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A new HatHead site next weekend - this site is fucked.

Until then:

I was digging on this Johnny Cash live in a prison concert - totally the orginal hardcore - so I put a backbeat behind Cocaine Blues cuz I love the energy of this track so much.

Cocaine Blues - Johnny Cash Remix by HatHead

Click hear for HatHead's remix of Cocaine Blues by the Johnny Cash

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The @LL Robot Radio Project is well underway. @LL Robot Radio will be a fully robotic online radio station - robot announcers and news casts, robots mixing music, robot dramas, robot generated poetry...

@LL Robot Radio - Hit Parade:

Bohemian Rhapsody

Good Times / Rapper's Delite

I'm Too Sexy

Takin' Care of Business

Breezing

Lady Marmalade

Don't You Want Me

Tainted Love

Escape (The Pina Colada Song)

this music was made using only a text-to-speech reader and midi files found on the internet - with the exception of Good Times which was mixed from an mp3 found on the internet.

Sample @LL Robot Radio Shows:

Little Red - Late Night Bedtime Stories for Robots # 1

RoboPoets # 2 - Bot Verse

The Robot Countdown Talk Show #1

RoboBeat Music # 1

Master Robot Lecture Series #5

Robot Meditation Garden #2

BabelBot #1 - Sexy Italian

Virus Alert # 4 - WTC Survivor

I am just getting my self organized on this podcasting feed business but here is the @LL Robot Radio RSS feed link. You will be able to get any @LL Robot Radio audio content through this subscription. A HatHead feed will be forthcoming. =)

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I love Nina Simone! I could do a whole album of her music. Here is a fresh and lovely HeadHat remix of Nina Simone's 'Black is the Color of my True Love's Hair'.

Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair - Nina Simone Remix by HatHead

Click hear for HatHead's remix of Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair - Sung by the Nina Simone

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More quick and dirty robot music - here is KennyK's professions of love, music mix by yours truly....

The Beauty of Damnclem - Words by KennyK - Music by HatHead - Peformed by the MS Speech Engine

Good: You know how to take a joke like you're one of my bud's! You're so very modest yet incredibly attractive. Your deep, mesmerizing eyes can be compared to that of a porcelain baby doll. But when I see pictures of you smiling your eyes take the exact shape they use for the beautiful female characters in Disney cartoons... Jasmine from Aladdin... Bambi's girlfriend Faline... Nala from The Lion King. They were all given the perfect eyes by various artist's imaginations. You were born with yours. I can not forget that you are ever so true to a man that obviously loves you unconditionally... most likely until the end of time. You never appear to hesitate to share your feelings and emotions towards this man... he's very fortunate to have someone like you that can be so open about something so important as love. You have such a soft smile... soft as if you're holding back... as if you're afraid to share your beauty with the world. Not because that beauty doesn't exist but because you're afraid... afraid to share what is obvious to everybody but you. Your hesitant smile reluctantly shares a mysterious look that draws people to you. This in turn gives them the divine opportunity to view the breath taking eyes you possess.

Bad: I bet your feet smell like cheese.... and you cannot seem to insult Damnclem for the life of you... IT'S NOT THAT HARD!!!

Click hear for HatHead's Beauty of Damnclem - Words by KennyK - Performed by the MS Speech Engine

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More robot music - I can't resist these, they are so easy and quick to do....

Takin' Care of Business - Sung by the MS Speech Engine

Click hear for HatHead's Takin' Care of Business - Sung by the MS Speech Engine

* this music was made with text-to-speech software and midi files found on the internet

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Here is the ambient robot poetry dub that is the end result of this journal.

Spike the Libra - Music Mix By HatHead - Words By Various - Read by the MS Speech Engine



Click hear for HatHead's music mix of Spike the Libra - Words by Various - Read by the MS Speech Engine

Thanks to Thundera, Gee, teamcoltra, SpicerK, Lukie and Ianik323 for the words!

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More robot music - I can't resist!

I'm Too Sexy with Microsoft Mike!



Click hear for HatHead's I'm Too Sexy featuring Microsoft Mike

Robetry

It is robot poetry time. Some groovy haiku from Loopster's journal - thanks Loopster!

