Wow, great flurry of posts - hope this bodes well for 2006 and the long held dream of a true multiperspective Cubelog as varied and wonderful and the real world Cube.
As most of the new post was on Herman Düne I thought I’d add a new category for them . . . meanwhile my unedited, but optimised, pics of the night can be trawled through starting from here.
I would, and will, put up my view up with pictures, but I’m preparing, and indeed plugging, a Computer Sings gig right now . . .
Ahem, anyone in London on Wednesday ( 11th January ) it’s at The Social, 5 Little Portland St, London . . . and it’s free . . .
first click http://www.tiredandlonesome.com/ ( and then click on “live” )
it has been a long time since my last entry and again it seems to be inspired by Herman Dune… this time doing it for the kids!
yesterday saw Herman Dune return to the Cube after last years two day session and in conjunction with the Nanoplex, the Cube’s answer to Cinema, Music, and puppets for children outside the multiplex world of Disney and Dreamworks, preformed two 20 minute sets, along with Russian Animations and Monkey vs Robot Puppet madness.
The show was just great with kids and parents alike taking over the place, drinking tea, juice, and eating cake allowing the Cube to become again a new place for people to express themselves a venue outside the norm. personally I had no idea if this event would be busy or how it would work but in the end the kids filled the stage with Herman Dune and Friends smashing the drums and shaking anything they could get to make a noise… as if we don’t get enough of these when they are at home!
the evening was great too but now as a father speaking i can’t think futher than my little daughters happerness…are now i’m off to be sick!
see you all again in 6 months time.
Hi Gang,
Guess Who 
well it’s not me or Mr Hopkinson, answers on a postcard to the usual address.
The Cube Orchestra welcomed another new member (possibly two I’m not sure if Jon was just watching or joining). Nikki 
joins us after an education at the prestigious Guildhall skool of music. Now we’re a pretty inclusive bunch us Orchestra types but it’s always nice to know we have at least a couple of Oxford grads, at least one doctor and now a Guildhaller too, right on. Personally after my Ivy league education at Harvard, where I studied Eastern Philosophy, it was of to Sandhurst. Believe it or not I then continued my Education Captaining a great bunch known as The Gurkhas, now look at me, a shell of a man teaching for a living. Anyhow shut up man, whats all this education stuff about? Well I think in over a year (yes The Orch is a year old now) we’ve learnt alot and that is in no part due to the input that ALL of the orchestra has put in. This week was small turn out week
so luckily not many turned up. Perhaps some weren’t turned off by the rumour that The Orchestra had gone all techno, not guilty (though only through the threat of violence ). Nay the laptop Ale was using was to conduct us through the medium of Powerpoint presentation, put sommet up and we play to it 
voila. There was some great horn blowing from Nikki and relative newbie Muz 
, they also endulged themselves with some microphone holder tapping too. Hey baby whatever works, right?, right. We ended with a piece I thought sounded like The Mahavishnu Orchestra, which takes me back to my good ol’ beloved Hindu (and some Buddhists to be strictly accurate) Gurkhas. Ah the good old Wheel of samsara not only dictates life but is a good metaphor for The Cube Orchestra, who hit the highs and the lows, groovy.
Have I told you about the sinister truth that The Cube is run by Robots? well the truth goes much much further, for it turns out the Cube is nothing but a Matrix style computer world, here is some proof I found of an earlier rudimentary Cube program (i.e. pre-Mr Hopkinson who seems to be the designer of this arts ‘utopia) 
‘ Look at the shoddy graphics, shocking really how they’ve got away with it all these years, the bastards.
Keep taking the medicine 
Richie Paradise
