The BBC has some excellent guides to basic maths and a story about the death of Tommy Ramone…
…so 2014 – 1949 = ??
He was born in 1952.
All of which is just an excuse for…
Music
Shove Lemur from an iPad on a Mac
Adapted from this Windows tutorial…
It is much the same procedure but as the Mac speaks fluent MIDI there is no need to add anything.
Ingredients:
A Mac
Ableton Live
iPad
Lemur app
Shove template
ClyphX/Push folders
(Requires a RAR Unpacker if you do not have one)
Procedure:
Right click on the Ableton Live icon and select Show Package Contents
Drill down to the MIDI Remote Scripts folder
Rename the Push folder as Original_Push
Unpack the RAR file containing the ClyphX/Push folders and put those folders in the MIDI Remote Scripts folder
If your WiFi network is liable to interference/lag you should create an ad-hoc network. The video below just connects via the regular WiFi network.
In the iPad’s WiFi settings select your ad-hoc network if you created one
Start the Lemur app and load the Shove template from the Lemur editor on the Mac
In the Mac’s MIDI/Audio set up Utility select the Network button
Connect the iPad to the Session
Open Ableton Live and then its Preferences
Select Push and Cyphx as Input Devices and the network session as Input and Output
Shove away…
Richie Havens 1941 – 2013
[wikipop]Richie Havens[/wikipop] (January 21, 1941 – April 22, 2013)
A rainbow in curved air
Ray Collins
Ray Collins November 19, 1936 – December 24, 2012
Once upon a time there was a band called The Soul Giants. After their guitar player quit the band’s vocalist, [wikipop search=”Ray Collins (rock musician)”]Ray Collins[/wikipop], asked a guy called [wikipop]Frank Zappa[/wikipop] to join the band. The band’s name was subsequently changed to [wikipop]The Mothers[/wikipop] and the rest is history…
Collins had been working as a vocalist during the late 1950s and early 1960s adding his high backing vocals to I Remember Linda by Little Julian Herrera and the Tigers…
He had featured on recordings made by Paul Buff at his [wikipop]Pal Recording Studio[/wikipop] which Buff would later sell to Zappa, who renamed it Studio Z, and the rest is history…
Here is Collins singing Deserie…
…which he would later record with The Mothers (having frequently been in and out of the band) for Cruising with Ruben and The Jets…
It was the How’s Your Bird that he recorded as Baby Ray and The Ferns…
that Zappa was promoting with his performance on bicycle on [wikipop]The Steve Allen Show[/wikipop] in 1963…