no peanuts in church…

"You might as well face the music. You've tried everything else…" -Sun Ra.

  • New Bandcamp Release: Ghosted

    Finally had a chance for final mastering and upload of this, my second bandcamp release: This is best described as a self-remix piece. The core sound materials were produced in the period 2001-2004. Some of these were fully-formed pieces in their own right (e.g. a version of comes pale horse, from 2002; and an unused Continue reading

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  • Disquiet Catch-up (#77, #78 and #79)

    Real life has been brutal, frankly, so I haven’t been updating the music blog even though I’ve managed to participate in a few Disquiet projects since the last post. First, #77, ‘disquiet0077-netlabelsplice’: This project gave us links to three deriv-friendly netlabel tracks, and specified a time range for each of them. We were to take Continue reading

  • feelings, nothing more…

    Andrew Sullivan has apparently chosen neuroscience as a pet topic for the past few weeks. Key quote: Without religion or a shared culture, science has assumed a role it is not qualified to play: a judgment of the whole, not just of its relevant area of inquiry. Don’t get me wrong: science is a vital Continue reading

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  • Disquiet Junto 0073: Faulty Notation

    The Disquiet Junto project for this week assigned us an excerpt of a geological/topographical map of the San Andreas fault line. Mine is below: There were many map excerpts, but this one was mine. I started out with no real idea as to how to approach this, but soon found myself making a detailed markup Continue reading

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  • disquiet #0069 : the four elements

    This week’s Disquiet Junto project had us downloading four sound sources from freesound.org, one for each of the classical elements (earth, air, fire and water). I used Audiomulch for this one, along with a couple of the Korg Legacy Collection VST plugins (specifically, the filter bank section of an emulated Korg M-20 –which I find Continue reading

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