Well, TODAY is indeed a special day.
My dear Andrew Dupuy has at last launched his eagerly anticipated website/podcast: Discover A World Of Sounds!
Yes, the site is incredible and I am not afraid to say I am biased. I daresay Dupuy is one of my favorite people in this great big world. He's a Southerner in origin, and thus carries with him that particularly Southern sense of ballsy/cutting humor and deliciously gross charm, but most importantly and like me (perhaps why we get along!), he's a total pop culture whore. His new site is many things, but it's mainly an exploration of how music relates to memory. And trust me, Dupuy's memories and comments are HILARIOUS. You can listen to his first podcast here.
Just push play!
This first podcast is an amalgam of childhood memories, setting the scene for what's to come. Dupuy's gonna post a new radio show every two weeks, and just trust me here, dude's got it down! His production is seamless and layered, but more importantly his detailed tales of growing up in Louisiana as well as living in the now here in San Francisco are quality entertainment. He's not shy. There will also be constantly posted blogs related to music and memory on the site.
Portrait of the artist as a young man.
Perhaps I will have to interview him sometime soon for this site.
My dear Andrew Dupuy has at last launched his eagerly anticipated website/podcast: Discover A World Of Sounds!
Yes, the site is incredible and I am not afraid to say I am biased. I daresay Dupuy is one of my favorite people in this great big world. He's a Southerner in origin, and thus carries with him that particularly Southern sense of ballsy/cutting humor and deliciously gross charm, but most importantly and like me (perhaps why we get along!), he's a total pop culture whore. His new site is many things, but it's mainly an exploration of how music relates to memory. And trust me, Dupuy's memories and comments are HILARIOUS. You can listen to his first podcast here.
Just push play!
This first podcast is an amalgam of childhood memories, setting the scene for what's to come. Dupuy's gonna post a new radio show every two weeks, and just trust me here, dude's got it down! His production is seamless and layered, but more importantly his detailed tales of growing up in Louisiana as well as living in the now here in San Francisco are quality entertainment. He's not shy. There will also be constantly posted blogs related to music and memory on the site.
Portrait of the artist as a young man.
Perhaps I will have to interview him sometime soon for this site.
"Da-dah di-dah-da-dah, da-dah, da-dah, da-dah, da-dah" or something like that goes the sound of that annoyingly repetitive Mister Softee ice-cream truck jingle which with summer now in full-effect, has been playing in a seemingly never-ending loop in many city neighborhoods including mine. Like most I once too loved that song that signaled the promise of a nice cold ice cream on a hot summer's day. But after the first few thousand times or so of enduring that looped sound, it firmly burrowed its
way under my skin and on my goddam nerves. And I am not alone in feeling this way. New Yorker Michael Hearst of One Ring Zero was so sick and tired of hearing the same two or three old ice cream truck songs playing over and over, year after year, decade after decade that he decided to compose alternative ice cream songs and has created an entire album of new original music based on the insidiously infectious tunes of 
ice cream trucks and already a number of independent ice cream truck operators in New York and Los Angeles have started using Hearst's music instead of the traditional truck tunes. Entitled simply "Songs For Ice Cream Trucks" the recently released album's dozen songs were recorded using various unusual instruments, including a high-pitched glockenspiel, melodica and theremin. That's his video above.
