, but this is the first of them. Hope you like it. I haven't edited any of it, I liked it as it was. The music almost has a classical edge to it when I listen to it. Gusher pt1 by guidewire ------------------------------

Here is a video of a talk Jaron Lanier gave at a conference on Augmented Reality recently. I read his book "You Are Not A Gadget" recently and I'm curious about some of his ideas. He is one of those thinkers that I'm very interested in keeping up on what they have to say (including Bruce Sterling , Clay Shirky , Amber Case and Tim O'Reilly ) He mentions a short story by E.M. Forster (1909) in his talk called "The Machine Stops" that sounds like it would be a worth while read for all of us at some point. http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html He also mentions an man name Ted Nelson that was one of the early thinkers on technology. I must go learn more about him http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson ------------------------------