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@livefrom the console 25 may artists - the F16’s are good!...

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:01:13 +0530

@livefrom the console 25 may artists - the F16’s are good! bright, relaxed, morning sounds. listen to this one.

Live from The Console, Mumbai (on 25th may)

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:58:38 +0530

Live from The Console, Mumbai (on 25th may):

morning everyone! i’m playing day after at Live From The Console, Mehboob Studio. do come! there’s going to be a screening of the making of daft punk’s new album and performances by The F16’s and The Supersonics. promises to be good!

warp time

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:31:48 +0530

time doesn.t fly. nor does it crawl. it.s fixed. it.s K - a constant. 24 hours make a day. we can.t add or subtract from this. (we won.t go into the logic of what makes up an hour or a second because that isn.t relevant here.)
now if time is constant, it.s not possible to change it. your day is divided into x hours of work time + y hours of chill time + z hours of sleep time etc. there.s no time to do anything else than what you.re already doing. but here.s a proposal: sure it.s impossible to change time. so what?

warp it!

how do you mean? time flies when you.re doing something you like - playing an awesome game, watching an awesome movie, pub hopping with friends, skydiving - and crawls when you.re doing something you don.t like - we all have those boring-as-hell tasks that we postpone till the last minute.

being in love is a quintessential bittersweet example: it.s always too soon to leave your partner.s side.

time flies!

the re-emergence of charanjit singh. find out about him here

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:14:37 +0530

the re-emergence of charanjit singh. find out about him here

disillusionist2011: public bus, kolkata

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:03:32 +0530

disillusionist2011:

public bus, kolkata

disillusionist2011: rose garden at home. all creatures are...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:40:28 +0530

disillusionist2011:

rose garden at home. all creatures are loving the weather here.

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Mon, 20 May 2013 15:40:16 +0530

disillusionist2011: metal foragers #shivajipark #mumbai

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:40:04 +0530

disillusionist2011:

metal foragers #shivajipark #mumbai

"We forget we’re mostly water till the rain falls and every atom in our body starts to go home"

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:39:16 +0530

““We forget we’re
mostly water
till the rain falls
and every atom
in our body
starts to go home””

- Albert Huffstickler (via smaugtheterrible)

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Tue, 14 May 2013 11:48:22 +0530

awesome stuff at http://www.incidentalcomics.com/ also see what...

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:08:04 +0530

awesome stuff at http://www.incidentalcomics.com/

also see what great poets had to do to earn a living - your art won’t pay.

mirror neurons and performance

Sun, 12 May 2013 11:21:00 +0530

a friend was giving me feedback on my performance the other day. he was telling me it’s not just about tripping to your music while playing - that the artist needs to engage her audience. he’s right: an artist DOES need to do that. but he fails to see the many ways by which this can be done.

enter mirror neurons.

these are certain neurons in your brain that ‘mirror’ the same response that you observe. eg - when you see someone cut himself, your mirror neurons fire the same signals it would if YOU had cut your hand. in this way you ‘feel’ his pain. mirror neurons are the reason we feel empathy - and why we love watching movies. actors are basically exploiting your mirror neuron’s ability to make you feel a certain way.* it’s much more complex and inextricably linked to our nature but we’re only concerned with their relation to performance for now.

so if we apply this principle to watching an artist trip while performing, we can be sure that we’ll feel the same way she does while she loses herself.

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* that’s probably also why you want to smoke when you see someone smoke in a movie (and hence the ‘pointless’ warning against smoking at the bottom of the screen every time someone lights up).

disillusionist2011: nigel rajaratnam #skydrop was the last act...

Sat, 11 May 2013 12:20:22 +0530

disillusionist2011:

nigel rajaratnam #skydrop was the last act at #kino108 last night. good show!

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Wed, 08 May 2013 12:55:40 +0530

maati ke laal (red ant dream), a docu by sanjay kak about the...

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:00:00 +0530

maati ke laal (red ant dream), a docu by sanjay kak about the people’s revolution in india. it’s being screened at stein auditorium, IHC, new delhi on 7 may 13 - at 7 pm. he explains his film thus:

“Will the Maoists succeed with their revolution? Will the adivasis of Niyamgiri manage to hold on to their hills? Will the small farmers and peasants of Punjab manage to rally around older symbols of revolt and extricate themselves from the crisis that agriculture is in? We don’t know. But we know that there is such a thing as a fair and honourable fight, and that’s the Red Ant Dream in some ways.”

an article by sunday guardian about the film here.

IHC details: Lodi Road, Lodi Estate, Lodi Colony, New Delhi, India 110003. PH: 011 2468 2001

This Rain by Roshni Baptist - interesting! live performance.

Sun, 05 May 2013 15:04:35 +0530

This Rain by Roshni Baptist - interesting! live performance.

playing at kino 108, mumbai this thursday. listening to the...

Sun, 05 May 2013 12:43:51 +0530

playing at kino 108, mumbai this thursday. listening to the other artists who’re going to play. skydrops/ nigel rajaratnam is good! loving this track called epileptix. check it out!

disillusionist2011: rahul plays guitar in the band #skyrabbit....

Thu, 02 May 2013 17:31:15 +0530

disillusionist2011:

rahul plays guitar in the band #skyrabbit. he also has a solo project called #snowshoe

cutting a cd?

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:41:00 +0530

some of my friends are cutting albums. some have already mastered their tracks, some are going to start recording, while others have made cd covers and artwork. here’s some thoughts:

when was the last time you bought a cd?

people buy music online (if they’re not downloading torrents or ripping it directly off bandcamp/ soundcloud).

where are the music stores? who’s gonna stock it to sell them for you?

we all know the deal with albums. the first and last two songs can be expected to be awesome: with obscure tracks in the middle. who wants to listen to those?

even YOU don’t love all your music.

of course you can make some money off merchandising when you play at festivals/ venues but how much is that worth? how does it compare in your income vs expense analysis (assuming you’re looking to earn from it)?

it’s okay of course, if you’re doing it just for fun. but then why spend unnecessary money on it when you can simply upload it on soundcloud/ bandcamp for free? send us links!

it’s easier (and cheaper) to distribute virtual links than to distribute physical cds. is there something else you could use that money for?

when was the last time u listened to an entire album?

the audience’s behaviour has changed. cherry picking is what it’s about. don’t give them a basket-full of it.

amanda palmer is releasing singles three days after she’s made it!

Nick Miller: The Little Things . . .

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:38:07 +0530

Nick Miller: The Little Things . . .:

nickmiller:

I read a piece in Cook’s Illustrated that encouraged—when preparing homemade broth for old-fashioned chicken soup—“hacking a whole bird into pieces” because “breaking the bones allows the rich marrow to permeate the broth.”

In Hemingway’s own words: “I rewrote the ending to Farewell to…