http://hornbake.com Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:07:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was just in Dublin this past week with collaborator/designer Sean McDonald at the Science Gallery's BioRhythm Exhibit, debuting a piece of Interactive/Educational Software entitled "Bob Moog's Glasses." Many thanks to Science Gallery and the Bob Moog Foundation for making it possible. More to come soon... http://hornbake.com/2010/07/science-gallery-dublin/ Colour Revolt at Echo Mountain. "The Cradle" Drops Aug 10th. Paste Interview, and new tune download http://hornbake.com/2010/05/colour-revolt-2/ A new project I've been involved in, Wages, just finished up the first round of mixes. Another project with Hank Sulivant producing.  I'm the engineer, bass player, and even have a song that I wrote and sing ( a first! Nick Campbell lends heaps of harmonies to make me sound ... http://hornbake.com/2010/03/wages-mixes/ I had the pleasure of engineering the Colour Revolt's upcoming release with Hank Sulivant producing. Everyone involved where such pro's, we really had a well oiled machine running in the Church at Echo Mountain. 7-days , all of the basics live to 2" tape, tracking done. [caption id="attachment_140" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="iPhone ... http://hornbake.com/2010/03/colour-revolt/ The kind folks over at Daytrotter put up a nice post about Arizona. Sean Moeller was in Asheville for HatchFest earlier this year, and I had the pleasure of recording some great musicians live to 1/4" tape, daytrotter style. It's so awesome to work with folks that have a real ... http://hornbake.com/2009/08/arizona-on-daytroter-com/ So I've been busy on the road and in the studio, and neglecting my reel. I added a few tracks on a new pge entitled "Hear My Work". It's a few songs that I've done this year that I'm proud of. Enjoy! Here's one that was added. Valorie is the real ... http://hornbake.com/2009/08/new-hear-my-work/ These are not made for the road... the Flash drive still works, my mod still works, the internal ram comes unseated periodically, and now the unit chooses to recognize or not recognize both the ram, and hard drive seemingly at random. It's been driving me nuts.... coming soon, the re-birth ... http://hornbake.com/2009/06/lamenting-the-death-of-an-akai-s5000-not-road-worthy/ So I had to figure this out this week, and it's quite cool. Mac OSX comes with SSH, so setting it up wasn't too hard, and I found a new VNC viewer JollyVNC that is really top notch. The author also has a really inrteresting VNC based product called "screenrecycler" that ... http://hornbake.com/2009/03/ssh-tunnel-and-vnc/ http://www.arizonatheband.com Check it out. Its got a cool Flash header that does some subtle alpha effects based upon mouse movement. It's a Wordpress backend, and uses some interesting wordpress plugins including Kimili Flash embed, GigPress, the XSPF music player, Flickr Manager, FeedWordPress (in conjunction with www.makedatamakesense.com), and MailChimp's Wordpress plugin. UPDATE: The ... http://hornbake.com/2009/01/arizonathebandcom-done/ http://www.mountainx.com/ae/2008/123108welcome_to_ae Arizona's Glowing Bird (Bass, Co-Engineer & Co-Mix w/ Danny Kadar), Valorie Miller's Autumn Eyes (Produce, Engineer, Mix), and Mad Tea Party's Found a Reason (Mix), were on a short list of good local records made this year in WNC. Right on. All good records, all fun to work on. 2009... ... http://hornbake.com/2009/01/mountain-xpress-must-love-me/