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Where am I? and Shellstates.

Hello loyal feed followers… things have been awfully quiet here of late, and for that I apologize.

I’ve been knee deep in a ton of projects, all of them quite challenging. I’m quite excited and think that the end results will be worth the blood, sweat and brain cells that have been poured into them, but in the meantime it means I’ve had very little time to perform even the most basic upkeep here at the blog. I have a number of things that really need doing around here, and I’m giving serious consideration to moving off of Wordpress to a fresh install of Drupal, which (again) requires some bit of time investment to accomplish properly.

So, with all of this in mind, I’d like to direct your attention to the netlabel Pelican Dump, run by former Nophi proprietor Randy Garcia (RIP, Nophi). I’ve been promising him some material for release for what must be over a year now, and I’ve finally come through for him. Entitled Shellstates, it is a 41-minute collection of somewhat lowfi abstract ambient/noise improvisations. Thanks to Randy for giving these orphaned tracks a home as well as for providing artwork for the release. It’s totally free as in speech, and can be downloaded from the Pelican Dump website. To give you a taste, here’s a short “sampler” style podcast, but again: the release is free - what are you waiting for? I hope you enjoy it!

Now, I’m off to the Lisp50 event at OOPSLA. I have a feeling my brain will hurt by the time it’s done.

(Speaking of things that I need to do around here, apparently Podpress’ built-in inline media player isn’t working. To listen to the podcast, either download using the link below, or play in the pop-up media player.)

 
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10 Minutes

What a great weekend… I know there are a few people waiting for me to post the screencast of my presentation at the Nashville Ableton User’s Group, but it DEFINITELY needs some editing. I also need to render off my set from Ombi Friday night. In the meantime, here’s a treat for everyone. Motivated by the length of time he can spend in his unarirconditioned office, Chris Randall over at Analog Industries challenged us to create a track in under 10 minutes, from soup to nuts. Inspired by Friday’s sessions, I ended up going through the process twice, creating screencasts of each one. In fact, a lot of the things I covered in the user’s group meeting are demonstrated here as well. I should note that it should be a given that I want a copy of their new plug in, Automaton.

So without further ado, I present two off-kilter hymns to last night’s full moon: Fullmoonskeever and Fullmoonmachines.


Full Moon Skeever from Jeremy Dickens on Vimeo.


Full Moon Machines from Jeremy Dickens on Vimeo.

Weekenders and a little bit of music.

Nashville area robots: Tomorrow (Friday 8/15) I’m going to be out on the town doing a couple of events! First off, I will be presenting at the Nashville Ableton Live User’s Group at SAE starting at 6PM. I’ll be talking about using Live for performance from DJ-based sets to total sequencing improv. I’m thinking about also delving into some Racks/Drum Racks/Slicing fun.

Afterwards, I’ve been invited to do a set at Forward>>, taking place at 10PM at Ombi on Elliston Place. I was originally planning to do a DJ set, but the flyer says I’m doing a performance, so I might be going all out… There’s no cover, so be there!

In the meantime, here’s a bit of music for you… CDM wrote up a bit on a newish Mac-based generative music application called Nodal. My friend Vlad at Daevlmakr.com turned me on to this some time ago, and I tinkered a bit. I’ve not had the time to get incredibly deep, but I was prompted (via Twitter) to go back and play around a little bit more. This piece was created with Live, where Midi clips were created from the output of Nodal, with a little bit of Follow Actions thrown in for good measure. Hope you enjoy it…

Logickal - Nodal

Tibetan(delayedre)action

Well, the distributors swapped tibetanaction with the next release on the schedule, so the new single has been pushed back to August 5. Now, the upshot of this is that I’ve got a bit more advance promo time. To make it fun, I’m going to hit various services with the promo announcement, starting with Twitter. If you’re a Twitter user, follow logickal (if you don’t already) and message me that you want some pre-release goodness. In a day or so, I’ll announce another social network you can catch me on and snag a URL and a password. So, I’ll see you around the interwebs and we’ll have a blast, ok? Ok!

Updated: Ooops, I forgot to mention - I’m only going to give out 4 copies per social network. Just for fun, the first two people to email me with the subject line “Free Tibet” will get a link. Sound good? Let’s go!

Update July 23: Okay, four links have been sent to Twitterfolk - that actually went quicker than I expected! Which social network gets next?

Flight Dynamics 043 - World Tibet Day

In celebration of the 73rd birthday of Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, today was observed as World Tibet Day. I could ramble on and on about the need for the world as a whole (and the West in particular) to hold China accountable for their many human rights violations, of which the struggle of the Tibetan people is only a part. I will refrain from ranting, and instead offer this podcast of a live remix I performed today of Chantaction, which will see release on July 22, on the 4-track Tibetanaction single.

