The short: I will no longer be performing under the title of ‘Chopstick’ and will go forward from here using Andrew Wayne, Andrew Wayne is Bored, or some other play on that phrasing. I feel enough people should know me as Andrew Wayne by now so I’m not worried about losing brand loyalty. (Pfft, what loyalty?!) The long: I’ve been… Read more →
Category: Experiments
So you want to stream your performance!
Since we have been living in quarantine we have had to made a lot of adjustments to our personal, professional and entertainer lives which has honestly been a very interesting challenge. Our monthly waffle events, Sacramento Audio Waffle, has been converted to a YouTube live page and we are going to be doing the same for the NorCal NoiseFest. Many… Read more →
10/14/2018 – Musiclandria Ambient Modular Performance and Workshop
The Library of Musiclandria is an amazing place really. The hosts, Buddy and Rachel took so much effort to make the artists and attendees feel comfortable. They had brought out snacks and Rachel even made a vegan drone soup that was later dubbed, Mines-DRONE-y soup. Musiclandria is essentially a library for music gear. Sign up and check out an instrument. … Read more →
09/25/2018 – NoiseFest Promotions on KDVS
On the Tuesday evening of September 25th, 2018, we had done a promotion for Noise Fest on KDVS in Davis located on the campus of UC Davis. KDVS has had a long loving relationship with the noise and experimental music scene here. In fact my first introduction to noise was through KDVS back when I was tuning in for the… Read more →
Electronet Challenge – Breakdown of rain sounds
There’s a group on Facebook that I’m involved with that has monthly/bi-monthly/whenever challenges. This was the first time I’ve actually contributed to it. This month’s challenge reads: Okay, dear Electronetae, I offer up the March/April challenge!! Our resident historian and story teller, Mark, recently told me about synth and sound pioneer Don Lewis, who was ‘so influenced by Wendy’s ‘Sonic… Read more →
Chopstick – Ginger Garlic Fantastic (2011)
On this day in 2011 I had apparently spray painted the 30 second looping cassette tapes that I used for a tape series I called “Ginger Garlic Fantastic.” I had created a loop on my computer which is embedded here. Computer was connected to the tape recorder and I would record 30 seconds at a time, changing the parameters of… Read more →
Pirate Box
This year I had purchased a Raspberry Pi with intent to do some creative things with it. One of these things has been to create a Pirate Box. The pirate box will transmit a local wifi signal, isolated from the actual Internet, which allows people to chat and share files with one another in a local setting. The idea… Read more →
Bart Galaxy
If you’re wondering where the header comes from. NOW YOU CAN FIND OUT! I should be making more of these. Source site for code Read more →
Guided Audio for Celestial Body
I had written this track a while back for a friend. It’s not going to be considered a Chopstick track, but a drone track for meditative purposes. Some people on a FB group wanted an mp3 version. I put that request on hold (sorry guys) and a couple months later and I finally decided to post it here with a… Read more →