don toliver life of a don chopped and screwed by dj purpberry
https://djpurpberry.com/album/life-of-a-don-chopped-and-screwed

Don Toliver ~ Life Of A Don (Chopped and Screwed)

As the perfection of the digital age continues to tighten its grip on the organic quality of analog, I felt a need to gently take a few steps back from the stringent digital world in order to find balance. Sometime over the last two years, my interest shifted to the subtleties of the analog bandwidth, and more specifically, the artifacts or errors that occur in the analog medium as a source.

For the audio portion of this exhibition, I focused on the beauty of degraded analog sources. Along with my trusted sonic tool box of Fender Rhodes, Moog Voyager and electric guitar, I used bad cable grounding signals, poor antenna connections, shoddy field recordings and blank spots on aged vinyl records as sources for sonic analog errors. These errors are visually expressed by photos I shot with my modified Holga camera. These cameras are known for their light leaks and other problems due to cheap construction and a plastic body.

On a sunny day in Austin, I took my Holga to a state park and snapped many shots, most of them exposed 2 or 3 times each. As I was working my way through some large rocks and untamed trees, my Holga slipped off my neck and hit the earth. When the camera hit, the back flew off, and the film flew out. I thought for sure my film was ruined. After the film was blindly reloaded by feel in a black bag (to be kept away from sunlight), I started over with the same roll of 35mm. The film was off track, but I kept shooting, even though I could feel the tension in the film winder. I shot over the previously taken pictures, continuing with multiple exposures. After developing, I was delighted to see the film was not only salvaged, but had turned into beautifully unique and colorful images.       

The sounds in the piece exist in the same spirit as the light leaks and lens problems of the Holga photos. Fuzzy and crackling lo-fi sounds float around the perimeter of the music to represent a kind of audio vignette. In other places, pure tones shine through as a light leak would imprint its signature on undeveloped film. With these works, my intent is to find a balance between the living nature of analog and the magic perfection of digital, all the while imprinting the most fundamental aesthetic of all; the human spirit. - Cory Allen

View the complete set of images for the exhibition here:

http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2011/04/underexposed-cory-allen-shutter-echo

Underexposed: Cory Allen - Shutter Echo

Nanabuzzy

Simple patch with Just Friends + Three Sisters

Previews of the Binaural Beats collection by Cory Allen and Aubrey Marcus. aubreymarcus.com/binaural-beats

In Nirvana [Sample]

From the popular host of The Astral Hustle, an accessible guide to hacking your mind--and life--to feel more fully present and alive, even if you're not the "the meditating type." Through his popular podcast The Astral Hustle and online meditation course Release into Now, Cory Allen has helped thousands of people better cope with the stress of daily life through meditation, mindfulness, and mental clarity. With concise advice and profound simplicity, he manages to cut through the jargon and speak to people where they are, giving them the tools to live in "the wow of now." In this accessible and supportive guide, Allen walks readers through the basics of mindfulness--not as something you should do, but as a tool to achieve greater peace of mind, dial down anxiety and stress, and truly feel like yourself. Informed by a lifelong personal journey, as well as insights gathered through podcast interviews with leaders in mindfulness, neuroscience, and philosophy, Now Is the Way is a simple user's manual for living the life you want, one present moment at a time. Available for purchase at: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PH9J2FY?tag=randohouseinc7911-20">Amazon</a><a href="http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-8373827-11819508?sid=PRHD39095A662&url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/?ean=9780525538059">Barnes & Noble</a><a href="http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-8373827-10747236?SID=PRHD39095A662--9780525538059&url=http://www.booksamillion.com/p/9780525538059">Books A Million</a><a href="http://www.hudsonbooksellers.com/book/9780525538042?utm_source=prh&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_term=301&utm_content=PRHD39095A662--9780525538042&utm_campaign=9780525538042">Hudson Booksellers</a><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780525538042?aff=PenguinGroupUS">IndieBound</a><a href="http://www.powells.com/book/-9780525538042?utm_source=randomhouse&utm_campaign=randomhouse&utm_content=PRHD39095A662--9780525538042">Powell's</a><a href="http://goto.target.com/c/128773/81938/2092?subId1=PRHD39095A662--9780525538042&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.target.com%2Fs%3FsearchTerm%3D9780525538042">Target</a><a href="http://linksynergy.walmart.com/fs-bin/click?id=VD9*lkiWNd8&subid=0&offerid=183959.1&type=10&tmpid=273&u1=PRHD39095A662--9780525538042&RD_PARM1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fsearch%2Fsearch-ng.do%3F&RD_PARM2=search_query%3D9780525538042%2526ic%3D16_0%2526Find%3DFind%2526search_constraint%3D3920">Walmart</a><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1455777429?at=11l3IH&ct=PRHD39095A662--9780525538059">Apple Books</a><a href="https://google.prf.hn/click/camref:1011ld4r/pubref:PRHD39095A662--9780525538059/destination:https://play.google.com/store/search?q=9780525538059&c=books">Google Play Store</a><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/link?id=VD9*lkiWNd8&offerid=258185.12829781935712206&type=2&u1=PRHD39095A662--9780525538059}&murl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kobo.com%2Fsearch%3FQuery%3D9780525538059">Kobo</a>

Now Is the Way by Cory Allen, read by Cory Allen, Aubrey Marcus

Sample from Cory Allen's album 'The Great Order'

featuring:
Cory Allen / Piano
Mike Vernusky / Bowed Classical Guitar
Nick Hennies / Bowed + Struck Vibraphone 
Henna Chou / Cello
Brent Fariss / Double Bass

Cory Allen - The Great Order - Movement I

CORY ALLEN is an author, podcast host, meditation teacher, composer, and audio engineer. 

On his podcast The Astral Hustle, he finds ways for us to live with more wonder and less suffering by speaking with leading experts in mindfulness, neuroscience, music, and philosophy. The Astral Hustle has been downloaded millions of times and was featured by the New York Times. 

Cory has taught thousands of people how to meditate with clear and concise methods in his online meditation course Release Into Now. 

He is also a distinguished music producer who has released more than a dozen albums and engineered hundreds of records for other artists. 

He lives in Austin, Texas.