I don't think I've posted about this here yet. Some friends of mine
from SongFight and elsewhere have started to blog about their favorite
songs, one song a day. You can see links to their pages, and my own
entries here:
http://www.heuristicsinc.com/songaday.shtml
I'm up to 84 days already! How time flies!
-bill
Hello Heuristicsfans! I just set up a new internet concert for next
Saturday, 11 November 2006! It will be at the excellent Internet
radio station <a
href="http://www.stillstream.com">Stillstream.com</a>, during
Palancar's weekly radio show Blue Water Drift Dive. Tune in late
Saturday night for some live ambient music!
Date: 11 Nov 2006
Time: Soon after 11PM EST
Place: <a href="http://www.stillstream.com">http://www.stillstream.com</a>
Stillstream also has a live chat room, where you can interact in
real-time with other listeners. Come on in and chat; it's a lot of fun!
Hope to see you there.
-bill
Heuristics Inc. goes live!
We are proud to announce the new HInc CD is available now at CDBaby:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/heuristicsinc2
Imagine listening to ambient and electronic music in some bar
downtown. Now imagine listening to the same music on the surface of
Mars. Next imagine listening to the music in the comfort of your own
home, streaming live over the internet. Then imagine listening to the
same music at home on CD! In the recent past you could have
experienced almost all of these situations, and with the new
Heuristics Inc. album "Live from the middle of nowhere" you can
experience at least one of them!
HInc "Live" features live music, some composed, some improvised, from
four different Heuristics Inc. concerts, including several that are
not available anywhere else! Bonus addition: this is the first HInc CD
to include a photo of the man behind Heuristics Inc.!
Check it out and let me know what you think!
-bill
Just a reminder about tonight's show, and a bit more information:
The live event begins at 5PM Eastern.
Heuristics Inc. Set 1: 7PM - 730PM Eastern.
Heuristics Inc. Set 2: 930-10PM Eastern.
Giuseppe Bancomatti (HInc's partner in Dollar Bill & the Inkpoints):
10 - 1030PM Eastern.
The event ends with CYSTEM at 11PM Eastern.
For more information, and access to the stream and IRC chatroom, check
out this page:
http://www.tapegerm.com/MidsummerNightsGermination/
-bill
--- In heuristicsfans@yahoogroups.com, "Bill" <wmm@...> wrote:
>
> Tapegerm is hosting a live event:
>
> Date: 17 June 2006
> Time: To Be Determined
> Place: The Internet, hosted at http://www.tapegerm.com
>
> For those of you that were here a year ago, this will be another event
> similar to Tapegerm's 24 Hour Flu, where new loops are uploaded and
> created on the day of the show, and people will hang out in the
> chatroom and play live shows, streamed on Tapegerm's server. One of
> the cool things about this event is that anyone can come by and make
> loops for the streamers to use, or create their own songs using the
loops.
>
> So come by and check it out! Let me know if you're interested in
> participating!
> I will post again when the schedule is finalized.
>
> Also, I have just posted a page for the SongFight Presents live
> concert in PA that occurred in April, for those that were unable to
> attend. You can find it here:
> http://www.heuristicsinc.com/buildpage.shtml?track=390&info=1
> -bill
>
Tapegerm is hosting a live event:
Date: 17 June 2006
Time: To Be Determined
Place: The Internet, hosted at http://www.tapegerm.com
For those of you that were here a year ago, this will be another event
similar to Tapegerm's 24 Hour Flu, where new loops are uploaded and
created on the day of the show, and people will hang out in the
chatroom and play live shows, streamed on Tapegerm's server. One of
the cool things about this event is that anyone can come by and make
loops for the streamers to use, or create their own songs using the loops.
So come by and check it out! Let me know if you're interested in
participating!
I will post again when the schedule is finalized.
Also, I have just posted a page for the SongFight Presents live
concert in PA that occurred in April, for those that were unable to
attend. You can find it here:
http://www.heuristicsinc.com/buildpage.shtml?track=390&info=1
-bill
Heuristics Inc. has recorded an exclusive ambient track for the">blue
water records compilation album "longform ambient compilation vol 1":
http://bluewaterrecords.com/catalog.php?albumid=26http://bluewaterrecords.com
The album features 22 "longform" ambient pieces - each song is 30
minutes or longer - meaning that the compilation is 17 hours long!
That's a lot of music.
The sale of the album supports the nonprofit internet radio station
http://www.stillstream.com, who also supports artists like me by
playing our music on their station.
So, check it out, it's a bargain considering you can listen to it all
day without running out of songs, and it's for a good cause! Also,
you'll be able to hear a Heuristics Inc. track that you can hear
nowhere else!
