Scott Troyer

(Wow, I haven’t updated my blog since May. Sorry! This entry is the remedy.)

Life’s been busy – really busy. Many of you have been bugging me to record some material and I’ve been trying. But life on the road has made it very difficult for me to record. The answer: I’m taking time off from touring. For the past 3 years I’ve been non-stop traveling and playing shows and, frankly, it is time for a break. My goal during this “time off” is to finally lay down some tracks. I have such a backlog of material to choose from and quite a few irons in the fire, so I’m aiming to bite off manageable chunks.

Scott Troyer

If you’re not already a fan of my music on Facebook, go ahead and do so now. I keep in touch with everyone really well that way. Here’s an update I sent to my fans a few days ago that talks about one of the many “irons I’m heating up in the fire.”

This past weekend I had the pleasure of spending some quality time in the studio with my old bandmates. Our band, called Rudisill, formed in 2003 and performed under several monikers. In 2005 we put out a full length album called ‘Carbon Paper Treaties’, which featured 10 of our songs. We had many more songs (arguably some of our best) left to record when the band was forced into an indefinite hiatus due to our lives taking separate geographic directions. Though we’ve been apart for about 3 years, our hearts have always been in this music.

If you knew us back then and want to keep up to date with what’s happening in Camp Rudisill, click the link below to become a fan. Or if you are new to our music, but want to find out more about what I was involved with in the past (and hopefully will be in the future), click the link below.

Rudisill

Twitter is a great service, but I’ve been thinking that its full potential is still untapped. Could we use its nearly ubiquitous presence to help crowd solve problems in real time? Think of a service similar to dialing 411 or ChaCha, but free and with a larger answer base. I haven’t heard of anything like this, though there may already be some sort of method being employed. Even so, I propose using a hash tag like #solve when you need an answer.

Recently I was in Washington, D.C. and was wondering what a certain building near the Washington Monument was. (It was beyond my sight at the moment, but it happened to be the Department of Commerce.) I wish I could have snapped a photo of the building and tagged it with #solve via my phone. Then within minutes the Twitterverse would have returned the an answer like: “@scotttroyer #solved Dept. of Commerce. Have fun in D.C.!”.

I’m not sure about the answer being tagged #solve or #solved. Using different tags for questions and answers could help separate them, but it might be nice to see them together as well. What do you think?

This type of crowd sourcing could be used to identify objects (architecture, species, products), solve math problems, translate phrases, get pricing information, etc. The potential is limitless. Let me know what ideas you have for this proposed use of Twitter or if you’ve know of some sort of method already in use. Either way, start using the #solve hashtag to solve your problems now!

I found some mp3’s of sine waves at various frequencies at www.freemosquitoringtone.org. As we age, we lose our ability to hear higher frequencies and so these mp3’s are offered as discreet ringtones for teens. Try out these tones and let me know how high you can hear.

08.0khz (Everyone)
10.0khz (60 & Younger)
12.0khz (50 & Younger)
14.1khz (49 & Younger)
14.9khz (39 & Younger)
15.8khz (30 & Younger)
16.7khz (24 & Younger)
17.7khz (24 & Younger)
18.8khz (24 & Younger)
19.9khz (24 & Younger)
21.1khz (24 & Younger)
22.4khz (24 & Younger)

Finally. I cleaned up the layout, so everything has a lot more whitespace. There are several new sections as well. Check out the new Lyrics section under Music to read up on some of my songs. Also under Music, you can leave comments on my tracks via SoundCloud.

And under Contact you can send me a note or even some music in my Dropbox. Hot hot hot!

Here’s some live video of myself performing with Katie Nelson and Lynn Graber at Murray Hill Theatre in Jacksonville, FL. Great venue, great friends, great times. Video service provided by SyncLive.