Eschew the Tattoo!

Spent my morning thus far working on a short presentation I'm going to be delivering at this conference I'm assisting to organize for the GN Interdepartmental Committee on Climate Change (or, GNIC3 for short). But in between I've been braingasming ways to spend the delicious amount of money I'm going to be flying off this island with in 6 weeks time, and looking at the art of Ken Kagami (see above). At first I kept hearing echoes of "get another tattoo! get another tattoo!" ringing in my head-space, but then it occured to me. This is the first time in my life I'll actually have been able to afford a real, brand-new, instrument. I've been talking about getting a Korg or a Moog for about a year and a half now, and I've decided that seeing as I'll be living in a house where every roomate is a musician, writer, and artist of some stripe- it's time to get back into learning to play something (and having a basement studio/practice space doesn't hurt much either). So middle of next month, say on the 15th of August, I'm going to order myself a Korg microKORG synthesizer/vocoder.

I've tossed figures around in my head and on paper, and it looks like if I eschew my desire to get a new tattoo I can afford to buy all the Korg related gear I'll need/want, and still budget for my rent, cd habit, and steady diet of marijuana, Jagermeister, Heineken beer, and bike rides to the Urban Oasis for vegan samosas mwa hahaha. This year I'm going to have to back off on DVDS and games and all that extraneous bullshit though. Sigh, growing up is tough- and now- with keyboards!

• Sound Generation Method: Analog Modeling Synthesis System

• Synthesizer Program: Multi Timbral=2 (max, Normal/Dual Mode)

• Voices: 4 voices

• Sound Source: 2 Oscillator + Noise Generator,

• Multi Mode Filter (-24dB/oct LPF, -12dB/oct LPF/BPF/HPF), EG x2, LFO x2, o Virtual Patch x4

• Vocoder Program: Voices = 4 voices

• Programs: 128 programs

• Effects: Modulation effects (3 types), Delay (3 types), 2-bandEqualizer

• Arpeggiator: 6 types• Keyboard: 37 Keys (mini-keyboard, velocity sensitive)

• Inputs: AUDIO IN 1, and 2

• Level switch: LINE/MIC,

• Outputs: L/MONO, R and Headphones

• MIDI: IN, OUT and THRU

• Display: 3 characters x1 line with 8 segment LED

• Power Supply: DC 9 V (AC adapter), or six AA alkaline batteries (sold separately)

• Dimensions: 20.63"(W) x 9.02"(D) x 2.8"(H)• Weight: 4.85 lbs.

• Accessories: AC adapter (DC 9 V, 600 mA), Condenser Microphone

Man Capitalism, you've give me so much stuff, but what about AFRICA? You've changed Capitalism, you used to be cool...

PeacecaeP

-Christian