JOURNALhttp://www.kurtlorenz.com/journal/en-US2010-03-11T20:04:25ZSquarespace Site Server v5.9.2 (http://www.squarespace.com/)The General Analysis of Nature EP (2010)http://www.kurtlorenz.com/journal/2010/2/25/the-general-analysis-of-nature-ep-2010.htmlKurt Lorenz2010-02-25T23:57:55ZAlbums Creative Commons Downloads MP3 Music Music The ProcessI am proud to announce the release of my first official EP, "The General Analysis of Nature." This EP was conceived and recorded in 20 days as part of the RPM Challenge.

Cover art by: Kurt Lorenz

CLICK DOWNLOAD in the player above for a free download of this album in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire...

Conceived and recorded between February 5, and February 25, 2010

Released by: Kurt Lorenz

Release/catalogue number: KL|EP001

Release date: Feb 25, 2010
Cover art by: Kurt Lorenz

"The General Analysis of Nature" by Kurt Lorenz is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

]]>RPM Challenge 2010http://www.kurtlorenz.com/journal/2010/2/22/rpm-challenge-2010.htmlKurt Lorenz2010-02-22T20:22:40ZCreativity Inspiration Music Music RPM Challenge The ProcessThis is The Challenge - Record an album in 28 days, just because you can. That’s 10 songs or 35 minutes of original material recorded during the month of February. Go ahead… put it to tape.

It’s a little like National Novel Writing Month, (NaNoWriMo.org) where writers challenge each other to write 1,700 words a day for 30 days, or the great folks over at February Album Writing Month (fawm.org), who encourage artists to write 14 new songs in February. Maybe they don’t have “Grapes of Wrath” or “Abbey Road” at the end of the month, or maybe they do—but that’s not the point. The point is they get busy and stop waiting around for the muse to appear. Get the gears moving. Do something."

www.rpmchallenge.com

]]>SCHALLGUTnetlabel Team Memberhttp://www.kurtlorenz.com/journal/2010/2/17/schallgutnetlabel-team-member.htmlKurt Lorenz2010-02-17T23:35:54ZArt Design Digital Art Graphic Design The ProcessI am now the official Graphic Designer/Artist for SCHALLGUTnetlabel. The label is brand new (January 2010) and they are just celebrating their first release: #SLG001 | SOFA TUNES | WE GOT for which I created the artwork.

I am hard at work on the cover of the next release and it should be out around March 1, 2010.

I have started a set on my flickr page where I am storing images that their artists can browse through and pick out art for their releases...

]]>Search For Meaning print materialshttp://www.kurtlorenz.com/journal/2010/2/1/search-for-meaning-print-materials.htmlKurt Lorenz2010-02-01T13:48:00Z

So I have been working non-stop on the print materials for our upcoming book festival. The two pieces shown here are complete and floating all around Seattle. We printed 700 posters and 4000 postcards. I'm still putting together the "Day of" materials; 20"x30" posters and a double-sided tri-fold 11"x17" program.

]]>USTREAMhttp://www.kurtlorenz.com/journal/2010/1/27/ustream.htmlKurt Lorenz2010-01-27T17:54:45ZAbleton Music Music The Process Video VisualsOver the last 6 months or so I have really been struggling with putting my live set together. For me the problem is how to make an Ableton Live laptop set "live" enough to be entertaining. I'm trying to run visuals through VDMX while playing my Ableton set as well... What I really needed was a way to practice live, without an actual audience staring at me. So of course the internet is the answer. Enter USTREAM (http://www.ustream.tv/)

USTREAM gives me the ability to stream my live set and (with some 3rd party software) visuals. I can also record my broadcast and view/embed it.

Below is a recording of my first live streaming set on USTREAM, follow me there: http://www.ustream.tv/kurtlrnz

]]>Sky. Coins.http://www.kurtlorenz.com/journal/2010/1/22/sky-coins.htmlKurt Lorenz2010-01-22T23:58:38ZPhotography Seattle sunrise iPhone

]]>Search For Meaning Promohttp://www.kurtlorenz.com/journal/2009/12/21/search-for-meaning-promo.htmlKurt Lorenz2009-12-21T19:53:18ZAfter Effects Design Motion Graphics Video Visuals

Search For Meaning Promo from Kurt Lorenz on Vimeo.

A 30 second promotional spot I created in After Effects. This will be used on the web and for a slideshow presentation at the event...

]]>The Patience of a Saint I - by Carl Sagan's Ghosthttp://www.kurtlorenz.com/journal/2009/11/30/the-patience-of-a-saint-i-by-carl-sagans-ghost.htmlKurt Lorenz2009-12-01T02:38:02ZArt Carl Sagan's Ghost Film MAAP Motion Graphics Music The Process Video VisualsRecording artist Daniel Davis, a.k.a. Carl Sagan's Ghost is a fellow electronic musician and Seattleite. We met on Twitter when I signed up for his MAAP: Excursion One (Multiple Artist Ambient Project). I was a few days too late to be included in the first round of that project but we hooked up in person for the Ghostly 10 Year show at Decibel Festival. I was invited by Daniel to participate in a (January 2010?) live performance of his forthcoming album At The End It All... featuring The Patience of a Saint I, II & III.

I have offered to compile some live visuals for the performance and below is one of my first layers...

]]>Work.http://www.kurtlorenz.com/journal/2009/11/20/work.htmlKurt Lorenz2009-11-20T21:05:28Z

11x17 poster with tear-off's.

]]>minor by Kurt Lorenzhttp://www.kurtlorenz.com/journal/2009/11/15/minor-by-kurt-lorenz.htmlKurt Lorenz2009-11-16T00:47:51Z

Here is my latest music video. The music was created in Ableton Live using an acoustic drum loop from the amazing Ryan Gruss.

The video is a compilation of footage that I (and my beautiful wife, Elbereth) shot from roadways in and around Seattle.

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