...Posted by tshone, on May 27, 2009 at 4:27 pm. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink

The new dub machine, “Rails” is well under way. I’ve been using this Hurco CNC mill to do most of the fabrication. It’s an amazing piece of machinery that has really tightened up the alignment tolerances, which is sort of the focus of the new machines…that along with being lightweight. Unfortunately this machine will not be ready for Spring Reverb this weekend (!), but for sure it will be accompanying Author & Punisher for the May 2009 tour. I’ve also put together some sketches for a simple device that I might sell as a peripheral for a controller keyboard. I think it would be very useful for live performance…more to come on that…

...Posted by tshone, on April 1, 2009 at 9:19 am. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink

Here’s a 30 minute video the folks at FORA put together on the Funeral for Analog TV, that Author & Punisher played the Funeral “Dirge” at on February 17th, 2009.

...Posted by tshone, on March 24, 2009 at 4:39 pm. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink

I will be doing a machine demo and performance(s) at this year’s Maker Faire in San Mateo.  It’s put on by the same people who put out Make Magazine. Author & Punisher will be doing at least 1 show in the Bay Area that weekend in Oakland and hopefully Sacramento.

Coincidentally, they are owned by O’reilly, who makes these educational books…my old band Falkirk used one of their covers for Linux: Device drivers as our album cover…kind of geeky I guess, but it was pretty metal!

...Posted by tshone, on March 19, 2009 at 9:29 pm. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink

Newest rhythm device in the works.  CNC fabrication is nearly complete, but waiting on the lead screws and delrin nuts. Hopefully this one will be ready for the next tour.

...Posted by Tristan Shone, on March 4, 2009 at 5:10 pm. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink

March 21- w/Riververb, Basshaters, Zsa Zsa Gabor, @Pharoah’s Den, Riverside, CA.
April 5- Spring Reverb, @Soda Bar, San Diego, CA.
May 21- w/Riververb, Basshaters, Zsa Zsa Gabor, @Radio Room, San Diego, CA.
May 22- @Trunk Space, Phoenix, AZ.
May 23- @High Mayhem Studios, Santa Fe, NM.
May 24-  Denver, CO, TBA.

The tour will be headed to Portland and then San Francisco/Oakland for the weekend of May 28th,
more TBA…

...Posted by Tristan Shone, on March 3, 2009 at 6:41 pm. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink