My friend Steven plays drums and practices audio sorcery in a dope funk band called Lockboxx. Their new album “Drop Shop” is out now on Character Records. Steven was nice enough to give me some of the test recordings of his drumming, captured with two crappy mics and four-track cassette recorder. Shitty […]
My friend Jim and I are working on a Memorial Day portrait of our city. We spent the day shooting empty parks and parking garages, listening for interesting sounds, and recording passing conversations on the sly. The final product is coming soon, but in the meantime, here’s the latest draft of […]
We had our (sortof) monthly writer’s group meeting tonight. It was at my house, so I was in charge of giving people an assignment and providing snacks and tea. We had fruit salad:
And the assignment was to bring in something that makes a sound and tell a story that incorporates the sound in […]
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I had to break out the old MPC for this one. The words come from an interview with C. Northcote Parkinson, a 20th century naval historian and source of one of my favorite quotes: “The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.”
I like this quote in theory, […]
This is what happened the next time we did Ingredients, except this time it was a larger crew: Pluto, DJ Tant, Mano-Destra, and myself on audio with Jamal Qutub, and the lovely Melinda Swenson on video. We had 24 hours to create a n original music video from random audio and video clips. […]
This is a track that my friend PJ (link) and I made back in 2005 in six hours for the first Ingredients contest at Holocene. We were given about 12 random audio files and six hours to create an original song. The result: “Napalm Facelift”
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