Turntablism

Because I'm lazy: Cribbed from here

NUMUS Presents... REVOLUTIONS: Turning the Tables on DJ Culture
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Start Date: Thursday, March 13, 2008
End Date: Saturday, March 15, 2008
Description:

A Three-day mini-festival of turntablism.

March 13-15, 2008

Starlight Social Club
47 King Street N.
Waterloo ON
519-885-4970
http://www.janebond.ca

Concert 2 - March 14, 2008 - 8pm
(Un)settling the Score: DJ Olive and Friends
Gregor Asch, better known as DJ Olive, is a turntablist and improviser active in the free improvisation and "illbeint" idioms. He has worked with a remarkable array of musicians including John Zorn, Dave Douglas, Medeski, Martin & Wood and many others. For the past six years, he has been developing a concept that he calls "the vinyl score" - compositions made specifically for the turntable. For his NUMUS appearance, DJ Olive will perform a solo set on turntables. Additionally, one of his vinyl scores will be performed by several of KW's finest turntablists.


Concert 3 - March 15, 2008 - 8pm
Subliminal Strings: DJ Spooky meets the Penderecki String Quartet
This concert will feature highly acclaimed DJ and conceptual artist Paul D. Miller - better known as DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid - in a world premiere collaboration with KW's own celebrities of contemporary music, the Penderecki String Quartet. Incorporating cutting-edge live video mixing technology, this performance promises to be an unforgettable evening of sound and image.

Filing Papers, ct'd ct'd.

Whee that was fun. Another inch of paper onto the recycling stack, easy pickings from magazines I'd stored just for an article.

One step better than sorting paper into neatly labeled folders? Tossing the paper entirely.

Much love to Harpers.org for giving subscribers a complete online library including PDFs, NYTimes.com for opening their archives to searching (and to mac for making it so easy to save a webpage as a PDF), and to The Economist for making the last year of archives entirely free (complete with photos!) So sweet.

No love to globeandmail.com for wanting $4.95 for each article in their archive, but I suppose that's why I bought a scanner, and it was only for one article anyhow. Well, two.

While I'm at it, much love to Canon for making a scanner that does Just the Right Thing. Two button-pushes will turn a page into a OCR'd and indexed PDF which shows up in Spotlight right away. It's fairly dummy-proof too. I haven't gotten ticked off at it yet, even though I've used it for... maybe 20 articles now, and it does great on multi-page documents. (You hit one button to start the scan, the same button again for each subsequent page, and a second button to finish the document.) I suppose it could be slightly faster- it takes 30 seconds to do each colour page, but it certainly doesn't tie up the computer, so that's acceptable. Yay for digital data, yay for reducing physical clutter.

I'm surprised at how much fun I'm deriving from this closet purge.