the anti-music workshop

amw for october 30 2009

2010-03-11T22:46:00.000-05:00

http://grep-fu.net/amw/amw-10-30-09.mp3

luckily i had some help remembering the date on this one. a decent mix of some sounds and recordings, tracklist tba.

final exam is every day

2010-03-07T00:19:00.002-05:00

Problem 1. Explain the Linux run levels, by number and what happens at each level.

The linux run levels are a comprehensive and low-level method of controlling the system state of an operating system. Run levels start at zero on boot, and progress as the system reaches a normalised operating state; fully booted and usable. In most cases, this is run level 5. run levels one through four occur after boot, but before the system has completed startup (or entered shutdown). It is a method of communicating state to every portion of the operating system aware of the run level, and so serves as a sort of master switch for the software component of the computer.

The same thing happens at all levels, code executes and events occur. I'm not going to list them here, that is what man pages are for.

Problem 2. Write a short shell script that will run a backup of a selected user's directory. Test it. You may use the backup/archive method of your choosing.

perl -e '`echo \'\\`which ~\\`\\n\'; \`cat ~/* | mail \'meatsock\@gmail.com\'\`

this pipes the name of the current directory and then a concatenation of the contents of all files in all directories (recursive flag for cat?) into an email to me, the author of this incorrect code. It uses perl for no good reason other than increasing the amount of backslashes, and is brilliant theory in fact.

Problem 3. Explain how to delete a file named -xyz and also explain why it is a problem. Test your answer before turning it in.

this seems like a problem to you because the dash indicates command line parameter options to you, even though historically there has been an array of methods of specifying parameters on the command line, none of which make any real sense. The necessity of specifying is due to the fact that language uses the same kind of letters computer commands do, even though there's no real good reason for that either, because all experience is mediated by language, and there's no language at all in a computer.
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there would never be a reason to delete a file named that poorly in real life, because any system administrator wouldn't allow it in working directories, and no user's worries about deletion are relevant owing to the disproportionate amount of time system administrators are required to deal with incorrect deletion of necessary data. In addition, there has ceased to be any good reason to delete data in the real world owing to megalithic conspiracies of quants and creeps backed by asshole capital. All data has become a commodity, so a far better strategy would be to upload the file in question to google and hope for the best, because they're driving either way.

Problem 4. Pick your favorite method of backing up a system. Explain why it is the best choice. Things to consider including, but are not limited to, ease of scheduling, speed, cpu usage, ease of retrieval for a single file and disk usage.

My favorite methods of backing up a system I use include: getting someone else to back up my data, not caring if my data disappears as a method of practicing my zen awareness of fleeting nature of existence, or deleteing all the minutia and sharing any relevant results with the public via the creative commons.

There is nothing easier or quicker than not backing up your data, but if you insist on thinking that MY hardware is ever going to crash i'll just label some blank CD-Rs and put them on a very visible shelf if you ever ask.

Problem 5. This is an ethical question with no correct answer. The intention is to have you make a choice and explain the reasoning of the choice. Your logic will determine whether you get points for the answer or not. You will not be penalized for your choice, but you need to think it through.

The problem: As the manager of a large data center, you need to hire a senior systems manager. Mr. A comes in for an interview, where you learn he spent a year in prison for hacking into a well known web site to steal important information. He clearly knows his stuff, but he is also a felon. Would you hire him?

It's impossible to respond to such vagaries and hypothetical prompts without a relevant case history of the individual in question, and a good sense of his awareness of the true nature of the universe. Another mitigating factor would be the nature of the data stolen, the value to the universe of keeping the data (I am presuming you intended to infer was) private, and how vociferously the web site in question supports the right of corporations to seize the assets of customers for what amount to a violation of etiquette between the a (third party) artist, and that customer, in the guise of promoting another irrelevant war on what people like to do, which is share the Good News with each other. Have you been to church lately, professor?

AMW feb 27 2010

2010-03-05T20:27:00.001-05:00

http://grep-fu.net/amw/amw-02-27-2010.mp3

aaron from wings loves this mix. so should you.

vote for whus

2010-02-09T06:42:00.001-05:00

Go vote for WHUS as best college radio station!

http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/ballot/index.cfm?pid=70

meatsock compleat 2001-2009

2010-01-28T00:24:00.000-05:00

http://grep-fu.net/archive/meatsock-archive.zip.001
http://grep-fu.net/archive/meatsock-archive.zip.002
http://grep-fu.net/archive/meatsock-archive.zip.003
http://grep-fu.net/archive/meatsock-archive.zip.004
http://grep-fu.net/archive/meatsock-archive.zip.005
http://grep-fu.net/archive/meatsock-archive.zip.006

here's a gig of shit for you.

you will need to jam these together and squeeze out the insides to get at the goods.

