My Bloody Valentine again

It sounded about how it looked and vice versa…

My Bloody Valentine

My Bloody Valentine

My Bloody Valentine

I wasn’t sure if the room acoustics of the El Rey would be completely overwhelmed by the sound, but it was actually easier to hear what was going on now than at the Total World Anhiliation of the Santa Monica show last year. The band was looser, false starting a couple times, occasionally smiling, and utterly killing it with all the power of an asteroid strike. Deb and Colm don’t nearly as enough credit as they should.

More photos on Flickr.

And to repost: Here are the details of Kevin’s guitar set-up and the band’s sound design.

No Line On The Horizon Preinterpreted

From the I Make Music subboard of ILX:

it would be awesome if various music people on this board would each claim one of these song titles, then write and record a song with that title, then put a link to it on this board. the songs don’t have to sound like U2 or have anything to do with U2 at all. the u2 album comes out march 3, if we could get this all done before then, it would be awesome. anyone interested?

The end result (of which I have a small part) can be found here.

imm-no line on the horizon preinterpreted.gif

UPDATE: There’s a Facebook group for the project now.

Calculating bi-weekly intervals in FileMaker

Today’s vexing problem in FileMaker was in calculating bi-weekly intervals (as in a payroll period) without using a lookup table. For example, given a payroll period of:

Start End
11 Jan 2009 24 Jan 2009
25 Jan 2009 7 Feb 2009
8 Feb 2009 21 Feb 2009
22 Feb 2009 7 Mar 2009

I wanted to be able to calculate the last and current pay period for any given date. After some digging around FMForums and more trial-and-error on my part, the formulas are:

To find the last pay period:

START = 14 * Div ( givenDate - 14 ; 14 )
END = 14 * Div ( givenDate - 14 ; 14 ) + 13

And to find the current pay period:

START = 14 * Div ( givenDate ) ; 14 )
END = 14 * Div ( givenDate ) ; 14 ) + 13

Center For Visual Music’s “Essential Visual Music: Rare Classics”

I’ve shouted at length here before about Oskar Fischinger, MOCA’s Visual Music exhibition, and the occasional program from the Center For Visual Music. CVM shows are kinda rare and extremely worthy. Well worth the effort to attend.

Here are a couple of highlights from tonight’s “Essential Visual Music: Rare Classics” show at the Hammer.

Muntz TV Commercial, Oskar Fischinger, 1952

Mood Contrasts, Mary Ellen Bute, 1953

Cibernetik 5.3, John Stehura, 1960-1965