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we might have done more
than invent a new way to push pixels
minds attached to glowing screens
trillions of neurons making sense of shimmering squares of color
spinning bits into personalities
real and imagined
my screen shows me the world I wish to see
and through it, I am as I pretend
100,000 million human beings have walked on Earth
9 out of […]
On Friday, at 4:59 PM (West Coast Time) Earth’s North Pole will be tilted as far toward the sun as it will be all year…so the days will only be getting shorter for the next six months.
The poppies and foxgloves are blooming however, and the Oregon Brewer’s Festival is just about a month away. With […]
I made this song for my Dad. It has some excerpts from an amazing talk from the TED conference by a neuro-scientist named Jill Bolte Taylor. All the other sounds are from 16 Sounds v1 and a drumline that I recorded with my cell-phone at the Cirque du Cycling.
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Happy Father’s Day!
Today I start my 30th trip around the sun so I decided to skip work and make a song. Here’s the first draft:
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Memorial Day Take 1 from MacGregor Campbell on Vimeo.
Here’s a rough cut of the Memorial Day video my friend Jim and I made. All sights and sounds recorded on Memorial Day 2008 in Portland, Oregon.
The Memorial Day video is coming along nicely, above is a screen-cap of what we have so far. And here’s the latest soundscape (added rain, brought up voices, brought out mechanical voices at the end):
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Video coming soon…
Here’s the third and final remix I did last summer for ccmixter.org: DJ Vadim and Big Red’s “Kill Kill Kill”. Vocals, synth tweaks, and some drums are CC licensed by DJ Vadim and BBE records. The big crunchy drums are from Paul Alcott off of Bridgetown Breaks, vol. 2.
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Last summer I did a remix of Salman Ahmad’s “Natchoongi” for ccmixter.org.
All the instruments and vocals are CC licensed from Salman Ahmad, except the drums, which come from Bridgetown Breaks (From Vol. 2: Drew Shoals and from Vol. 1: Josh Skins).
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My friend PJ and I spent a recent rare sunny afternoon walking around SE Portland, bangin’ on shit. The result: 16 sounds, ready for beatmaking. Perhaps we’ll call this the “Random Sunny Afternoon Kit”.
Preview the sounds:
Download the sounds in aiff format here.
Download an Ableton 7 Live Set with the sounds pre-loaded […]