Dancing About Architecture

One.

Or zero.

Or maybe both. Who knows?

Qubit

If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness. ~Nigerian Proverb

Umeme Ngoma

Connoisseur of Experiences

Art credit: http://society6.com/MichaelPaukner/Total-Ellipse-of-the-Heart_Print#1=45

Total Ellipse of the Heart

"Alright he wants to get his girlfriend
Go get your girlfriend
And now you are going to dance
Like you've never danced before." - Frank Zappa via J Dilla

iOS music friends, you may be thinking "Do I really need yet ANOTHER groovebox app?" The answer is yes, you do. Get Oscilab now!

Confabulator

It's all fun and games until someone loses an electron. I'm positive about this.

Image credit: http://damiencarrion.deviantart.com/art/Collide-A-Scope-342800828

Collide Escape

Otay is derived from the Kumeyaay language. Although its meaning is disputed, possible derivations include "otai", meaning "brushy", "Tou-ti" meaning "big mountain", or "etaay" meaning "big".

Otay

Far too much dancing and not nearly enough prancing.

Age-old questions which have drawn the attention of philosophers and scientists to neurosciences – such as: "What makes us who we are? What is behind human consciousness? How the human brain creates consciousness?" – are the most difficult to answer and paradoxically, we still know very little about them. Cerebral cortex is one of the least explored parts of the human brain. Most of our knowledge comes from the episodic case-studies of patients, whose cerebral cortex was damaged in accidents, during surgical procedures or as a result of experiments with electrical stimulation of cortical areas.

The functional part of the cerebral cortex contains approximately 100 million neurons, which are comprised in a thin layer 2 to 5 millimeters in thickness, having a total area of one quarter square meter.  These neurons are arranged in six cortical layers:

1) Lamina zonalis (molecular layer)

2) Lamina granularis externa (external granular layer)

3) Lamina pyramidalis externa (layer of pyramidal cells)

4) Lamina granularis interna (internal granular layer)

5) Lamina pyramidalis interna (large pyramidal cell layer)

6) Lamina multiformis (layer of fusiform or polymorphic cells)

Lamina Pyramidalis Interna

The story behind blue raspberry: https://www.bonappetit.com/entertaining-style/pop-culture/article/what-is-blue-raspberry-flavor

Blue Raspberry

Better times are ahead, everyone. Until then, stay inside!

Parade

Okolona is an unincorporated community in southwestern Napoleon Township, Henry County, Ohio, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 43550. It is located along County Road 17-D a short distance southeast of U.S. Route 24. Source - Wikipedia.

Okolona

Archaeologists now believe that the Bent Pyramid represents a transitional form between step-sided and smooth-sided pyramids. It has been suggested that due to the steepness of the original angle of inclination the structure may have begun to show signs of instability during construction, forcing the builders to adopt a shallower angle to avert the structure's collapse.

Made with Yellofier - an amazing new glitcherator app. Grab it while it's free! Thanks to Mike Dayton ( http://soundcloud.com/mike-88 ) for the suggestion.

Sneferu's Bent Pyramid

Made while recovering from Covid-19. I hope it sounds at least a LITTLE wonky.

CeeBop

The good folks at Vaatican Records have published another release of mine, "Persimmon Trees and Comic Books". Check it out here: http://gestrococlub.org/SCOXROX2.htm

"Stump Speech" is still available as well: http://gestrococlub.org/SCOXROX1.htm

I was recently featured on the Studio d'essai program on Brisbane's Global Digital radio broadcast: https://studio-dessai.github.io/2017/11/02/sdecv/

I was thrilled to be invited by S♨ciété Cantine to participate in an international collaboration with some of the finest experimental musicians on Soundcloud: 
https://soundcloud.com/societecantine/theyve-found-a-flying-saucer-in-my-stomach-an-international-exquisite-corpse

Be sure to check out "Star Stuff",  an hour long mix of my more quiet and contemplative tidbits culled from years of messing about with bits.

I have some older sets on Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/scoxrox/ The first one, "Bumper of Life" is particularly special to me.

Steve Cox is a Hudson, Ohio based information technology professional who has been obsessed with music for his entire life. Though he quit formal music education in the 6th grade, he began banging on pianos and recording crude tracks using 2 Panasonic portable cassette recorders and overdubbing in the early 80s. In the 90's, he recorded a bunch of original MIDI compositions consisting of sequenced loops and live improvisations. The album, called "Steve Cox Vol. 1", is so legendary and underground that it cannot be found anywhere. Steve himself probably doesn't even know where it is. Starting in 2009, it became apparent to Steve that people were charging pennies for iOS Apps that provided more power and functionality than thousands of dollars in electronic gear did only a few years ago. A new creative burst ensued, and Steve reinvented himself as an iOS musician.

Steve calls himself a "recovering jazz snob". Indeed, until the mid 2000s, you probably couldn't talk to him about music unless you knew who Don Pullen or Phineas Newborn, Jr. were. A few years ago he discovered the music of Steven Ellison (aka Flying Lotus), and came to an epiphany that good music had in fact been made after 1972, lots of it even.

Steve cites the following influences:


Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Harry Belafonte, Charles Mingus, Wendy Carlos, Joni Mitchell, Joe Zawinul, The Eagles, Henry Threadgill, Peter Brötzmann, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Ken Vandermark, Prince, Miles Davis, Don Pullen, John Zorn, Paulo Moura, Pixinguinha, Pachora, Marc Ribot, The Boredoms, Yes, Otomo Yoshihide, Merzbow, The Beach Boys, Liberation Music Orchestra, Orchestra Baobab, Aether (aka Diego Chavez), Art Ensemble of Chicago, John Cage, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Flying Lotus, Flying Luttenbachers, Public Enemy, Ametsub, Pat Metheny Group, Daedelus, Olivier Messiaen, Steve Reich, Sigur Rós, Hermeto Pascoal, DJ Shadow, Yamantaka Eye, Autechre, Sergio Mendes, Burial, Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, Galt MacDermot, J Dilla, Lester Bowie, Beirut, Art Blakey, Clifford Brown, Arvo Pärt, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Krzysztof Penderecki, Herbie Hancock, Bill Frisell, Himuro Yoshiteru, Art Tatum, Hudson Mohawke, Last Exit, Marco Benevento, Pere Ubu, Nosaj Thing, Prefuse 73, Rovo, Sonic Youth, Zs, Jim O'Rourke, Gang Gang Dance, Tim Berne, Madlib, Four Tet, Dimlite, Count Basie, OOIOO, Muhal Richard Abrams, Weather Report, Derek Bailey, Merle Haggard, Edgard Varèse, Sidney Bechet, Steve Lacy, Sun Ra, Jim Brickman, Buckethead, and Parliament