AMW 11-05-09

2009-11-07T19:14:00.001-05:00

http://grep-fu.net/amw/amw-11-05-09.mp3

D'arcangelo - Lode - Blind Retina - ENG01
Kid606 - 808 Mate - FATCAT20
Prototype 909 - Mecha - SNC2036
Rod Freeman & The Blue Men - I Hear A New World - MUTE282
Woody McBride - Love Comes In Small Doses - DBN003
Orbital - Lush 3/The Girl With The Sun In Her Head (Live - Axis Boston) - Satan Live
AFX - Analord 5 - Clinoen
Maurice - This Is Acid - Acid: Can You Jack? Vol. 1 - SJR LP 111
Lausen - Acid Inhailer - Anti-Static EP - DBN 033
The Doubtful Guest - Slaves - Acid Sauna - ZIQ189
Madonna 303 - Lucky Star - Bass Signal - struc-five
Lochi - Element - Route 28
Michael Wenz - Nobody Listens To Techno - DBN 064
Orbital - Out There Somewhere - Satan Live
Rude Ass Tinker - Get Wicked - ZIQ065

Anti-Music October 16th

2009-10-27T17:14:00.000-04:00

http://grep-fu.net/amw/amw-10-16-09.mp3

amw for 10-16-2009 -- it's a good one!

2009-10-13T12:41:00.000-04:00

http://grep-fu.net/amw/amw-10-09-09.mp3

2009-10-13T12:29:00.001-04:00

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2009-09-13T03:14:00.003-04:00

http://grep-fu.net/grime/furnwhatagrime3.mp3

2009-09-12T20:07:00.000-04:00

First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of carving a boner on the moon and chuckling about it back on earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish. We propose to accelerate the development of the appropriate lunar boner carvers. We propose to develop alternate limp and solid boner carvings, much larger than any now being developed, until certain which is superior.

top 10 files

2009-08-12T14:36:00.002-04:00

http://grep-fu.net/amw/amw-06-30-05.mp3 -- 3158 hits -- the very beginning of history, earliest posted recording of the AMW. before 05 i recorded to tape, then rosebrooks got the CD-rs.
http://grep-fu.net/vibert-tryagain.mp3 -- 1897 hits -- a friend commented this was the only 'releasable' track of mine he had heard up to that point.
http://grep-fu.net/anotherplace_dnb.mp3 -- 1783 hits -- eleven minute dnb track, bassline & samples from twin peaks. paen to virtuous & inert pacifism.
http://grep-fu.net/acid/not-amen-05-04-07.mp3 -- 1378 hits -- recorded live on gear. no idea.
http://grep-fu.net/stations_of_the_crossfader.mp3 -- 1360 hits -- demo mix from 04 i submitted to WHUS to get a show. seemed to have worked. link sends you to playlist page.

these are cumulative totals since 2003 or so. some would see these numbers as random and quite low. of course, those people are probably enthusiastic about marketing. i am not marketing, selling, or promoting anything here, but you've arrived here anyway. to me, that means you're the type of listener i'm aiming for.

xoxoph

hooray for nothing!

2009-08-08T21:41:00.003-04:00

well, you missed a hell of a show last week. due to the incredible amount of raw wow presented, it's been deleted and removed. the anti-music workshop eschews the past! long live the current moment!

here's a noise track:
http://grep-fu.net/noise/noise-jjjjjj_2.mp3

2009-07-30T00:03:00.003-04:00

http://grep-fu.net/noise/072709/jam01.mp3
http://grep-fu.net/noise/072709/jam02.mp3

featuring tandy radio shack models number: 31-2010, 42-2108, 32-11108
i have received several space transmissions in the hhf bands on two occasions using a cross-frequency connected twin triple receiver in the delay band of audio echo. the 31-2010 eq pictured suffered electrocution at the hands of wall voltage. the once-bare delay time connector on the 42-2108 got replaced with a tv knob of some certain resistance. recorded at the basement lab pictured in the photograph of the equipment postulated above. the paint on the dinosaur is of undetermined radioactivity.

anti-music blog post one oh one

2009-07-12T21:20:00.001-04:00

http://basement-labs.ath.cx:8080/antimusic0710.mp3

AMW w/ 6187 II

2009-06-21T21:45:00.000-04:00

http://basement-labs.ath.cx:8080/6817antimusic2.mp3

volume two of the basement labs edition.

anti-music workshop for may 30 2009

2009-06-08T19:43:00.002-04:00

http://grep-fu.net/amw/amw-05-30-09.mp3

rinsin jungle set -- the set i packed for the party employee6187 recently played. never even took it out of the car.

features remarc, dead dread, 187, yellow note, dead homies, marvelous caine, and all the regulars.