Check it out!
http://bluewaterrecords.com/catalog.php?albumid=26
Thanks for listening!
-bill
Has it been so long since there's been an announcement here? Wow.
Anyway, Heuristics Inc. is finally doing another live show, this one
near Philadelphia PA, with a crowd of SongFight bands/artists.
Because of the large number of artists scheduled to play, each band
will only have 15 minute long sets, but HInc will also be helping Noah
McLaughlin on at least one song. Here's the info:
Songfight Presents PA
Saturday April, 1 2006
7-10:30pm
Central Baptist Church, 106 West Lancaster Avenue, Wayne, PA 19087
The bandlist:
7:00 7:15 Intro/Bjam
7:15 7:30 Raw Strength & Courage
7:30 7:45 Brick Pig
7:45 8:00 Heuristics Inc.
8:00 8:15 Noah
8:15 8:30 Niveous
8:30 8:45 Luke Henley
8:45 9:00 BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!
9:00 9:15 Raised by Wolves
9:15 9:30 The Landfills
9:30 9:45 Feldspar
9:45 10:00 Frankie Big Face
10:00 10:15 TBA/Rock out Compilation time
10:15 10:30 TBA/Rock out Compilation time
HInc is proud to mention that The Voice Inside Your Head, Noah
McLaughlin, and Charcoal will be joining him on stage to bring your
favorite HInc/Dollar Bill & the Inkpoints tracks to life.
Only one month to go! Let me know if you'd like to come. The event
will be recorded.
-bill
Heuristics Inc., along with the International Garbageman and Mental
Anguish, will be "appearing" representing Tapegerm live on NOMUSIC, a
24-hour live internet event!
Tapegerm's set begins at 9PM EST, Tuesday 11 Oct, and ends at 10PM...
we haven't decided the order of our mini-sets yet, but come by and
tune in for the whole hour!
Hope to see you there!
See NOMUSIC Arena II at:
http://www.nomusic.org
There's 24 hours of music going on, so even if you can't make it for
Tapegerm's set, be sure to check out some of the other groups...
-bill
Today I signed up for a new program at CDBaby. All profits (until I
decide to change it) from the sale of my Tapegerm CD "All your
domestic problems are completely solved" will go to the Red Cross to
support hurricane relief. Check out my CD here:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/heuristicsinc
Here's a list of other bands at CDBaby that are donating their proceeds:
http://cdbaby.com/group/redcross
If you can, please help out the Red Cross in their good work, and get
some good music in the process!
-bill
T A P E G E R M
24 H O U R FLU
on the 9th of july!
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Tapegerm Collective is a looping and mixing collective that is
celebrating their 5th year with a special event: 24 HOUR FLU.
Please come with us and make some awesome fresh music and have a nice
stay at Tapegerm.com with this special 24 hour happening! 24 Hour Flu
is a special event that is intended as a online festival with lots of
live mixing, looping and hanging around. We will use our loop pool
that will be made especially for this event. Whether you prefer
contributing with an "offline" mix, making loops for everyone to use,
doing a live stream, or just listening, you are welcome to join us!
After the 24 Hour Flu Tapegerm plans to release an mp3 album with
mixes from both the live streaming and offline mixing.
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
STARTS: Saturday the 9th of july 00:00 PM CDT (Central Daylight Time
=UTC/GMT-5). (Midnight time between friday and saturday in US)
ENDS 24 hours later: Saturday the 9th of july 12:00 AM CDT (Central
Daylight Time =UTC/GMT-5) (Midnight time between saturday and sunday
in US)
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Read more on our forum:
http://www.tapegerm.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=336#336
---
Hope some of you can tune in on Saturday. I plan to do a live stream
of some new and some old material in the evening, most likely. I'll
post again when I have more info on the schedule.
-bill
Splendid ezine (http://www.splendidezine.com) has posted a new review
of Heuristics Inc.'s improvisation album, "Missing Architecture":
http://www.splendidezine.com/review.html?reviewid=11190047691068114
---
The music of Heuristics Inc. -- the alter-ego of Baltimore's Bill
Maciejewski -- includes instrumentals, vocal songs, improvisations and
remix work. Missing Architecture is a collection of his
improvisational work, which is entirely electronic in nature.
These ten tracks are improvised in much the same way that enemies in
Nintendo games are random -- that is, once you figure out the pattern,
it's entirely predictable. The Heuristics Inc. model involves layering
looped sounds generated by analog and digital synthesizers while
maintaining a steady beat. Although there's often an extreme
differentiation in pattern duration or pitch variation, tracks like "A
Widened Chasm In Her Heartbeat" and "Mesozoic Messianistic" eventually
permit their layers to phase together, bringing a clarity that isn't
typically associated with improvised music.
