I’ve guest-hosted another episode of Strada-Sphere Radio Podcast. Again, not putting it in the feed because most of my listeners are also listeners of that show and will have downloaded it already, but if you’re not in that camp, go check it out!

I guest-hosted the latest Strada-Sphere Radio Podcast. Juan has always been a vocal supporter of Nascent Music, and I’ve offered a few times to help him out if he needed to take a break or something but wanted to get a show up. This is just such an occasion, as he’s running a theme song contest, but his Macintosh died before he could play the entries. I’ve decided not to link the MP3 directly here or to add an enclosure tag: most of my listeners are also SSR listeners, and wouldn’t appreciate automatically downloading the same file twice. But if you follow this link to the SSR blog, there’s a link to the MP3 file if you want it.

Don’t overlook the new episode of Nascent Music that came out yesterday as well!

http://nascentmusic.com/mp3/2006/06/nm20060621.mp3
Not that you’d know it from the intro, in which I speak more quickly than usual, but I finally managed to slow it down. Patient music at last. Music starts at 2:58, and the entire recording is 21:11 (9.70 MB).

Links: I thanked Zak and Juan, but did I name their podcasts? Apologies if not; of course, I was speaking of StickWorld Podcast and Strada-Sphere Radio. Also, check out kataStatik, who recently released a 70-minute improv and finally has an RSS feed/podcast of his own.

Comments are off. In the history of the site, I’ve gotten 8 legitimate comments, a trackback from myself, and dozens of comment spam attempts. WordPress provides a lot of ways to avoid comment spam, but one asks: why bother? The original Notes From The Mind Of… might have become a dialogue, but it never did, and Nascent Music didn’t either; I observe that the other two Stick podcasts also support comments, and also don’t get any. Their feedback comes from emails, and I encourage those as well. My email address is in this podcast, and you’re welcome to email any thoughts you may have. So, with thanks to those who have commented so far, we bid adieu to this largely unneeded feature of Nascent Music.

Found some more podcasts that inspire and inform me about what I hope to do with my own: Aphelion, Paul Cooper, and We Can and We Must Live are all doing fantastic work. Most is more aggressive than mine, and all more professional, but I mean to learn from both aspects.

And another shout-out to kataStatik, who stopped by and let me know he has some new stuff online… More awe, more envy. I hope I can do some new things very soon with what I’ve learned from “alone”.

Hopping from link to link… “Getting a Leg Up” introduced me to Jonathan Coulton. Seems like Jonathan’s getting a bit of traffic from his awesome cover of “Baby Got Back”, but I just really dug the sound of “Brand New Sucker”.

Then, looking for other improvised music, I came across kataStatik, which sounds awesome and probably looks a lot cooler on stage than I do. Envy and awe.