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Genel
Beautiful, sensuous, frighteningly intelligent art.
The Elusive Moment of Communication w/ close friends
The Creative Process of: Music, Film, Photography, Painting, Dance ---------
Quantum Physics
Dynamic Systems Theory
Neural Nets
The Occult (That which is hidden)
Clarity
Confusion
Change
The Sun
The Present
Night
ROTA
Music
The Origins of Thought
The Sense and Aim of Existence and/or
'The Sense and Significance of Life On Earth'
Müzik
My own musick Balinese Gamelon (Gamelan) Music, King Crimson Tabula Rasa: George Piazza, Mike 'Mojo' Majonos, Jon Marcley, Mike 'M.C.' Cunningham, Charles 'Chuck' Booksh, Mike McCormack, Harold Marcho Erik Satie, Philip Glass, Led Zeppelin, Diamanda Galas, J.S. Bach, Gustav Mahler, Elizabeth Fraser, Harry Partch, Bill Laswell & Material, Bela Bartok, Ludwig von Beethoven, The Beatles, Black Sabbath, L. Shankar, old porch blues, The Doors, Incubus, Tangerine Dream, Kronos String Quartet, Tool, U2, Yes, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Van Der Graaf Generator (Godbluff), Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Brian Eno, Agent Sparks, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, G. I. Gurdjieff, David Sylvian, Adrian Belew, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn, Pat Mastelotto, Bill Bruford, Tony Levin, Keith Jarrett, California Guitar Trio & League of Crafty Guitarists, Pythagoras... Analog Missionary
So many more...
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'All sounds are influences. All sounds are connected. All sounds contain elements of everyone and everything involved in their creation, everyone that has ever heard them & everything that preceded the confluence of events that allowed their utterance.' G. P. Orridge.
Filmler
Adaptation
The Big Lebowski
From Hell (color palette)
Fargo
Being John Malkovich
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
The Fountain (Aronofsky - also Pi & Requiem)
Pan's Labyrinth
The Illusionist
12 Monkeys
Wallace and Gromit (stop-motion brilliance!)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen)
Buffalo '66
Kinsey
The Usual Suspects
American Beauty (story, tempo, editing, acting)
Cinema Paradiso (shamelessly sentimental tribute to film, life & love)
The Triangle (mini-series - good acting & a fun 'sci-fi' tale with more layers than many feature films)
What The Bleep Do We Know
Bulworth
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Minority Report
The Matrix (I) (for technological achievements in film making
Touch Of Evil (Welles - longest, most complex single-shot opening in film history), Lord Of the Rings (for the immensity of the undertaking and the visual realization of one of my favorite childhood books)
Harry Potter & The Prisoner Of Azkaban (visual lyricism)
Films by Godfrey Reggio, Federico Fellini
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Many, many others for varying reasons..
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Worst Film recently watched: The Last Mimzy
(Great Short Story 'Mimzy Were The Borogroves' by Lewis Padgett destroyed by writers, actors and a dilettante director)
Televizyon
A disaster... but -
Old memories & guilty pleasures:
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Loony Tunes
Seinfeld
The Tudors
The Weather Channel (recently degraded)
--------------- Stop the consolidation of media outlets!!!
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Kitaplar
Mastering Audio: The Art and The Science, 2nd edition, Bob Katz Robert Anton Wilson (favorites: Cosmic Trigger I, II & III, Prometheus Rising, Quantum Psychology, TSOG: The Thing That Ate The Constitution) The Web of Life by Fritjof Capra The Quantum Brain by Jeffry Satinover Freedom Is A Two Edged Sword by Jack W. Parsons Gurdjieff: Making A New World by J. G. Bennett A Brief History Of Time by Steven Hawking T. S. Eliot favorite poet The Morning Of The Magicians by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier (for it's impact on the '60's subculture) The Book of Thoth (ROTA) Liber Aleph by Aleister Crowley
Many books published by New Falcon
Too many more to mention.
Kahramanları
All sentient beings in the Universe, escpecially the ones daring enough to live on This planet.
Linda Joyce Franks - www.nimbvs.com
Bob Katz - www.digido.com
Bob Ludwig
Lon Milo DuQuette
Robert Anton Wilson
G. I. Gurdjieff (Messieur Bon Bon) Robert Fripp
Candace Pert
Jack Whiteside Parsons
Steven Hawking - www.hawking.org.uk
The Coptic philosopher Hepatia
Clara Schumann
Courtney Love
Perdurabo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Some Links:
Come see Tabula Rasa Friday October 9th at Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center - showtime 8 P.M. - 11 P.M.