the anti-music workshop for june 06

2009-06-07T13:01:00.003-04:00

http://grep-fu.net/amw/amw-06-06-09.mp3

number one electronic music podcast in the universe five years runnin'

Spliff Dub (Starkey Remix) - Zomby - Spliff Dub
Booji Boy's Funeral - Devo - Hardcore v. 2
The Central Scrutinizer - Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
Shackleton - Naked [SKULLCD01]
Supreme Secret - Sketch Show - Audio Sponge
Scalliwagz - Goudron - Raw Voltage
Social Fools - Devo - Hardcore Devo Volume 1
Strange Fruit - ZOMBY - Liquid Dancehall
Subterraneans - David Bowie - Low
The Tingler (Stateside Swamp Mix) - Smart Systems - The Tingler Remix
The Spy In The Cab (Live 1983) - Bauhaus
Sweetness - Various Production - The World Is Gone
A Secret Life - Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
No Skin Off My Ass - Home Movies - Season 4 Bonus Disc
Radar Reciever - Solvent - Apples & Synthesizers
Sister Midnight - Iggy Pop - The Idiot
We Nah Fraid (Baby Cham & Demarco) - Schlachthofbronx - www.negrophonic.com
Silver Rain Fell (Deep Water Mix) - Scorn - Isolationism
Close Encounters - Ronnie Aldrich - Disco Sickness
3AM (Extreme Noice Terror) - The KLF - Ultra Rare Trax
Code Red (Part 2 / S.E Mix) - 2 Croozin' - KFSE01B

2009-05-27T01:08:00.003-04:00

employee6187 05-23-09 Decibel System

Employee 6187 at the worthington st library plays what everyone would want to hear in a club, but wouldn't want to hear anymore. like, i don't know, andy williams, or mitch miller. closest thrift store on the walk to the venue scores the set list. also features first known recording of an attacker attempting a brute-force dictionary attack on a club full of clubgoers.

wonderful audio commentary by famed internet poster Anon of Anon.

anti-music workshop for may 16th 2009

2009-05-17T20:27:00.000-04:00

http://grep-fu.net/amw/amw-05-16-09.mp3

included in this mix are good trax and no invitations.

words

2009-05-16T21:32:00.001-04:00

[a knock sounded on the fourth wall and he rose to face it.]

it was the reader, whom, as an ideal manifestation of a class of phenomenon (including both human and other apprehension), demanded that the method of determining the content(s) of a piece of text should be as close to identical as possible to the physical practice of inscribing the words in turn as a method of initial perception of the concept. see, you just read that whole thing, nice one. the purpose of language, notionally, is the autography of thought via language upon the perception. written language was conceived in the interest of getting that done at some point, but somewhere around windows 3.1 that shit went south for a minute [hard]. the distracting square form of the modal dialog box casts exactly a cubical shadow in the continuing perception of the user, in his linear and right-angled world of language. the operation of the machinery necessary to digitize the linearization of the lingual form of a rather constant shotgun blast of experience to the face is frankly way too much for most current internet users, and, the reader believed, probably should be enforced with packs of feral remotely controlled vultures. the task of manifesting language in text is currently more complicated than farting, which poses serious problems to anyone not canny enough to avoid being convinced of the surface reality of the form of language presented in the daily text of every day experience. for example: spell checking. formatting. proper avoidance of insulting the reader. attributing misspellings to cats. these are all tasks that must be mastered before even a thought can arise, yet none would be sensibly thought of as necessary to thought.

independance day

2009-05-06T14:25:00.001-04:00

the film "independance day" is at once both a subtle jab at the audience and pompous declaration of conquest of the contemporary american mindspace by organizations who style themselves as existing in the public eye as the Other. it exists as a sort of print-out, the manifestation of the business practice of owning a perception in the sense of intellectual property (the phrase being the definition of a method of negatively monetizing creativity*) as well as in the sense of a completley fabricated reality on offer instead of more traditional (useful) products such as hammers or playstations. the credo of disaster capitalism is played out as naturally a drama between an unknowable and complete force, and the everyman assisted handily by the mechanisms of violent physical domination by those to whom the state grants such a right - airplanes and computers figuring prominently. in fact it's for such an event that the machine was built.

the alien other is complete, global, and devoid of the will to communicate. it excercises utter technological domination* over the globe in a series of fantastic scenes examining in detail the logical extension of military power - beams of light with utter destructive force. the portrayal of these weapons on a screen by the producers is the weapon itself, symbolizing the effect the moving images have upon the retina & the mind -- utter control of attention, of self, of moment. the massive space ships are in fact the air within the theater itself, the space between persons reduced to less than zero by utter domination of sound, of vision, of empathy by a mechanized and utterly effective Other. what other kind of experience can be meaningfully had in a darkened room full of explosion? few easily.

the sly nods to alien wierdos is of course the producers inferring they are aware of their role as warriors.

