*poof* It’s gone
Wednesday, July 27th, 2005It may be a blogging faux pas, but the last post was whiny and annoying, and I didn’t like it 5 seconds after I posted it, so I disappeared it. That’s what I get for posting when I should be sleeping. My apologies to anyone who may have been subjected to it. That version of me was beaten severely with a newspaper and has promised to go away.
Moving on, I was looking for good music to listen to, and realized I hadn’t listened to Torley Wong (awesome techno artist, though calling him just a techno artist is, I believe, a little bit like calling a composition by Ludwig van Beethoven or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart a song, as opposed to a masterpiece). I have most of his music, but decided to search him out anyway, to see if he had released anything new. He’s been kind enough to release all of his works under the Creative Commons License, and they are free for download courtesy of the Internet Archive.
If you visit the above website, you will find all 230 of his songs available singly for download, or lumped together in a 1.4 GB zip file of goodness. Sadly, if you read the contents of the page, he announces that he has an affliction of the ear called hyperacusis, which makes almost any sound seem excessively loud, prohibiting him from composing. This is very much a shame, but it seems like he has accepted it. Either way, I highly recommend you take the time to listen to some of his music. It will be well worth your time.
Update:
For those of you keeping score at home, the above linked album is titled The Final Selection, and is a different collection of songs than those contained in 1a, 1b, or 2a, which are all completely worth listening to as well. I haven’t listened to them in a while, but for those of you overwhelmed by the vast selection of songs, Torley would suggest (and I tend to agree) listening to Xristosphan, A New Piano [radio edit], thesmileinhereyes [alive], The Chinese Method, and FOOTSTEPS, to which I would add An Old Piano. There are many formats, so I highly recommend visiting the web site rather than taking my word for it. Enjoy. 