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JMS Over HTTP using OpenMQ (Sun Java System Message Queue and HTTP tunneling)
You may have already faced situation when you need to have messaging capabilities in your application while your client application runs in an environment which you have no control over its network configuration and restrictions. Such situation lead to the fact that you can not use JMS communication over designated ports like 7676 and so.
You may simply put JMS away and follow another protocol or even plain HTTP communication to address your architecture and design requirement, but we can not easily put pure JMS API capabilities away as we may need durable subscription over a proven and already well tested and established design and architecture. Different JMS implementation providers provide different type capabilities to address such a requirement. ActiveMQ provide HTTP and HTTPS transport for JMS API and described it here.
OpenMQ provide different transport protocol and access channels to access OpenMQ functionalities from different prgramming . One of the access channles which involve HTTP is named Universal Message Service (UMS) which provide a simple REST interaction template to place messages and comsume them from any programming language and device which can interact with a network server. UMS has some limitations which is simply understandable based on the RESTful nature of UMS. For current version of OpenMQ, it only supports Message Queues as destinations so there is no publish-subscribe functionality available.
Another capability which involve HTTP is JMS over HTTP or simply JMS HTTP tunneling. OpenMQ JMS implementation supports HTTP/s as transport protocol if we configure the message broker properly. Well I said the JMS implementation support HTTP/S as a transport protocol which means we as user of the JMS API see almost no difference in the way that we use the JMS API. We can use publish-subscribe, point to point, durable subscription, transaction and whatever provided in the JMS API.
First, lets overview the OpenMQ installation and configuration then we will take a look at an example to see what changes between using JMS API and JMS API over HTTP transport. Installation process is as follow:
- Download OpenMQ from https://mq.dev.java.net/ it should be a zip which is different for each platform.
- Install the MQ by unzipping the above file and running ./installer or installer.bat or so.
- After the installation completed, go to install_folder/var/mq/instances/imqbroker/props and open the config.properties in a text editor like notepad or emeditor or gedit.
- Add the following line to the end of the above file:
OpenMQ project provides a Java EE web application which interact with OpenMQ broker from one side and Sun JMS implementation on the other side. Interaction of this application with the client and MQ broker is highly customizable in different aspects like Broker port number, client poll inrval, Broker address and so on.
Now let's see how we can publish some messages, this sample code assume that we have configured the message broker and assumes that we have the following two JAR files in the classpath. These JAR files are available in install_folder/mq/lib/
- imq.jar
- jms.jar
Now the Publisher code:
public class Publisher { public void publish(String messageContent) { try { String addressList = "http://127.0.0.1:8080/imqhttp/tunnel"; com.sun.messaging.TopicConnectionFactory topicConnectionFactory = new com.sun.messaging.TopicConnectionFactory(); topicConnectionFactory.setProperty(com.sun.messaging.ConnectionConfiguration.imqAddressList, addressList); javax.jms.Topic top; javax.jms.Connection con = topicConnectionFactory.createTopicConnection("admin", "admin"); javax.jms.Session session = con.createSession(false, javax.jms.Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE); top = session.createTopic("DIRECT_TOPIC"); MessageProducer prod = session.createProducer(top); Message textMessage = session.createTextMessage(messageContent); prod.send(textMessage); prod.close(); session.close(); con.close(); } catch (JMSException ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); } } public static void main(String args[]) { Publisher p = new Publisher(); for (int i = 1; i < 10; i++) { p.publish("Sample Text Message Content: " + i); } } }
As you can see the only difference is the connection URL which uses http instead of mq and point to a Servlet container address instead of pointing to the Broker listening address.
The subscriber sample code follow a similar pattern. Here I write a sample durable subscriber so you can see that we can use durable subscribtion over HTTP. But you should note that HTTP transport uses polling and continuesly open communication channel which can introduce some overload on the server.
class SimpleListener implements MessageListener { public void onMessage(Message msg) { System.out.println("On Message Called"); if (msg instanceof TextMessage) { try { System.out.print(((TextMessage) msg).getText()); } catch (JMSException ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); } } } } public class Subscriber { /** * @param args the command line arguments */ public void subscribe(String clientID, String susbscritpionID) { try { // TODO code application logic here String addressList = "http://127.0.0.1:8080/imqhttp/tunnel"; com.sun.messaging.TopicConnectionFactory topicConnectionFactory = new com.sun.messaging.TopicConnectionFactory(); topicConnectionFactory.setProperty(com.sun.messaging.ConnectionConfiguration.imqAddressList, addressList); javax.jms.Topic top; javax.jms.Connection con = topicConnectionFactory.createTopicConnection("admin", "admin"); con.setClientID(clientID); javax.jms.Session session = con.createSession(false, javax.jms.Session.AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE); top = session.createTopic("DIRECT_TOPIC"); TopicSubscriber topicSubscriber = session.createDurableSubscriber(top, susbscritpionID); topicSubscriber.setMessageListener(new SimpleListener()); con.start(); } catch (JMSException ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); } } public static void main(String args[]) { Subscriber sub = new Subscriber(); sub.subscribe("C19", "C1_011"); } }
Now how you can test the entire example and monitor the MQ? it is very simple by utilizing the provided tools.
Do the following steps to test the overall durable subscription system:
- Run a subscriber
- Run another subscriber with a different client ID
- Run a publisher once or twice
- Kill the second subscriber
- Run a publisher once
- Run the subscriber and you can see that the subscriber will fetch all messages which arrived after it shut down-ed.
Note that we can not have two separate client with same client ID running because the broker will not be able to distinguish which client it should send the messages.
- You can monitor the queue and the broker using: ./imqadmin which can be found in install_folder/mq/bin this software shows how many durable subscribers are around and how many messages are pending for each subscriber and so on.
- You can monitor the Queue in real-time mode using the following command which can be executed in install_folder/mq/bin
./imqcmd -b 127.0.0.1:7979 metrics dst -t t -n DIRECT_TOPIC The command will ask for username and password, give admin/admin for it
The sample code for this entry can be found Here. The sample code is a NetBeans project with the publisher and the subscriber source code.
