Monthly Archives: August 2009

An Early Morning Letter, Displaced — Shudderflowers

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Available this autumn:

Shudderflowers

Shudderflowers

2009 Fractured Vision Media

Shudderflowers reflects upon themes of fervent self-destruction and the fragility of the female mind. Tortured soundscapes pierced with the bones of shattered dreams. A nightmare concert filled with the anguished cries of broken children, delivered with a sweeping stiletto… and a whisper.

  1. Shudderflowers
  2. I Am Consumed
  3. Fever-Drenched and Burning
  4. Fearless
  5. Waning Flower
  6. Searching, Lost
  7. Beneath White Stones
  8. A Cleansing of Bones
  9. Where Dead Girls Lie
  10. Alice (the bones)
  11. Drowning Past The Sky
  12. Threadbare
  13. Shudderflowers (reprise)

August… Through Darkened Eyes… 2009

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The re-release of both August and Through Darkened Eyes are now available via CD Baby (and soon through Napster, iTunes, Rhapsody, et cetera…)

An Early Morning Letter, Displaced: August

2000 Fractured Vision Media

Primarily dealing with issues of loss and abandonment, August remains a collection of work that is inescapably raw and unwavering in discourse.

  1. taken
  2. hairline fracture
  3. interlude
  4. tired child
  5. lamenting sky
  6. the waves
  7. gripping
  8. an august night
An Early Morning Letter, Displaced: Through Darkened Eyes

2002 Fractured Vision Media

Mostly instrumental in composition, Through Darkened Eyes revolves around themes of misapplied guilt and the loss of innocence, a sophomore effort.

  1. condition: imperiled
  2. a room with one window
  3. as through a mirror darkened
  4. by willful habit
  5. all little girls end up like this
  6. everything. momentarily
  7. in reflection

LiveStreamer AIR Application

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I wrote a new AIR app called LiveStreamer available now via the Adobe AIR Marketplace.

This started as a simple mechanism to display a live RTMP stream from Flash Media Server to a client machine and related projection system. So… not for broadcast over the web- just sending a live stream from one physical location to another.

While developing the application, I came across the need to test an RTMP stream and it was so simple using this app that I decided to expand it. In the current version (0.9.0), it will accept RTMP and HTTP streams- just type in the URL and you can easily test it in order to verify that it is correct before trying to publish anything on a website or whatnot. You can also use it as a fullscreen projection or display mechanism as was originally intended.

If you have some FLVs or MP4s or whatnot on your local machine- you can just drag those into the app to watch them. I’m thinking about adding some playback controls and other options a bit later.

LiveStreamer

Application for display of video streams via RTMP, HTTP, or local filesystem. Just drag in a file or enter a stream address and away we go!

At the University of Denver, we have built a good number of AIR applications at this point. Some are internal data management tools, others are full, complex, private applications such as the VPS Projection system, and then we have small utility apps like this which others may also find some use for. These we make available to others free of charge as part of our community outreach.

Adobe AIR 1.5.2 – Friendly Install Screen

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In reading over the Adobe AIR 1.5.2 Release Notes, the most noticeable change for end-users seems to be a friendlier install screen for signed apps.

The AIR application installer panel that displays the publisher identity has been simplified when an application is signed with a chained certificate

Sure enough, it is a much more welcoming experience as can be seen from the screenshots below:

Previous to AIR 1.5.2
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AIR 1.5.2
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Mmmmm… much better!

There are also a few API changes that developers should take note of including a favorite of mine- the ability to intercept an ESC key in fullscreen interactive mode. A bunch of other cool stuff and many, many bugfixes are included.

Get Adobe AIR 1.5.2

Adobe AIR 1.5.2 Release Notes

Upcoming “August” and “Through Darkened Eyes” Digital-only Re-releases

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I’ve decided to release both EP recordings as digital only with distribution being performed through CD Baby and their partners. You may recall that I made both titles available as free downloads along with the physical release of “A Prison of Oneself” in 2007.

August and Through Darkened Eyes

Why should I make these released available for purchase now after 2 years of free distribution through Fractured Vision Media? Well, that’s exactly it. No one knows FVM. People Know iTunes, Napster, CD Baby, et cetera. FVM is a very narrow conduit and these other vendors cast a wide net. This means more exposure for An Early Morning Letter, Displaced and now is the perfect time to do it- on our 10 year anniversary.

Hopefully, this will also seed the landscape in preparation for the physical release of “Shudderflowers” later this year. Working in this environment, one needs to change his way of thinking, every so often.