Haiku of Loopster - Music Mix of HatHead - Read By Micosoft Mary and Microsoft Sam



Click hear for HatHead's Haiku of Loopster with Microsoft Mary and Microsoft Sam

Robeoke

here is some music from the future and why i have returned to save it from the machines. ..

THE MICROSOFT GANG - click to hear:

Tainted Love

Bohemian Rhapsody

Don't You Want Me

Lady Marmalade

Escape (The Pina Colada Song)

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this music was made using only a text-to-speech reader and midi files found on the internet.

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Dance of the Wolf - music and lyrics by HatHead

Across times unknown
Beyond skies unpassed
In the darkest night
I sing to you
The Dance of the Wolf

Deeper than the endless ocean black
Taller than the tallest snowy mount
To the moon's lonesome eye
I cry and I cry
Just like a babe

Past the depths of my heart
Across the edges of my soul
In the darkest night
I sing to you
The Dance of the Wolf

In the twilight of the dawn
When the sun is weighing near
To the moon's lonesome eye
I cry and I cry
Just like a babe

Click hear to hear HatHead's Dance of The Wolf

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i have just finished up scoring the trailer for the the upcoming season of Silhouette-Robin's ON3 RoOF S3ASON 1: THE CONSOL3 W4RS. i like the big booms at the end especially!

Click Hear To Check Out The Trailer!

Also, came across this piece for The Sponsorhood and it introduces all of the characters.

Click Hear To Check Out The Movie!

I Got My Gmail Video!

another post dedidcated to amandaj316 @ Panada Propaganda productions one of my friends from red vs blue!

holy sims overload batman - amanda has just completed a music video of I Got My Gmail shot in the Sims 2!! great editing with drum fills ending on beat and sims catching other little licks from the tune. even getting the moon landing and neil armstrong's first steps right on cue!

*** CLICK HEAR TO SEE I GOT MY GMAIL ***

thanks amanda - you rawk!!

Even More Machinimation

over the past couple of days i squeaked out some music for Silhoutte-Robin's On3 Roof web series shot in The Sims 2. headed up by Elikhi - these are cool folks from RedvsBlue so head over and show your support! episode 6 should be out very shortly.

Click Hear to see my opening theme for On3 Roof

i like this footage alot. not only the concept of a simulated person painting art but also in the way the scene plays itself out: the sim has a whole palette of color to choose from but only uses black and then only to paint around the void of a person; never the details of the actual person. it is as if the sim cannot break through its boundaries to understand humanity. while the sims probably only paint pre-programmed images, there is some cool work going on in the area of virtual painting/painters.

my first attempt for this was classical, inspired by the painting/fine art imagery and the way the first few brush strokes reminded me of a conductor's baton but it didn't have enough energy to kick off a show. i used whistling instead to reflect the painter working away on his painting and added some driving drums plus a couple of crunchy guitars!

No¢turne

late last night, or rather very early this morning, i improvised this reflective, more classical piece.

Click hear to listen to the HatHead Nocturne

More Machinimation Please

i am now the official music and audio post for the upcoming web series The Sponsorhood - an animated show shot in The Sims 2. Yesterday, despite a loosing game of snakes and laptops, I was able to score and audio the trailer. DiMono from Red vs Blue (108 friends/49 karma) had already provided the suspense section but i ended it with a boom!

this production is being done entirely virtually - with people from across the world - and is an interesting experiment in new media being done in new ways. not so surprising perhaps though considering i met all these people online in the first place.

Click hear to see The Sponsorhood Trailer!!

Also, looks like I will be doing the music and audio post for The Other Side - a science fiction horror web series also shot in The Sims 2. I begin work on the trailer shortly.

Click hear for my opening title for The Other Side

Here Boy - AmandaJ3162

Firstly, this post is dedicated AmandaJ3162 of Panda Propaganda. AmandaJ3162, amongst her many talents, is an amazing animator and one of my currently ten online friends on Red vs Blue. I like AmandaJ3162's animations so much that I host them on The Sacred HatHead Server.

AmandaJ3162 had an animation of a dancer without any music, so I threw down some HatHead beats, AmandaJ3162 approved and here it is!

HERE BOY!

...AmandaJ3162 Shakes Her Sim Thing....