Welcome to Virtual Audio Studio: Digital Recording, Mastering, Mixing, Restoration and Film Soundtrack Production Services, located on Massachusetts Ave. right off Veterans Blvd. (VA Studio is a commercial facility, not a house).
Virtual Audio is a full scale commercial digital recording and mastering facility, with 5 recording rooms, including a large main room for drums and full band recording; the acoustic treatment was meticulously designed and the gear carefully selected for the highest quality results. Professional Recording, high definition Mastering & other studio services for all types of music projects. Excellent sounding rooms, hi end gear, low overhead and dedicated, experienced engineers provide an affordable, pleasant & productive production environment.
Virtual Audio Studio is specifically designed for the artist or group looking for 'commercial' results without the high cost and distractions found at most commercial studios.
Project rates available for artists recording an EP or CD.
Hi caliber session musicians available.
Take your recording to the next level with professional affordable Mastering.
Call George at 504 214 1374 or email at virtualaudio@aol.com to set up a free pre-production meeting and/or get a free demo reel of our work. And don't forget to check out our Studio pics to see the superb acoustically treated rooms and layout.
We also do Mixing and Restoration (noise removal & dropout correction without degradation). and Music composition and audio production for film & video, including ADR, mixing, soundtrack, sound design, Dolby 5.1 encoding, etc.
A few things that make Virtual Audio the place to record:
1) Our engineers have many years of experience in all aspects of musical production, and are very efficient at our work. With calm and focused personalities and a willingness to go the extra mile for the best results, we do everything possible to create the most conducive environment for the artist. We are also musicians, so we know how important the music is to you, the artist.
2) The recording rooms sound superb; great acoustics mean great sounds, especially when it comes to drums and mixing.
3) We have a full compliment of instruments, from drum kits to keyboards and amplifiers. You can walk in and start recording without setting up a bunch of equipment if you wish.
4) We usually work on one project at a time, so you will never be rushed out the door. That pefect take or mix may be the next one; who wants to be told that their time is up before they achieve their artistic vision?
5) Our rates are so low that, with all our other advantages, you can achieve the sound you want without the pressure of the clock; recording should be about the music, not the checkbook.
It's simple: our reputation as engineers is as important to us as your reputation as artist is to you; we want the music to sound great just like you do. A great recording benefits everyone involved (just make sure you include our name on the record!). ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
A quick note about mastering: there is a trend in CD production over the last few years that has leaned toward louder & louder masters at the expense of dynamics and clarity. This may or may not serve your music well. To learn more about this so you can make an informed choice, see: TurnMeUp.Org
Lead Engineer George Piazza has recorded numerous studio CD's, singles and other projects, including Down< Tabula Rasa, Buttermilk, Machine Screw, The Mardi Gras Indians, Banda Logun and Irene Sage. He has done live sound for acts such as The Byrds, Timbuk 3, Cyril Neville, Jay Leno and others. He has done several live remote multitrack recordings and was stage manager and monitor engineer for the live cable television show 'Louisiana Jukebox' for two seasons. He has worked in professional and project studios since 1988 and was one of the first New Orleans engineers to assemble and operate a digital project recording studio, in 1994 (with Digidesign's Session 8). He has spoken on panels at PotLuck (TapeOp) and The Cutting Edge Music Business Conference on digital technology, Audio Mastering and how to prepare for studio recording. George is also a member of the Audio Engineering Society.
CURRENT STUDIO NEWS: May 2009: We recently added the UAD-2 Duo card to our system; with a choice selection of plugins for both mixing and mastering, the UAD plugins are outstanding, considered to be as 'realistic' (and more reliable) as the original hardware components they are meticulously modeled from. Our primary collection includes the famed LA-2A, La-3A, 1176LN, Plate 140, Fairchild 670 Limiter, Neve 1073 EQ and 33609 buss compressor, Pultec Pro EQ, and the UA Precision Multiband, Maximizer & EQ, as well as the included Realverb Pro and CS-1 Channel Strip. We also have the SPL Transient Modulator and Cooper Time Cube. Our mixes have improved dramatically with the new compliment of plugins, and the card's processing power has sped up workflow considerably (they sound great too!). With our already extensive microphone, pre-amp, plugin and monitor collection, plus the excellent acoustic environment and friendly pricing, our studio offers more affordable high end results than practically all the regional competition.
