Mark Rushton Podcast #31 - Ornate Culmination

Mark Rushton Podcast #31 - "Ornate Culmination"
Released September 6, 2008
14 minutes
192kb-encoded MP3
20MB

A preview of the new ambient/electronica album by Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish, called Ornate Culmination. Details on where you can buy it and in what format.

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Podcast #30 - "Yacht Club" featuring Mark Rushton, Jon Harnish, Craig Erickson, Pacific Before Tiger, and Eric Hall

Mark Rushton Podcast #30 - "Yacht Club"
Released July 13, 2008
36 minutes and 49 seconds
192kb-encoded MP3
50MB

An interview with Jon Harnish and Craig Erickson about the floods in Cedar Rapids. Two pieces of music (music starts at 4:30 and 13:30 into the podcast) featuring Mark Rushton, bassist Jon Harnish, and guitarist Craig Erickson at the Yacht Club in Iowa City on Sunday, July 6, 2008. Also playing on the same bill that night was Pacific Before Tiger and Eric Hall. Following our music in the podcast, I have a track by Pacific Before Tiger from his album Anchors called "In Gold" (music starts at 25:30 into the podcast). After that, I have a portion of Eric Hall's set at the Yacht Club (music starts 30:50 into the podcast). Check out the entire podcast!

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Mark Rushton Podcast #29 - "Mandatory"

Mark Rushton Podcast #29 - "Mandatory"
Released June 11, 2008
13 minutes and 45 seconds
192kb-encoded MP3
20MB

Jon and I were expecting to get together tonight at his Weather Excuse studio in Cedar Rapids to make music, but instead a mandatory evacuation of Jon's neighborhood due to a possible flood occurred. In this podcast are three tracks from the Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish album: "New Bohemia" (excerpt), "Advisory", and "River Bend".

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Mark Rushton Podcast #28 - Three Tracks of Ambient Electronica

Mark Rushton Podcast #28 - Three Tracks Of Ambient Electronica
Released April 19, 2008
15 minutes and 20 seconds
192kb-encoded MP3
21MB file

Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish performing three tracks. The first is a live piece recorded on October 13, 2007 in Cedar Rapids. The second is "Money Agent" from the Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish album. The third is a live piece recorded on March 8, 2008 at Jon's Weather Excuse studio.

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New Mark Rushton Ambient Podcast

Mark Rushton Podcast #26 - Mid-March 2008
Released March 16, 2008
11 minutes and 14 seconds
192kb-encoded MP3
16MB

Three pieces of ambient/electronica music are played. A short introduction by Mark Rushton during the first piece of music, an excerpt of "That Was A Different Life" by Mark Rushton from the Flow album. "Advisory" by Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish. Finally, a new untitled track by Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish recorded live in Jon's home studio on March 8, 2008.

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New Podcast For January 2008

I've got a new music podcast for January 2008.

Click here to download (18.3 MB).

The show is 16 minutes long and features 5 pieces of music from the digital vault as well as an announcement on the forthcoming new albums.

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Mark Rushton Podcast #22 - October 2007 - Three new improvised ambient pieces by Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish

Mark Rushton Podcast #22 - October 2007 - Three new improvised ambient pieces by Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish
Released October 15, 2007
20 minutes and 30 seconds
160kb-encoded MP3
24MB

Jon Harnish and I recorded these three improvised ambient/electronica pieces on Saturday, October 13, 2007 at his Weather Excuse studio in the New Bohemia section of Cedar Rapids. Other recordings from this session will likely come out in podcasts in the future.

On these tracks, Jon is on bass guitar and effects box. I'm either on my Xiosynth using it as a stand-alone synth or as a keyboard controller for Ableton Live running on my laptop. I'm also playing Jon's controller running Atmosphere. Everything was recorded on my new Zoom H2.

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The Buddha Machine and Buddhametrics

The New York Times recently featured a story by Rob Walker on the Buddha Machine, and it's makers, Omaha-native Christiaan Virant and fellow Beijing resident and musical partner Zhang Jian.

The story links over to Disquiet.com, Marc Weidenbaum's excellent web/blog/interview/MP3 linkage site. Disquiet has a post on Wednesday, August 1st of various Buddha Machine-related music and projects, including a link to a podcast I released in 2006 featuring the Buddha Machine.

Live From The Ambient Matyk Cafe with The Buddha Machine was a podcast I put out on March 20, 2006. 6 minutes of the podcast is devoted to improvised music I created on my laptop along with using the Buddha Machine at the Matyk Building in the New Bohemia section of downtown Cedar Rapids.

During the recording session at the Matyk Building, I did two takes of the track with the Buddha Machine. The second version was released as a free MP3 called Buddhametrics (live v2). You can download the track directly via this link. It's a 128kb-encoded MP3, 5 minutes and 53 seconds in length, or about 5.5MB.

Buddhametrics is basically a stripped down version of a rock/electronica track, Psychometrics with the addition of the Buddha Machine.

The original version of Psychometrics appears on my 2004 CD The Driver's Companion. It's also available at iTunes.

Mark Rushton Podcast #21

New podcast (#21 - June 2007) is available. 2 new ambient/meditative tracks. 11 minutes and 30 seconds.

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Mark Rushton Podcast #20

Mark Rushton Podcast #20 is available.

It features sections of every track off my latest album, Regeneration X.