Describing Missing Architecture as ambient electronica seems
superfluous -- what else could it be, aside from unlistenable
industrial garbage? -- but surprises occur in songs like "Moonmine"
and "Seville Suit", where the electronic artifacts begin to sound like
8-bit MIDI and you could swear that the random enemies from your
favorite console games are bearing down upon you. Similarly, the
trance-inducing closer "Organ Loaner" will leave you with a clean
palate after the aural equivalent of a four-course meal. Fortunately,
Heuristics Inc. recognizes that the practical simplicity of such
moments bears repeating.
-- Andrew Mall
---
Not sure how much he liked it, after that review :)
-bill
"Your domestic problems are completely solved has a new review!
It's from http://www.indie-music.com 's Dan MacIntosh:
http://www.indie-music.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3883
One of Webster's definitions for "heuristics" is "an educational
method in which learning takes place through discoveries that result
from investigations made by the student." Such a description sheds
light on the studious music created by Bill Maciejewski. Maciejewski
is a musical member of The Tapegerm Collective, which is a loop-based
recording artist community. According to the CD booklet notes,
Tapegerm Collective provides a pool of drop loop-strips, from which
various artists can draw and create music. Mr. Maciejewski has
certainly made imaginative usage of such loops with this fine release.
This is mostly a disc of electronic dance music, which also sports a
few wonderful song titles. For instance, it's hard not to laugh out
loud after reading, "An Ill-Advised Break-In at Karate School."
Funnier still, however, is the opener "That's Good ... No That's Bad,"
which sounds like an old George Burns and Gracie Allan standup bit.
The latter is also the track where this CD derives its title. The
picture on its cover shows an obviously Fifties-styled sci-fi metallic
robot standing with a welcoming couple in a then-modern living room.
Our domestic robot is shown holding a duster in its grip, which also
supports this disc's better-domesticity-through-science lyrical theme.
The music itself is electronic, and fairly dance-y. But it's also much
more experimental than groove-y. Like the heuristics definition, this
is the recorded effort of an artist learning through discoveries. And
while it probably won't resolve any domestic problems, it is
nevertheless a curiosity that will take your mind off of dull,
everyday suburban life -- at least for a little while.
I just found out that Tower Records is now listing the Heuristics Inc.
CD "Your domestic problems are completely solved"! No, it won't be
available in all the stores, but it can be ordered from their online
site or at special order kiosks in the stores. Check it out:
http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=CDB0907670012
Cool!
-bill
...has been invaded by the forces of Heuristics Inc.!
The new album "Your domestic problems are completely solved" is
available through ITunes. Unfortunately ITunes won't allow you to
view the store without using ITunes itself, but if you have the
program installed, try searching for "Heuristics Inc."!
The album is $9.99, or 99 cents for a single song.
Thanks to ITunes for becoming the first digital distributor for this CD.
-bill
The record company Soutrane (http://soutrane.com/) of Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, has released Heuristics Inc.'s new improv album, "Missing
Architecture"!
Check out src-1021e at the shop:
http://soutrane.com/shop.php
Only $6 plus shipping, a real bargain!
Also, while you're there, check out Mobile Sound Unit, a personal
friend and great musician, and the excellent Castle Broadway "Live
1967 Oakland" CD.
-bill
It has come to my attention that some members of the group didn't
realize that there were fashionable and comfortable HInc t-shirts out
there. So here's a repost for them:
> The inestimable Bortwein has designed a T-shirt for all the Heuristics
> Inc. fans out there to show your support! Check it out here:
>
http://www.pixeltees.com/shop/bortwein/detail/?shirt=20031107-091803-2954861800&\
b=shop|20031105
>
> I have already ordered a couple. Be the envy of all your friends and
> be the first on your block to wear HINC APPAREL!
-bill
The first review of Heuristics Inc.'s "Your domestic problems are
completely solved" is in!
<a
href="http://www.smother.net/reviews/techno.php3?ID=279">Smother.Net</a>
has published this review:
Heuristics Inc. - Your Domestic Problems Are Completely Solved
Editor's Pick
Well first off they're friends with Arthur Loves Plastic so they
deserve an ovation for knowing a beautifully gifted musical mind right
off. Assembling samples amid techno beats and bleeps, Heuristics Inc.
does so with a knowledge base filled to the brim with a wacky Mystery
Science Theatre sense of humor. "An Ill-Advised Break-In at Karate
School" would get even the stoic Mr. Miyagi off his feet and dancing
with its chopped up karate hi-ya's and gnarly beat. I love music like
this, it's a wonderful breakaway from the generic techno and
electronic music that seemingly is everywhere these days, even in bad
car commercials. And the Dilbert comic was greatly appreciated by one
engineer who finds marketing a vast waste bucket of lost common sense.
