Rick Reifenstein

I hate when the weather report says a chance of thunderstorms, causing me to take an umbrella and a raincoat, only to sit all day and watch nothing but blue sky occur. UGH! While we were trying to systematically figure out some network drive and server hardware failure at work today; I thought it would be a good time to revisit "Processing"  If you are unfamiliar with Processing, it's like a sketch book for programmers. It leans a little more to the "programming as art" side of the programming world. Here's the official description: " Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to create images, animations, and interactions....initially developed as a developer sketchbook and to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context.' I had caught a lecture and demonstration by Ben Fry one of the founders of Processing, and was impressed with what it can do with large data sets. the out put can

I’ve been hobbling around on a sore ankle for the last 10 days for no reason. I say no reason cause I don’t know how it got injured. I did walk around a technology showcase in Richmond the day before , but it was fine. It’s feeling a bit better today. I think the weekend in Pittsburgh visiting family and doing nothing really helped. I submitted Lux Atrum for consideration for a job through Music Dealers last week. They were looking for a Rocktronica type piece. I felt Lux Atrum was what they were looking for. Not sure when I'll hear about whether it was selected. Posted on the site a new track called "Moonlit Bits". It was inspired by the soundtrack Daft Punk did for "Tron". The drums were done using Reactor. I want to do more work in Reactor this year. I have always liked the depth of the sounds coming from Reactor. I plan on using it a lot in the latest project in the studio right now; music for mediation. My therapist friend from California is working on he