Oh, and this site is now at http://shannon-oneill.net. That may change as there’s another domain I’d like, but I’m waiting to hear [...]]]> I’ve changed web hosts and upgraded all the Alias Frequencies sites to the latest version of WordPress, so performance should be better from now on. Turns out the old host was being repeatedly hacked.

Oh, and this site is now at http://shannon-oneill.net. That may change as there’s another domain I’d like, but I’m waiting to hear back from the lovely owners. In any case, old links should redirect to the current address. If you subscribe to the feed, be sure to do so via FeedBurner: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ShannonONeill that way you shouldn’t be affected by any future changes. Unfortunately lots of comments got lost in the move. I have no idea why, but rest assured that I didn’t delete them!

Things are OK over here. Running the first year course at Uni has been a fun challenge, but we’re in the groove now. I’ve been going a bit crazy with the PhD and some writing projects (why do I do it to myself?) but I can see a bit of time opening up soon which I’ll use for making some new creative work and getting another batch of releases up on Alias Frequencies.

With this new site I feel inspired to blog a bit more. We’ll see! =)

In other news, I’ve removed my blogroll. Blogrolls are over – you heard it here. Well, maybe they’re not but mine is too tedious to maintain, as I un/sub from feeds all [...]]]> I’ve opened a Twitter account for, you know, research. Pownce is supposedly better, but it’s brand new and currently invitation only, so we’ll see.

In other news, I’ve removed my blogroll. Blogrolls are over – you heard it here. Well, maybe they’re not but mine is too tedious to maintain, as I un/sub from feeds all the time. Ideally Google Reader etc. would add a feature to generate/update blogrolls dynamically, based on applying a particular tag to a feed. (I should quit the arts and become a Web2.0 entrepreneur, hey…)

If you’ve mainly been reading this blog as a feed, you might not have noticed the Links page, on which my blogroll resided. It (still) contains feeds from and links to my Google Reader shared items, del.icio.us bookmarks and del.icio.us network links, as well as Flickr, Last.fm and more. So I think that’s enough context to be going on with for now.

The label relaunch has been delayed slightly, but will happen any day now.

This Is Not Art is on in Newcastle this weekend. It’s my favourite Australian festival – if you’ve never been, you should check it out. I’ll be doing a couple of talks and a couple of performances.

I know that I’ve written bugger all of substance here in ages (and that’s all I’ll say about that, as there are few things duller than a blogger blogging about not blogging) but I had hoped to regale you with some travel anecdotes.

Unfortunately a strange thing happened to me earlier this week – I lost [...]]]>

I know that I’ve written bugger all of substance here in ages (and that’s all I’ll say about that, as there are few things duller than a blogger blogging about not blogging) but I had hoped to regale you with some travel anecdotes.

Unfortunately a strange thing happened to me earlier this week – I lost feeling in half of my left hand, or rather it ‘went to sleep’ with a combination of numbness and ‘pins & needles’. I panicked at first, thinking it might be a stroke – after nearly 30 hours of cramped flight home, DVT was a possibility, so I went to the GP and he did the relevant tests and advised me that it wasn’t a stroke and that I should just rest the arm and it’d hopefully be better in a few days.

Well it’s a few days later and it isn’t much better. Some activities such as writing (I’m left-handed) typing and upper body exercise are difficult and make it worse. I’ve been terrified that it might be the beginning of Multiple Sclerosis (I’ve had both an aunt and an uncle die from MS, and the doctors suspect that my mother now has it – so I’m about as high risk as possible) but searching on the web leads me to believe that it’s most likely a case of Cubital Tunnel Syndrome aka Ulnar Nerve Entrapment or Ulnar Tunnel Syndrome (UTS!).

Hopefully it’s due to some temporary inflammation, but if the problem hasn’t gone away in a few more days, I’ll need to see a specialist. For now I should try to stay away from computers and any other aggravation. So there won’t be much blogging for a while (well it’s not a bad excuse…).

I’ve uploaded lots of travel pics to my Flickr page, and there are still plenty more to come, which I’ll try to finish soon.

This is your selected tribe: New Aquarians

Incidence in Population Proportion of Canadian population: 5 per cent Proportion of Gen Xers: 14 per cent

Other Demographics Mostly mirror the general [...]]]> It’s been a while since we’ve had a personality test here, but on Glen’s recommendation, I just did this one. And I got pretty much the same result as Glen too!