 
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Chantaction Visualizations

Chantaction by Logickal, from the Tibetaction single coming July 22, 2008. More details to come… in the meantime, Enjoy!


Logickal - Chantaction from Jeremy Dickens on Vimeo.

Logickal Live @ Buzz and Click IV

Now available from iTunes Music Store - Logickal’s live set from Nashville’s finest electronic music showcase, Buzz and Click, back from 2006. It should hit other services over the next few days…

20080115 - Ground Fog / Crossed Swords

Recorded by Logickal the morning of Saturday, January 12, 2008. Improvisation built entirely from triggered sine-wave synth notes that begin the piece, permutated using Live’s Sampler instrument and Follow Actions. Featuring a cameo appearance from some of the Daevl.Plugs for good measure. The structure of the piece flows through the permutations in a fairly linear manner.

 
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20080105 - Dream for the year…

Original take recorded Jan 1 2008. Permutated twice on Jan 2 and Jan 3. Mixed in reverse chronological order.

May All Beings Be Happy.

 
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Episode 41 - Season’s Greetings

In a little over 15 minutes local time, it will be Xmas. So, from me to all of you - here is an improvised Carol, a subliminal hymn. It may be a little darker in tone than the usual “Peace on Earth,” but you know that is implied. The Solstice just passed means our days will start getting a little longer, even though it’s bound to be colder still.

Enjoy - if I don’t talk to you sooner, have a happy new year!

 
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Nashville Scene - The Spin

Someone made it out to Buzz and Click and made it just in time to make part of my set…

The lone laptopper, clad in a shirt and tie, toyed with various other gadgets generating soundscapes of blips, glitches, pops and crackles with a clutter of crunching and jumbled beats that occasionally locked into a discernible groove, only to crumble back into sonic rubble.

Episode 40 - Logickal Buzzes In, Clicks Out

Some of you may recall that this past weekend was the fifth installment of that annual festival of the Nashdiggity’s finest electronic noise, Buzz and Click. A wonderful time was had by all… thanks to all of the other performers for putting on such great sets.

It is my normal custom to record all of my sets - unfortunately, this night I was most of the way through my set before I realized I hadn’t started recording… So, I present to you a compilation of rehearsal takes made on Friday and Saturday (12/7 and 12/8), closing out with the last 8 minutes or so from the Buzz and Click performance itself.

 
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Twelve Offerings hit the Big Time

Just to give everyone the heads-up… Twelve Offerings is now available on iTunes Music Store (and iTunes Plus) and Beatport. Unfortunately, I cannot include personalized donation messages for sales via these services, but all proceeds will be donated regardless. If you’ve been waiting for one of these services to carry it to donate, now is the time (although buying the CD directly will prove to be a bigger donation).

Episode 39 - Phreak it

I’ve missed you. I really have. Sorry I haven’t been communicating like I used to do, but you know how it is. It’s not that I haven’t wanted to stop in, say hi, play some tunes. Here, tell ya what - how about I play some for you now? I recorded this just for you - yeah, at Daniel’s Phreaknic room party. We had a good time - does it show?

 
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Logickal presents Twelve Offerings


I would like to introduce Twelve Offerings, the newest release by Logickal. It is dedicated to the people and Sangha of Burma, the monks who peacefully led protests against the ruling Junta on the country before being suppressed. All proceeds of this release will be given to The U.S. Campaign for Burma.

UPDATE: Twelve Offerings is now available from iTunes Music Store (and iTunes Plus) and Beatport. Unfortunately, I cannot include personalized donation messages for sales via these services, but all proceeds will be donated regardless.


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On The Radio

Going to be on the radio tomorrow morning talking about Twelve Offerings and playing another mix of the tracks on the Mixdown, thanks to our good friend John Brassil. I’ll be on 91.1 WRVU around 11:30 - you can tune in via the stream if you aren’t in town. If you miss it, there’s an archive in case you have a desire to hear me ramble on about my projects.

Episode 38-Global Day of Action

Today was the Global Day of Action for Burma. If you’ve been following the blog for the past couple of weeks, you might have picked up on the fact that I’ve been following the protests in Burma rather closely. As it happens, I’ve been recording material over the past two weeks, and am preparing a CD release in the next few days to support the Burmese people in their struggle to gain freedom from the oppression of the military dictatorship that has ruthlessly suppressed the peaceful demonstrations led by the Therevada Buddhist monks over the last weeks. I can’t stand with them directly, and have little to offer - but all proceeds from this release will be donated directly to the U.S. Campaign for Burma.

In this podcast, listen to a short mix of selections from the upcoming release Twelve Offerings to Burma. Please check back in the next few days for information about ordering this release and contributing to a worthy cause.

 
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