#nathan hubbard

[nofatclips]

Tranny by Montalban Quintet from their debut album

[kaelytraec]

Listening to The Ringer Dish Reputation episode, and it is really sad to me how the hosts dismiss the K*m/K*nye stuff as petty while lauding her assault trial as important. I feel like everyone forgets that K*nye literally made revenge porn of her, with known sexual abusers like Trump, Bill Cosby, and Chris Brown. He paid someone Thousands of dollars to make a life size wax sex doll of her. And that the man who was K*nye’s manager at the time now Owns Taylor’s body of work. This is always pushed to the wayside and she’s always called petty for standing up for herself against it. It makes me so sad that no one SEES that.

[tenshunnoise]

New Project and album by Troikastra

Curtis Glatter - keyboard(s), samples

Tenshun - turntable + modular synth

Nathan Hubbard - turntable, drum machine(s)

[dustedmagazine]

Dan Clucas / Kyle Motl / Nathan Hubbard — Daydreams and Nothing (FMR)

Daydream And Halting by Dan Clucas / Kyle Motl / Nathan Hubbard

One of the pleasures of large group improvisations are the windows they open onto hitherto unimagined next encounters. This session arose from a series of “yeah, we gotta play together sometime” moments experienced in bands led by cornetist Dan Clucas and reeds player Peter Kuhn. The chance to play together as a trio was a while, since Clucas and percussionist Nathan Hubbard are full-time west coasters, and bassist Kyle Motl is not. But perhaps the necessity of waiting contributed to the all-in spirit that the three brought to this session when it finally happened.

This trio’s chemistry derives from a fine balance of concord and difference. Motl is a stylistically wide-ranging musician, but whether it’s classically derived or swinging, his playing is likely to make aware that a strong technician is at work. Clucas, on the other hand, seems to downplay technique, even when he’s exercising it. On cornet, his main horn, he favors melodies drawn in quick, brushed-ink strokes punctuated by pregnant gaps. It takes some kind of control to put just the right sized holes in just the right places; it takes another kind of skill to sound like another guy altogether when you pick up a different instrument. On “Driftscope Reversal,” he plays moxeño, an Andean wooden flute, with a bolder sense of line, which Motl counters with pointillistic gestures, and Hubbard further balances with a ceaselessly morphing rustle. 

Clucas instigates yet another angle on “Before Long After” by switching to violin, which he plays with a disregard for precise pitch and a bold assertiveness that might make both Ornette Coleman and Billy Bang smile from whatever post-passing vantage point they currently occupy, knowing that their torch of raw expression has been passed, received and remains in motion. The simplicity of his playing presents Motl with the opportunity to fill up space, which he does with a brilliantly arranged barrage of snaps and rumbles while Hubbard generates a ceaselessly changing backdrop of motion and color. 

On first listen, this session imparts a strong sense of each player’s character. Each return trip reveals a bit more of the chemistry that makes this a cohesive trio with the potential to keep on creating, not just three guys that sound good together. 

Bill Meyer

[d-d-didnt-i]

[estoysuerte-blog-blog]

Glatter/Hubbard - New Music for Vampyr

[theremina]

<a href="http://nathanhubbard.bandcamp.com/album/encinitas-and-everything-after-volume-four" data-mce-href="http://nathanhubbard.bandcamp.com/album/encinitas-and-everything-after-volume-four">encinitas and everything after - volume four by Nathan Hubbard</a>

"Drummer Nathan Hubbard embarks on an ambitious project, paying tribute to Encinitas with an avant-garde series"

Oh man. This is a bunch of folks I've known since we were kids. Nate got us all together decades later to record again. Hadn't seen Nate in 15 years, went over to his house last month. Same dude as ever, same ol' brilliant, forward-thinking avant-jazz badass, only with kids and a mortgage. Played w/his daughter, hung out in his garage, pulled this absurd violin solo out of nowhere... Nate cobbled the modern takes together w/wonky recordings made back in high school.  Such a trip, hearing those old lawn sprinklers in the background.

Feels like a primitive, cozy form of time travel! I can't stop smiling.

[pickieco]

Twitter Commerce, for the Ultimate Impulse Buy?

In between 140-character opinions on Miley twerking and breaking news on Syria, Twitter is hoping to get you to open your wallet and buy things. Shopping embedded in social networks hasn’t historically worked out too well — just three days ago Facebook announced they were shutting down their commerce initiative, Facebook Gifts. That said, the possibility for greatness is there — brands and retailers are on Twitter, people are spend loads of time on Twitter, ostensibly you connect the dots and have the potential to make a lot of money. For the sake of a future Twitter IPO, I’m cautiously optimistic.

Thus far, Twitter Commerce news has largely centered on Nathan Hubbard, the guy Twitter hired to lead the initiative. Very little has been released on what exactly Twitter Commerce is, but, according to a vague statement, it will "get people in the moment to buy and to act on their passions." This could also be the stated vision behind hot dog vendors, all the candy lining checkout lanes, and prostitution, so it’s not tremendously insightful.

While it’s hard to imagine being inspired to buy a new dress from a tweet, there are some categories of commerce that make more sense. Digital music, for one, is a great example of something that could easily be sold via Twitter. There’s long been a movement to let artists distribute directly to their audience — and with some stars like Katy Perry amassing over 41 million Twitter followers, it’s easy to imagine fans purchasing singles from their streams. And is it a coincidence that Nathan Hubbard, a former CEO of Ticketmaster, is also a musician? I think not. Flash sales and daily deals, which use discounts and time pressure to create impulse-shopping-friendly environments are also interesting candidates for Twitter Commerce wins.

In case you were wondering what Twitter Commerce might look like, it will probably build off of the Twitter Product Cards offering that’s been around for a while (though not often seen in the wild):

I’m most interested to see how deeply Twitter will go into commerce. Will they be a surface level player with product ads? Or will they go so far as to build their own cart technology and go head-to-head with PayPal and new entrant Facebook? Time will tell. Until then, I’ll be watching my Twitter stream for more news on Miley. I really haven’t seen enough Miley tweets.