- J-Sin
Thanks J-Sin and Smother.Net!
Anyone who's heard the album and would like to leave a review is
encouraged to do so at:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/heuristicsinc
-bill
It is with great pleasure that I now announce the existance of a brand
new CD of Heuristics Inc. tracks! It's called "Your domestic problems
are completely solved" and contains 12 songs I did with Tapegerm in
2002 and 2003. It's available as of today at CDBaby:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/heuristicsinc
Check it out! I'd love to hear what you think of it!
-bill
Ok, since hockey season isn't happening, we at heuristicsinc.com will
bring the fighting to you in a less violent way. That is, through
http://www.songfight.org and http://www.remixfight.com .
This week Heuristics Inc brings you, the listener, two new "fight" songs:
"Dark All Day" - a tale of extinction! In industrial music!
Currently in the huge Blue fight at SongFight:
http://www.songfight.org/blue/
Brad Sucks "Brad Attraction" - the HInc Want To Do My Own Thing Mix
http://www.remixfight.com
If you have the time, check out all the tracks on one of these fights
and vote for your favorite!
Also, I "released" a couple of improv tracks from March on the front
page of http://www.heuristicsinc.com . Check them out and let me know
what you think of them using the "comments" form on each page!
-bill
I've got a whole new set of tracks available at the
http://heuristicsinc.com website. The newest is a brand-new remix of
Arthur Loves Plastic's "New Year's" using Tapegerm free loop 11 sounds!
Check it out here:
http://www.heuristicsinc.com/buildpage.shtml?title=Arthur+Loves+Plastic's+New+Ye\
ar's+(HInc+Election+Day+Mix)&info=1
Also, I've got 4 other new tracks on the homepage, all remixes - yes,
including Berchtesgaden - it uses loops from a brand new John Ingram
loop CD collection called Drone Structures, check it out at:
http://intelligentmachinery.net/products/dronestructure.shtml
Also, I've got a side-remix-fight using sounds from GWB, and a new
Jute Gyte remix at http://www.remixfight.com . Not available anywhere
else yet!
-bill
Hi, it's been quite some time since I posted about anything to this
list. For that I apologize. Here's some news...
There are a lot of new/old tracks up at http://www.HeuristicsInc.com.
Check out the "blog" recent messages for a listing.
Also, the blogs onsite now have an RSS feed, if you use an aggregator
to keep track of your updates online. Check it out.
Finally, I just recorded a song for this week's songfight, check it
out here:
http://www.songfight.org/blue/
It's a small fight. It would be great if people could check out all
the songs are vote for their favorites. My song is kind of a
departure for me, with "romantic" lyrics and piano :)
-bill
Hey, just because of the occasional note that somebody posts to the
group and then says, "oops, I didn't mean that to go to everybody" I
changed the group's posting policy to "moderated." This doesn't mean
I'm trying to stifle conversation, I'm just trying to cut down on the
things that people do accidentally. If it looks like the post is
meant for everyone to read I'll approve it :)
-bill
My new SongFight entry is now available at the SF site:
http://www.songfight.org/red/
Heuristics Inc. "Thanks for Coming!"
My song is completely different from anything I've done before, and if
you listen you'll know why. As always, if you have the time, please
listen to all entries before voting for your favorite. Don't want to
be accused of cheating or anything :)
I don't expect many votes for this song :)
-bill
Hiya!
I was planning to work late that night but I'd rather swing by for the show...
assuming that you would permit an in-studio audience? (I don't even have
internet access at home right now!)
Let me know if that's OK.
If not I can try tuning in from work... that late at night, no one should care.
Bryan
"Heuristics Inc." <wmm@...> wrote:
I'm announcing my next live show.
Heuristics Inc.
"ambient live 2k4mk2"
Wednesday June 9
9PM - 10?
streaming on the internet, most likely at this address:
http://www.tapegerm.com:8000
Tapegerm's shoutcast server
That's one week from today.
Hope people can tune in.
I notice John Ingram's regular radio stream (at http://ampcast.com)
is at 10. I intend to be done by then.
Also I will be recording it for posterity. And it will likely
include some stuff that I didn't feel like lugging down to the
actual show.