A complete documentation of OpenMQ is available at its documentation centre. You can see how you can change different port numbers or configure different properties of the Broker and HTTP tunneling web application communication.
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Using the JMS over HTTP with the EMBEDDED broker
by jthoennes - 2009-09-15 06:04Hi, I wonder whether this works out-of-the-box with the EMBEDDED MQ broker of the Glassfish. In that case, the explicit step to start the broker is not needed. Any special configuration needed for this? Thanks, Jörg
HTTP for BLOBs
by roridge - 2009-08-28 01:54Hi, Good post, could have done with that a year ago :) I have been using JMS over HTTP with OpenMQ for about a year now, and for a TextMessage it is pretty good. However, a StreamMessage with a BLOB is a noticeable difference, it is at least 3 times slower than TCP to send the message, end to end for about 50MB is taking upwards of 4 minutes. I can only assume this is because each message is now performing a triple hop as it has to go through the servlet? I would be interested to know what speed you can send ~50MB at from end-to-end. Also, I have been trying to work out how the servlet sends the message on to the broker, when it has no obvious knowledge of the broker other than a port. I had originally assumed that the servlet would merely push the message onwards to the broker via TCP, however, I now wonder if it is the broker who connects to the servlet and pulls? Many thanks Ror
by dgavenda - 2009-07-23 06:13I have it working now. Thanks for the help and the post.
by kalali - 2009-07-22 14:46@dgavenda, There are two possibilities that you can not see the instance folder: first: You should start the broker at leas one time to have that instance folder created. You may had not started the server before you have looked for the file. second which I can hardly imagine about your case is a configuration element named IMQ_DEFAULT_VARHOME. this element specifies the default var home of you openMQ installation. You can check its value by looking at install_folder/etc/imqenv.conf file. hope it helps
by dgavenda - 2009-07-22 11:35It seems this refers to OpenMQ 4.1. I was able to find that file in 4.1. Where is the similar config file in 4.3? Or would you suggest to use 4.1?
by dgavenda - 2009-07-22 10:52"After the installation completed, go to install_folder/var/mq/instances/imqbroker/props and open the config.properties in a text editor like notepad or emeditor or gedit. " I am using the binary version of openMQ 4.3 for Linux. After I unzip the zip file and run ./installer, I do not have anything in the install_folder/var/mq/instances directory. Also, there doesn't seem to be a config.properties file in the MessageQueue directory. I checked recursively too. What am I missing?
by kalali - 2009-06-19 14:32An untrusted applet can communicate back to a server which it is initiated from (server which hosted the applet and delivered the .class and jar files). So your applet can either use mq protocol or it can use JMS over HTTP protocol which is shown in the sample.

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by George Malik on 01/26/13 at 01:43 PM ET
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Updated 6x with lots of video at 3:45 PM: Red Bird III is scheduled to take off at 3:12 PM today to ferry the Red Wings to Chicago, where they'll meet the Blackhawks on Sunday evening (7 PM on FSD and AM 1270). The Wings will have a wee bit of an advantage in terms of rest as the Blackhawks are playing in Columbus tonight, but the Hawks are also 4-and-0 going into their Saturday night tilt.
Thus far, it appears that little news is good news at Joe Louis Arena:
Update: Via RedWingsFeed, this is good news regarding one Jonathan Ericsson:
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Red Wings-Wild wrap-up and overnight report: Wings slowly finding their footing?
by George Malik on 01/26/13 at 04:11 AM ET
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Grumpliy updated 2x at 9:53 AM: If you only watched the Minnesota Wild out-shoot the Red Wings 11-6 in the first period of what turned out to be an ugly but livable-withable 5-3 Red Wings victory, or watched the Wings take two of their eight(!) penalties within the first ten minutes of said first period, you would have been forgiven for assuming that the Wings were on their way to yet another predictable 2013 season defeat--in which they were out-shot, out-chanced, out-penalized and plain old out-played.
That had indeed been the case over the course of the team's first three games, with a team that didn't look anything like itself registering exactly one shootout win while chasing the puck and chasing play. But somewhere during Friday night's game, a Wings team strengthened by the returns of Darren Helm (back) and Todd Bertuzzi (flu) seemed to straighten up and fly right when it remembered a Red Wings axiom: regardless of the personnel that the team may or may not have in its lineup, when the Detroit Red Wings possess the puck and skate up the ice with speed, they dictate the pace of play, and tend to out-score their opponents.
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by George Malik on 01/26/13 at 01:11 AM ET
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The Minneapolis Star-Tribune's Michael Russo offers a story that's more than just cold comfort for Red Wings fans who still feel jilted by Zach Parise and Ryan Suter's collective decision to spurn offers from the Red Wings to play for the Minnesota Wild.
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Two years ago, Brunner had a high ankle sprain and traveled to Minnesota to see a doctor with whom his agent Neil Sheehy set up an appointment. Blair Mackasey, the Wild's director of pro scouting, was a big fan, so the Wild invited Brunner to St. Paul for a meeting. General Manager Chuck Fletcher was willing to sign Brunner right on the spot.
"They said they had been following me for a year and I met with Chuck, but it was just too early for me back then," Brunner said. "I wanted to have a strong year in Switzerland and prove I was ready. It was great to meet with them. It was a good switch for my head, like realizing that there's an NHL team interested and it makes you think about it a little more. It made me work harder and made me more focused on that goal to make the NHL."
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by George Malik on 01/25/13 at 11:15 PM ET
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The Detroit Red Wings played like two different teams--or was it three or four?--en route to a slightly sloppy but particularly satisfying 5-3 win over the Minnesota Wild on Friday. I'll write more about the game I described as, "Dating a fat girl who 'tries harder'" on Twitter in a minute, but I'd like to hear what you thought about what may or may not be an identity-finding effort by a team that seems to have learned that its personnel matter a little less than playing the puck possession system no matter what...Though Helm and Bertuzzi sure helped a helluva lot.
