rollercoaster
what a bizarre week. it kicked off monday morning with an email requesting corporate use of one of my soundscapes -- awesome! -- only to be dashed the next day for various bureaucratic reasons. it happens. what's nice, though, is having those kinds of requests for things that i produce anyway, rather than having to develop stuff on spec that is nothing like what i would try to write on my own only to have it not get used. rather bolstering finding corporate interest in my ambient pieces.
speaking of which, i've a new one just completed called "Batata Wata." really hypnotic and organic considering it's all careful sound design/ synthesis. got a couple of more brewing in the old noggin, too.
this past wednesday had funf doing its premiere performance at the abbey lounge. the night kicked off with carlene barous (formerly of Din) doing some solo vocal/ piano music and then magician alexander constantine did a few very impressive card tricks, the last one of which involved him holding the deck in his mouth, extracting a card with his teeth and folding it in his mouth into quarters and then pulling it out to show that it was in fact the card that the audience participant wrote her name on. quite cool, especially since she seemed to have an eye on sabotaging his performance.
then funf got set up on the little pub stage and started twisting sound around. two guitars, v-drums, glockenspiel, organ, trumpet, and david sedaris' voice being warped around through a synth, mostly unrecognizable. we played for about 40 minutes or so, but it went by like a couple of seconds. we'll be doing more in the future. plus we've got a cd in production and there's talk of other means of recording stuff, too.
it's a grey friday here in boston as i look out over the charles river, and i'm looking forward to getting home this evening, firing up the studio, putting on some headphones and losing myself in sound. i've been listening a bit more lately to some lygeti and also angelo badalamenti and drawing some inspiration from both. it'll be fun to combine that stuff with the electronic/ synth stuff that i've already got reverberating within my skull.
stay tuned...
speaking of which, i've a new one just completed called "Batata Wata." really hypnotic and organic considering it's all careful sound design/ synthesis. got a couple of more brewing in the old noggin, too.
this past wednesday had funf doing its premiere performance at the abbey lounge. the night kicked off with carlene barous (formerly of Din) doing some solo vocal/ piano music and then magician alexander constantine did a few very impressive card tricks, the last one of which involved him holding the deck in his mouth, extracting a card with his teeth and folding it in his mouth into quarters and then pulling it out to show that it was in fact the card that the audience participant wrote her name on. quite cool, especially since she seemed to have an eye on sabotaging his performance.
then funf got set up on the little pub stage and started twisting sound around. two guitars, v-drums, glockenspiel, organ, trumpet, and david sedaris' voice being warped around through a synth, mostly unrecognizable. we played for about 40 minutes or so, but it went by like a couple of seconds. we'll be doing more in the future. plus we've got a cd in production and there's talk of other means of recording stuff, too.
it's a grey friday here in boston as i look out over the charles river, and i'm looking forward to getting home this evening, firing up the studio, putting on some headphones and losing myself in sound. i've been listening a bit more lately to some lygeti and also angelo badalamenti and drawing some inspiration from both. it'll be fun to combine that stuff with the electronic/ synth stuff that i've already got reverberating within my skull.
stay tuned...
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