Let me know if you'll be able to tune in!
-bill
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I'm announcing my next live show.
Heuristics Inc.
"ambient live 2k4mk2"
Wednesday June 9
9PM - 10?
streaming on the internet, most likely at this address:
http://www.tapegerm.com:8000
Tapegerm's shoutcast server
That's one week from today.
Hope people can tune in.
I notice John Ingram's regular radio stream (at http://ampcast.com)
is at 10. I intend to be done by then.
Also I will be recording it for posterity. And it will likely
include some stuff that I didn't feel like lugging down to the
actual show.
Let me know if you'll be able to tune in!
-bill
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Join the maillist: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/heuristicsfans/
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
- Calvin & Hobbes
I recorded a new song for (last week's) Songfight, "Fight the Sea."
It's a tale of erosion, with special guests Starfinger on sea bass
solo and Blue on drums. Until tomorrow you can check it out on at:
http://www.songfight.org/blue/
At that point I will post it to my site. Apologies for the late
notice, but if you have the chance to listen to all the entries, give
it a go and vote for your favorite. Otherwise, drop me a line and let
me know what you think!
-bill
Wow, it's been a while since I updated this list. Sorry about that!
I wanted to mention this red-letter date: May 22. It's the date of
the first live Heuristics Inc. concert! Here's some info:
22 May 2004 5-10PM in Richmond, VA as part of AmbientLive. On the
bill will be:
Adrian Bond
Controlled Dissonance
FERALCATSCAN
Heuristics Inc.
Khate
Living In Photographs
The club is called Nanci Raygun and can be found at:
http://www.nanciraygun.com
Find AmbientLive at http://www.ambientlive.com
I'll follow up with more news soon.
-bill
Hey Heuristics Fans!
I know that most people here aren't currently involved in making music,
but I've got a fun project that you could take part in to try it out.
It's a remix project, where I supply the world with samples from a song of
mine, people can download the samples and make a song with them, creating
their own interpretations of the source material. It's a lot of fun and
can be done with some programs you can find on the net in demo versions.
The remix project is hosted at this site:
http://www.remixfight.com/fight0003/
It's a song called "Soft Orange Glow" and features me singing and stuff.
RemixFight is a new project where there is a set time limit to create
remixes. Anyone can go there, get the loops, and create a remix. At the
end of the project (march 14 for this one) people will review the remixes
and vote for their favorite. It's a good way to have people hear your
stuff and get feedback on how you're doing!
If you don't want to enter the contest, you can still try out remixing for
fun. I'd love to hear what people do with the sounds. I'll also offer
this project on heuristicsinc.com after the fight is over.
For those who haven't done this sort of thing, here are a couple of
programs that offer free demo versions for download:
Acid: (time limited version)
http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/download/step1.asp?CatID=1
Audiomulch: (fully functional demo, written by only one guy!)
http://www.audiomulch.com/
Enjoy... and check out the remixes other people did on March 14!
-bill
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I've just finished a new remix. This one is of SongFight artist Jute
Gyte's song "Feathers," which I've been listening to a lot lately. It's a
bit more "mellow" than a lot of his songs but it's still very edgy. My
remix merges the song with the "trademark" Heuristcs Inc. sound!
Check it out and comment here:
http://www.heuristicsinc.com/buildpage.shtml?title=Jute+Gyte's+Feathers+(HInc+90\
+atm+Mix)&info=1
Here's a link to Jute Gyte's page, although it's still pretty new and
doesn't have a lot of info yet:
http://jutegyte.jeshimoth.com/
Let me know what you think of it!
-bill
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Heuristics Inc. wrote:
> Hey HInc fans!
> I was just reminded that I didn't make a post about my most recent
> Songfight entry, "Goodbye Monster" ! It's a collaboration with London's
> own Johnny Cashpoint and can be heard here:
>
> http://www.songfight.org/green/
>
> Go check it out and vote for your favorite song while you're at it!
> Our entry is a somewhat different take on the title...
By the way, I forgot to mention the name of our collaboration - it's under
the name "Dollar Bill & the Inkpoints" which is a rather silly
combination of our two names...
> Also, big news on the "recorded output" front! The new "single" from
> Heuristics Inc. is now available... it's the "anemone" remix album! Check
> it out at this link:
>
> http://www.homemademusic.com/shop/959.html
>
> This is the end result of the "anemone" project, where lots of different
> artists remixed my ambient track and made some very cool songs using the
> materials! It can be purchased "at cost" through the website, and also I
> have a few copies here if you happen to see me around.
Sorry about the doublepost.
-bill
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