tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81167076883235668492024-03-07T22:44:32.750-08:00Some Pepperprofessor quadranglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17919305129589949525noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116707688323566849.post-38771730248275230442013-08-07T19:41:00.002-07:002013-08-07T19:41:41.838-07:00Controls<a href="http://somepepper.bandcamp.com/album/controls">The full-length album, Controls,</a> was recorded at my new home in The Kingsessing, in the first week of November, 2012, during the first signs of what would become the most difficult time of my life, and of most peoples' lives that I know. It came out of a need to control the situation, which I have since learned to temper. The tracks are nostalgic now that most of that equipment is broken/impossible to record with. Excuse the departure from the tone of this silent blog.<br><br>Observe the music video for the single off of "Controls", "Monorrhea". Download Controls <a href="http://somepepper.bandcamp.com/album/controls">here.</a>
<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/53995220" width="500" height="375" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/53995220">The video for the 3rd track</a></p>professor quadranglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17919305129589949525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116707688323566849.post-81243259962465320542011-11-28T13:47:00.000-08:002011-11-28T13:47:21.436-08:00Prof MoverSettling down into new ways. This is what you see here (Tascam 4 track as a mixer/feedback master, and a tape EQ looking all 80s) plus DD-6, DD-7, and Pulsar Tremolo all wired up together in 3 different feedback loops.<br><br>That's it.<br><br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/I0DJWGupxE4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>professor quadranglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17919305129589949525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116707688323566849.post-17262852222928939902011-10-23T08:47:00.000-07:002011-10-23T08:47:20.207-07:00Peared DownThink about it. Some sweet sticky duck down gown of your very own. Insert some yeast under your skin, balloon up, let it dry and cut it off, right up the middle.<br><br>Iron,<br><br>Add buttons,<br><br>And try on your as-yet crisp, soon-to-be roughnsoft, grungey denimesque fav shirt of the 90s.<br><loud><BR><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gkfS1RR-rmM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></loud>professor quadranglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17919305129589949525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116707688323566849.post-40379295837285572502011-09-30T12:22:00.000-07:002011-09-30T12:22:55.090-07:00EATCan't seem to shake that guitar. I lose it every few years, but it keeps coming back for more. Slightly modified blues tuning, lost the diminished chord on top, brought the 5th down to a 4th. Sounds better. There are 3 main elements to this. The "beat" pedal loop, the "tone" pedal loop, and the guitar. All 3 feed into the "tone" pedal loop in variable ways.<Br><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MhU1rFS2Nnc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>professor quadranglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17919305129589949525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116707688323566849.post-74048949700984253542011-09-07T12:02:00.000-07:002011-09-07T12:02:48.302-07:00Wifey Blues<object height="81" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F22823248"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F22823248" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed> </object> <span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/davidlbyrne/wifey-blues">Wifey Blues</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/davidlbyrne">Some Pepper</a></span> <br> Bluesing aways on current and favorite setup. Beasty beats from trem, eq, pog, and delay. Bluesy bleeps from fuzz, me30, delay, and all working together through 4-track.<br>No source, all output.<br> This widow ain't no sponge on society! <Br><br>Just grateful.<br><br> - dbprofessor quadranglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17919305129589949525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116707688323566849.post-32319097456908758202011-07-19T16:03:00.000-07:002011-07-19T16:03:58.911-07:00Patricia BrewerIs in the foreground. Lotsa tapes. 49. Gonna make you some tapes in August. Now is the time for requests. I will mail them if necessary.<br><iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DXePbeDN2uM?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br><br>that 4 track is nothing but a glorified mixer. don't get your iron oxide panties in a bind, they'll peel right off. the tapes will get their say in the "mixing" process.<br>I will feed them through each other.<br>Also, if you want the original content of the tape I give you that I recorded over, I'm digitizing them beforehand, and will put them somewhere for you to download.<br><Br> - dbprofessor quadranglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17919305129589949525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116707688323566849.post-91386173442168844622011-07-02T18:43:00.000-07:002011-07-02T18:43:58.332-07:00Didn't think you needed to see thisBut then I listened to it on these things Carl gave me called "headphones", and I like it a whole lot! Wet "n" Wild!<br><iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TOyEilrWuMo?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br><Br>If you can't hear a "beat" at the beginning, you're not wearing enough "headphones".<br><br><br>" - db"professor quadranglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17919305129589949525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116707688323566849.post-85847000908286867972011-06-08T23:51:00.000-07:002011-06-08T23:51:38.284-07:00Two for one: The Sun and ArizonaGonna premiere this Charmaine's Names song tonight while hosting the West Philly Roundup. And some Arizona for good measure.