My more general take: The Wings were out-shot 11-6 in the first period, if we are to believe the statisticians at the Joe, they blocked a ridiculous 24 shots (9 in the first period alone!), and displayed a serious case of, "Stand around and watch-itis" over the first 20 minutes or so. They also took 9 frickin' penalties, and, after scoring 2 goals in 47 seconds, quickly surrendered that lead...
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I've been out of the loop for a couple of days, first due to my illness flaring up on Monday night and then due to a familial issue, but it's been suggested that I offer my opinions on Wings-related issues a little more regularly, so here are a few "radon" thoughts...
- Now that Tomas Holmstrom's retired, I sure as hell hope that the Wings hire him to coach their power play. Holmstrom did two things particularly well, and the first may have been more important than the second:
a) Holmstrom had an uncanny ability to out-race and out-compete his opponents to rebounds or shots fired wide of the net, almost inevitably getting his stick or skates into a battle for the puck and coming out on top, retrieving the puck and shoveling it to a waiting teammate along the half boards or on the point;
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Updated at 5:40 PM: As noted in the game-day update post, we're going to hear a significant amount of chatter regarding Ryan Suter and Zach Parise playing at Joe Louis Arena after having spurned the Red Wings' offers to come to Detroit this past summer, and while I don't really hold a grudge against Parise, and am...Mildly annoyed...at Suter, I didn't think that Wings fans would boo either player. The Detroit News's Terry Foster thinks differently, and he's endorsing a hearty booing of the pair every time that they touch the puck:
It will be interesting to see if Detroit continues to play the long standing role of jilted lover when the Red Wings play host to the Minnesota Wild tonight at Joe Louis Arena.
This will be the first time former free agent stars Zach Parise and Ryan Suter come to town since turning down Red Wings money to play together in Parise's old hometown of Minneapolis. They were two free agents the Red Wings were hot after and expectations were for them to come here and become the spark that eased the franchise into the post Nick Lidstrom era.
Parise is a power forward in the stratosphere of former Wing Brendan Shanahan and Suter is the blue liner Red Wings fans have long coveted. Although Suter is off to a shaky start, the Wings certainly could have used him during that season-opening 6-0 loss to St. Louis that still is hard to swallow.
They are the difference from the Wings remaining Stanley Cup contenders and being playoff pretenders.
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by George Malik on 01/25/13 at 03:58 PM ET
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Updated 5x at 6:52 PM: The Red Wings and Wild face off tonight at 7:30 (on FSD Plus and
97.1 FM 1270 AM--also, this game will be on the NHL Network, so Center Ice and GameCenter Live users without the NHL Network, you're kinda screwed), and MLive's Ansar Khan is reporting that the Wings will get Darren Helm (back), Todd Bertuzzi (groin) and Jakub Kindl (groin) back from injuries, but Jonathan Ericsson (back), Jonas Gustavsson (groin), Jan Mursak (shoulder), Carlo Colaiacovo (shoulder) and Mikael Samuelsson (groin) remain sidelined. Here are the lines for tonight's game, per Khan:
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Will Kindl Hear The Wake-Up Call?
by Paul on 01/25/13 at 01:16 PM ET
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from Chuck Pleiness of Red Wings Front,
Kindl will be paired on the second power play unit with Brendan Smith.
For Kindl it may be his last chance to make this team has a regular.
"That's another good thing about injures, other people get opportunities," Babcock said. "If you grab hold of it you get to play a long, long time. Everybody comes in has nobody and then does something.
"You have to grab hold of it," Babcock continued. "Kuba is getting to the point in his career, this is eight years now when you drafted him, you have to grab hold of it. If not you're not part of it."
more on the Wings from their morning skate...
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Knuble No Longer In Grand Rapids
by Paul on 01/24/13 at 09:41 PM ET
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He's headed to Philadelphia to take a physical tomorrow and if he passes, the Flyers will sign him. The Flyers hope Knuble will help after Hartnell broke his foot.
I don't think Knuble had a chance with the Wings this season, but if he was a defenseman, that would have been another story.
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Wings Practice Update
by Paul on 01/24/13 at 01:32 PM ET
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added 1:05pm, from Ansar Khan of Mlive,
Quick update following Detroit Red Wings practice Thursday at Joe Louis Arena, in preparation for Friday's home game vs. Minnesota:
Coach Mike Babcock has split up Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg, in an effort to boost the sputtering offense (four goals in three games).
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By Mike.Hallett-Oracle on Oct 29, 2014
Oracle announced at OpenWorld, the availability of the new model Exalytics In-Memory Machine X4-4 to dramatically increase performance and capacity; leveraging the Oracle Database In-Memory option for faster data driven insights.
The latest refresh of Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine includes Intel Xeon processors customized for Oracle business analytics workloads, supporting 50 percent faster clock speed, 50 percent more processing cores and 50 percent more memory compared to the previous generation. The X4-4 model still sells at the same list price as the prior X4-2 of $175,000 for the 2Tb model: additional RAM can be added.
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The Valley City Police Department is warning residents about a reported phone scam.
According to Police Chief Fred Thompson, some residents have received calls from a 473 area code. The phone rings a few times then stops.
DO NOT return call to this number, said Thompson. Callers reported the number is for an adult entertainment service; callers heard pornographic content upon returning the call. In addition, said Thompson, the exchange is a Granada phone number, and callers could be charged for an international phone call.
The following roads in Cass County are closed as a result of the Casselton, ND train derailment:
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-154th Ave from 35th St to 36th St.
An evacuation of the entire City of Casselton was initiated after
train carrying crude oil derailed near the city Monday setting off a series of explosions. Cass County officials urged residents to evacuate as shifting winds and a high pressure system could blow the thick, toxic smoke down into the city.
Barnes County States Attorney Lee Grossman is optimistic that a new program to help establish clerkships for rural counties could help increase the number of lawyers in Barnes County. More in Tuesday's issue of the Times-Record.
Vintage Variety, a new store in Valley City, offers just what the name suggests — a variety of vintage items.
Owner Lorraine Curtis said the store has an "eclectic assortment of everything from antiques to new."
The store, located on Central Avenue next to Wells Fargo, is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from noon to 7 p.m. and other days by chance.
