tweeking and quantisizing again

Happy again I make this report about this world I love so much which involves creation, networking, collaboration and the stretching. mystery hearsay and I decided that the true intense spirit of audio networking multitasking was coined in the word QUANTISIZE. Most important thing is to have multiple machines doing some work while you are doing the art directing, creative and organization activities. It's important to have a wealth of things that need to be done and some systems to make molehills out of mountains of work. So today I have been making covers, digitizing classic Zanstones tapes, dubbing cdrs, distributing new cds into packages in my second round of mail-out, and uploading zh27 001-350 covers to my old zids.net site. Doing as many of these concurrently as possible is the spirit of quantisizing I'm invoking. Oh, I forgot to mention how excellent this feels! Crank up the tunes and change my world piece by piece. Improve the zh27 story until it's irresistible. One thing that took quite some time is hiving off 350 of my cover graphics to a secondary site to be able to get zh27.net live cost effectively. And endless parade of search and replace routines with bbedit until I achieved a workable solution. In the long run I was able to put 600 covers up at the place that used to host zids.net. The next whirlwind of excitement was the CLAN harsh noise contact list updates. I posted to various yahoo lists about CLAN coming alive. Then I surfed the Contact List of All Noise online checking weblinks and some e-mail links. I'm not sure we should be shocked that a number of puerile named acts' aol and geoshitties accounts had gone tits up and came for a culling. Concurrently with the contact list update I've been working on my You, Me, Us and Them revival. This project from 1987-88 came alive this year with five new releases. So I'm digitizing the remaining 10 masters that were still analog. After these next two are processed this will become the first ZH27 project with all releases available on cd! The last few weeks I concentrated on converting Bodycocktail, Zanoisect and Zanstones, but each project is so big there are a few masters on DAT that I've not taken to cd. I'm approaching the halfway mark in master tape conversions and I should be excited that I've come this far as quickly as I have. But I can't help but be anxious for it to be much closer to finished. If I remain focused and thing go well it's possible by the end of this year I'll be done. The process is kinda funny so I can describe it here quickly. I covert a wealth of cassette masters onto the Quantize computer and when the hard drive fills up I start duplicating. After a handful of each are duplicated I make master cds and erase most of the files from the hard drive, only to start over again. And while the duplicating is going on with one computer I'm printing covers with my iBook. The duplicated cds sit in plastic 50-cdr plastic tubs until they are picked to go in an envelope to their new owner. Appropriately enough the composing of this narrative has been interrupted repeatedly by that which it describes. With that loop closed I bid you good day.

July 2003