Patrick's Webpage

Experiment with Utopian practices.

2009-12-14T09:08:00.000-08:00

Experiment with Utopian practices.

Seeking new clients and collaborators

2009-12-07T08:39:00.000-08:00

Patrick is currently seeking new clients and collaborators to engage with
in a broad range of arts - related activities,
bringing 40 plus years of experience to the process.
Music. Sound. Live Performance. Studio Production.
Instruction. Coaching. Workshops.
Consulting. Collaboration.
pstacey@nycap.rr.com
518-306-5023

Your Digital Assistant

2008-12-30T13:02:00.001-08:00

Your Digital Assistant

audio/video tapes,vinyl,and pictures
converted to today’s formats

organize,edit,archive,share
all your media - new and old

Project in mind, but don’t have the time? I can help.

Audio/Video PC Production,Consultation,Tutoring

No job too small. Free initial chat. Reasonable rates.

Call 518-306-5023 or Email ptrckstcy@yahoo.com

Mash It up Right Video

2008-11-05T07:40:00.000-08:00

I mashed together various audio and video clips of my brother and I's band, Groove Thangs, an ongoing musical endeavor celebrating 25 years together in 2009. Enjoy!

Split: a divided America

2008-10-17T07:37:00.000-07:00

often you should act like you are sexless

2008-09-29T06:32:00.000-07:00

often you should act like you are sexless

from Jenny Holzer's Truisms

Tags: Holzer, truisms, sex, sexless

Tikkun_olam

2008-06-04T08:13:00.000-07:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikkun_olam

Tikkun Olam a Hebrew phrase meaning "an obligation to repair the world"

my you tube channel

2007-02-07T10:01:00.000-08:00

check out my youtube channel

www.youtube.com/user/PStacey

"Mush"

will soon be showing at the Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, NY

www.saratoga-arts.org/

"Nine"

posters, t-shirts, totebag on sale now

www.cafepress.com/sudokuart

lots of mp3's here

www.mediamax.com/pstacey

revamped front frontpage soon

www.patrickswebpage.com

quotes for the new year

2006-12-21T10:21:00.000-08:00

Chatting with my daughter, I blurted out,

"There has never been a better time to be alive."

She responded,

"Every moment is a new beginning."

put those into google!

Happy New Year! Peace on Earth!

more Caroline...

2006-08-28T10:35:00.000-07:00

Sweet Caroline is the only tune I can think of where an audience has sang along to a horn part. Amazing. Arranger should get a lifetime grammy for that alone. In the past fifty years of pop music history, there's been alot of songs, alot of hits...and somehow Sweet Caroline comes out on top...mystifying...

Sweet Caroline

2006-08-27T13:32:00.000-07:00

Sweet Caroline. Written and performed by Neil Diamond. A song written in a Memphis hotel room the night before a recording session in 1968 that went to number 4 on the charts. Will some one please explain to me why this tune is the most popular sing along today?

I confess I have googled and been unable to find out enough about the origins of it's resurgence to asuage my obsession. Wikipedia says it's popular in Ireland and the UK at weddings. The Red Sox play it between innings. College marching bands. Movie soundtracks.

Here's my basic working theory of the moment. An innocuos, easy listening, mid-tempo, late 60's, throw away ditty that is a little catchy goes viral after a few frat boys and/or Irish football fans latch onto it in a druken stupor. A testament to how something can innocently spread. On one hand a sound theory but on the other completely ridiculous. Why this song? I could get specific about why it is a poorly written song and fill page after page. Is it because a bad song lends itself to this role? I feel compelled to delve into the sociological and mystical aspects of popular music, mob-mentality and group consciousness, ritual, modern culture trends, etc. when trying to unravel and resolve this puzzling phenomena...how silly...just a tune, no big deal...nope,not there yet...please help me...more later...

mission statement

2006-07-20T06:30:00.000-07:00

a joyous, playful act

an assertion of being and faith

pretentiously lacking ambition

morally ambiguous

smugly positive

forcefully absurd

acutely unaware of self or style

masked

fleeting

folly

this

Trend-spotting - "The Truth"