<br><br><iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hmdwbM6E-Mw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br><br>Some of you are lucky enough to have an earlier more experimental version of "The Sun" on tapes I made for you. You oughta know who you are. Let's pump up the illusion together, strangers. You oughta know you're strangers. Stranger and stranger, only strangers become more familiar.<br><Br><br> - dbprofessor quadranglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17919305129589949525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116707688323566849.post-44721935930350122232011-06-03T15:04:00.000-07:002011-06-03T15:04:00.314-07:00WorthyNew song.<br><br><iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9WDw6LkDLDg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><Br>professor quadranglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17919305129589949525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116707688323566849.post-81311463156781991312011-05-03T22:52:00.000-07:002011-05-03T22:52:53.842-07:00thump and wumpVery happy.<br>Got an equalizer pedal from <a href="http://mincemeatortenspeed.bandcamp.com">Davey</a> and a octaver from Carl.<br>I've cut the crap, pared down to what I'm most familiar with, oscillators in the right places, the DD-6 out of the loop and at the end. That's where it was with ye olde <a href="http://www.facebook.com/touchandtaste">Touch&Taste</a>. I can tell the threshold before it squeaks out its own sound, and the feedback levels for resonances that fill out. The DD-7 is firmly in the middle, creating its lovely over powered organ sound. Line feedback, new to me, is fed from the tremolo for that nice sucking sound into the equalizer which RULES and can adjust pitch AND volume. AWESOME. Anyhow, after playing with it for the better part of today, I'm happy to announce that I GOT THE BEAT:<BR><BR><iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/knV7ylf9odI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>professor quadranglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17919305129589949525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116707688323566849.post-77389258206692898632011-03-22T15:39:00.000-07:002011-03-24T12:43:41.528-07:00Another Prepared Pedals TuneThis time longer development, oscillations centered around an M2 interval, with the top down low. The composition is in the preparation, the performance is up to these two little guys. <br><br />
Enjoy!<br />
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Here it is. I step in near the end to add to the suspense. Aside from volume, I make two changes:<br />
Lower the feedback on the low tone, up the feedback on the high tone. Then quick resolve.professor quadranglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17919305129589949525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116707688323566849.post-35686208019805044712011-03-18T22:01:00.000-07:002011-03-18T22:01:05.965-07:00Prepared PedalsTwo little delay pedals just hanging out on this speaker. They are set up to play you a song if I turn the power on. Don't mind if I do.<br><br><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wZbiN0lRy34" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br><br>Both feedback settings are set to the lowest they could possibly be to generate a tone, hence the slow crescendo. The one that's focused more on being the M3 up from tonic has the wonderful ability to ever so slowly realize its full sound, so it comes in later. Really, they both are settling into a comfortable drone as they go.<br><BR>Unfortunately, one of the more charming aspects of this piece is the ability to play different overtones with your head by walking around, turning your head, really any kind of movement. It does not seem to have the same effect in playback. Future plans with this is to make a recording and play the positions in the room.<br><br>I know I could listen to these oscillators settle in for hours. If anyone else is interested, I will make a longer recording available.<Br><br><Br><br> - dbprofessor quadranglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17919305129589949525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116707688323566849.post-8506422132702180302011-03-11T13:06:00.000-08:002011-03-11T13:10:28.636-08:00We Always Cared About Him Until the EndBeen making losa tapes recently. Latest one called The Runs, but actually known to me as The Stops. Part of it features this tape-tempo addled layering of two old recordings, one on guitar, one on piano. Don't they sound real nice like with eachother?<br />
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Otherwise, The Runs theme is taken from a soundtrack recording session with the talented and strange saxophonist Michael Bauer. That theme comes back in after The Stops, which itself features double spaced periods of silence. <br />
But this time, the theme is alternately played directly onto this unique tape by direct line feedback tonally managed by the EQ on a stereo receiver.<br />
Here is a long clip from that tape, featuring the return of the theme, followed by a radio/drum game. <br />
<br><object height="81" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F11824705"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F11824705" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed> </object> <span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/davidlbyrne/excerpt-from-the-stops">Excerpt from The Stops</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/davidlbyrne">Some Pepper</a></span> <br />
