Mail call
So today my package from Forced Exposure finally slipped through Customs and came to rest at my door; nestled inside, under several kilometers of packing tape, were my long-awaited copy of Paavoharju's Yhä Hämärää ("Continually Dark", it's in my top ten for the year), which is great to get in a "hey, I can finally delete it off of my hard drive" kind of way (music sharing = me spending more money on Finnish music I will never find in Guelph), and even more excitingly my Buddha Machine (I got a red one), which I'm listening to right now.
It was listed as a "music box" on the customs form, and I guess that works - I've been listening to it for about 70 minutes now, and I think I've gone through all nine loops. It's kind of neat - instead of selecting which one you want, you just flick and switch and it goes to the next one; flick the switch back and you get the one after that, and so on. The sound quality isn't great, so a couple of the loops have fairly intense static as the loop brushes agains the upper limit of the fidelty on the chip/speaker, which I love. It's a pretty trippy experience, and the idea of leaving it on for a day at a time is a strangely tempting one.
It was listed as a "music box" on the customs form, and I guess that works - I've been listening to it for about 70 minutes now, and I think I've gone through all nine loops. It's kind of neat - instead of selecting which one you want, you just flick and switch and it goes to the next one; flick the switch back and you get the one after that, and so on. The sound quality isn't great, so a couple of the loops have fairly intense static as the loop brushes agains the upper limit of the fidelty on the chip/speaker, which I love. It's a pretty trippy experience, and the idea of leaving it on for a day at a time is a strangely tempting one.
