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This past Friday we signed a distribution deal with the Oseao Media Group. We’ll soon be distributing Subgrinden music through the likes of iTunes, Dancerecords.com, Beatport, Juno, eMusic, and many more. w00t!

Please bear with me while the CSS comes together. The YouTube embeds are messing with the stylesheet so I’m reverting to hard links while I sort out the problems.

I’m looking forward to checking out the aural frontiers at the Edgetone New Music Summit:

The Festivals’ expanded performance schedule includes music and sound from raging free improvisation, electronic manipulation, to harsh noise reflecting an incredible range of genre busting exploration and sonic creativity. In addition, the festival seeks to promote intermedia arts, fostering cross-pollination between music/sound art and experimental flim/ visual arts.

Meraki Networks has released the Meraki Outdoor repeater and solar accessory to “cover entire neighborhoods with Wi-Fi access”.

Priced at just $99, Meraki Outdoor can send a signal up to 700 feet. Paired with Meraki’s existing indoor $49 Mini, the Meraki Outdoor repeater can power access for dozens of households sharing one high

“To change the economics of Wi-Fi access across the globe, there’s got to be a simple, efficient and inexpensive method for sending the signal long distances outdoors,” said Sanjit Biswas, CEO and a co-founder of Meraki. “The Meraki Solar and Meraki Outdoor will play an important role in our efforts to bring the next billion people online in the coming years.”

Osaka University has developed this scary little Japanese CB2 Child Robot. When he’s older he’ll lead the robot revolution.

Down the road at Meiji University, researchers have created a robot face capable of displaying 36 different ways to freak you out.

There are many holes on the road to Uncanny Valley…

The first Subgrinden release is out on high-quality 180g vinyl. Audio mastering was done by Henry at Sonic Vista Studios in Ibiza, vinyl mastering by Shane McEnhill at Heathmans, and final pressing at United. Side A is my original track, Timebomb, and side B features the Dismantled remix by Phil Smart and Jimi Polar. Both tracks should be available digitally within the next month or so.

Boreta of Glitch Mob is almost done remixing my track “Spell On Me”. I can’t wait to hear his glitchy break madness. These two tracks will likely be the next Subgrinden release.

We’re also currently working with Oseao Music Group to put together a distribution contract. More info on this as it evolves…

Meanwhile, I’ve built this site, U R Being Recorded, as my professional online face. I’m trying to get together more of my music and flesh out a portfolio of sorts so keep checking back for more tracks. This site will also present some of the more interesting projects I’m working on (the blog will have ongoing links and updates).

Anyway, I’m really excited about pushing forward into new creative frontiers. Keep in mind that Subgrinden is always looking for artists to produce, collaborate with, and/or work out remix projects.

Cheers!

Check out this very cool multitouch music interface.

Microsoft’s new multitouch controller - somewhat reservedly called Surface - looks pretty frickin sweet, though I wonder how much of it is demoware…

This is one of the multitouch audio interfaces that Bjork is touring with. The Reactable.

More and more, objects are becoming intelligent. The realm of the senses will extend to encompass networks and interface layers within the world around us. Scifi author and guru Bruce Sterling devised the acronym SPIME to describe the path of a prototypical smart object from birth to death and beyond.

SPIME is a neologism for a currently-theoretical object that can be tracked through space and time throughout the lifetime of the object…The six facets of spimes are:

1. Small, inexpensive means of remotely and uniquely identifying objects over short ranges; in other words, radio-frequency identification.
2. A mechanism to precisely locate something on Earth, such as a global-positioning system.
3. A way to mine large amounts of data for things that match some given criteria, like internet search engines.
4. Tools to virtually construct nearly any kind of object; computer-aided design.
5. Ways to rapidly prototype virtual objects into real ones. Sophisticated, automated fabrication of a specification for an object, through “three-dimensional printers.”
6. “Cradle-to-cradle” life-spans for objects. Cheap, effective recycling.

With all six of these, one could track the entire existence of an object, from before it was made (its virtual representation), through its manufacture, its ownership history, its physical location, until its eventual obsolescence and breaking-down back into raw material to be used for new instantiations of objects. If recorded, the lifetime of the object can be archived, and searched for.

Spimes are not, defined merely by these six technologies; it is, rather, that if these technologies converge within the manufacturing process… then spimes could indeed arise.