Past week

Rudements Master tape ,good conversation with Tim Cornish last week
Beats In Space 10 year Anniversary poster and T
Ike Yard Ep and album cover design
Finishing REC003
Proposing next JG Ballard project venue
Recording new Outpost, rehearsing for recording, preparing for next show ( in DC , Dec. 4 & 5 )
Discussing collaboration with RVNG Int.
Finding interesting new groups to play with
Keeping DCC on some kind of track forward ...

Ike Yard Ep out on iTunes

Yes, the first new Ike Yard music is now out on iTunes !
Vinyl is coming

The Rudements found !

The original Rudements master tape from Don Zientera's has been found in the Dischord tape room and
will be digitized for us by Ian in DC, very sweet of him to do so.

Outpostings

Yellow leaves on the ground, warm air fog in the morning air, Mutsu apples in the sun.

It's been Outpost most of the time , intensely for the period since the 10/24 show;
the group reorganized, listened to 8 rehearsal tapes, also found the pieces Mark and I did together one session last week.
Preparing for the DC show Dec. 4 & 5 ... Patrick Quick left Sunday AM after getting footage loaded that will serve as basis for the background video screen at Velvet Lounge and beyond. Patrick ran around the city after the Monkeytown show and saw alot of the lit world of NYC's bookstores, second hand book stores, The Strand.

Ike Yard 10" test pressing coming this week ?

DCC back into Riverglass Studio in mid Dec.

REC resumes work on the Luca Davis text project's soundtrack, with an eye on finishing it and releasing before year's end.
REC003 Davis/Nylon/ Outpost / Vex'd .

These days 2009AD

In the wake of the Ballard project 10/24, things have gotten ever more interesting !

JG Ballard project / Maryann Amacher rip

Have had Kingston NY on my mind in past days reading about the life and times of experimental composer Maryanne Amacher, who died last week. The bus goes through Kinston upstate on the way to our engineer Paul Geluso's Studio and stops there on the return trip too so I know the area recently .
Good to hear her music, notes and so on were going to be pulled together, archived with a new website to come.
Respect for her important works and just feel she will be missed on this planet.


Saturday night the Ballard project debuted at Monkeytown; and it worked pretty well ,
the audience was in an Outpost movie surrounded by four screens for a program of JG Ballard's Atrocity Exhibition ,
Time, Memory and Inner Space + our songs Ice Planet , League City , Witchfire and Serial Angels.
We had just burned the discs on the for the video edits earlier that day -but it all worked out thanks to John C and Johnny's help at the show. Good crowd, almost sold out even after a big downpour earlier in the night.
Patrick Quick came over from Perth via Sydney after he made video for Time, Memory and Inner Space.
By Friday he had also then made 20m of video grid visuals for our 4 songs set ...
Big thank you again to all our artists; Ester Ahn . Adrienne Altenhaus . Le Le Chan . Mark C . Jen Jaffe . Robert Longo .
Andrew Moszynski . Patrick Quick . Robert Selwyn . Vivian Wong and Stephanie Wuertz plus John C and Johnny !

So far we've gotten some great responses to the show
, and are following up on some new things that have come in since Saturday night
!

JG Ballard project @ Monkeytown Saturday night ...

Saturday night in the city of the dead !
Atrocity Exhibition /
Time,memory and Inner Space /
Ice Planet - League city - Witchfire -Serial Angels

One seating , 10:30 @ Monkeytown ( Williamsburg Bk )


Image: Mike Test (Head of Goya) Robert Longo
charcoal drawing 70 X 105 inches -2001
Courtesy Metro Pictures

More outlets for Rec's music

A few things in motion with Rec;
Bleep has contacted us about our releases and also we have opted to have our music on imeem , Amie street ( Amazon.com ), lala.com ,Verizon mobile, Think Indie, Shockhound and All Music Guide.
To be continued ...