http://seaofechoes.com insomnia unleashed Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:28:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last night around 1am we finished mixing the album!  Now is the time to share some of the demos around befure putting on the final touches.  Here's one of the tracks from the album that means the most to me. 'The Scar' relates a story of abuse and pain, seen from ... http://seaofechoes.com/2010/01/30/album-preview-the-scar/ Here at the Stanford GSB Virality Bootcamp, part of the Power of Social Technology. Key Thoughts: Dave McClure ~A lot of people are trying for virality, but a great product that people like is better.~ Paid user acquisition is under rated, especially since. The major value of TechCrunch is for investor valuation. Ed Baker Example of growing ... http://seaofechoes.com/2010/01/20/crossing-the-chasm-the-power-of-social-technology/ Working on the album for the last umpteen months has taught me the importance of great tone especially for bass. We all know great tone when we hear it - it's the essential element of music that distinguishes the various instruments in a band and yet it is hard to ... http://seaofechoes.com/2010/01/18/the-ingredients-of-great-bass-tone/ This picture showing an emotional graph is simply beautiful: I had the privelege of seeing Sep Kamvar talk about his new book on Friday and I feel inspired by the blending of engineering and art.  He spoke about the emotional nature of blogs and how some bloggers feel the need to ... http://seaofechoes.com/2010/01/11/sep-kamvar-we-feel-fine/ On the road the other day I came across a post on the New York Times Climate Blog referring to this news story from Xinhua News Agency - "Verdant Mountains Cannot Stop Water Flowing; Eastward the River Keeps on Going".  The article describes how Chinese Premier Wen Jibao travelled to ... http://seaofechoes.com/2009/12/30/verdant-mountains-the-contrast-between-american-and-chinese-narratives/ Feeling a little down today after a rough night discussing changes for the album.  Efforts like this are never easy - but it will probably turn out alright in the end. Went to the train station to play a couple of songs and try to change the rules of the whole ... http://seaofechoes.com/2009/11/06/train-station/ I've been setting up to play some more guitar but ran into a problem translating songs between the six string drop-D tuning I use on guitar and the ADADG tuning on my five-string bass.  So I decided to try to tune my guitar down to ADADG tuning and relearn a ... http://seaofechoes.com/2009/09/24/adadg-tuning/ Related to my last post on emotional journeys I wanted to write a beat by beat analysis of some show and record the emotions displayed.  I chose episode 3 of Glee as my subject. The highly incomplete list of beats is below.  A few important points stand out: Tempo is Fast Feelings change every ... http://seaofechoes.com/2009/09/18/glee-episode-3/ I've been thinking a bit about the relationships between feelings and songs.  (Click on the chart for a larger image.) Everyone knows that a song should make you feel something.  Really good songs make you laugh, or cry, or feel closer to someone you love.  But how many different emotional notes or flavors ... http://seaofechoes.com/2009/09/09/emotional-journey/ Consider the following tweets, taken at random from twitter a few minutes ago: Going to bed feeling good. you are a godsend. I love you partner. I just got a hair cut!!! need to do a little meditation, then dive back in. hope by tmrw to have my broke shit all fixed; both physical ... http://seaofechoes.com/2009/05/21/twitter-streams-of-consciousness-and-mental-discipline/