2006-03-13T08:16:00.000-08:00

Trend-spotting - "The Truth"

I was watching comedian Dave Chapelle on "Inside the Actor's Studio", a Bravo Network TV interview show, and he closed the show by saying, "There's the Truth... everything else will fall away". I can dig it. But then I thought about how trendy "The Truth" is. Keepin' it Real. Ya gotta keep it real, right? "Reality" shows will not go away. Investigative reporting. Muckraking websites. Politics. Religion. Talking heads throwing around their sincerity with the big sell attitude of Madison Avenue. Documentary films were never more popular. Inquiring minds want to know. Who's really behind that conspiracy? Everyone shocked that that memoir was faked. Was that athlete taking drugs? The Truth is out there. Fox Mulder never found it, but dammit, it's important. Mr. Starr wants some transparency and he wants it now. Who's zoomin' who? No, really! The truth needs to come out. It's gonna make us all feel alot better. Penn and Teller have a show called "BullS**t". There was a best seller called "On BullS**t". I liked the book, thought it had some interesting things to say, and I'm as much into "The Truth" and what's real as the next guy. I'm just making an observation. The Truth is trendy. And this trendiness is making it invisible.
When one actually looks for the truth, one finds that it is murky, ill-defined, elusive, confusing, and complicated. "The Truth? You can't handle the Truth!" By attempting to bring it into focus, you lose it, very much the way physicists cannot fix the position of subatomic particles. Bummer? Not really. It is something to be celebrated. What's being currently lost in our culture is that the Truth can actually be found in the most fantastic places. Yes, that memoir should have had a bigger disclaimer. Bad boy! But the Truth was in there even more than if he had stuck more to the facts. Fiction brings the Truth to light quite well. Watch "The Sopranos". You'll get the whole wise guys thing in a nutshell, the truth splitting it open. When children play, the Truth is the last thing on their minds, yet what they pretend is more real than Court TV could ever dream to be. That tingle on your neck when a singer transfers a little magic to you just for a moment? There's the Truth. Read a good poem. Hell, write a good poem. Now you are getting closer. Don't fret that you can't fix its position or clearly define it. The Truth is out there. It's all around you. It's suffocating you, actually. Look for a crack and take a breath. And enjoy the pleasures of a trend somewhere else.
Oh yeah, Mr. Chapelle? Shortly before or after he spoke of the Truth, in almost the same sentence, he said, " I'm just a comedian, just looking for what's funny, just throwing it out there." That's more like it!

"Traced" a web movie clip

2006-02-28T07:12:00.000-08:00

I took a few passages from a book entitled "Lipstick Traces" by GreilMarcus, flew them into Keynote(a Power Point style presentation app.for the Mac), and rendered a Quicktime movie and .avi file. Enjoy!

www.streamload.com/pstacey/Traced.mov

www.streamload.com/pstacey/Traced.avi

Paddy's Brew

2006-01-30T17:17:00.000-08:00

I grabbed an mp3 of Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew". Then I sliced it, diced it, stretched it, looped it, slathered some effects on it, eq'ed it, and rendered it; then I posted it here...

www.streamload.com/pstacey/electronic/PaddysBrew.mp3

hope you like it...

Long distance recording 20 years later

2006-01-18T05:57:00.000-08:00

So twenty years later, I get an e-mail from my bandmate when I was in college. Yes , we're both still making music. We talk about the old band, the old songs, and decide to re-record a tune we wrote together back then...we exchange e-mails and mp3's and after a while, we had something... a record made long distance twenty years after the fact, amazing!

The tune's called "She's So Unpredictable"

special guest Mike Echols on bass

link below....enjoy!

www.streamload.com/pstacey/Solo/Unpredictable.mp3

Mash it up Right!

2006-01-17T08:44:00.000-08:00

My brother asked me to make a "wacky mix" from the recordings of the Groove Thangs , the band we had together from '84-'91. All the kids are doing it these days...it's called a mash up.
We think it came out great. Imagine a 15 minute dance mix of all your fave GT tunes, only nuttier, and you've got the idea.

"Mash It Up Right" can be found at...

www.streamload.com/pstacey/GrooveThangs/MashItUpRight

Thanks for listening!

