119 Gallery

From the Petite Animations exhibit currently up at 119 Gallery in Lowell, MA. Had a great gig there tonight with Wild May.

I'm on Twitter now

I don't know what to think of it but follow me here:
http://twitter.com/forbesgraham
If you click on the link you'll find out that I'm playing at 119 Gallery in Lowell tonight with my quartet Wild May.

Watching the print media die

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is the latest paper to bite the dust. I have never read it and I probably never will. I won't miss it either. The fates of those who lost their jobs are more on my mind than what is happening to the fourth estate.

In a shrinking market, players are squeezed out. I did an interview recently where I remarked that in the creative realm, everyone can, so everyone does, but everyone shouldn't.

The last two paragraphs were a long winded way of saying that I'm going to keep putting out records even if nobody buys them because I want to. I'm not going to stop because of market conditions. Instead I will focus on improved quality.

Interview with me at Brilliant Corners

Chris Rich did an interview with me for his blog Brilliant Corners and you can read it here.

Raphe Malik tribute

Portal

I used to play Portal on my Commodore 64 as a child. It was a unique game. There were 12 different dataspaces that the player navigated between in order to expose the story.

You play a space traveler who has returned to an empty Earth after being away for decades. This was the perfect game for a lonely only child to play. The game was all mental, took a long time to play, and involved doing a lot of reading.

Apparently, it was set up so that eventually you would "win", no matter what, but it didn't really seem that way. You had to navigate to the right dataspaces in order to unlock new information at other dataspaces.

Anyway, I'm about to read this website for a little bit.

Vectors

I'm working on the idea of using vectors in a composition. I'll try to make another post once the ideas are a little more hashed out.