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of our highly acclaimed series on how I do the things I need to do. To update you, Step One has graduated to be the first youtube video used on a tape, "Nobody Notices the Mistakes. Ya'hear? Nobody!". It was given to Sakiko from <a href="http://www.loadrecords.com/bands/dailylife.html">Daily Life</a>. See if they are playing near you. They are are good. <br />
The end of this clip fairly well displays the layers and tape manipulation typical of these projects, as more inputs are sidelined by receiver feedback and power blanks (what I call the sound cutting out from hitting stop or play on the tape deck feeding into the four track (which itself feeds into the final tape recorder). I fade out, but this thing continues.<br />
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If <i>you</i> would like a tape, please ask.<br />
- dbprofessor quadranglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17919305129589949525noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116707688323566849.post-43663314267197460852011-02-16T10:01:00.000-08:002011-02-16T10:01:55.843-08:00Mouse Pioneer<object height="81" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F10503336&show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=008bff"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F10503336&show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=008bff" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed> </object> <span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/davidlbyrne/mouse-pioneer">Mouse Pioneer</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/davidlbyrne">Some Pepper</a></span><br><br>No video this time. This is made by manipulating feedback through very fast delays and a pitch shifter. Then there's some drumming. Then there's the end where, I allow the overtones to bleed into the high pitched delay-generated oscillation that has otherwise been a stalwart through the rest of the piece. The first movement is called "Mousey Eyebrows" and the second is "Pioneer Song", to give you some context.professor quadranglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17919305129589949525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116707688323566849.post-21787349039626422442011-02-01T20:59:00.000-08:002011-02-01T21:04:52.989-08:00Bye Bye Bonnie, Have Fun In GeorgiaNice little piece of art here in exchange for a nice little piece of art from <a href="http://bonniebrendascott.com">Bonnie.</a><br />
I like the angle on this, I'm using that big silver radio in the back left.<br />
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This is a major reason I make music. I just wanted to set up some natural sounds that I could listen to while I did math. I wanted something that would not be as mind numbing as a loop, but didn't change too much as to be distracting.<br />
Maybe this isn't the one, I find myself very distracted by it.<br />
I think of this phenomenon frequently and warmly, like my cat.<br />
Who's got a face? <br><br><iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="560" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-GNf6GvNIwI" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen></iframe><br><br>You can skip me talking at the beginning, I caught myself off guard, and I apologize.professor quadranglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17919305129589949525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116707688323566849.post-66409660384871383982010-12-09T18:07:00.000-08:002010-12-09T18:07:48.406-08:00STEP ONE: Toy Soldiers, Gourd Sould YA!I make tapes. I don't limit myself. Not mix tapes, or albums either. Tapes made unique as they're being recorded. One of my favorite ways of making tapes is to record drums being fed through the pedals, with one mic hanging and one mic in the kick, other stuff feeding in too, depending, recording that tape, putting it on the computer, then feeding the computer through another tape deck and that through a 4 track and that into a tape recorder. By mixing different things, and "playing" the middle tape deck with fast forward and reverse and pause (which gives a slower, more controlled FF) as well as stop and play, which blank out the audio coming from the 4 track for a beat, each tape is completely unique and usually custom made for somebody, with them in mind the whole time. This is what the first step usually looks like<br><br><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7p-R-ATxCCI?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7p-R-ATxCCI?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br><Br>The tapes I record onto are bought cheap at thrift stores, recovered if i like them, and selected based on their covers. If the cover is blank on one side, i buy it. Once home and listening back to the MASTERPIECE i put on that tape, i turn the cover inside out and draw a new one for the person i'm making it for.<br>Ask me for one, I will be glad to make it for you.professor quadranglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17919305129589949525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116707688323566849.post-33204619829122850772010-11-02T16:24:00.000-07:002010-11-02T16:24:54.111-07:00Where's my mouth?I started practicing with Tim <a href="http://foxedandgrimed.wordpress.com">o'er here</a>, and we're using this mixer he found in an interesting, useful way....<BR>He plugs in his laptop, I plug in the end and the middle of my pedal chain, then the left out goes to the speaker, the right out goes to the other end of my FeedbacK headset. By panning, we can select what goes out and what goes back in, and equalize it on the way. Adjusting the treble, mid, and bass of the feedback changes the pitch and timbre. That part really comes into its own starting at 5 minutes into this video you might want to have started playing already:<BR><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6tFa2chauiY?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6tFa2chauiY?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><BR><BR>Nice entrance Daby!<BR>Sooo, that starts out with a low delay oscillation, and a higher one at the end of the chain getting eaten in a pattern that belongs to sound waves. Just to be clear, there are no drum machines or synths or any input at all in this one. The consistent pitch changes are coming from a flanger and a tremolo working closely in sync with eachother.<BR>Just after 7 min, I bring the wah in. It does it's job adding to the pitch shifting in a similar but smoother way than the mixer.<BR>At 8:40 I start using the other delay to remix the beat.<BR>At 9:15 I leave that for shifting the in pitch of the first delay.<BR>Then, at 9:30 I bring my head in to do all 3 for a bit.<br>round it out with some power chords, and you've got yourself a 13 minute drone noise epic! Rather short for that kind of thing, so sit up, relax and enjoy!<BR><BR><br />
