ctwa4 and Hurley's

I played Hurley's open mic at 9 and did Coloring Time with Andrew at 10. The highlight was finding out that a two-year-old girl was dancing to Docky Docky when I played it at Hurley's. Yay! I want babies! Somebody make me some babies!

Open Mic Set:

• Docky Docky -> Boxing Day Feast [requested by Winkler]
• Bodymind
• This Ladybug [requested by Bryan Poole-DeSalvo] -> Shirt Thane [requested by Winkler]

CTWA Set:

• Coloring Time with Andrew
• I Am Systems
• Daisy Ran Train -> Crabnors -> Receptors & Peptides -> Juiceman
• Present Tense
• E Blue Apparatus
• Raisins -> Magazine Chubbies
• Pablo

vision of a band

• fretless acoustic/electric mandolin
• upright bass
• percussion

...playing experimental (and microtonal!) pop stuff and rocking out. Classifiable as a "rock band."

Exists now only in my head.

TBS gig postponed

Thanks to any and all who may have tuned in to WAIH this evening to hear a live Nim gig. Due to circumstances beyond our control, the performance had to be cancelled tonight. It's been rescheduled for next Tuesday at 10, 2/29/05! See you then!

Nodal Nim on TBS!

Hi there!

I'll be playing a 40-minute Nodal Nim set live on 90.3 fm The Way this Tuesday, 2/22, at 10:05 pm as special guest on The Brandon Show! If you're in the Potsdam area, please feel free to tune in. It'll be a lot of fun! If you've got a song in mind that you'd like to hear, let me know ahead of time by phone, email, IM, candygram, what-have-you, and I'll be delighted to play it, if I know it, of course!

headlining and ctwa3

I'd like to start by saying a big thank you to everybody who came out to my gig at Hurley's tonight! (Technically, yesterday.) I suspect there were 20-30 people there, which for a Hurley's headlining gig, is quite a few. I guess my self-promotion paid off this time, and I am pleased about that. It's weird to be all like, "Hey come to my show," y'know, not very modest, not very subtle, but it's important. As for the show, I felt I played pretty sloppily, but I had a good time anyway. It was hard to tell what the audience thought of it, but after a while, it seemed like a lot of folks were into it. I like when that happens!

I recorded the whole hour, and I should have it on my computer right now. I will cut it up into tracks and stuff soon and get it online! I think I can put this concert with last semester's Hurley's concert on a CD and feel pretty good about giving it to people and stuff, so maybe I'll do that. Right now, I need to wrap this blog entry up and go to sleep!

I don't have a set list to share just yet. I guess I'll just include it when I upload the audio. The important stuff was that I premiered three songs (Pablo, Level 1, and Bodymind) and I relearned one old one (Docky Docky). When I listen to it and can think coherently (I am so tired right now!), I'll share some anecdotes about the evening, too.

Then, and this was kind of insane, I went to Coloring Time with Andrew as usual. I only did the first hour. I played a few songs before breaking the second A-string. My ctwa set list was:

• Coloring Time with Andrew
• Javelin Head
• Acrobasebomball
• nimland.cjb.net
• Lapse Into Memory

Thanks again if you came to my show, and I really hope you had as awesome a time as I did!

-Andrew a.k.a. Nodal Nim

reminder: COME TO HURLEY'S!

Nodal Nim is playing from 7-8 tonight at Hurley's, on the SUNY Potsdam campus!

I've got THREE new songs to debut, and I'll be taking requests! It'll be a glorious hour of mandolin megalomania! Join me for super WOW fun!

ctwa2

Hurley's Coffee House Open Mic:

• Crescent Moon -> I Am Systems
• This Ladybug -> Retro Helplessness -> Will We Go Out Together
• Let Me In Your Hole

Coloring Time with Andrew:

10:00

• Coloring Time with Andrew
• E Blue Apparatus
• Maroon Dots -> Numbers Make More Numbers
• Receptors & Peptides -> Javelin Head

10:45

• Buzzelling

11:00

• Superman Has Friends -> Sun Flies
• You've Got Your Own Life
• Love Song 1
• Robots: The Card Game
• Send Me Up -> Deposit One Tangelo -> Wow
• nimland.cjb.net

chrisdanscott

I jammed with Chris, Dan, and Scott last night. We worked on little song bits that Dan and Chris had come up with, and we played a few cover songs. We're planning to do some rocking out at Hurley's sometime. Anyway, it was sometimes rough, but we did some stuff, and I think it's going to be fun.

ctwa1

Hi there!

The first Coloring Time with Andrew of the semester was a fun one! I had some guests for my first Nodal Nim set, which went about a half an hour: Dan, Joel, Marina, and somebody else who I didn't recognize. That person came in after I started playing and left before I finished, so I didn't get the chance to say anything to her. Anyway, thank you, strange person, and all the others, for coming to my show and coloring! When I started playing CDs and wandering around the station, I found six plastic plates in the lobby that my guests had decorated, and I hung them up on a window in the station for all to see! Also, thank you to Gina for requesting three excellent songs that I was delighted to play. Requests are fun, especially when they're for good songs!