Read more in Tuesday's Times-Record.
When rural Dazey man Ron Berge watches the North Dakota State University Bison football team compete for their third national championship Saturday, he'll be surrounded by family and his huge bison herd collection.
Ron is a dedicated Bison fan. He began collecting hard ironwood Bison some years after graduating from NDSU with a mechanical engineering degree in 1960.
Read more about Berge's collection in Monday's Times-Record.
A benefit supper and silent auction for Andrew Gubrud and Becky Sundstrom, who lost their home in a house fire earlier this month, will be held Saturday, Jan. 18 from 5-8 p.m. at the Valley City Eagles Club. The spaghetti supper will be available for a free-will offering, and a silent auction and Ruby's Karaoke will also be held.
The family plans to rebuild this spring and are very thankful of the support they have received from the community.
For more information or to donate silent auction items, call (218) 779-4000.
Matt Milledge's dog Bubba is finally back home after he ran away from a farm where he was being temporarily boarded, but it took a trip to court and retrieving the animal from the woman who adopted the animal from the Sheyenne Valley Friends of Animals. More in Monday's issue of the Times-Record.
Barnes County heard objections to hiring Carl Martineck states attorney after Lee Grossmann leaves after his appointment Dec. 17. More in Friday's issue of the Times-Record.
Valley City is one of five cities the Green Vision Group is looking at as a home for an energy beet plant, said Randy Grueneich, Barnes County extension agent. More in Friday's issue of the Times-Record.


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A new, low-impact model for manufacturing using a dematerialized approach
The current approach for manufacturing automobiles is expensive, wasteful, and energy-intensive; it hurts our environment as well as our economy. When it costs hundreds of millions of dollars to start a car factory, innovation becomes nearly impossible. As we triple the number of cars on the road in the next 30 to 40 years, the conventional approach will not be sustainable.
Dematerialization — reducing the material and energy required to build cars — is the only effective way to reduce the environmental and social damage stemming from automobiles. Dematerialization will lead to:
- Far fewer emissions from both manufacturing and operation
- Much lower material and energy inputs in manufacturing
- Dramatically better gas mileage
- Lower wear on roads
- Fewer fatalities from car accidents
By focusing on dematerialization, my company Divergent Microfactories was able to build a car with only a third of the total health and environmental damage of an 85 kWh all-electric car. The objective: drive that impact down to a quarter or less. Read more…
To create the future we want, we need more moonshots
The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Tim O'Reilly and Astro Teller talk about technology and society, and the importance of moonshots.
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In this week's Radar Podcast episode, Tim O'Reilly sits down with Google X's Astro Teller. Their wide-ranging conversation covers moonshots, the relationship between technology and society, the learning process for hardware, and more. What follows are some snippets of their conversation to whet your appetite — you can listen to the entire interview in the SoundCloud player below, or download the podcast through Stitcher, TuneIn, or iTunes.
Technology doesn't create net losses for the economy
Tim O'Reilly: The policy makers, I think, need to stop talking about creating jobs and start talking about the work we need to do in the world, because if you do that work, you do create jobs. I was struck by this when I went to Mount Vernon, George Washington's home. He was really into scientific agriculture, as was Thomas Jefferson. He had this vision that America could feed the world. There was that economic vision: there is something that needs doing. One of the things I love about Google X is it's driven by solving problems, and those problems actually often do create new opportunities for work.
Astro Teller: I completely agree with you about the problems. In addition, when you look at the history of technology — its introduction, and what happened in society afterword — technology has functioned in every case in the past as a lever for the human mind or for the human body. Things like the introduction of spreadsheets destroyed the business, the profession of bookkeeping — but because we trained people, we as society trained people, they became accountants, they became analysts. As many jobs as were lost were created, and more work, more productivity was created in the process. The bulldozer took away, in a very analogous way, a lot of jobs from people who were digging with shovels, but because we trained them to do things like build the bulldozers, drive the bulldozers, maintain the bulldozers, it wasn't a net loss for the economy.
I believe that the failure mode we are currently in, to the extent that there's a failure mode, is not the introduction of new technologies but the failure of our society to train the young people of the world so that they will be prepared to use these more and more sophisticated levers.
Why data preparation frameworks rely on human-in-the-loop systems
The O'Reilly Data Show Podcast: Ihab Ilyas on building data wrangling and data enrichment tools in academia and industry.
As I've written in previous posts, data preparation and data enrichment are exciting areas for entrepreneurs, investors, and researchers. Startups like Trifacta, Tamr, Paxata, Alteryx, and CrowdFlower continue to innovate and attract enterprise customers. I've also noticed that companies — that don't specialize in these areas — are increasingly eager to highlight data preparation capabilities in their products and services.
During a recent episode of the O'Reilly Data Show Podcast, I spoke with Ihab Ilyas, professor at the University of Waterloo and co-founder of Tamr. We discussed how he started working on data cleaning tools, academic database research, and training computer science students for positions in industry.
Academic database research in data preparation
Given the importance of data integrity, it's no surprise that the database research community has long been interested in data preparation and data wrangling. Ilyas explained how his work in probabilistic databases led to research projects in data cleaning:
In the database theory community, these problems of handling, dealing with data inconsistency, and consistent query answering have been a celebrated area of research. However, it has been also difficult to communicate these results to industry. And database practitioners, if you like, they were more into the well-structured data and assuming a lot of good properties around this data, [and they were also] more interested in indexing this data, storing it, moving it from one place to another. And now, dealing with this large amount of diverse heterogeneous data with tons of errors, sidled across all business units in the same enterprise became a necessity. You cannot really avoid that anymore. And that triggered a new line of research for pragmatic ways of doing data cleaning and integration. … The acquisition layer in that stack has to deal with large sets of formats and sources. And you will hear about things like adapters and source adapters. And it became a market on its own, how to get access and tap into these sources, because these are kind of the long tail of data.
The way I came into this subject was also funny because we were talking about the subject called probabilistic databases and how to deal with data uncertainty. And that morphed into trying to find data sets that have uncertainty. And then we were shocked by how dirty the data is and how data cleaning is a task that's worth looking at.
