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minusbaby

Hi.

About Me

minusbaby, born Richard Alexander Caraballo in New York City, is a musician, designer, photographer, and wandering, beat-collecting international vagabond, whose finely-crafted blips and bleeps are as eclectic as the broad range of music and culture he draws inspiration from. Focusing primarily on software-based composition, minusbaby uses lo-fi electronic synthesis to create chip music that defies genre classification. One song could be a micromusic lullaby inspired by 17th Century Spanish architecture, while the next may be reggaeton for a cymbal-clapping robotic monkey, composed with an ear for fine hip-hop beats and debuted for an Australian Cattle Dog in São Paulo, Brazil. With minusbaby, '60s—'70s Brazilian pop can meet mid-'80s New York b-boy jams cut with Santería percussive patterns, everything filtered through the ears and fingers of a musician looking to push what chip music can display stylistically, and what people will experience when they hear it themselves.


Some of my music is at minusbaby.com .
Coming soon on Rappers I Know Records, “Strong Arctic Winds Take Terns”, fourteen songs written and recorded between 2003 and 2004. It will be released with a foreword by Chris Burke a/k/a Glomag .

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Accented characters.

Music:

8bitpeoples, Lô Borges, De La Soul, Milton Nascimento, Márcio Faraco, Jorge Ben, Caetano Veloso, The Smiths, Ed Motta, Som Imaginário, A Tribe Called Quest, Marcos Valle, Stevie Wonder, João Donato, Moacir Santos, Ween, Dr Alimantado, Tom Zé, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Nara Leão, Joyce, Vinicius Cantuária, Digable Planets, Dom Salvador e Abolição, Carlos Lyra, Tim Maia, Cartola, Quarteto em Cy, Roy Ayers, Bossa Três, The ARE, John Coltrane, Willie Colón, Gilberto Gil, Nina Simone, Trans Am, Som Nosso de Cada Dia, Cal Tjader, Azimuth, Nicolay, Beto Guedes, Elis Regina, Al Green, Beastie Boys, Amon Tobin, Miles Davis, Gal Costa, Mix Master Mike, Baden Powell, Steely Dan, Eric B and Rakim, César Camargo Mariano, Héctor Lavoe, Vinícius de Moraes, Brand Nubian, Henry Mancini, Public Enemy, Gang Starr, Pete Rock and CL Smooth, Group Home, Joy Divison, Ray Barretto, Joe Cuba, Joe Bataan, Ray Charles, Popeye

Movies:

Akira Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai", Charlie Ahearn's "Wild Style", Masaaki Yuasa's "Mind Game", Hayao Miyazaki's "My Neighbor Totoro", John Sturges' "The Old Man and the Sea", Tim Burton's "Pee Wee's Big Adventure", Oskar Fischinger's "Oskar Fischinger Volume 2", Richard Kelly's "Donnie Darko", Pedro Almodóvar's "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!", Ingmar Bergman's "The Virgin Spring", Walter Lang's "Desk Set"

Television:

COPS, Sanford and Son, Jeopardy!, All in the Family, Chappelle's Show, The Odd Couple, Late Nite with Conan O'Brien, NY Yankees games, Good Times, The Jeffersons

Books:

Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, Gabriel García Márquez, Jhumpa Lahiri, Miyamoto Musashi, Philip Roth, Reinaldo Arenas, Samuel Beckett, Sandra Cisneros, William Styron, Chris Ware, non-fiction, reference manuals with detailed exploded technical drawings of mundane things like potholders and spools of yarn

My Blog

New Tune: El Camino de Tu Casa a la Mía

El Camino de Tu Casa a la MíaThis one began as a 48-hour challenge at 8bitcollective; members are invited to make a chip tune within 48 hours, and when they're done, they challenge someone else. I was...
Posted by minusbaby on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:12:00 PST

Looking Like a Fifty-Year-Old in St. Louis

Saturday, May 31st, 2008St. Louis, MissouriU.S.A.Photo by Kevin Gondek aka Environmental Sound Collapse...
Posted by minusbaby on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:11:00 PST

A Cat Playing a Theremin and Eli Porter

These two videos will change your life. See?...
Posted by minusbaby on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:10:00 PST

Happy ROM Time!

Download the ROM:http://minusbaby.com/8bitpeoples/pulsewave-mar_08.nes...
Posted by minusbaby on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:18:00 PST

Whatre You Doing on Saturday?

Saturday, March 29th, 20089:30pm$10Word up. I hope to see you there!...
Posted by minusbaby on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:13:00 PST

Best Weather Forecast Ever"

FACT!...
Posted by minusbaby on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:01:00 PST

The Secret Life of a Bitmap Typeface

I'm working on the flyer for the next Pulsewave show at The Tank. I thought some of you would enjoy to see the process.For this flyer, I chose to draw letters from scratch specifically for video displ...
Posted by minusbaby on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:50:00 PST

Some of Februarys Pulsewave

PULSEWAVE: "February 2nd, 2008Rhinostrich performing a tune during open mic.Chris Burke a/k/a Glomag (left) and Kris Keyser performing as Chris and Kris for a tune during open micThree Friends Each Ta...
Posted by minusbaby on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:51:00 PST

An Answering Questions Thing

01. Your ex is on the side of the road, on fire. What do you do? I'd stop, stick my head out a window and say, "hey, wanna drive this shit? I don't know what the fuck is going on and you're on fire." ...
Posted by minusbaby on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:04:00 PST

Laughing German Midget

Fact!...
Posted by minusbaby on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:28:00 PST