This Friday past, I found myself in need of a brief mental diversion. As luck would have it, Justin of 3AM had made stems available from a new track of his entitled “Oceanside.” And so this remix was born:
SIGHUP – Oceanside (ADAT IO lost sync mix)
Unlike much of what I do, there’s actually a drum track in it. And here’s a link to the 3AM original:
I was playing around this morning with Wordle’s word cloud generator. Cool little app, thought it would be fun to run this blog through it.
Something tells me I’ve been obsessing lately, but I can’t quite put my finger on what. Click on the image to see it full size
Chris at Analog Industries has put out a challenge to the loyal to write a song in ten minutes flat, from pre-setup to finish. Fun exercise. Here’s my entry:
I did this in just under ten minutes, from opening Audiomulch to running some quick final touches on it in Sound Forge. I chose to go with something more musical than my usual drone/ambient/noise thing, since the audience at AD is likely to be less in to that sort of thing. Played MrRay73 (an e-piano VSTi plugin) into Loopyllama, recorded a quick 8 bar loop and one overdub, stopped, added effects, moved the e-piano over to a second mixer channel, added some more effects, hit record, played along with loop, saved, added a fade and some compression in Sound Forge, and saved. All done rather stream-of-consciousness stylee, as I had no preconceptions or specific ideas as I went in. There’s some flubs in there, it’s mostly plunky aimless stuff (although I think it turned out pleasantly entertaining), and the fade isn’t quite right, but then, it was all done in under ten minutes after all.
Hop on over here to Chris’s blog to check out what others have done and to post your own. Chris will pick his favourites from the bunch and give them a free copy of the forthcoming Audio Damage Automaton effect plugin. I already have Automaton, so I’m not in the running for the prize.
Last night’s show went great. I was pleased overall with my set, and the other acts on the bill did some great stuff. The picture above is me as an exploding ball of electricity, taken by our illustriuous show organizer, Kate MacDonald (I’ve embedded it into the mp3 file, figured I’d try that out as I’ve never really done that sort of thing before). Here’s audio, mostly sounds right, although imagine it played really loud over a kicking PA system. The bass tones were rattling.
I’ll be playing live this coming Thursday, June 19, 2008 in Toronto at Savage Garden (550 Queen Street West). I’m playing the first set at around 10pm followed by fellow Torontonians Ouroboros and from Montreal nebris and Visions, with interstitial DJ sets by DJ Kali. Should be an excellent show, if you’re into our brand of noise.