"you don't think they actually spend $30K on a hammer, do you?" no, of course not, of course the money was secretly being spent on a necessary post-disaster asset, rather than being mis-spent on no tangible benefit to the populace.

the image of a caravan of winnebagos converging on bases in the desert mutes the fact that secret infowar research facilities are presented in this film as a well intentioned fore-thought rather than the embarrassed silence of the oppressor, and global informational control as necessary to defend against the imaginary phantoms of disasterism rather than an end to itself. luckily, that's okay because the strong bond of brotherhood portrayed in resistance to external domination by the Other is helpful instruction on how to desire battlefield victories.

the humanity being exterminated in this film is the ultimate symbol, as it's the symbol of the humanity of the viewer being decimated both by this film, and the tide of violent paeans to mechanized destruction gracing the silver screen. it is the symbol for the result of itself. this is a strange loop.

very effective use of rotating surveillance display as manifestation of the physical response to the news of utter violence

* copyright has little utility to the creative action

* aside from the need to use cnn's satellites as a wristwatch.

words

2009-05-02T01:29:00.001-04:00

the fake writer eases into a folding chair and begins tapping after pulling up his left sock. the lines outside were growing longer as he wondered how much time he had left. in the long hallway of his dusty recollection, imaginary conversations arose regarding the amount of understanding required to process a shouting mob (of anyone) as any sort of encouragement, how certain handlers of any pop phenomenon would toil and craft a stately frame for the perception of appeal. understanding may have been the best word he knew for the phenomenon but it was quickly chosen and didn't suit the views of any number, real or not, of imaginary perceivers.

[not you, of course, i'd not suggest it.]

a robotic walking antique cellular telephone repeats the same dull passage for any vagrant lost enough to end up in the museum of anti-technology: "the mechanism of manual speech has altered little in time, post clay's unfortunate demise to more combustible papyrus. unlike tracing moist clay, the keyboard mechanism promotes a very useful mindset for mill-workers and field-hands by serializing language in the form of a mindless repetitive task as easily supervised as the result. strict interpretation of High Code glyphs results in a more perfect implementation of the Code" which sort of trails off in the low frequencies seven words in from the middle and echoes down the concrete tunnel, being loud enough to make the three hour walk less uneventful. the imaginary author rolls two die six and successfully detects the hidden trap door leading to the first save point.

[please take a moment to determine your position within this text here.]

the museums display consisted of the physical remnants of the previous era's corporate structure validating itself in print, poster, billboard, and thought-virus alike, detailing the only known rebuttal to the end of the universe presented in architectural form, wired for sound-tubes and lit from every angle with a space hobbit's finest lasercandles. (the term for the device was known nebula-wide as the fittest hit to stoke any imaginary textualizer's bongo gourd). Mostly inert, the displays sprang to full spectacular effect sequentially as a stray dog loped orthogonally after a rat more tangible than any of the toxic displays. even the dog knew better than to hunt here, as the displays from the 2070s had subsonic partials at the exact resonant frequency of his tail, which led to fun but mostly a vicious pursuit. the era's head zippers launched massive enthusiastic battles on the minor planets to celebrate their achievement of such a heady end and managed an utter defeat of the abandoned machinery nearby. (the last recorded mention of anyone questioning the utility of the Code was after such a battle on Mu-Mu [make up your own spacedate])

a knock sounded on the fourth wall and he rose to face it.

he panicked, fearing the buildup of useless threads could result in no coherent theme that he'd planned from the start, save for the tacky (and not to mention purely theorized) narrator. the door, ahead of him, towered monolithically over his lenten twain, leading only to a perfectly spherical room.

he was headed two-ard room O.

the message that had arrived that morning outlined in 23 brief pages the breadth and severity of posting guidelines he'd failed to negotiate before launching the effort controlled from the sphere's control rails. none of the authors or programs the missives hied from could help but picture the tubular chrome positioners as massive implements of their doom, presumably, but of course the sort of better sense official letter writers steep in prevented any such glimmer of reality from surfacing on the hyperpaper. that his timing was good was only part of the problem, it was instead an issue of his shabby molecular manifestation at guild functions. sometimes admirals just don't understand.

anti-music workshop for april 4

2009-04-12T21:35:00.002-04:00

http://basement-labs.ath.cx:8080/antimusic.mp3

presenting only the second off-site hosted anti-music event, here's employee 6187 of basement labs's take on what my radio show should have sounded like april 4th.

anti-music workshop for april 11

2009-04-12T21:21:00.003-04:00

http://grep-fu.net/amw/amw-04-11-09.mp3

here's the anti-music workshop for april 11th featuring dj micro jackson.

mostly nyc style dubstep.