This is your selected tribe:
New Aquarians

Incidence in Population
Proportion of Canadian population: 5 per cent
Proportion of Gen Xers: 14 per cent

Other Demographics
Mostly mirror the general population

Fundamental Motivations
Social Justice and Experience-seeking

Key Values
Adaptability
Concern for the less fortunate
Concern for the environment
Respect for education
Contempt for traditional authorities
Hedonism

Words to Live By
There is no being, only becoming
Everything changed in Seattle
No justice, no peace

Icons
Singer Sarah McLachlan
Author Naomi Klein
Singer/activist Jello Biafra
Rap-metal group Rage Against the Machine
Author/activist John Zerzan
Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar
Dead Prez
Technology Orientation

Money Orientation
Making it: I’d never do work I didn’t believe in.
Spending it: When I must consume at all, I consume with conscience.
Saving it: I’m not saving much now, but when I do I’ll call the shots.
Stealing it: No, thanks.
Giving it away: Environmental and social causes.

I can live with that, although I’m not about to start calling myself a New Aquarian (anyway, I’m a Sagittarian, fwiw).

If you take the test(/quiz/survey/whatever) let us know your result!

Elevayta

Feed on Feeds

GTG Synths

Highway Bridges and Feasts: Heidegger and Borgmann on How to Affirm Technology

Pop, art, and and Zizek

Progress Audio

Tiny Tiny RSS

victime de mode

vul3jp6

WordPress 2.0 has been released (I’ll have to upgrade all of the Alias Frequencies blogs, probably after the Now now festival)

and

Kristin Hersh, one of my favourite [...]]]> I’ve been so lost in music-making of late that I didn’t notice two big pieces of news from the end of last year, both of which Rock My World ™:

WordPress 2.0 has been released (I’ll have to upgrade all of the Alias Frequencies blogs, probably after the Now now festival)

and

Kristin Hersh, one of my favourite singer/songwriters, has released a free online EP of music by her new band, 50 Foot Wave.

bcontrol forum

BCR video

The catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell

digitalfishphones

electro-music

Electronic Music 411

energyXT

Freeware 2005 VSTi/VST Roundup

The Grey Commons – strategic considerations in the copyfight

How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP

InstaJungle 0.3

i, robot by Cory Doctorow

KVR Audio

MIDI NRPN and RPN

mulch-discuss

SIR – Impulse Response Processor

Inspector and InspectorXL

smartelectronix

Synthedit and SynthMaker

Tech Talk with Exile

theoria: Zizek!

Tobybear [...]]]> AudioMasters Forum

bcontrol forum

BCR video

The catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell

digitalfishphones

electro-music

Electronic Music 411

energyXT

Freeware 2005 VSTi/VST Roundup

The Grey Commons – strategic considerations in the copyfight

How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP

InstaJungle 0.3

i, robot by Cory Doctorow

KVR Audio

MIDI NRPN and RPN

mulch-discuss

SIR – Impulse Response Processor

Inspector and InspectorXL

smartelectronix

Synthedit and SynthMaker

Tech Talk with Exile

theoria: Zizek!

Tobybear Productions

Word

Favourites of 2005

I’ve restricted this to things that were published/screened or events that happened in 2005.

Albums

50 Foot Wave – Golden Ocean Broken [...]]]> s0metim3s has given us her favourites of 2005. I wasn’t going to do this, but since I’m waiting for South Africa to be bowled out before I head out for the rest of the day…

Favourites of 2005

I’ve restricted this to things that were published/screened or events that happened in 2005.

Albums

50 Foot Wave – Golden Ocean
Broken Social Scene – Broken Social Scene
Kate Bush – Aerial
Coil – The Ape of Naples
Dressy Bessy – Electrified
Luke Haines – Luke Haines is Dead
Jackson & His Computer Band – Smash
Lady Sovereign – Vertically Challenged
Konono No. 1 – Congotronics
Metric – Live It Out
M.I.A. – Arular
The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
Puzahki – Daddy’s Little Skint
Rhythm & Sound – See Mi Ya
Sleater Kinney – The Woods
Smog – A River Ain’t Too Much to Love
Venetian Snares – Rossz Csillag Alatt Született

It was mainly pop/rock for me this year – I even bought a guitar (which I still can’t play)! The sort of experimental music that I’d usually obsess over, this year I’d generally listen to once or twice before moving on. See Utility Fog for all the postfolkrocktronica that I should’ve been listening to.

