some foreign investment http://www.diegoolano.com/blog thoughts of a first generation's return Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:41:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 music i’ve done and am doing http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?p=81 http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?p=81#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 08:52:52 +0000 diego http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?p=81

2012 demos | 2011 demos | each recorded in 2 hours or less

peter & the wolf/traffique album my little brother and i were a part of

words/music to olanos unreleased ep (2008)

live show with me,tomas,jess (2008) before we moved to new york/portugal

words/music to the interest kills albums | or download capital flight (2005) / the language barrier (2003)

post capital flight practice demos for zach to play drums for a show

demos from 2007-8 argentina

brian and meghan’s wedding one handed with marq and tomas. mainly covers and some interest kills stuff (2008)

* photo of the brothers garcia-olano taken by charity

]]> http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=81 2 i read the worlds of sound folkways book and took notes! http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?p=165 http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?p=165#comments Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:19:42 +0000 diego http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?p=165 Worlds of Sound

introduction

From the anthology of folk: 20s/30s

Childrens Songs

blues

Old time and blue grass revival

the folk revival

creation of smithsonian folkways

spoken word
]]> http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=165 0 music to my eyes http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?p=159 http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?p=159#comments Tue, 10 May 2011 11:44:45 +0000 diego http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?p=159 This past weekend I wanted to move a lot, if not all, of the music I have on my laptop to an external drive i have to free up space, but before doing so I wanted to make a big image that would be a concatenation of all the album covers I currently have in itunes. I made a pair of scripts to do the job for me and put them up on my git hub account here https://github.com/diegoolano/itunes_montage_maker if you would like to do something similar. here is a scaled down version of the output i got. ]]> http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=159 1 learning about classical music: Romanticism to Serialization. 1860-1960 http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?p=156 http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?p=156#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:57:58 +0000 diego http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?p=156 li { list-style: none; } td{ width: 300px; } a { color: black; text-decoration: none; }

the new music by Aaron Copland:

18th European Classical

19th Romantic

international, nationalistic, emotional

Late romantics:

Beginnings of realism/modern

20 European Modern

Impressionism

and turn of century

Between the wars

Post impressionist leaders:

Anti-impressionists

Satie and les six

Jazz influence German:

Neoclassic Europe

Russians:

Students of Schoenberg:

American 1920s and 30s (International Composers Guild. League Of Composers)

1920s

1930s

Jazz influence American

Contemporaries Copland

Post WWII leaders of Serialization

Chance, electronic music
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I was making a mix CD for a friend yesterday and after arranging a playlist in iTunes that contained the mix, I realized that I had no good way to actually share it with my friend. I had a few options at my disposal:

  • I could burn it to a CD, but I would first have to go to the store to buy one, and then I’m sure he would just rip the CD to his computer and throw it away.
  • I could try and find the location of all of those songs on my computer and copy them into a single folder and then compress that entire folder to a file and email it or put it up somewhere online for him depending on the size of the archive. This is definitely possible, but if this turns out to be something I’d like to do more often, it will be pretty annoying to have to manually find and copy over all the songs I want since iTunes currently doesn’t provide any good way to do that.
  • I could write a program to do it !

As the exclamation point might have you believe, I chose option 3. I have posted the project to my git hub account if you’d like to use it yourself. Unfortunately it will only work on Macs as of now as the project is based on a python wrapper to Applescript, an internal communication layer on Macs which allows individual applications to talk with one another. This is definitely a works in process and will require a user to have some idea of how to use the command line “Terminal” utility on a mac. There is a README file included in the project, but please feel free to contact me if you need help understanding it. Seriously Libby. I’m looking at you.

]]> http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=151 0 a labour more restful http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?p=144 http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?p=144#comments Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:24:34 +0000 diego http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?p=144 my favorite dirty projectors song, from an early album Slaves, Graves, and Ballads:

A labour more restful
You are finally convinced that you inhabit the same banal world as everyone.
everyone has found it too. everyone has resigned themselves to it.
And the only mystery is in what you couldn’t decide or remember clearly.
Have you stopped looking in order to put yourself to some real purpose
Or have you simply found a labor more restful
than big hearted yearning and knowing that you’re incomplete?

[a labor more restful]

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]]> http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=139 0 demos from 05 i made with my hermano menor http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?p=136 http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?p=136#comments Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:36:11 +0000 diego http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?p=136
in late 2005, the interest kills ( at that point a three piece of the brothers garcia-olano i think ) had a show lined up in houston and we wanted to have zach duran of the eastern sea ( the band my little brother is in now ) fill in on drums for whatever reason. my little brother tomas and i went into my house in east austin and recorded these demo songs for him in one evening, and we never ended up recording any of them “professionally” so this is all that really remains of that time at all, which is kind of crazy now that i think about it. anyways, you can listen to the songs here:

diegoolano.com/ik/diegotomasforzach

Also at the end of the list, I included one i wrote for my friend Tess a long while ago as well just cause i miss her :)

if you’re interested here are other music related things i’ve mentioned before (from newest to oldest)
http://www.diegoolano.com/olanos
http://www.diegoolano.com/ik/ideas
http://www.diegoolano.com/ik

]]> http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=136 0 rundiosmio http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?p=131 http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?p=131#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:10:17 +0000 diego http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?p=131
so my friend Amy Sly has this tumblr blog foryounotthem.tumblr.com where she posts a new photo each day from her phone that has a cool filter on it. anyways, i thought it’d be cool to do the same, but instead of having to go through the trouble of logging into a tumblr blog and then upload the photo and fill out what i want, i’d figure it would be cool to just send an email to a gmail account that would then be read by a script i put on a server which was set off by a cron job every few minutes that would take a given email and attachment and post it to a blog of my choosing for me. the blog in i’m going to start trying to do this on is rundiosmio.tumblr.com. there are already a lot of pictures up ( namely because i also used this site to help Amy make an admin tool for a great website she is one of the heads of named Cover Spy which itself has many spin offs from places as far as Buenos Aires and London ) I hope you enjoy the rundiosmio page. the story behind the name is a long one.

]]> http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=131 4 helicopters http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?p=127 http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?p=127#comments Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:01:41 +0000 diego http://www.diegoolano.com/blog/?p=127 I’ve been looking into HTML 5 stuff as of late and came across this open source helicopter game
that happens to be written leveraging HTML5 so i decided to make a two player version of the game ( ala same keyboard ).
its not that pretty and really i only spent a minimal amount of time on it so please don’t expect too much :)
that said, i’m hoping to next make the game two player over a socket connection so multiple people can play it
from different computers. have fun..
http://www.diegoolano.com/html5/helicopter/

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