BioBuilder: Rethinking the biological sciences as engineering disciplines
Moving biology out of the lab will enable new startups, new business models, and entirely new economies.
Buy "BioBuilder: Synthetic Biology in the Lab," by Natalie Kuldell PhD., Rachel Bernstein, Karen Ingram, and Kathryn M. Hart.
What needs to happen for the revolution in biology and the life sciences to succeed? What are the preconditions?
I've compared the biorevolution to the computing revolution several times. One of the most important changes was that computers moved out of the lab, out of the machine room, out of that sacred space with raised floors, special air conditioning, and exotic fire extinguishers, into the home. Computers stopped being things that were cared for by an army of priests in white lab coats (and that broke several times a day), and started being things that people used. Somewhere along the line, software developers stopped being people with special training and advanced degrees; children, students, non-professionals — all sorts of people — started writing code. And enjoying it.
Biology is now in a similar place. But to take the next step, we have to look more carefully at what's needed for biology to come out of the lab. Read more…
"Internet of Things" is a temporary term
The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Pilgrim Beart on the scale, challenges, and opportunities of the IoT.
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In this week's Radar Podcast, O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chatted with Pilgrim Beart about co-founding his company, AlertMe, and about why the scale of the Internet of Things creates as many challenges as it does opportunities. He also talked about the "gnarly problems" emerging from consumer wants and behaviors.


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According to Reuters, Providence Equity Partners is considering bidding for Grey, owner of Grey Worldwide and MediaCom. It is the third private equity group reported to be interested in the firm, along with Blackstone Group and Hellman & Friedman.
They join WPP Group, headed by chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell, which has expressed interest in Grey and is carrying out due diligence.
However, investment bank Morgan Stanley yesterday said it did not believe WPP would go ahead with a bid. French advertising group Havas has also expressed an interest but it is unclear whether it can raise sufficient funds.
Grey has asked one of the bidders to submit final offers in the first week of September, leading to speculation that the sale could be concluded after the US Labor Day holiday, held on the first Monday in September.
Grey Global, headed by long-serving chairman and chief executive Ed Meyer, said in July it had appointed advisers to look at the possibility of a sale. But the move has failed to set the market alight -- at one point WPP appeared to be the only interested party.
Providence Equity Partners is based in Rhode Island and specialises in investing in media and communications companies. Along with stakes in telecoms businesses such as Eircom, it has invested in the Canadian satellite broadcaster Craig Media and has a stake in the media rights of the New York Yankees.
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average, to 20 hours a week or less. The boys who followed this pattern were found to have undertaken the most months of post-secondary schooling (Mortimer and Johnson, 1998) during the years following high school. Males who worked at higher levels of intensity (more than 20 hours per week on average), as well as those who had more limited work experience (not working at all during high school or working for only short periods), had less postsecondary educational attainment. These differences were not explained by apparent selection factors. A similar pattern was observed among females, but was accounted for by earlier differences in educational motivation and performance.
There may be ethnic, racial, social class, and sex differences in these effects. Steel (1991) analyzed data from the NLSY and found that the generally positive effect of high school employment (at ages 17 and 18) on enrollment in an educational institution 2 years later is conditioned by race, sex, and the time spent working. Among white youth, being employed had a positive effect on enrollment. However, this positive relationship was mitigated by hours of work: for each additional hour worked during high school, future school enrollment dropped. This negative effect was even more pronounced among black youth. Carr and colleagues (1996), also using NLSY data, found that as hours of employment in high school increased, the likelihood of entering college and of completing college were reduced, after taking into account demographic and background variables, family differences, school aptitude, and educational expectations. They found this effect on educational attainment persisted up to a decade after high school completion. Ruhm's (1997) analysis of NLSY data found a similar effect for girls.
In general, this evidence suggests that low-intensity employment may support post-secondary educational outcomes while high-intensity employment may hinder them. These studies consistently find that as hours of work per week during high school increase, decreases are seen in the amount of future education. Although these studies statistically control for many pre-existing differences among students who work at high and low intensity, as noted above, without random assignment of students to various work patterns, it cannot be proved that high-intensity work decreases educational attainment. It is possible that unobserved differences among students are responsible for both their decisions about work intensity and education. Nevertheless, the preponderance of evidence suggests a link


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I have an Asus V7100 which as a GeForce 2 MX400 chip with 32 megs of RAM. I'm running two OSes on my machine, Windows 2000 and Linux (Debian potato release with XFree86 v4).
I just bought a new 19" NEC MultiSync FP912sb. I'm running it at 1280x960, 24 bits, at an 85Hz refresh rate on both the Windows boot and the Linux boot. While running under W2k, I adjusted my screen geometry (with the monitors controls) so that the edges of the image line up nicely with the chassis. My problem is that when I run under Linux the image is shifted down and to the right. I tried xvidtune but that did not solve the problem (when I adjust it so that the image starts to get close to where it should be, the top of the image gets quite distorted which I'm guessing is a bad thing for the monitor... if not it's still ugly to look at).
I'm wondering if anyone knows how I would go about setting up the Linux environment so that it's telling my video card to spit out the same exact parameters that the Windows environment is spitting out? I don't want to have to manually adjust the screen geometry manually every time I switch my boot drive.
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So went the observation of one Edwards' staffer late night post-debate. An insightful commentary on what is good in New Hampshire. And what else is good for the Edwards' campaign in the Granite State? The following are the top three:
1. Elvis has left the building: after Edwards' event on the Dartmouth University campus in Hanover, NH a new exit strategy was on display. After his speech Edwards was whisked outside, down the stairs and into the bus in minutes flat. In the five minutes it took to get outside, audience members hoping to catch a glimpse of the Senator missed him completely and the following commentary was overheard, "He's gone! I missed him! I can't believe it."
2. What over 30 percent of Iowa caucus-goers decided last Monday night: Edwards is a real contenda'. In response to Peter Jenning's question on lack of experience Edwards stayed on message.