Here are my set lists from my live radio performances. The first one might be totally out of order, but I think I got all the right songs, anyway.

Set 1 - 10:00

• Coloring Time With Andrew
• Science
• Nobody Knows [request] -> Shirt Thane [request]
• Eat Lots of Apples [request]
• Let Me In Your Hole
• Present Tense [request]
• Clusterbomb
• Nimland
• The Slippery Toad [with Joel]
• Vegetables You've Never Heard Of

Set 2 - 11:30

• Stripes
• I Am Systems

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I also went to the first Hurley's coffee house of the semester, and it was fun. Kevin Irwin did a fantastic headlining set, and then there were just a few open mic'ers. I played third. Here is my set list:

• Raisins -> Numbers Make More Numbers -> You've Got Your Own Life
• Stripes [premiere]
• Alan the Duck [request]

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In other aah music news, I had my first voice lesson of the semester today, and it was good. I have some stuff to work on for next week's studio class performance of Walking by Charles Ives. It will be fun! I also spent some time in the electronic music lab playing with things today.

Much love to all,
Andrew

upcoming gig / site update / jamming with friends

Hi there!

Oh boy!

I am scheduled to play Nodal Nim at Hurley's coffee house (located on the SUNY Potsdam campus directly under the Lehman Dining Hall) on Thursday, February 17 (two weeks from now) at 7 pm! It'll be an hour of pure nimgasmic incredibleness, and I hope to see you there! Bring friends!

I updated nimland with a little news box and a different color scheme for the main page. Nothing too interesting there, but good.

I jammed with Scott and Dan and a little bit of Chris tonight. It was fun.

Hypercube rehearsal

Hypercube rehearsed tonight, which now consists of Joel, Eric Fauss, and me. We wrote the lyrics to a song about a professional bowler named Molly. I'm not sure what I think of the song yet, but it was a lot of fun. We're going to make Tuesday nights a regular rehearsal time.

A reminder to Potsdammers: tune in to Coloring Time with Andrew on Thursday at 10pm for some radiotastic coloring magic!

Hello and Welcome!

To anybody wandering in who saw the posters for my radio show and were fascinated, hi there! I am Andrew, a.k.a. Nodal Nim. I'm very excited about a new semester of Coloring Time, and I'm double super-duper excited to add a performance aspect to the show! In the past, it's been a regular spin-them-disks kind of show, but this semester, it'll also be a pick-those-mando-strings kind of show!

So this Thursday, grab a marker or crayon or whatever you've got and tune in!

Coloring Time with Andrew is Thursdays from 10 pm to midnight, on 90.3 fm The Way. People in and around Potsdam, NY should be able to pick it up. There's no internet streaming currently available, unfortunately.

And hey, if you want to go the next step, come by the radio station at 10 for the performance and coloring! It's located directly above the mailroom in the Barrington Student Union! It's a cozy place, and I'd love for some folks to come by to see me and have a good time!

Best wishes to all,
Andrew / Nodal Nim

Coloring Time with Andrew - a new and final semester

I've been doing Coloring Time with Andrew (my fun-tastic college radio show) for a number of years now. Since I'm probably going to be graduating in May, I'm realizing that this will be my last semester of Coloring Time. I'm planning on making it a good one!

First of all, I got a new time slot. Last semester, it was Friday from 10 to midnight, and although that was usually convenient for me, it wasn't the best time to get radio listeners. This semester, it's Thursday night from 10 to midnight, and I think that will be better!

Second, and most excitingly, I've decided to do regular Nodal Nim radio performances as part of Coloring Time! I'm going to improvise alternative versions, premiere new songs, take requests, and generally make a Nimly time of it!

So I stayed up somewhat late into the morning last night assembling a new poster that emphasizes the new Nodal Nim connection. I provided a link to the Nodal Nim website (which can now be abbreviated as nimland.cjb.net), and just a minute ago I added a CTWA section to Nimland. So I'm finding new ways to connect areas of my life.

I'm planning to do as much open mic as possible, which is earlier in the evening on Thursday, providing me an opportunity to plug my show then.

I'm excited by this!

Just my little narcissistic crusade against the apathy of Potsdam.

Love,
Andrew

back in Pdam

Yup. I'm back in Potsdam. For complicated and inane reasons, Jen and I will not be able to play at the Fields anymore, which is a coffee house downtown that we both played at last semester and did very well. Suffice it to say that somebody there doesn't like us, despite our ability to attract good crowds who drink their beverage and pay for it.

So we move on. We'll both play Hurley's, a kind-of-coffeehouse on campus, for one thing. We'll be looking for other stuff as well, perhaps in other towns nearby. We're looking at possibilities on campus in other venues than the Hurley's coffee house, and we're thinking of throwing a mini house party and charging admission. I may take to doing radio gigs on a regular basis, too. If anybody's got ideas for us, let me know!

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Eric has joined Joel and I in our bizarro band called Hypercube. We haven't had the chance to play anything yet, but I think there's a lot of potential in this. It would be even cooler if Winkler were a member, but he's off student teaching this semester.

