Author Archives: Kevin Danenberg

Scribbler Cat

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: January 4, 2011
I found Scribbler via this great post on Web Design Ledger. It’s a cool drawing tool that makes it look like you doodled intricately for hours during a boring lecture. I sketched this unhappy, wet cat in about a minute. Seems like it would make a great tool to whip up ad hoc illustrations [...]
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My First Lunar Eclipse

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: December 21, 2010
It’s very still and freaky. Somehow freakier than when Hale Bopp graced the sky in 1997. It’s one thing to have an unusual visitor appear out of nowhere, but quite another for a standard fixture like the Moon to go all Twilight Zone on you! As unsettling as it is now, imagine [...]
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Ira Glass Cuts the Crap

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: November 29, 2010
My friend Jon shared this, and I thought it was worthy of posting on my blog. It’s solid wisdom that I hear mentioned time and time again in different contexts. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Is this any different than jazz drummer Art Blakey’s famous advice, "Go on and [...]
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B Minor Rhythmic Tenor Drone

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: November 23, 2010
Here’s a little audio sketch I threw together today. Just experimenting with using processed sax key popping as a rhythm track. By running it through a gate and an amp simulator, it sort of suggests both tambura and tabla. Improvised over it in B minor. Simple recording rig: Electro-Voice RE20, E-mu 0404 USB, [...]
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Baritone Army Photo Gallery

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: November 23, 2010
On Saturday, October 30th, 2010, Stefan Zeniuk’s Baritone Army waged war against the vile tranquility of Prospect Park. These are photos I took during the mission. My previous entry featured a video documentary shot by Search & Restore’s Adam Schatz. In Low Notes We Trust Over the last five or six years, most of my [...]
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Baritone Army Park Slope Newsreel

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: November 4, 2010
Here’s some fresh footage of the Baritone Army’s conquest of Park Slope last weekend. I was honored to serve in three missions over the weekend, including the Halloween Parade. Our commander Stefan Zeniuk saw to it that I was properly armed with the infamous Flame-O-Phone, sans its propane-fueled "bass destruction", of course. We [...]
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Throat Singing Sound Check

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: November 3, 2010
I got an E-MU 0404 USB audio interface yesterday for simple home recording projects. I’ve been having a heck of a time getting it to run stably on my old Athlon XP 2600+ desktop. I wanted to try a few more experiments before contacting Creative Labs support, so I installed it on my [...]
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Softball 2010

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: October 20, 2010
I never played sports in school. I actually bought a glove in 9th grade, but didn’t have the nerve to go to tryouts. So I took up saxophone instead, and that turned out pretty well… Recently, I decided to get out there and play softball while I still have some youth and mobility. It’s [...]
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Check out Jackie McLean on Mars

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: September 19, 2010
Director Ken Levis created a compelling documentary about Jackie McLean in the mid-seventies. This was 14 years before my time at Hartt, but it offers some insight as to what my time in school was like. Also has some footage from the Artists Collective, where I taught saxophone lessons occasionally. The film [...]
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John Coltrane — I Wish I Knew

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: September 7, 2010
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