Glacial Communications

This week started with a continuation of the Stockhausen tribute started last week, and then morphed slightly with the appearance of Stretchy Marmalade. Some of this will eventually show up in an episode of Tactical Theater.

A tribute to the late Karlheinz Stockhausen.

The show started with a favorite piece - Technical Difficulties (aka 'WTF is that hum?') This was immediately followed by a ton of Kembrew McLeod material given his recent turn in the news. Thursday club live at OEMF Some more of that Veqtor album Analogik1. AN-200 live rock out. Various ccMixter material peripherally attached to the Kembrew McLeod stuff. Some assorted Chris Moss Acid material.

As I’ve mentioned previously, I’m a big fan of the SID tracker GoatTracker. I’ve been running the OSX/PowerPC port of 2.25 (which no longer seems to be on the covertbitops page) since I discovered it at Notacon/Blockparty earlier this year. But 2.25 has its quirks – I’ll be damned if I can figure out how to make something more complicated than a single loop.

I then tried the unofficial port of 2.61 for OS X – I could edit the orderlist, but it was still a PPC binary and seemed kinda slow.

Today I took matters into my own hands. I downloaded 2.65 and built my own OS X/Intel port. You can download it here. It’s not a complicated port – just some modifications to the makefiles, really.

It’s kind of raw still – all the executables are in ./bin, and there’s no fancy .app wrapper for the binary – just run ./bin/goattrk2.

(FWIW, I did try to build as a Universal Binary, but the executable is still only i386 arch. Not sure why yet.)

Update(1/13/2008) - I think the problems people were having should be fixed now. It was previously dynamically linked to fink’s version of libSDL rather than the framework-ized version. The download should now be statically linked to the fink libSDL, and dynamically linked to only standard system libraries/frameworks.

The extra-special guest didn't make it. Here's an incomplete list of the sources used:

• Jack Dangers - Electronic Music from Tapelab
• Emeralds - Live at Ohio Experimental Music Fest
• Fluxmonkey - Live at Ohio Experimental Music Fest
• Bee Mask - Live at Ohio Experimental Music Fest
• BORTABRA (bits and pieces, anyway) Veqtor -Analogik1
• Jack Dangers - Forbidden Planet Explored and Sci-Fi Sound Effects

(OEMF audio Courtesy of Thursday Club)

• Worked on a couple of new songs – at least a little bit.
• Killed my old catalog site (the ccHost-based one), and replaced it with a redirect to neoelectro.org. Now to eventually move all the stuff hosted here over there…
• Started working on a proposal for a workshop at Notacon 5.