3. I may not be an expert, but is that the point? In response to Peter Jenning's question on understanding Islam, Edwards deftly admitted he was no expert. The real issue, he argued, is the challenge in understanding the people, not solely their choice of prophecy.
Read more from the trail with Edwards on abcnews.com: LINK
The Los Angeles Times' John Glionna and Scott Martelle Note that "Edwards has sought to turn his easy-rolling Southern drawl into a political asset": "I can win in the North, in the West, in the Midwest and, talking like this," Edwards says, pointing to his mouth, "in the South." ">LINK
Jim VandeHei writes up Dean's shifting image on the front page of the Washington Post again, writing that Dean's "Dean's decision to personalize -- and poke fun at -- his candidacy reflects the serious concern inside his campaign about the fallout" of his Iowa loss and the speech shown round the world afterward. LINK
Read these two key graphs near the end, with another great journalistic use of the word "privately":
"When articles appeared about Dean's silence on religion, he responded by talking about God. When Democrats complained about his electability, he started talking more about bringing the party together. When they said he sounded angry, he lightened up. When aides complained that he was letting attacks from rivals go unanswered, he fired back hard. All of which left some Iowa voters confused about who the real Howard Dean is, interviews with voters there revealed."
"Joe Trippi, Dean's campaign manager, said Dean was 'uncomfortable' as the front-runner. 'He's at his best . . . when he's an against-the-odds kind of guy.' Now Trippi and others talk of allowing Dean to be Dean, but privately some worry it may be too late."
The New York Times' Jodi Wilgoren reports on Diane Sawyer's Drs. Dean interview and the candidate's push to humanize himself a la Bill Clinton on "60 Minutes" way back when. Wilgoren writes Dean "seemed unsure of himself," before reporting that one Gina Glantz is headed into the field for SEIU's candidate. LINK
Ah, the inefficiencies of life in the bubble!!!!
The New York Times' Alessandra Stanley writes of the Dean move to head onto TV to "atone" for what he had done on TV. LINK
The New York Times' David Rosenbaum puts Dean's shifts since Iowa in perspective, writing that Dean aint the only one to switch his m.o. between Iowa and New Hampshire. LINK
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Musical collaboration over the internet has been perennially plagued by delay and bad audio; co-performances have been largely a product of smoke and mirrors.
Overcoming the problems of distance, Internet2 and LoLa technology have set a new standard in video conferencing, allowing broader access to high-level musical and educational opportunities.
The GÉANT TIC (Trust and Identity Committee) and Internet2 TIER (Trust and Identity for Education and Research) initiatives met at a workshop in Zurich, Switzerland, on 3-4 February to discuss the status and future of US-EU collaboration on trust and identity technology, policy, and federation efforts.
Last week, 'Helix Nebula – the Science Cloud Initiative' hosted an event at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland, to mark the launch of its new cloud-computing marketplace service.
Last month, CERN played host to the CineGlobe International Film Festival. The event featured a hackathon event organized by the Tribeca Film Institute, as well as music produced through data sonification.
Since being launched in 1977, NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 probes have been on an epic journey to the very edge of our solar system. Now, Domenico Vicinanza has harnessed the power of grid computing to create an uptempo piece of classical music from the data collected by the probes.
DANTE (Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe) recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. Today, the pan-European network infrastructure (GÉANT) managed by DANTE connects 50 million people at 10,000 institutions across Europe.
Thanks to the high-speed GÉANT network and the computing power of the European Grid Infrastructure, researchers in Italy are creating music from electroencephalography data. Listening to these melodies could help researchers forecast impending seizures.
In space no one can hear you scream, but you may be able to hear an epic symphony if you listen hard. Software engineer and musician Domenico Vicinanza has created yet another epic melody straight from cutting-edge science. This time, instead of getting inspiration from the subatomic world or the Standard Model, he has sourced data from the farthest human-made object in space: Voyager 1.
To improve understanding of cosmic radiation, high-speed research networks are enabling astrophysicists to send terabytes of data across continents, between China and Italy.
The Higgs boson-like particle has been turned into music. Not only is this a way to bridge the gap between science and the public, but it could enable researchers to hear their work in a new light.
Last month, we brought you news about the Square Kilometre Array. Now, we have wind of another ambitious telescope. On 1st July, the Royal Society celebrates the discovery of cosmic rays centenary. One project on show will give new glimpses into the highest-energy universe, processing up to 25 petabytes per year; as much data as CERN manages today, which may require a new worldwide computing grid.
In a newly released paper, e-IRG responds to the findings and recommendations of the report of the GEANT Expert Group (GEG).The GEG was established by the European Commission in December 2010, with the mandate to articulate a 2020 vision for European Research and Education networking and identify an action plan for realising this vision. On October 4, 2011 the GEG presented its vision and recommendations in its Report 'Knowledge without Borders: GEANT 2020 as the European Communications Commons'.
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AN ENTREPRENEUR has encouraged young Tamworth people with business brains to enter a new £300,000 Midlands award scheme.
Twenty-one-year-old Jamie Dunn, who runs an international consultancy organisation called Spark Global Business, believes the mentoring and advice available from Baldwins accountants in their new initiative is vital in helping the next generation of entrepreneurs succeed.
The winner of the Kick Start programme by Baldwins – which has an office in Tamworth – will receive a £10,000 grant and £10,000 worth of mentoring and accountancy advice, while two runners-up will be given £5,000 of mentoring and accountancy advice.
The award will be presented annually for ten years.
Jamie said it is often in the second or third year that new businesses struggle, but the advice and backing given by Baldwins Kick Start would be instrumental in preventing that happening.
"It is not just because of cash flow that businesses fail, but because they don't have the support around them to continue their growth," he said.
"Businesses need to have consistent support and the mentoring the programme will provide is fantastic because that is just what young businessmen and women need.
"It's that kind of back-up from experienced professionals which will ensure businesses will succeed.
"I have offered my own support to the campaign and will provide business support and mentors as well as Baldwins."
Jamie showed his entrepreneurial spirit as a 12-year-old when he sold unwanted items at school and car boot sales.
