This week has been unsually hectic at work, but I have still been plugging away with some creative time.
13th: edited episode 39 for Potter Fic Weekly. Soon to be released!
14th: baked some wonderful flax bread from my own recipe
15th: finished the 7″ for the leg of a pair of stripy socks
16th: cast on and knit the ribbing and 4 pattern repeats of the leg pattern on the Bellatrix socks
The Lincolnshire Poacher + Black Flag, interviewed + John Bonham + Um Jammer Lammy’s sweet heavy gtr = PURE AUDIO MAYHEM.
A collage/remix piece. Short, full of grace, pulling pillows over yr face. Not for the ill-at-ease. I call it 39715.
For reasons which will become clear as you listen.
The MP3 is here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?esfhtjdlbtg
Update: On Feb. 14, a MetaFilter contributor posted a link to the very John Bonham outtakes (from the In Through The Out Door sessions, 1979) that I exploited to make this tune. They’ve been floating around the Interweb for at least a couple of years now, and they’ve been sitting on my laptop’s hard drive in a RAR file for well over a year, just waiting to be used for something cool. I’d previously played with snippets of one of the outtakes in Sept. 2006, layering them over a tune (Huge) from the Amplifier Worship album by Japanese noise-rockers Boris. But I never finished that tune and it was a casualty of a hard drive crash last year. Oh well.
So anyway, this Thing is completely unrelated to that MeFi post, but the synchronicity is interesting.
Playing around with beats again in the drum machine software. This one sounds better than the last couple of Thing-A-Day experiments since I found the source of the nagging background noise: I had the audio from my laptop’s built-in mic coming into Cool Edit as I recorded those pieces live. Fixed that and everything is now back to awesome.
I did this the same way, adding and subtracting instruments in real time. I need to teach myself how to set up patterns in Beatcraft, but for now I’ve been having fun just playing it as an instrument, so to speak.
This is kind of a slow old-school hip-hop beat, but with its own bleepy 2008 persepctive. Here’s the MP3:
A little vocal piece, featuring Mike, and Mike, and Mike, and Mike, and Mike, singing quietly so as not to upset the neighbours. Listen to the MP3 and enjoy! (by Mike.)
A minute of things in my bedroom hit in interesting ways. Featuring the plug, the pen, the keys, the door, the zip, and the air freshener. Listen to the MP3 and enjoy! (by Mike.)
(Guy’s thing-for-today will be uploaded tomorrow.)
