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About Fresh

Mac Fan/Sys. Engr - NASA planetary missions. guitarist/producer/AFOL/fitness fan/film+TV+sndtrk composer/podcast host/Python newbie coder. Music by me: http://SFTF.bandcamp.com. Mellowly Cool. Find me on X and Bluesky

FB – The Sabbatical

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Fresh

Greetings All… Hope this post finds you well. It has been an interesting past two weeks. A few things sort of came to an apex and caused me to make a decision one evening that reflects the graphic you see … Continue reading →

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Pathways to music composition (tech and otherwise) in 2013

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Fresh

My Lab Just yesterday I was having a chat with another musician/producer over Gmail. We were talking about related topics regarding music production. Part of the discussion was about his loose timing of the hi-hat in hip hop to give … Continue reading →

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The Sunday Soundtrack – 14 Apr 13

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Fresh

Greetings Listeners…. Welcome to another edition of The Sunday Soundtrack. “It’s been a long time, I shouldn’t have left you…” (a little hip hop lyric reference there). It’s great to be back with another edition, albeit overdue, of the podcast. … Continue reading →

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Smooth Sunday – Last night’s work

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Fresh

Greetings, In our last episode :), I was working on rearranging and audio file our keyboardist recorded into a basic arrangement for the band to start rehearsing. The only thing in the audio file I wanted to delete was the … Continue reading →

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Chronicles of a Mix – M&Ms (10 Oct 12)

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Fresh

Greetings… 11:46 am on a Thursday and I’m breaking for lunch a little early, but eating at my desk (have a task I’m working on with a colleague and just got the ok from our supervisor on format – of … Continue reading →

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Working on a new arrangement – Smooth Sunday

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Fresh

Greetings…. It’s about 8:34 pm, beat from a long day at work. It wasn’t busy, but I was up late last night working out a tune strictly from an audio file. I’m sitting in the studio tonite, about to chart … Continue reading →

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Chronicles of Mix – 06 Oct 12 ::: Drums anyone?

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Fresh

Greetings. It’s been quite some time since I’ve posted from my blog. With all the social networking sites in full bloom, it seems that blogging is passe now (at least the behemoths like Facebook around). In any event, I’d like … Continue reading →

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Incognito Interview: Bluey Maunick/Surreal – 19 April 2012

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Fresh

Greeting ‘Cog fans. I’ve had the extreme pleasure of talking with Bluey about the current release Surreal, the tour so far, and especially about the band Incognito. It was truly a blast to interview the leader of my favorite band … Continue reading →

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Incognito f/Maysa (with The Robert Glasper Experiment) – 3 April 2012, at The Warner Theater, Washington DC

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Fresh

Greetings all. I hope this post finds you well. I haven’t posted about a concert since my last one, Jeff Lorber Fusion at The Rams Head Tavern in Annapolis in March 2011. It’s been a minute since I’ve seen Incognito … Continue reading →

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Dad and Mike’s Rocket Launch Adventures- Post 1: Launch Site Surveys

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Fresh

Greetings readers: Hope all is well with you. I’m home sick with a 24 hour bug that somehow morphed into 48 hours, so I have a bit of free time to post a blog. Some of you might have seen … Continue reading →

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