My setup is shifted from what i'm used to, with the fuzz getting exiled to the very end of the chain. I switch between the end and the pre-delay/tremolo/fuzz signal being the source for feedback.professor quadranglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17919305129589949525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116707688323566849.post-40793907062961658212010-10-21T15:05:00.000-07:002010-10-21T15:06:00.000-07:00Dub Let It Pass Me ByTonight I'm doing a lounge performance. I'm playing on a bill with Danbert Nobacon of the Chumbawamba collective. It should be a good night, video forthcoming.<br />
One of the songs I play is "Don't Let It Pass Me By" which is about a bus, tattoos, zombies, and sports. I originally recorded it with a trombone chorus on the tape in the foreground. Tonight I will play my current favorite version. Then I was messing with timing and came across this version here:<BR><BR><br />
<object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/elFxiEkm7PU?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/elFxiEkm7PU?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><BR><BR>You can hear where the delay happens at the beginning, with a slight Eb oscillation in the other delay popping in between with the FdbK headset.<br>At around 2 minutes, I start arpeggiating up triads at 2/3rds the speed of the delay so it ends up arpeggiating down the triad three to a delay time.<BR>For example, say delay time has a length of 3dt. If I play Ab at 1dt, C at 3dt, and Eb at 5dt (which is equivalent to 2dt<b>mod</b>3).<br>starting at 2dt, we then have Eb, C, Ab, which is the Ab, C, Eb triad in the other direction, but twice as fast. Hard to sing to, I must say, since each phrase kicks in on the third beat of me playing the triad. It's so hard to wait! More timing tricks forthcoming, but more mindbending. I think tempos at 5/8ths of the delay time is involved, we'll have to see when I get a chance.<BR><BR>If YOU get a chance, come see Charmaine's Names tonight at the Greenline. Don't be a baby, it's just West Philly, baby!professor quadranglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17919305129589949525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116707688323566849.post-51608048646123328512010-10-11T13:41:00.000-07:002010-10-11T13:59:42.202-07:00Feel better Zach! Here's some Bower Aide.<b>   Recorded quiet for a reason I'll investigate later. More importantly, is a song I wrote for FeedbacK headset.<br />
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   In grade school I wanted to be in a band called "FeedbacK" because it was my favorite sound and it had "db" in the middle, which is a nice possibly symmetrical way to write the first <=> ( ) or inner <=> [ ] intials of my name, (D)avi[d] [(B)]yrne<br />
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   In reality, it's what I call this headset whose mic and speaker signals are sent to opposite ends of my pedals, feedback at a pitch with harmonics in A, I <i>think</i>.<br />
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   The pitch of that feedback is adjusted by the tone setting on the Fuzz, the frequency of the delay, the endurance of the delay times, distortion/fuzz being on or off, the variations in tremolo at a specific depth, and an octave down pitch shifter that kicks in early on, after a chorus effect helps sweep the pitch in the intro.</b>professor quadranglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17919305129589949525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8116707688323566849.post-42199889709080634322010-10-10T19:00:00.000-07:002010-10-10T19:00:49.057-07:00Welcome to my Basement<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WC1EJhNG75A?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WC1EJhNG75A?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object><br><b>This is a somewhat usual setup. I have multiple inputs going through a DD-7 digital delay, a FZ-3 Fuzz, ME-30 Multi Effects pedal (the one I'm hitting the most in this video), DD-6 Digital delay, and Pulsar Tremolo.<br>The inputs are a microphone, which is only adding flavor in this piece; a "FeedbacK headset" which is just this earphone/microphone jawn that I spliced the signal of, so the mic is feeding into the pedals through the "Right" channel of the mixer (so I can turn it on and off by switching the mixer from mono to stereo), and the earphones are sourced from the tremolo's second outplug; and a radio on a string.<br />
The main tones in this piece are coming from cranking the feedback of the delay at a high speed so it generates analog electronic tones, much like how a synth operates. By analog, I mean it is creating a real pitch by sending a signal at the frequency of audible sound. Admittedly, at the end of this video, the sound is lower than the recording microphone could pick up. But you can feel it, can't you? It's there, affecting the other pitches.<br />
This is what I do whenever I can, look at me!</b>professor quadranglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17919305129589949525noreply@blogger.com1