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Portland, Oregon, USA

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About me

I've been performing and recording as 'map~map' for quite a few years now. I also have a band with my friend Matt Jones called 'unrecognizable now'. We have a full length album coming out in mid 2006 on Pehr ( link )
please visit link for more on us...
or you can be our friend at link ...if you are into that kind of thing.
thanks!

My Gear

*MacBook
*PowerBook
*Live 6
*Pure Data
*Sonic Birth
*Modul8
*effects pedals
*punch card music box
*melodica
*xylophone
*baritone guitar
*drum kit

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unrecnow in LA + new EP

Tags: ambient, unrecnow, shows, Tonalism, LA, rad!!

hey all.
i blogged about this earlier but since it's happening this week i thought i'd give you an update... so here it goes.
this week unrecog (Click here to read the rest)

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upcoming shows (portland and LA)

Tags: unrecognizable, shows, dublab, LA

Hey friends,
just wanted to drop a line about two shows i've got coming up. The first is later this month in Portland. we (unrecognizable now) a (Click here to read the rest)

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clue to kalo/unrecnow/oo-ray in Portland

Tags: clue to kalo, unrecognizable, oo-ray

Hey Portland people.
so unrecognizable now + the Oo-Ray are playing this wednesday at Holocene with a great Australian band, Clue to Kalo. Roshi will (Click here to read the rest)

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This Wednesday in Portland - yellow swans/unrecnow/e. rose

Tags: holocene, visual, live music, unrecnow

Hey guys,
just a reminder that this wednesday is vision+hearing:landmarks at Holocene in Portland.
Yellow Swans
Unrecognizable Now + the Oo-R (Click here to read the rest)

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any other portland area monome users out there?

Tags: monome, pdx, meet up, beer, LED box

Hey there a few monome users from the monome.org fourm that live around portland are getting together this sunday evening (feb 3rd) for a get-togethe (Click here to read the rest)

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Portland people... we want your videos!

Tags: videos, pdx, vision+hearing, unrecnow, !

Hey portland people.
so there is going to be another vision+hearing show in February at Holocene. we have great people contributing and it will be aw (Click here to read the rest)

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unrecognizable now dublab podcast

Tags: podcast, dublab.com. unr, portland

Hello all,
the session that we recorded last april at DubLab.com is now available for download. this session was on heavy rotation on dublab for a wh (Click here to read the rest)

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japanese television

Tags: TV, Kyoto, Japan, strange, funny, mapmap

hey all.
so while digging deep into my external hard drive during the PRA show that i VJ'd at Holocene, I uncovered these clips of TV shows from my (Click here to read the rest)

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leaf patterns (video)

Tags: leaves, portland, video, mapmap, fall

Hey there
here is a link to a little video i put together for part of my live set that i've been playing recently. the music is made with nodal and (Click here to read the rest)

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TUNNG | portland show w/ map~map | Nov 3rd

Tags: tunng, mapmap, portland, someday lounge

Hey all, so like Fredo posted last week ( link ) Tunng is RAD. They are coming to play Portland this Saturday (Click here to read the rest)

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map~map show

Tags: holocene, 16mm film, live, map~map, pdx

Hey all,
so i signed on to this show a few days ago. I now have under a week to come up with a 30 set of music and visuals by myself. map~map per (Click here to read the rest)

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Drums in Portland | Third Annual Drum Kit Drum Circle

Tags: not hippy, Drum Set/ Drum, non-em

Hey everyone,
So my pal Avalon and I are organizing this outdoor Drum Set Drum Circle. This will be the third time we have done it. it's pretty fu (Click here to read the rest)

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Some Cats from Japan|Tonight|T:BA Festival|Portland

Tags: PDX, Japanese Experi, PICA

Hey guys. I went to a lecture/panel discussion featuring these guys this afternoon.
the show should be awesome. unless you are going to see Animal (Click here to read the rest)

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portland gear for sale (time crunch/locals only)

Tags: gear, portland, stuff for sale

Hey guys, i leave to go to the Philippines and Japan for two weeks this thursday...
japan if f'ing expensive so i am going to attempt to raise mone (Click here to read the rest)

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Tonight in Portland - 06.17 - Holocene

Tags: show, portland, unrecognizable, drums

tonight!
link
we are playing 2nd. it will be rad. (Click here to read the rest)

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Unrecognizable Now, now on iTunes

Tags: unrecognizable, music CD, album, iTunes

Hey everyone,
just to keep you all updated. Our album 'in a cave or a coma' is now available to buy as a download on the iTunes music store. we (Click here to read the rest)

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Unrecognizable Now LA Shows!!!

Tags: dublab, pehrspace, LA shows, unrecnow

Hey everyone!
So this week we are heading down to LA to play a few shows... two radio and one venue. On friday we will be recording a session for (Click here to read the rest)

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photo shoot

Tags: photos, unrecognizable, overhead

so last night Matt and I did an Unrecognizable Now photo shoot at the studio I work at. Pehr said that they needed some photos so we came up with thi (Click here to read the rest)

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unrecognizable now on dublab mp3 blog

Tags: blog, internets, dublab, unrecnow, rad

So I just found out that Unrecognizable Now is featured on the brand new Dublab.com mp3 blog. link We are totally (Click here to read the rest)

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Tonight in Portland - Apotheke

Tags: unrecognizable, portland, show, gasp

tonight! link (Click here to read the rest)

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virb --like myspace but not as shitty

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have you guys checked out Virb ( link ). it's like myspace but better looking and less shitty. it looks like it works the same way... yo (Click here to read the rest)

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YAY! my album is out!!!

Tags: music CD, unrecognizable, album

YAY!!!
A box of CDs arrived on my doorstep today. After a year of floating in limbo the Unrecognizable Now album if finally done being produced. (Click here to read the rest)

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finally built a map~map site

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happy new year! i finally got around to building a little map~map mini site. i put it together really fast using apple's iWeb program that came wi (Click here to read the rest)

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christopher willits/map~map in Olympia

Tags: mapmap, willits, 12k, ghostly, live show