He now works with governments and educational organisations around the world developing youth entrepreneurship eco-systems through his organisation, which has offices in America, South Africa and Birmingham.
He will be the guest speaker when the winner of Baldwins Kick Start 2013 is revealed at a presentation evening at Villa Park on Thursday, November 21.
"It is great Baldwins are giving something back to the business community because this is not just a one-off – it is a commitment of £300,000 over the next ten years," Jamie added.
Baldwins partner, David Baldwin, said the scheme has been set-up for young entrepreneurs who have a good idea and would like to start their own business but need that financial Kick Start to get up and running.
He said: "Baldwins Kick Start is open to 18 to 25-year-olds who have the enthusiasm and drive to back their idea to make a success of their business.
"The initial response has been extremely positive and we are looking forward to going through each business plan when the scheme closes for this year on September 30."
An online form to enter Baldwins Kick Start along with the terms and conditions and details of how to submit applications and business plans is available at www.baldwinsaccountants.co.uk


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Memorial Services for Dr. Perry Brooks Dennis, Jr will be held at University Baptist Church, 3200 Arlington Loop in Hattiesburg, MS on Saturday, June 22, 2013 at 10:00. Visitation will begin at 9:00.
The only child of Perry B. Dennis, Sr. (Greenwood) and Cornelia Crawford Rush (Starkville) was born June 5, 1917. Perry became a student of music and was leader of one of two dance bands (The Cadets) at Mississippi State College from where he received a BS degree in 1938. He also served as band director at Starkville High School from 1935-39 during which time he met and married Clara Pearson King of Durant. He received a BMEd degree from VanderCook College in1940, taught in the Dallas Public Schools from '41-'43, then served in the 560th Army Air Corps as a 'big band' musician entertaining allied troops in India during WWII. Upon discharge he became band director at Carr Central High School in Vicksburg from '45 – '50. His MMEd degree was earned from the University of Michigan in 1951. He then served as band director in his home town of Greenwood from '52 – '56 during which period he was also director of the '52 and '53 MS Lion's All-State Band. From '56 to '62 he taught in the Calcasieu Parish Schools, repaired musical instruments, taught private lessons, and played string bass in a jazz combo in the Lake Charles, Louisiana area. In '62 he accepted the band director's position at LaGrange Senior High and remained there until 1969. Upon completion of doctoral studies at USM ('70), he was offered an Assistant Professorship as coordinator of student teaching in the Fine Arts Dept. From '74-'76, he served as President of the MS Music Educator's Association. Upon retirement in 1982 Dr. Dennis resumed his hobby of instrument repair and published 2 books related to 4 pioneer bandmasters and the history of the Mississippi Bandmasters Association which he served as President from '50-'52. He also published a symphonic excerpt transcribed for band and served as adjudicator and clinician for music contests and clinics in MS, LA, TX, and AR. Dr Dennis played in community bands in Hattiesburg, Greenwood, and Starkville until age 92.
Dr. Dennis (96) was predeceased by his wife of 67 years, and a son (Perry III b1942-d1965). He is survived by daughter-in-law Pam Marshall Malmberg (Norm), sons Robert Rush Dennis and Randy Dennis (Anne Richards), 2 grandsons Marc Benton (Kelly) and Ben Roberts (Jennifer), granddaughter Carmen Rush Sweitzer (Dale), 14 great-grandchildren, and 2 great-great-grandchildren.
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Garage A Trois formed in 1998 around the recording of Moore's All Kooked Out! album and was indeed a trio born from an impromptu jam session with Moore, Hunter, and Skerik. In 2000, Dillon joined the group adding softness and warmth - showcasing his vibraphone and percussive skills. He became a high-energy brother-in-arms whose percussive trickery is often point-counterpoint to Skerik's punchy squonks, hypnotic loops, and reedy squeedles. Yet Moore and Hunter, too, shared a symbiotic relationship.
"The chemistry between Stanton and Charlie was beyond deep," Dillon says. "Charlie had studied organ trios, jazz, Afro-Cuban, and other styles; he was not messing around. And Stanton's got years of New Orleans knowledge and experience."
The sound was instrumentally driven jazz-funk-rock; New Orleans strut, swagger and groove with alternately tropical melodies and fuzzed-out, looped saxophone riffs swirled with vibraphone and cross-cultural percussive elements.
"He'd completed what he wanted to do [with Garage A Trois]," says Dillon. Moore echoes this sentiment, "He wanted to focus on his trio [The Charlie Hunter Trio] and his family." "It was like if he was gonna tour, it would be with his band," agrees Skerik.
Yet, due to the eight-stringed prowess he displayed on his Novax, a signature instrument that allowed him to simultaneously play bass lines and lead guitar, Hunter's departure effectively left the band without a bass and another instrument to define chord structure.
Knowing that they didn't want to disband fully – "We really liked playing music together," Skerik says - the remaining members played gigs with Robert Walter, John Medeski, and, says Dillon, "a bunch of other freaks."
"But we were not playing our own material; it was mostly stuff Charlie had written. Marco was used to playing bass a lot with The Duo [Benevento and Joe Russo], and they played great music, so we thought it was a perfect fit," says Skerik. "We didn't want someone who wrote in any one genre, and Marco even takes it a step further. He's such a great writer and does these lush, super-cool chord progressions."
"We all got along well from the beginning" says Benevento, who'd previously played with Skerik, Dillon, and Joe Russo in Coxygen and had opened for Critters Buggin' on the East Coast. "I like to think I create freshness; the change in style is heavy. With Charlie, there was more funk and groove oriented stuff."
"There was no preconceived change in direction," says Moore, "but the darker, more aggressive sound we feel works well."
While not as loose limbed and easy to slip into as previous endeavors, Power Patriot is a cohesive, deeply textured effort. Tunes are atmospheric with the melodies painted in strong, broad strokes. A couple of the tracks are angular and contracted like a muscle, others tender and warm. The blend of organic instrumentation and synthetic electronic sounds creates an interesting, unpredictable balance. While Moore's playing sways from highly excitable rock drummer to deep in the pocket jazz, he drives each track with casual certainty. Skerik says of Moore, "Man, he's so great. He can take you to New Orleans and other places with just one song."
