The new blog is live!

In this quick week at home between vacations, I’ve thrown together the start of my new sound theory blog, with the idea that it’s better to just start writing than to get finicky over every little detail (see: this blog). The new blog is going to be a mix of short-form media link posts, tumblr-style (with a little commentary sometimes), and longer-form sound theory stuff on historical examples and contemporary things. I’m going to use it to try out ideas for the thesis, and hopefully it will be interesting even to those who aren’t into sound theory per se.

I’m going to try to keep metablogging to a minimum over there, so I have to focus on content (for another example of me messing that up, see this blog again). So, go visit www.noiseforairports.com, comment, and subscribe to a new RSS feed!

The last post on this blog is from January. Basically, a blog that was set up for me to just talk about myself was never going to get a whole lot of action when it had to compete with my twitter and tumblr accounts. Those services make it much easier to fill up part of the internet with solipsistic crap.

I’m not necessarily ending this blog; I’ll keep it on life support in case I can use its organs some day (or some other terrible metaphor). I am, however, moving on to yet another blog. It’s not entirely set up yet, and may not be until the end of June (I’ll be traveling for a while and still need to figure out how to make my website style into a legitimate Movable Type style).

The new blog is going to focus not on me, but on the sound-related stuff I am encountering in the course of researching for my thesis. It turns out that people are often curious about this stuff, and I want to be able to share it. For all my searching, I haven’t been able to find a blog that addresses experimental music/noise/indeterminacy/etc. from my perspective (or at all), and it seems like this might actually be useful not only for collecting things for my thesis, but for sharing them with the anonymous smiling faces of the internet.

So just a teaser for now. New blog coming. Will be about sound and so on. But probably not until the end of June.

I may have fixed my RSS feed, if you can read this!

I finished this a while ago, but wanted to make it perfect before I put it up as my real front page. Since it will never be perfect, and it basically works now, I figured I’d just put it up and get it over with.

It’s an egotist/javascript dream, and pulls stuff from all the online places I regularly put content, including my tumblr, twitter, delicious, and blog feeds. Everything should work, with the exception of the “Other Work” link up at the top, which has no page to link to yet. Everything will probably break as soon as one of these javascripts stops working. Expect incessant tweaking (If you, for some reason, were compelled to look at my personal site more than once).

In terms of real blog stuff, I do actually have some things to write about, and I am going to work on writing stuff here on a regular basis. That is, as soon as I’m done with the current crunch time of schoolwork.

So yeah, enjoy, if you needed to know everything I was doing on the internet at the same time, now you can.

I couldn’t handle Unity Blue, so I compulsively hammered away at a draft of the new design. It’s up on the blog pages now, and eventually, the main page will sport a similar look, but with more content.

Lucky you, getting to see all my layout drafts. If this was a real website, I’d be making all these edits secretly and unveil them on some special day. But this isn’t a real website, yet, so you get all this stuff. And two posts in a row about being under construction.

Sweet.