Howdy folks. Bowl of Dust & Co. are playing a special show with a few wonderful guests at the Ball Hall.http://www.facebook.com/ballhallchicago
Perpetual Dusk at Curtsy Caverns— roving bandits playing suitcases of oddities
http://perpetualduskatcurt sycaverns.bandcamp.com/
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(Source: bowlofdust)
People are prayin’ for a hurricane
To rain down on Wall Street.
Bankers are takin’ all the wealth
Of the nation with usury.
Not to name names but somebody’s
To blame for all this misery.
From the Atlantic a storm of
Gigantic fiscal catastrophe.
Son of Katrina crush that skyscraper sky.
Reduce to rubble the investment bank pride.
Tropical cyclone fling that gold from your eye.
Out of the granite to the hurting world wide.
Category five provide for all the deprived.
"— Bowl of Dust, Son of Katrina (via bowlofdust)
(Source: bowlofdust)
Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy to finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. – J. K. Rowling, Harvard commencement address, 2008.[43]”
Via Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Rowling)
Here’s a collaboration I did with singer/songwriter Margo May.
Björk: It was never meant to be this huge project, it just grew. On the Volta tour, I got really carried away with these two touch-screen instruments called Lemur and Reactable. Usually I can’t write when I’m on tour, but just looking at these instruments for a year and half, I was like, “Wow, I’d love to write with them.” But I didn’t want it to be some surface-y kind of interactive thing— I wanted it to go to the core and write a music program so that we could make songs with them.
So the engineer I work with, Damian Taylor, learned how to write these programs, and then we went to Puerto Rico for several months and basically built the instruments out of sticks and elastic and gaff tape. I basically wrote all the songs on touch screens. I wanted the music and themes of each song to correspond, so the arpeggio in the lightning song, for instance, is in the shape of lightning, and the musicology of the crystal song looks like a crystal.
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My name is Kyle Klipowicz.
I’m a creative consultant and engineer working in a variety of contexts. This website was created to create a single point of access to my various creative projects.
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