#weird shift

[itisnotthesea]

do easy

[goldilockssansbears]

The energy has been weird today. I need a reset.

[gloomgaze]

i think i saved someone’s marriage tonight at work

[technoccult]

Check out my noise art installation at the Weird Shift gallery in Portland

Klint Finley

Above is a look at my interactive noise art installation at the Weird Shift gallery in Portland, Oregon. I call it “Experiments in Psychetecture.” I don’t want to give too much away, and I’m feeling lazy about trying to describe it. But here’s the basic idea behind it:

Typically, a Psychetect performance would consist of me playing with this ensemble in front of a group of people. But I’ve never been entirely comfortable with this arrangement, since to me the main work that goes into the piece isn’t the final improvisation that goes with a setup, but the construction of a setup. This installation gives me the opportunity to simply let the people formally known as the listeners perform for themselves, while cutting me out of this finally step entirely.

But if you want to hear a performance using it, Weird Shift co-organizer Adam Rothstein made a recording with it that’s available as part of the first episode of Weird Shift Radio, which you can download here.

To play with it yourself, visit the Weird Shift gallery:

201 N. Alberta St North Portland, Cascadia 97217

Weekdays: 3pm – 9pm Saturday & Sunday: 1pm – 4pm

It’s closed today to setup new works, but will be open again tomorrow and my piece should be there until the end of the month, or until it breaks, whichever comes first.

(Special thanks to Justin Landers for the use of the drum cymbal and Nolan Ashley for the use of the Korg NanoKontrol)

[snarkywaitress]

That was a rather bizarre shift

Shifts where all the waitresses are rather tired and out of it are fun. And by 'fun' I mean 'crazy'.

It was at the point tonight where we were just feeding off each other and becoming sillier and sillier. It took two of us about six attempts to make two coffees. Another could hardly carry anything or remember how the tables were numbered. And two of us were wandering around quoting Gordon Ramsay poetry at each other, and discussing what the plural of "Mousse/ Moose" is.

This in addition to my new discovery during the shift that I am able to speak and understand German.

No wonder our manager made himself scarce. I think he was legitimately scared of us!