nudenite tampa

When I was a Fine Arts major at USF, my love of music became a love of all arts and creative endeavors. Fine Arts students were issued a “fine arts pass” that had a bunch of unpunched numbers on it, that could be used to get into a fixed list of fine art events that semester for free, each number corresponding with a specific event. The College of Fine Arts people who put this plan together knew we were college students with the interest but without the money to attend, and this was like their way of subsidizing our creative growth, which I really appreciated in retrospect. Even then I took that pass for everything it was worth. I originally went to art shows for the free food and wine, (again because I was the quintessential starving artist myself at this time) and quickly got hooked on the content. This was coincidentally how I got interested in wine, which I will discuss another time. I had a decent amount of raw drawing talent that had only been partially developed, so after attending some art shows, I wanted to try to go to the next level if only for my own personal reasons, so I took VC1. (Visual Concepts I the college of fine arts equivalent to ENC1101 Freshman English). I figured it would be a fun blow off course, where I would learn a thing or two, but instead found it to be immersive, challenging and really beneficial to my artistic eye. Developing my visual art side I realized much later only helped me in my musical creativity, because it allowed me to see the creative process from another angle, where some parts are easier to access and others more difficult, like how several different computer operating systems will have largely the same features and functions but one function will be much more apparent in one OS than in the others which helps you locate it easier in yours.

dinner is served "naked sushi" style at Nude Nite

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redvoid and dj q on zentrip radio tonight at 1am

From 1:00am to 4:00am EST tonight, redvoid and thee dj q will be on Zentrip Radio on wmnf  88.5fm community sponsored radio in Tampa, FL. Tonight’s show will feature a live Ableton dj set by dj q, and the fm broadcast debut of redvoid’s better daze mix cd. Call into the show and comment on the air.

DJ Q's Ableton Live rig in the WMNF 88.5FM studio

minimalism

The term minimalism is commonly misunderstood, and often maligned. In its truest sense, minimalism was an art movement, a form of architecture, and then finally a form of music, specifically Classical or art music. Recently this label has also been applied to electronica as well, and many questions seem to arise from the use of this term, which probably needs some clarification.

The best way to think of minimalism in the broadest sense, is as a series of concepts or ideas. Ideas drive many things, and in creative endeavors, ideas become design principles, guides or even sometimes arbitrary rule sets used to steer the process. The Mies Van Der Rohe quote “less is more” gets thrown around, and did stem from the Bauhaus architecture and design movement so it is legitimately part of the true definition of minimalism, but it is possibly not clear enough to those who do not intuitively understand it at face value. Another way to say this is “doing the more with less”, as in create the most function from the least amount of form. I like to use the term “Occam’s Razor” which fundamentally means “economy of means” or what we could all just call plain simple.

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