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I officially added Advanced Electronic Comp to my schedule today. It's a smaller class that gets a bigger music lab to work in, and I am very excited to do some serious stuff there!

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I jammed with Dan and Chris yesterday, and it was fun.

Nodal Nim & Dave!

Dave Shaver, brother extraordinaire, joined Nodal Nim at open mic tonight at Artie's River Street Stage! He played da drums, and Nim played da mando and vox. It was really fun and cool!! Let Me In Your Hole was especially great, in it's chaos and togethertastic brother magic!

Set List:

• Deposit One Tangelo -> Vegetables You've Never Heard Of -> Will We Go Out Together?
• I Am Systems
• Let Me In Your Hole

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I am an eraser
and you are a pencil mark
that I cannot erase

Nim website update

I finally added pictures to the Nodal Nim website. There are 28, and they are scattered about -- mostly on the songs page. No other changes did I make.

new Nim audio

Newly recorded and uploaded to the Nodal Nim Soundclick page:

• Clusterbomb
• Receptors & Peptides
• Supersane

http://www.soundclick.com/nodalnim

Clusterbomb

I feel like posting the lyrics to my new song Clusterbomb somewhere before I lose them. Here is good for now. No recording yet, but I'll let you know.



round fingermouth
the style of your strange cats
welcome them in
welcome them in

wax of thirsty neighbor
tarragon splendor
tasty shallow teargas
clusterbomb

clusterbomb
orange tallow man
weapon steel weapon
weapon cold weapon

Java's

I played Nodal Nim tonight at Professor Java's Coffee Sanctuary from 9-11. It was packed! We had a ton of fun! It was such a rush! I couldn't believe how cool it was! I could do that every night. I'm exhausted, though, let me tell ya...

This is the best that Teo, Dave, and I could reassemble my set list. If anybody reading this remembers anything differently, let me know, because there are probably some mistakes.

Act I

• Maroon Dots -> Shirt Thane
• A Parade, Yes. -> Receptors & Peptides
• Retro Helplessness
• I Am Systems
• Daisy Ran Train -> Supersane
• Nobody Knows -> Javelin Head -> Rodeo Clock
• You've Got Your Own Life
• The Slippery Toad
• Alan the Duck [requested by Teo and Kevin]
• Crash Tinkle Tinkle -> Lapse Into Memory
• Will We Go Out Together?
• Love Song 1 [first performance in a long time]
• Acrobasebombball -> E Blue Apparatus [requested by Nick]
• Vegetables You've Never Heard Of

Act II

• Deposit One Tangelo [requested by Teo and Dave]
• Superman Has Friends -> Juiceman
• Princessdom
• Clusterbomb [premiere]
• Raisins -> Buzzelling
• Crescent Moon
• Magazine Chubbies
• Boxing Day Feast [first performance in a long time]
• Robots: The Card Game 1 [requested by Kevin]
• Send Me Up -> Science
• Crabnors -> Eat Lots Of Apples
• Rockin' Out
• Wow -> This Ladybug
• Let Me In Your Hole
• Present Tense

Encore:

• I Am Systems ["remix"]

Fun things that happened:

• I forgot my microphone stand at home, so I had to rig something up. It was amazing that I had something I could use.
• People danced at bizarre times: during You've Got Your Own Life and Let Me In Your Hole.
• For Boxing Day Feast, I taped the lyrics of the song to the wall so I could read them. They fell once, and a friend of Kevin's picked them up for me and stuck them back up there.
• I absolutely did NOT remember how to play Robots: The Card Game, but just for fun, I did my best. It wasn't exactly right, but it passed, and it was funny.
• The audience participated in the I Am Systems "remix" by rapping and beatboxing and so on.
• "I am systems all up in your grill."

It was truly crazy in every way that something can be crazy. Thank you to everybody who came! Thanks especially to Kevin Marshall, who recruited a bunch of his friends for the audience. He says his friends had a good time. Special thanks to Teo Acosta for the use of his keyboard amp as a PA. It sounded excellent.

The guy working there told me that, since I attracted so many people (he seemed genuinely surprised at the turn-out), we could arrange sometime for a more official show, with a cover-charge of like $4 a head. Over the summer, I may try to arrange something else, on a larger scale. Kevin is excited to help with that.

Next Sunday, I'm going back to Potsdam, where I plan to do as many shows as possible. I love this stuff!

WRPI with Teo and friends!

Along with Dave Shaver, I was a special guest on Teo's radio show, whose lineup usually consists of him and the rest of his band: Nick, Oliver, and Paul. I played a little Nodal Nim:

• E Blue Apparatus
• Let Me In Your Hole

...and then his band played and we all jammed on four chords. It was silly and fun!

I also rehearsed some Nim songs with Dave on drums today in preparation for an open mic next Wednesday. It's going to be way cool.

A reminder: Come to my gig on Saturday if you want to be entertained! 9-11PM at Professor Java's Coffee Sanctuary! What fun!