may i allow myself to introduce myself

nothing happens

Hi, I'm Chuck Hoffman. I've been doing music of varying descriptions for a long time. Someone in rec.music.experimental pointed me to this site and it sounds like just the sort of thing I've been doing for the past month or so with my newest group, a trio called Passage Of Deformed Man Supermarket, made up of myself, Tom Vanderwall, and A Is Jump drummer Phil Sterk. As of now, we've been entirely improvisational, but are trying to make a point of recording as much as possible (shows and practices), the idea being that we can then revisit things we've tried before that went particularly well, as loosely defined compositions or general guidelines to re-improvise from. Sometimes we're very noisy, sometimes trancey, sometimes jazzy. Instrumentation includes echoplex looping, effects, tapes, trumpet, accordion, melodica, drum machines, synthesizers, casio keyboards, guitar, bass, drums, percussion, found-object percussion, toys, homemade instruments (twanger, hubcap-spring, satan's-harp, etc), pedal steel and lap steel guitars; just about anything that makes a sound gets thrown in somewhere if we have it around. We've played three gigs so far, my favorite of them a hastily assembled but very cool show with Tyondai Braxton and Parts & Labor. I'm interested in networking and generally conversing with both musicians and groups doing related kinds of things, and anyone else who digs these kind of music. We've also just finished out first 6-track/74-minute demo CD-R, with the exception of a cover design I'll be whipping up soon, and I'm interested in getting them into the hands of as many people as I have resources to do so.

elektro80 · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 11:49 am Post subject:

Welcome! hey, do you have an url for an mp3 file? Very Happy

nothing happens · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 12:07 pm Post subject: mp3

I wish... I dno't think I have anywhere I can post one. Let me give something a try and get back to you...

nothing happens · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 12:26 pm Post subject:

Okay, if this works, it will be at http://home.mchsi.com/~nothinghappens/Interlude_2.mp3 ... I only have 10Mb of space there, though, so I can only get about one or two songs up at a time. I could delete this one and post a (very) different/better one later. Wink

However, several of the tracks I have won't fit in 10Mb unless I make them a low bitrate.

nothing happens · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 12:35 pm Post subject: also

Oh, and there's some rather old 4-track creations of mine at http://mp3.com/flight_attendants ... get 'em while it's still there!

elektro80 · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 12:43 pm Post subject:

Hey! The interlude is great!

mosc · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 8:53 pm Post subject:

Welcome... Thanks for sharing your tracks, no matter how long they last on the internet. I like the Flight Attendents - Slow Day the best.

nothing happens · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 9:32 pm Post subject: okay here's something

I had no luck e-mailing, and my personal web space on mchsi isn't big enough, but I think I can temporarily get away with putting these here, so download them if you like them.

http://jimhoffmanconstruction.com/musical/Ghosts_Of_Westworld.mp3

http://jimhoffmanconstruction.com/musical/A_Note_To_Myself.mp3

I really need to get my own website... heh.

nothing happens · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 8:14 pm Post subject:

Hey is my avatar all right? I think it's a pretty flattering picture of me, but someone on another site where I use the same one seemed annoyed with it. Possibly my expression in it makes it hard to take me seriously?

elektro80 · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 8:19 pm Post subject:

The avatar is excellent! I have the same smile when I hear the Bialetti espresso pot go blabbering out in the kitchen. Espresso!!!

seraph · Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2003 3:20 am Post subject:

AgentA · Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2003 11:09 pm Post subject:

Hello Chuck,

That was me in rec.music.experimental that tipped you about this place.
Didn't I tell you this was a nice speakeasy?
Hope you get what you need...
Why no new mp3s hosted on free sites like:
http://www.soundclick.com or http://www.dmusic.com
?

I'd say you're an extrovert judging by your avatar.

okay off to download land, the echoplex looping scares me
(gives me motion sickness half the time)
but the rest of the ingredients intrigue me...

elektro80 · Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2003 11:16 pm Post subject:

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

T-R-ust but verify?

elektro80 · Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2003 11:31 pm Post subject:

Carlo?

Tell us more!

seraph · Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 1:39 am Post subject:

oh guys what a bunch of nuts Very Happy

what do you want me to say? that when I was writing "what did you put into the coffee I had in your apartment?" I was thinking of those magic mushrooms you were mentioning on the iPod thread?

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

Magic Mushrooms in the iPod thread? How could I have missed that!

Sometimes I am required to wonder about myself.

N.H., Let's go check your work out, shall we...

Cyx

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 2:38 am Post subject:

seraph · Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 3:17 am Post subject:

Cyx
you must have a huge collection of those sentences you use as signature files. They are very charming, those by Elektro80 pale in comparison Shocked

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 3:19 am Post subject:

The CYX has a nice supplies of sigs! True! Very Happy

Cyxeris · Joined: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 1125 Location: Louisville, KY

Actually, I collect them, and like to use them when I think one is applicable to the subject matter at hand. That one, actually, is mine. Jeremy Ficklin is me. That is a line from the liner notes of my first CD.

Cyx

nothing happens · Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 6:11 am Post subject: rizock

Here's a new link for them tunes... a friend of mine liked it so much he put the whole disc on his site in WinRAR format. http://www.neobarbarian.org/nemo.htm

I don't know about being an extrovert... my wife was taking the picture and was probably saying something flirty to me at the time. I can be pretty shy around new people, but among friends I can be almost unbearable. Depends on the situation or something. A true Gemini, I guess.

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 6:21 am Post subject:

Found it! 100megs. Downloading at 145k

Downloads R US