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About Me
- Kevin
- By day I'm a propeller-head geek. I design software for electronic components for a major automotive supplier. When I'm not earning a paycheck, I enjoy playing music -- primarily jazz and classical but I dabble in other genres as well. I also compose, arrange, and play with electronic gadgets and toys. My other hobbies include photography, colored pencil drawing, genealogy, model railroading, and crosswords.
Monday, September 19, 2005
Upcoming Events
Jam dates at Baker's Keyboard Lounge:
Thursday, July 07, 2005
B-Side Is Back
The B-Side Blues Project, a six-piece blues band, will be playing Saturday, July9 at Corradi's Sports Bar. Corradi's is located 1090 Rochester Rd., Troy, MI -- that's between 14 Mile and Maple (a.k.a. 15 Mile). We'll be starting around 9pm and playing until 1am. Come and join us for this premier reunion engagement. We'll be playing a little more regulary again but we'd really love to see you this weekend.
B-Side Blues Project is:
Kim Lang - vocals
John Giordano - lead guitar
Kevin Bowman - saxophones
Dave Sobolewski - keyboards
Skip Barnes - bass
Dan Ragnoni - drums
B-Side Blues Project is:
Kim Lang - vocals
John Giordano - lead guitar
Kevin Bowman - saxophones
Dave Sobolewski - keyboards
Skip Barnes - bass
Dan Ragnoni - drums
Thursday, June 09, 2005
My Other Little Girl
This is Rhumba. She likes sitting with her paws resting on something. In this picture she's resting on the railing at the top of the stairway. She also has a favorite chair in which she sits with her paws over the arm rest.
Friday, June 03, 2005
It's Here
I got the Treo a week ago and I'm just now playing with the mobile blogging possibilities.
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Coming Soon
Verizon begins selling the Treo 650 smart phone to individuals on May 23 and I'm going to be in line to get one. PalmOne upgraded the camera to 1.3 pixels which seems to be a minimum for usable photos. Blogger offers a mobile blogging service so you can expect to see some snapshots here in the near future.
Two Become One
I've merged my other blog, Omnisonus, into this one. I just didn't see much sense in maintaining two separate blogs with links to each other since I wasn't posting frequently to either one.
Monday, April 25, 2005
New PDA
I got my eye on a new gadget: a Treo 650 Palm PDA/Phone. My current phone and my current PDA are both over five years old. It's about time to replace both of them. Why not kill two birds with one stone? Verizon (my cellular carrier) will be offering the Treo 650 beginning sometime next month. My only reservation is sacrificing analog service as a fallback. The Treo is digital only and digital converage in Michigan is not as extensive as the analog coverage. But I'm gambling that that will change in the next few years.
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Moog
I saw Moog at the Detroit Film Theater Monday night. The documentary was a little slower that I expected, mainly due to halting quality of Bob's presentation. I had also expected more demonstrations of the instruments he invented, though a complete solo by Keith Emerson was offered in it's entirety.
Robert Moog has some interesting insights on the nature of invention. His views are decidedly spiritual or meta-physical when he talks about the man-machine connection he experiences with electronic equipment and that musicians experience with their instruments. He states that this connection is really bidirectional: not only does the player control the instrument but the instrument, in some manner, retains memory of the player and thus exerts a force on the musician.
The name "sythesizer" is often presumed to be derived from the premise that the generated sounds are synthetic (and, somehow, not real). Bob debunks this notion, claiming that the name comes from the fact that the sound is sythesized, or combined, from various modular components. Indeed, he says, the sound produced is very real.
I was most impressed by the performance of a young Japanese musician playing a theramin. I've never heard that instrument played with such accuracy. The lyrical impression of a cello was expected but the intonation was impeccable. I would not have believed the demonstration of a stacatto walking bass line in the jazz idiom, complete with triplet "kicks", had I simply heard it without the visual.
Robert Moog has some interesting insights on the nature of invention. His views are decidedly spiritual or meta-physical when he talks about the man-machine connection he experiences with electronic equipment and that musicians experience with their instruments. He states that this connection is really bidirectional: not only does the player control the instrument but the instrument, in some manner, retains memory of the player and thus exerts a force on the musician.
The name "sythesizer" is often presumed to be derived from the premise that the generated sounds are synthetic (and, somehow, not real). Bob debunks this notion, claiming that the name comes from the fact that the sound is sythesized, or combined, from various modular components. Indeed, he says, the sound produced is very real.
I was most impressed by the performance of a young Japanese musician playing a theramin. I've never heard that instrument played with such accuracy. The lyrical impression of a cello was expected but the intonation was impeccable. I would not have believed the demonstration of a stacatto walking bass line in the jazz idiom, complete with triplet "kicks", had I simply heard it without the visual.
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Morning Drive
Judy Adams really hit the sweet spot on her WDET program this morning. The lineup starting at 9:00 am was some pretty tasty jazz from Regina Carter, Jean Luc Ponty, and Ron Carter. It really made a long commute enjoyable.
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