"Electric Door Bell Machine," one of the strongest tunes on the album finds Moore laying down a slick beat, building the skeleton for Dillon's fantastic, imaginative mallet-work, which adds shimmer and light. Benevento's playing and effects – swirlies, video arcade effects, and quirky sonics – create layers of interest and add to the compositions' musculature. Similarly, Skerik's playing is as cerebral as it is wild, and he often seems most focused in the middle of a Benevento-Dillon electrical storm. The more hardcore, low-end-electro-jazz-meets-stratospheric-rock vibe is undeniably fun, and this writer quickly found Power Patriot on heavy rotation. But this change in their sound doesn't sit well with all fans.
"People have said to me, 'You're trying to turn Stanton into a rock drummer,'" says Benevento, "but that's not the case. We're just trying new things and it's an interesting blend of half swing."
"I try to stay out of the way," says Skerik. "I want to play a less traditional role. I love playing chords and not a straight melody. I don't want to be obvious. I've tried to redefine the role of the sax. I never want there to be an overemphasis on obviousness!"
Indeed, the saxophone's presence has been dialed down and the minimalism is used to create atmosphere and texture with layered effects and captured loops. "People want more saxophone, but I want them to leave a show wanting more," Skerik explains. "You should never play everything you know. You've got to hold back. It's all part of the tension and release."
With Power Patriot the lineup, sound, and style are not only different, but the approach to recording the album differs from previous Garage A Trois efforts. The initial band's debut, Mysteryfunk, was comprised of spontaneous Moore, Hunter, and Skerik jam sessions. In 2003 GAT released Emphasizer, and in 2005 they recorded the may-or-may-not-have-been-a-soundtrack, Outre Mer, which was both live and acoustic. Power Patriot was recorded over two sessions at two different studios, and prior to its release was tweaked and massaged by Benevento.
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Initial recording was done in New Orleans at Galactic's studio space, Number C, over two days in December 2007. When the material was in the can, Benevento explains, "We sat with it for a while. We weren't sure we had enough material and we didn't have a label to put it on."
Frustrated but not deterred, Marco and publicist Kevin Calabro decided to put Power Patriot - an album, according to Skerik, named after a sexually aggressive bull once owned by Dillon's dad - out on their home-cooked label, The Royal Potato Family. In order to have enough material for the release, the band went back into the studio for a secondary session to record the coruscating '70s synth-rock track "Computer Crimes."
"I think records shouldn't be too long. Vinyl had built-in limitations, but CDs had 74 minutes to work with and it created a bad precedent," says Skerik of the roughly 48-minute disc. "We subscribed to the 'less is more' school of thought."
Garage A Trois finished the final track at the Studio in the Country, a recording industry relic in Louisiana.
"It was such a badass studio," says Benevento, "It's where Stevie Wonder, Kansas, and Willie Nelson have recorded. They had all this pimped out gear and over the day we recorded a bunch of extra tape."
After that session, the group again let the material marinate a bit as they hammered out the release plan. Benevento, ever the tinkerer, would later go back in his "Bat Cave" and fiddle with the final mix and track order. "A couple of the tunes, like 'Rescue Spreaders,' were sketches and didn't feel finished, so I finished them after the fact at home," says Benevento.
Given the different approach to this album and the different roster and new dynamic, how did the songwriting duties and process break down?
"Most of the songs came to the studio pretty fully realized so the initial process was pretty straightforward and easy," says Moore of the ten tunes on the album. "The compositions were really strong; all instrumentally driven."
"Not all the songs were written specifically for Garage A Trois. Actually 'Dugout' was a Go-Go [Jungle] tune and "Germs" was originally for the [Hairy] Apes," says Dillon. And it's fortunate that "Dugout" was brought to Garage A Trois' table because Benevento absolutely kills it. "You know, it's easier to write in New Orleans," Dillon continues. "It's pretty simple. I make a cup of coffee, go for a run, and play music all day. The songs just come up. With 'Computer Crimes' and '[Electric] Door Bell Machine,' they were already written and I was hoping they'd work."
Benevento says of his contributions, "Hearing The Duo gives you a pretty good idea of my go-to song style. Lately I've been into epic rock like the Arcade Fire, My Morning Jacket, and [David] Bowie. I'm into lots of melodic songwriting."
A fantastic example of this is "Fragile," featuring a low-end fuzz and lovely melody reminiscent of Morphine. "Radiohead and Grizzly Bear are using interesting harmonies and expanded instrumentation, which I like," offer Skerik.
The compositions on Power Patriot, for the most part, reflect this ethos. While I immensely enjoyed and appreciated the Garage A Trois from the first half of this decade, I honestly feel this lineup and sound is what Garage A Trois was meant to be and what will take them to the next level. While the former Garage A Trois' sound felt more rooted in cross-cultural, past musical traditions, the new sound feels current and even futuristic. Even with Hunter, recent albums had incorporated more studio effects and experimentation with technology, and not technologies designed to make a mediocre artist sound good but those designed to make great music sound awesome.
So what can fans expect now that the band has found the collective time to tour?
"You know, we're still high energy!" Moore assures us.
"We'll play songs off the record and call tunes as we play them - some of our older repertoire, new sounds, different song types. It'll be less monochromatic [than the album] with more colors," adds Benevento. "Last weekend at Bear Creek [Music Festival], we did cover tunes and improv. There was a lot of room for changes."
"You know, the songs are just a jumping off point," says Dillon. "Sometimes Skerik and Marco have gone to another planet with a song and there's no coming back. That's just how it goes."
"Skerik is fearless," Moore concurs, "but those are large risks that often pay off musically. It's fresh."
It is ultimately the chemistry of the players and the sonic vision of the band that determine its success. Forced to risk altering their sound with new players, Garage A Trois has succeeded by using less traditional approaches to an instrument's role and technology to excite the instrumentation. Strong compositional skill and understanding of one another's strengths has been paramount and a firm belief in exploring the unknown a prerequisite. You can see them on both coasts through the end of the year and Japan at the end of January.
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