Click hear to see Here Boy - AmanadaJ3162 with HatHead

Also, looks like I will doing the theme and music for a new web series filmed with the Sims 2 - stay tuned for more exciting details!

That's What Friends Are 14

i have exactly 14 new friends. i know this because either them or i (probably me) pressed a button called "be my friend". sometimes approval is required for friendship; other times you are automatically and immediately granted friendship. in fact, i even recieved a personal message from someone thanking me for selecting them as a friend:

12:05am → Dear hathead,Thanks for adding me to your friends list.Sincerely,Thrace

i have reports listing my friends so i can quickly know how many i have and remember who they are (in case i forget). i saw another person with 208 friends on Red Vs Blue. wow. my 14 friends are across 2 online communities. often i wish could see them all on just one webpage, you know, with all of their avatars together, just like friends should be...

CRITERIA FOR FRIENDSHIP

........be cumbos friend!........

i will be meeting face to face with some of my online friends, people who i am meeting because i pressed a button, this saturday night. we are going to play halo with 16 people jacked in at a time. that's right, i will be rubbing shoulders with some of my dear friends: microbe (69 friends/43 karma rating), thundera (16 friends/1 karma rating), CobraComnder (71 friends/22 karma rating).

also people who are not officially my friend yet are showing up. what do to? these people include shashi (208 friends/17 karma rating) and lukie (77 friends/49 karma rating!). even DiMono (98 friends/49 karma rating!) will be there. will everyone address each other by each other's screen names? i don't want to loose any karma!

is friendship being redefined without any public debate! friendship is a timeless institution, a pillar without which society is reduced to pure anarchy, and since it is about a relationship between two people, where are the conservatives pushing their faces in front of everyone on this issue??

OK, i am curious - how many online friends/chat buddies do YOU have??

The New Enemy

there is a new arch enemy.

Dr. Mantra and his evil yoga remain a certain threat to all of society. but this new enemy is certainly a threat to me. more frightening is that this enemy has been living with me and attacking me at every opportunity. no, it is not my cat Orfeo. it is one of my very own piano benches!

The New Enemy

...my portable piano bench...

this is The New Enemy. not once have i been able to move it anywhere without fighting with it. (the legs collapse but don't fasten to anything and swing about freely when they are not locked for sitting) some of these fights have been quite serious.

once i was carrying The New Enemy and another piece of gear down the stairs and the The New Enemy saw its opportunity. it kicked its legs out forcing me off balance and then, catching my toe on the cuff of my pants, i was suddenly falling face first down the stairs holding sizable pieces of equipment. by some miracle that i cannot recall as i was busy watching my life flash before my eyes, i escaped unscathed. but this is not the usual outcome in such encounters with The New Enemy.

last night, The New Enemy struck again. twice. the first attack was on the way to the gig. i was traversing my stairwell, which is choked full of gear since The Bunka closed unexpectedly, and the The New Enemy struck at the most precarious of moments, sending me headlong into the wall. i had no other option to but to lean forward and use my head in an attempt to avoid totally crashing out and prop myself up against the wall. boom! then, after the gig, The New Enemy struck again, kicking its legs out and slamming them back on the tips of my cold fingers. bam!

there seems little i can do. however it may be mad at me because orfeo's claws are not so kind or gentle with it.

Dr Terwilliker's Happy Finger Method

i am excited to announce the launch of Dr. Terwilliker's Happy Finger Method blog!

Dr. Terwilliker

....beware the 5,000 fingers....

Second First Video!

you can go forever on this video stuff. and i will. so in an effort to move on, here is the first HatHead video again with a little more polishing. the song needed some more instruments so i tried a new virtual organ out and added some bass for some bottom end. for reasons that i explain below, this means that there are more visual elements too.

Click Hear For HatHead's Second First Video!

about to catch a move...

........catching another move

i have had some questions about how this all works: visual elements - such as video clips, animations, stills - and effects (3d f/x, transitions, overlays, etc) are assigned to notes on the piano keyboard. the effect is that when you are playing music on the keyboard, you are also triggering the visuals at the same time.

i am currently working on different visual keyboard note assignment schemes and approaches (and there turns out to be an astonishingly large number of possible ways to link musical elements and performance to video!)