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Jeffrey Paul Cox was born at 5:50pm EDT on Monday, June 27, 2005 at Magee-Women’s Hospital in Pittsburgh. He was 7lbs. 5oz. and 20″ long. Mom is doing great, and she and Dad and Jeffrey’s big sister Becky and his Mna are proud as can be.

Congratulations also go out to lotusFriends and fellow new dads Craig Padilla and Maurice Rickard!

The third installment of LotusCast.

This month we feature music by lotuspike artist and co-founder Ben Cox, new lotuspike artists Craig Padilla & Zero Ohms (Richard Roberts), and a track from ambient pioneer Robert Rich.

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Welcome to our second installment of the lotusCast podcast!

This time we feature an exclusive interview with Michael Allison (aka. Darshan Ambient) and a rare track from Daniel Pipitone.

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Well, here it is, our first lotusCast podcast installment. From time to time we will be producing these to keep you in the loop on Lotuspike goings-on, and all of the latest news and info related to music and artists on the Lotuspike label.

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You can now purchase tickets online for our Voices Beyond the Dome concert series @ the Science Center!

Click here for tickets >

experience a unique musical journey, featuring live performances and exclusive previews of ambient, space and ambi-electronic music, set to the thrilling imagery and lasers of the Henry Buhl Jr. Planetarium at Carnegie Science Center.

MINISTRY of INSIDE THINGS
Saturday, June 25th, 2005 @ 9:00 PM
[ambient space rock from Philadelphia, PA]

JEFF PEARCE
Friday, October 21st, 2005 @ 9:00 PM
[guitar pioneer - spacious music from strings]

tickets $10 @ door.
($8 for Science Center Members)

events@lotuspike.com or call 412-237-3400 for more information.

What about the Apple on Intel announcement? I, for one, am looking forward to it; it means my next PowerBook will be faster (well, of course it would) without melting the skin off my legs when it’s sitting on my lap. End-user-visible differences should be minimal, since it will still be Mac OS X (”Leopard”, I guess).

I only hope Apple handles the transition well enough that the platform remains vibrant during the transition. I think Jeff Carlson’s thoughts on TidBITS‘ “ExtraBITS” blog hit the nail on the head.

As for me, I’ve downloaded Xcode 2.1 and will be building universal binaries for all my projects. I hope all Mac developers do the same.

It seems like just yesterday Ableton released its way improved Live 4, including a pretty deep suite of virtual instruments…seemingly completing the ultimate composition and production “instrument”.

Well, if their preview announcement for Live 5 is any indication, they have upped the ante considerably with an even tighter DAW integration, including clip “freezing” and better overall CPU usage, and new additions to their set of instruments, including an updated version of Simpler and FINALLY…and arpeggiator! I have looked quite a while now for an intuitive, fully integrated software arpeggiator within reach of someone like me.

For a price of 499.00 USD, it comes in a bit steep, however if it delivers what’s promised, it may worth the investment, if nothing else, for live performance.

We’ll see how it measures up…Coming in July.