Blogs

Too many – see the blog roll. It has been a privilege to have participated in the blog phenomenon and to have met so many amazing people. Extra love to those who have commented at, or linked to this humble blog.

Films

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Howl’s Moving Castle
Me and You and Everyone We Know
The Proposition
Wolf Creek

I didn’t go to the cinema nearly enough this year.

Games

Dragonshard
X-Men Legends 2

Live Music

Ben Byrne & Clayton Thomas @ Disorientation
Dereb Desalegn @ What Is Music, Sydney
DJ Olive @ Liquid Architecture 6, Melbourne
DJ Z-Trip @ The Metro
Lieutenant Colonel Spastic Howitzer @ Electrofringe
Machina Aux Rock @ Liquid Architecture 6, Sydney
Peter Newman @ Electrofringe
The Residents @ The Metro
Smog @ The Metro
Social Interiors @ Liquid Architecture 6, Sydney
Thembi Soddell @ Liquid Architecture 6, Sydney
Wet Gate @ Liquid Architecture 6, Melbourne

I also played live more often this year than any other. Highlights included a solo performance at the National Gallery of Australia for Liquid Architecture 6, Canberra; a technically disastrous but well-received set with WUAL for Liquid Architecture 6, Melbourne; better WUAL performances at Disorientation and Electrofringe; duo performances with Rik Rue (at if you like improvised music…), John Jacobs (at e)scapes) and Ben Byrne (twice, at the NOW now, and a VJ performance at Science Fiction); a solo performance at The Night Air Audiotheque; a solo performance and a Time Being DJ performance at Disorientation; performances with the Splinter Orchestra at Liquid Architecture 6, Sydney and Science Fiction.

TV

Arrested Development
Dateline London
Deadwood
Green Wing
Late Night with Conan O’Brien
Lateline (ABC)
Nathan Barley
Nighty Night
Peep Show
Rome
Something in the Air
The Thick of It
Trailer Park Boys
We Can Be Heroes

Thank goodness for broadband.

What’s In / What’s Out

What’s out:

CDs
Censorship
Copyright
Free to air commercial TV
Newspapers (in print form)

What’s in:

TEH INTERNETS!

GamEnd and MamEnd

High-Definition Multimedia Interface

Humility and the Guest: Tarkovsky’s Critique of the Subject

Living Dangerously: Kierkegaardian Faith and Deleuzean Becoming

Oh Good

Overview of all HTML elements

Project Pterosaur

Reggaeton Flows Through Musical Genres

Zipf’s Law

YaCy

The Aussie Wordpress Blog

Bulk Rename Utility

Improvisor

Leiter Reports: Nietzsche etc.

Mothers Against Noise

The Neuroeconomics of Trust

Nietzsche’s Moral and Political Philosophy

Oddball Comics

Shannon O’Neill – Last.fm

Philoso?hy Talk

riaamix.com

Jonas Salk

Six Re-Views of Chris Marker: The Art of Memory

Anarchism, or the Revolutionary Movement of the Twenty First Century

Blogging for Independent Artists and Creatives

The Chappelle Theory

Deleuze and Pop Music

EFF’s Jason Schultz explains how Sony BMG is about to be so pwned!

GWEI – Google Will Eat Itself

M/C Journal – Affect

Minimalist menace: The Necks score The boys

The Night Air – The Wire

Vidomi

The Visionary [...]]]> Anarchism and Political Theory

Anarchism, or the Revolutionary Movement of the Twenty First Century

Blogging for Independent Artists and Creatives

The Chappelle Theory

Deleuze and Pop Music

EFF’s Jason Schultz explains how Sony BMG is about to be so pwned!

GWEI – Google Will Eat Itself

M/C Journal – Affect

Minimalist menace: The Necks score The boys

The Night Air – The Wire

Vidomi

The Visionary Art of Luke Brown

i almost deleted this blog a few days ago, feeling that i have nothing to say, especially when everyone else seems to be saying so much. listening is what i do best, but the [...]]]> this year has had a cumulative *weight*, culminating in recent events in sydney (and the blogosphere, etc.) which all but silenced me.

i almost deleted this blog a few days ago, feeling that i have nothing to say, especially when everyone else seems to be saying so much. listening is what i do best, but the relentless cacophony can be overwhelming. in such circumstances it is normal for me to retreat into my own private space.

but today feels relatively peaceful. the sun is shining and there is a cool breeze. i’ll be spending the evening with dear friends with whom i always have great conversation. perhaps my voice is returning…