Piton des Neiges

Reunion Island, Indian Ocean High up in the clouds... perty!

For the next album... What I'm working on:

Today ended up going by fast, but I am hoping to work more tonight... sometimes the night brings much inspiration!!!! While that happens, I figured I would post a couple tracks I've been working on for the next album. It goes a little something like this: Raggedeering For now Lemme know whatcha thinko!

Stupid mozilla extensions

So I decided to get into newsreaders so I can subscribe to blogs and such... Well, in trying to read within a browser (in my case firefox) I downloaded the recommended (from one of the help files here) newsreaders that support Atom feeds.. newsmonster..... ARGGHHHHH Started acting up and wouldn't let me disable it (I couldn't even get to the preference window), so I had to reinstall firefox because this whole thing sucked! Well in this whole ordeal I managed to loose all my bookmarks, and I get pissed when I loose my bookmarks! So now I share that here because after all if I'm going to start blogging, then the ones reading this are going to have to deal with my virtual moods! Stupid newsmonster!!

postsecret

Just found this blog that mainly is an art project where people send in anonymously their big secrets on a home made post card.... REALLY INTERESTING!!!

Dogonet, track #5

new web site

Well, I spent the better part of yesterday and today redesigning my web site. I finished the graphics part, and am waiting for Mike (fiancé) to be ready to program it for me in flash. I can do the graphics fine, but when it comes to flash, I'm a stupid moron! Luckily I have a knight in shining armor at home! heyhey I also played around with my press shot....

Itunes music store

Two albums are up on Itunes. (click on "launch app" when prompted if Itunes is already installed) DOGONET is a sort of collection of years of composition without putting anything out. There are very ambient pieces, as well as very experimental stuff, and also some acoustic work on piano. Dogonet is the first word my nephew (2 years old now) ever said. I think that in his language (a mix of ouzbek and inuit... We think...) it has a definition of some sort: "Dogonet (noun, sometimes verb): dogonet is a pair of roller-skates that sounds better than it looks, cures all known illnesses and keeps drinks hot." At the time I figured it would match my album very well!!! BOBOTO is a very very very ambient album. When one thinks of chilled, that must be it. I don't quite know why or how I did it, must be some external forces that made me do it for sanity purposes. Although it didn't work very well on me (I'm still somewhat insanely sick), I think it might be curative for some... Boboto actually means something unlike the title of my first album... But I don't know if I want to share........ Just kiddin'. It means something like "tenderness" in Lingala (for those interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingala_language). Mainly it was the name of a place in Kinshasa, Zaire (currently Congo) where my family and I used to go to weekly.... More of a nostalgia thing than anything else!

It's meeeeee!

Well here I go for the blog thing..... Seems like it's a cool way to document one's life for... well, I don't really know what for! But I hope my grand children will like it, and if not I will force them! So besides my obviously perfect grand parenting skills, I might just start by journaling what's going on. That's the way it's done huh!? Firstly I have to post my bio that my friend Steve Abagon wrote for me because it's hilarious and extremely well written! I keep reading it over and over and still have to convince myself that it's about me~~~ On January 9th 1979 the wily zygote found itself in its final summation-split, nurtured, upside down and with a stunning vertebra ready to greet its host for the first time face to face. A healthy fetus, covered with birth's finest birthday suit juice, unfurled to finally taste oxygen. Conception's final frontier. At first awakening it cried, writhed and gleamed with the essence of the Beginning. Nurses clapped, doctors commended each other and insurance premiums grew. But of course you're not reading this because you fell asleep during The Miracle of Birth, or even to get a sense of the ER. If you're not a test tube experiment funded by the government, chances are you've gone through this already. No no, what you are here for is to revel in the coming of the 21st century's premiere vixen of C-sound ambient music... Severine Charlotte Baron Sev, as she's called bipedally by friends and colleagues, is capable of the most transfixing and euphoric atmospheres this side of the womb. Beautifully disturbing as well as Orca-calling, Sev's sonic down comforters can make any John Cage novice quit music school and become a Nyquil addict. A taffy stretcher of the finest sine waves, her music can massage the skins on the eardrums of any self-anthropomorphized android looking to defrag its life. Solid State geeks will wander, minimalists will mingle and stoners may soar, but Baron's music is in its own class of ambient music. In fact, if Eric Satie composed musical furniture, Severine creates musical sense-depravation tanks. With everything from C-sound to Logic, Soundhack to blah, blah, blah and a rich taste for synthesis mutation at her fingertips, Baron's work shows how binary next to French can be the most alluring yet challenging language to harness. If Richard D. James has bastard children who carry on his forte for classical piano, Sev may very well qualify. Of course, Severine may be born of truer Alien and Gelfling DNA than even Richard would concoct. Paralleled with sheer virtuosity on the ebony and ivories, her piece "Out! I Said"mildly reflects her piano days in a short Reason-sequenced piece akin to Chopin going through an exorcism. Her talent for granular synth-moding is a true testimony to what happens when out-of-body experiences somehow find their way into computers. Till this day she cannot stop conversing with the voices. Her therapist and dealer (software, of course) says she's gonna be just fine. Nevertheless, being farthest from anything post-hippie or New Age, Sev's strange proclivity for astral projection has inspired a lot of these C-sound pieces. And thank you for choosing Air Baroness... The Sirens of today have a new medium. The modern Pandora's Box is now a laptop, and The Mists of Avalon have all been digitized, low passed and time compressed. Where once there needed placenta, gurney and strain, now trequires hard drive space and endless imagination. Severine Baron's work gives birth to new atmosphere. And where there is fresh air you need only ears to breathe it.