March 2009: We have added several new components for recording, including a Rode NTK Tube Condensor microphone; I (George) have recorded with many expensive microphones working at various studios, but I have rarely heard one so present and warm. For vocals, guitars (el. and ac.) and woodwinds, this is 'go to' mic for sure. We have also acquired a Cascade 'Fat Head' Ribbon microphone; for smoothness and realism, this mic can't be beat. We also have several new processors and plugins to enhance our vast collection, for both mixing and mastering; the sounds keep getting better and better. July 19, 2008: We have upgraded our studio with several great products (see our full list in blog): We now have the Algorithmix Red Linear Phase Equalizer, widely regarded by Mastering Engineers as the sweetest digital Linear Phase eq available. We demo'd it last month and were quite impressed by the results; now it is our 'go to' mastering equalizer. More expensive than other LP eq's, but worth it for those who want their music to have maximum warmth and clarity. We have also added the K-Stereo Ambiance Recovery Processor from Bob Katz, (ported by Algorithmix). The K-Stereo extracts and enhances ambient information in mixes; it makes your mixes sound 'bigger' without adding 'mud', and is even capable of bringing to life old cassettes, vinyl and mp3's. Not your everyday DSP, the K-Stereo is a unique process that must be heard to be believed. We now have a pair of JBL LSR4328P reference monitors (along with Alesis M1 620 Actives and the ubiquitous Yamaha NS10's). Combined with our superb acoustic mixing space, the JBL's provide an accuracy that would be difficult to achieve in a typical home studio setup. Finally, we have added two RME Multiface II converters for a total of 36 simultaneous inputs (& outputs). After testing several 'combo' converters that came with built in pre-amps and bundled 'light edition' software, we settled on RME for their quality, flexibility and honesty; one of the few companies that print the actual specs of their products instead of specious and deceptive info. Plus, their Digicheck testing tools are considered an industry standard. With these new additions and our low rates, affordable high quality mastering, mixing, recording and restoration is within reach even for the most budget conscious musician.
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Random Bio Stuff: I (George) have been a musician since age 6. I play keyboards, guitar, bass, vocals & sundry, as well as composing, engineering & producing. I have worked in commercial and project studios for many years, as well as doing live sound, including a fun stint as monitor engineer and stage manager for 'Louisiana Jukebox', a live music cable TV show. I have engineered, mastered and produced many singles and CD's for a wide variety of musicians of diverse styles. I occasionally teach piano, and I have done extensive Audio-Visual production. Musical Journey: I was a founding member of the top underground progressive rock group Tabula Rasa for 7 + years, as well as Machine Screw, a funky, anarchistic, tribal rock band - the first to broadcast live performances on the Internet (first webcast: September 7, 1994 @ The Black Cat in Austin, Tx.). I am now together with some of the other founding members of Tabula Rasa, composing and recording new CD's and performing live.
Tabula Rasa George Piazza: Keyboards, Guitars & Vocals Chuck Booksh: Fretless Bass Mike McCormack: Tenor & Soprano Sax, Flutes, Oboe, Cor Anglais Harold Marcho: Drums & Percussion Dave Stocker: Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals with: Jack Elder: Guitar & Vocals Doug Hebert: Percussion
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Associative Notes: Music, respect, sensual moments, peak experience, lost art, found art, angels, demons, bliss, music, good conversation, silence, wind on water, mist on mountains, sunlight on desolate roads, Being on Stage, music, love.
Quote: 'Trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impusle' Robert Fripp
Promotion: Link to artist & exceptional Being Linda Joyce Franks:
Linda Joyce Franks - www.nimbvs.com
Kimle tanışmak isterim: Creative, fearless, enthusiastic people who appreciate the Art of Living.
Observant, aesthetic people, driven by beauty.
Quiet, introspective people, mastering the art of understanding.
Kindly, patient people who honor close friendship.
~~~~~~Music~~~~~~
Adrian Belew
Trey Gunn
Howard Shore
Thomas Newman
Carter Burwell
Bob Katz
Bob Ludwig
~~~~~~Film~~~~~~~~
Bruce Davison
Sir Ian Holm
Hugh Jackman
Darren Aronofsky
Alfonso Cuaron
Guillermo del Toro
Bryan Singer
Terry Gilliam
Cate Blanchett
Rachel Weisz
Dame Judy Dench
Winona Ryder
~~~~~Ethereal~~~~~
Robert Anton Wilson (r.i.p.)
Hepatia of Alexandria (same)
G.I. Gurdjieff
The Secret Chiefs
Tomorrow
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