Califaudio One Year

I just noticed that today marks the one-year anniversary of Califaudio.

Cheers!

What is Califaudio?

I've been trying to figure that out over the past year. From the list of Califaudio posts in Blogger, it looks like I've posted 450 mini-articles on a variety of sound-related topics:

• musical instruments
• recording equipment
• sound gear
  
• software + plug-ins
• synths
• sound effects
• concert reviews
• news about my favorite bands
• the music industry
• museums
• circuit bending
• diy
  
• music visualizers

and a lot of other crazy stuff...

On Califaudio you'll find plenty of embedded videos from youtube, vimeo and blip.tv that highlight artists and projects which I think are pushing the envelope in terms of sound, science and art.

I've also documented some of my own experiments in sound here, many of which became my first [13th] solo album, One Hand Tied Behind My Back. I plan to post many more of my audio adventures in 2009. If you're into experimental noise, you can look forward to lots of modular analog synth voyages.

Here's a quick clip from a modular synth tweak session this morning:

califaudio-one-year by tj milian

Stay tuned for some new features coming soon. Subscribe to Califaudio here.

I want to thank all those who have helped spread the word about Califaudio over the past year, including matrixsynth, sequencer.de, rekkerd.org, synthtopia, analogsuicide, looknowhere, flyingpudding, wassonii, failed muso, comment gold, make, and many others, especially my friends and family. Thank you!

My thoughts now echo the ones I had a year ago today...

Thanks for visiting Califaudio.

The State of Music - Sound + Noise.

Update 12/29/08: Check out these pics of the one and only "One Hand" box and cast sent to me today by my #1 fan in celebration of Califaudio's first birthday:


Thanks so much!