Pitchfork Review (and the pumpkin ritual)
it is likely predictable at this time of year, to place a photo of a pumpkin on one's website. while i generally attempt to avoid the predictable gestures (something i imagine i am rather unsuccessful with) i sometimes find them comforting and impossible to resist. THIS pumpkin has a particular signifigance, as it rests on a ledge at the start of the route i (and keri as she's feeling engergetic enough) walk three times daily with the dog. each time we pass, seemingly as a ritual of sorts, the dog smells this pumpkin. i'm not sure why he feels the need to smell it EVERY time we pass, but such is the life of a dog i suppose.
in other, perhaps less predictable and more exciting news, there is another fine review of To All Dead Sailors, this time at the highly respected website, pitchfork media! i do feel compelled to make sure to note (at least to my readers) that the reviewer seemed to think that christian wrote and sang all of the tunes, that i simply provided guitar and other sounds. perhaps that was our fault for being rather vague in the liner notes, but it is mildly frustrating to have your name in lights at long last, only to discover that some of your contributions were credited to the other guy. at least i love the other guy. ahhhh, you see the ego rears its head. i shouldn't complain, and should revel in the glory that while the reviewer thought it was only christian writing and singing, he reported that i "sound like Rufus Wainwright when he sings low, with a subtle vibrato..." and compares christian's voice to ben gibbard of death cab for cutie. if mildly confused, these are words of great praise in my book, and the rest of the review is quite to my liking. indeed a wonderful thing. i am honored.
in other news, (without going into great technical detail) i've been performing and doing research with pauline oliveros for some time now. we have a "telematic" performance tonight, which in short means that we will be making music and sound over internet 2, with people located in various places throughout the country.
the simple explanation is that it is basically liked super kick-ass ichat without any latency (milliseconds to be honest) wherein people play music together. the audio is crystal clear and the video growing closer to that as the months pass. while i'm not sure how well you folks out there in computer land will be able to see and hear the different locations, we will perform tonight with a group of us here in upstate new york at RPI, a group at Stanford University, and a group at UC San Diego. i'm not sure how clear my quick explanation is, but it will be stremaing online tonight at 8:30 pm EST. click here to watch.
Posted by jeff pitcher at November 16, 2007 10:55 AM
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