The rain in Honolulu has perhaps outstayed its heartfelt welcome. Whenever it rains like this for more than a day or two, everyone who was here in 2006 probably recalls the dismal forty-one consecutiv...

Now on YouTube, I want to introduce the first episode of a new podcast, "Rico's Place," where I sit in with guitarist and storyteller extraordinaire Rico Woltz, who holds space most nights in front of...

I'll be playing tonight's open mic at Awahou Kava lounge 2700 S King St. #D101 Honolulu, Hawaii, hosted by none other than KTUH's Mophead. I'm slotted for 10-10:20PM. The music starts at 7pm. Hope you...

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Is it a track? Or an EP? An ambient gem, for slightly dystopic yoga sessions, beautiful cinematic soundscapes evoke...well you'll just have to see. Good for dreaming, sleeping, meditating. Furniture m...

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All the ways we'll go: Music, sound, guitars, digital, equality, anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-ablist, class conscious, trauma informed, anti-genocide, decolonial, voting anarchist, spiritual agnostic, your anti-woke antifa nightmare, dammit. If you're heading this way, let's go together. That means please sign up.

Did you know the Emancipation Proclamation did not actually free anyone? Enslaved African people had been freeing themselves and heading north, offering to serve Union forces, since the beginning off the Civil War and before.

Way Music is working on a plugin environment, in development for two decades, that frees the musicker from the bonds of the BPM, putting your groove back in the beat.

Saw this yesterday: which is a lot like my Space Tension/Qi project I have been developing since 2007. I reached out to the guy, and he was aware of my work. While they seem to do the same thing, they go about it in quite different ways. His tracks

Trying to get the iPad to obey: just simple guitar-to-midi and two bespoke controllers to play the through a guitar amp with fx and a couple of synths inside a looper. Is that too much to ask? Apparently so this morning. I got everything but the looper working for about

File under: The AI says you are being paranoid, Jim. This morning I was relaxing a bit while my partner made some nice coffee (AeroPress). Don't worry, I made the first batch for us; I'm not slacking. Then the kettle whistled in the other room, my

MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE). Anyone use it? I have some guitar synth stuff that uses it, mostly in Pigments, a synth we also haven't talked about much. For me it is really the only interesting thing in MIDI 2.0 spec. Guitar hexaphonic pickups – used to drive

This comedy sketch, to me, is the explanation of my partner, Monisha Das Gupta's new book title – All of Us or None – on the antideportation movement and the turn away from the deserving/undeserving binary favored in mainstream approaches and media.

Way Music is working on a plugin environment, in development for two decades, that frees the musicker from the bonds of the BPM, putting your groove back in the beat.

Chappell Roan didn't just win a Grammy: she used that stage as a platform to call out industry abuse and demand a living wage for artists. And she did it in an enormous hat. There is a call to action ...

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