breadman

• 2013-03-05

  the other day i modded voice b on my sorta-wsg. putting two 10uf caps between the lfo output and ground will make for such a rounded-off wave that it’s more like vibrato. anyway, after i recorded this video i took out one of the two caps and it’s more of a triangle, which was the point originally. might eventually install some kinda rotary switch with lots of different caps if the mood strikes me.

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  my trogotronic m/11 kit (the red module with the button) came today, so i built it. it does exactly what i envisioned. anyway, i’m out of space now, but looking to swap the whole tiptop uzeus and z-rails thing for a pittsburgh modular cell case so that the circuitboards won’t be exposed when i play live anymore. protecting these things is priority #1, but the added 6 hp + the space left by the uzeus module will be welcome as well.

• 2013-03-04

  glowing rectangle has actually played three times this week, twice in bard hall and once in someone’s living room in tivoli. all three were fun, and progressively better. i recorded two of the themes i’ve been working on to 4-track on thursday, and despite pretty some serious amp hum, they’re not so bad. these two recordings feature one or two tape loops, my eurorack setup, a cheap art tube preamp, and a little of the dispatch master reverb/delay towards the end of side b. anyway, hoping to release something soon and play live a lot more.

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  Source: SoundCloud / gl⊿ow⊿in⊿gr⊿ec⊿ta⊿ng⊿le

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  Source: SoundCloud / gl⊿ow⊿in⊿gr⊿ec⊿ta⊿ng⊿le

• 2013-02-26

  last-minute solo show 2/26/13, 7 pm, bard hall. i will be playing first. also there will be quicksails (ben billington) (chicago, il) and c. lavender (hudson, ny), the latter of whom i had the pleasure of meeting over the summer at a pauline oliveros thing. there will also be bard people playing after me.

  in other news, a punk band with which i am affiliated, force-fed drugs, just totally finished a demo tape. you can listen and buy if you’d like right here.

• 2013-02-23

  i’m not great at “getting the word out,” but i’m performing a solo electronics set at bard hall, annandale, ny on saturday, march 2. this will be my first performance with a eurorack setup. here are the details:

  see something say something w/ glowing rectangle (that’s me) + lvng
  bard hall, march 2 2013, 9 pm

  see something say something:
  -paul flaherty: alto/tenor saxes
  -michael foster: tenor/soprano/baritone saxes
  -eric silberberg: bass/violin
  -gene janas: bass
  -marc edwards: drums

  glowing rectangle (j. schoonover)

  lvng (e. rose)

  i haven’t “seen” see something say something yet but they have a bunch of great free jazz musicians so it’s probably going to be very fun.

• 2013-02-19

  bought a whole bunch of synth yesterday. to scramble i have acquired a flight of harmony plague bearer, to trigger chaos i have acquired a trogotronic m/11, to pound heads i have acquired a tiptop audio bd808 bass drum module, and last but not least, to finally give my modular unit its own weird voice, i have acquired the blue lantern voltage-controlled noise/arrhythmic pulse generator. this fills out my first modular rack, and should provide more than enough sounds for a whole slew of breadman recordings and (i hope) releases. next up: more looping cassettes, more tape recorders, more voltage control.

• 2013-02-07

  Source: SoundCloud / gl⊿ow⊿in⊿gr⊿ec⊿ta⊿ng⊿le

• 2013-02-05

  the two sound samples posted below (particularly the second one) are probably the two breadman things i’m most proud of, at least in the past year or so. anyway, that earthquaker devices dispatch master is one killer pedal. i have nothing else to say, except that it’s time for some soldering.