Gameboy Music!

2006-01-17T08:28:00.000-08:00

I love retro, lo-fi electronic music...the blips from Ms. Pac Man make my heart sing! I found a company in Germany that makes an 8 track, fully editable, music sequencer/composer that's a cartridge for the Nintendo Gameboy! www.nanoloop.com

My first foray into this latest muse is called "nano2" and can be found here...

www.streamload.com/pstacey/electronic/nano2.mp3

I plan to perfrom "live" with my Gameboy sometime this year, check for updates here!

"When I press this little key, it makes a little melody!" Kraftwerk

Thanks for listening!

Homage to Ohm

2006-01-17T07:44:00.000-08:00

Patrick Stacey's Homage to Ohm

This was an expiremental electronic improvisational performance piece that I put together in '04-05.

four live recordings and a promo movie clip are at...

http://www.streamload.com/pstacey/electronic/HomageToOhm

promo copy from project below...

For his most ambitious project in his 20+ year, wildly eclectic career, Patrick has constructed a one of a kind sound control station, painstakingly sampled the pioneers of early electronic music, and created an experimental audio abstraction unique in its history, form, and presentation - Homage to Ohm.

A project going into its second year, Patrick started by delving into the roots of his life long passion, electronic based sound, and came across a three disc compilation recently released by Ellipsis Arts entitled "OHM: the early gurus of electronic music". Using computer based digital signal processing technology, Patrick methodically extracted hundreds of sound bites from throughout the collection, loaded them into a performance based application from Ableton software called "Live", and slowly put together a piece that is all at once an improvisation, a tribute, a science, and an art.

Needing a bit more than his I-Mac laptop to execute his vision, Patrick enlisted the help of his father and designed and built a custom control desk to transport and present his medley of devices in a user friendly and efficient system that not only adds to the experience, but inspires it.

Patrick is currently promoting "Homage to Ohm" through live performance, the Internet and other media, and would be pleased to assist with any inquiry.

"Mush" a short film online

2006-01-17T07:15:00.000-08:00

I've been looking into the history of the U.S. nuclear testing program lately and got inspired to make a short film, now posted online. It's called "Mush" and it includes footage from "Trinity and Beyond", a documentary on the subject I lifted off the TV, as well as sound bites from a lecture by Richard Feynman, a Nobel prize winning physicist who was one of the only direct eye witnesses to the first "Trinity" nuclear test. Feynman's words come from "Los Alamos From Below," a commemorative CD included with the book CLASSIC FEYNMAN. More info? The link is:
http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/fall05/006132.htm
There's also music from Kubrick's "2001". It's five minutes long.

Link below. Thanks for watching!

www.streamload.com/pstacey/MushMpegMovie/MUSHMOVIE.mpg

New Sounds! "Piano and Voice" an electronic invention in three parts

2005-11-15T15:02:00.000-08:00

While working on the Cocktail Nuts project, pianist Jon Ozment and I

discovered a mutual interest in expiremental electronic music. Jon was working with

Numark DJ-style CD players, loopers, and effects and I was working with a laptop

computer running Ableton Live software. I suggested to Jon that we exchange samples

of each other. I would take his acoustic piano samples and he would take my vocal

samples.We'd mess with them a bit on our own, then get together and improvise a duet

playing the sounds we had exchanged. The result of our efforts is called "Piano and

Voice - an electronic invention in three parts". The three parts consist of our duet and

our two solo efforts.They are essentailly live performances that we have edited for

length and continuity.You can find "Piano and Voice" here...

www.streamload.com/pstacey/electronic/Piano and Voice

Enjoy!

Welcome

2005-10-29T06:56:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Patrick's webpage! The main purpose of this site is to make available most if not all the music I've recorded in my adult life.

Click Music Online to find www.streamload.com/pstacey .

It's all there for free, although tips are appreciated. If you plan on keeping the music, burning it to CD or putting on your Ipod or other mp3 device, feel free to download whatever you'd like. If you just want to listen to it at your computer, please push the play button and it will stream to you.

Come back here for more notes about the archive, announcements about new music and other projects and events.

Enjoy! Thanks! P