Category Archives: Luminous City

The 1TB LaCie drive that houses all the Describing An Arc sessions (and, for the moment, all the Luminous City remixes) is beginning to fail, I think. The data seems to be there and intact—when I’m able to actually access … Continue reading →

This song bothers me… but not enough that I didn’t put it on the record anyway. It filled a specific and quite important purpose in the band’s repertoire: it’s fast, it’s aggressive, it gives the soloists a chance to stretch … Continue reading →

Once upon a time there was an Englishwoman living in Manhattan with whom I really wanted to get my freak on– and I think she might have been interested in the same thing (judging from an evening spent macking at … Continue reading →

As with Storming Heaven, the song began with Pete. He had the wistful opening section, I wrote the key change/jam section and the lyrics… about as close to jazz fusion as we ever got, actually. This aspect was what appealed … Continue reading →

So this would be one of the first songs the three of us wrote together. Josh had the bass riff. Paula had the accompanying second-line beat (though I tweaked it somewhat in the rendering). I told Pete, “Maybe a Chuck … Continue reading →

Continuing with our tour of the seven tracks on the album, we arrive at the song that does not sound like the other six. This one has other musicians on it. History. The Radiant City rehearsal space was in the … Continue reading →

Well, let’s make this the repository for everything I might have to say about the various Luminous City songs and compositions I’ve released into the veld of public consumption. M’boy Dan had a listen to Movement Along A Path the … Continue reading →

The good news is that Luminous City is live at iTunes, Rhapsody, and Napster! The bad news is, the band name as it appears in their stores may be slightly off. At iTunes and Napster, it’s being listed as being … Continue reading →

Yesterday I uploaded Luminous City to Tunecore for distribution in about a month’s time through the assorted iTunes stores (USA, Canada, UK/Europe, ANZAC, and Japan), Rhapsody, and Napster. That means that in about a month, or a month and a … Continue reading →

Having just discovered the 10MB limit on MP3s at MySpace, I now need to go and re-encode the four Luminous City tracks I had planned to upload in order to fit. That’ll happen later tonight. And here I was, all … Continue reading →

Having discovered all th0se other Fulcrums out on Myspace (this was before I opted not to maintain a presence there), I went ahead and changed the name of my project to Son et Lumiere, and almost immediately came to regret … Continue reading →

Really. I spent the next three or so years rebooting Win 98 SE every time the graphics interface got confused and froze my machine, and intermittently getting work done and cursing the fact that I could not automate my fader … Continue reading →