Masks + Filters
13 tracks of dubby, metally, glitchy, noisy electronics.
Aiming for May/June.
Archive for the ‘Wires’ Category
Album
Friday, April 22nd, 2011Album Preview
Sunday, April 10th, 2011Preview of the 13 tracks currently being put together for the album-in-progress.
Weekend Work
Friday, March 25th, 2011
Tron.m3d1ocr3
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
The previews are loose & I was going to do a review, but the album’s such a disappointment it’s not worth it. Instead I have made a visual guide, with the tracks arranged in order of my opinion from best to worst.
edit: apparently my hosting had a crapout around the time I posted this and the image borked. Will fix when I get back to my pc…
Hometaping
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Started work on my Hometaping album today because I realised I only have about 12 days left to get it done. Have decided to do the entire thing using only the Unisynth and a dictophone. Today’s track settings were ‘Guitar I’, ‘Rock’ and ‘String Bass’, with a tempo of.. uh.. about a third of the way along the unmarked dial? I’ve had to tape down the tremolo bar in order to play the guitar chords at a higher octave than the bassline, which is annoying, but seems to work.
I’m particularly looking forward to making tracks using the ‘Disco’ drum/bass arrangement, which sounds more like a death march, and the ‘Latin’ arrangement, which is pure, unadulterated lift muzak.
Interim2
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
I’ve stuck another few tracks up that don’t fit in anywhere and are unlikely to be poked at again. This time around, it’s pretty much just glitch and noise music.
First track is the sound of an image reworked as a raw audio file, second track is a messed up guitar connection, third one is a heavily processed night field recording.
I’m not demanding anyone take notice. They’re there to be out of the way and to stop me trying to do anything else with them. It’s my equivalent of putting them on a shelf just out of reach.
mp3′s and stuff: noise.monofiopia.co.uk
As for y’know, ‘proper’ music, I’m now at 9 tracks/ 40 minutes, including a piano solo played with one finger, an outtake from John Carpenter’s secret dub album, what sounds like bits of a GY!BE track fed through a blender and a five-minute song with a three-minute intro (and a one-minute fade out). Still a couple of re-records to do and still have to make the digital tracks sound like they’re from the same album as the analogue ones.
Problem is, after writing that, I now want to call it ‘John Carpenter’s Secret Dub Album’.
Sounds good to me.
Monday, October 25th, 2010Neil Kulkarni over at The Quietus.
Technically an article about the state of hip-hop, but that just forms the backbone for this 3000 word assault on pop and industry sensibilities. Worth the read.
Current Projects
Sunday, September 26th, 2010Concept art; range of unrealistic, impractical or just unlikely concepts for spirits brands. Don’t really have the time or motivation to get through all this. Have got loads of development sketches done for about six concepts, but only really have one of them close to a ‘finished’ stage.
New noises; currently 5 tracks. Less ‘experimental’ than usual, definitely more structured. Much more coherent production. Will probably do a couple more tracks then decide I like none of them and abandon them all (again).
Radio revamp; doing the job I get paid to do for the employer I don’t get paid by. Putting together a horribly complicated proposal to improve multiple aspects of the station simultaneously. I should have put this forward weeks ago, but I’m still trying to work out some of the finer points of synergy.
‘untitled sidewise project’; the alternate histories of 20th century popular music. Timelines mostly done, key events and actions noted and appropriate shift points and directions developed. They’re the easy bits though. Originally this was going to be an audio-only project, but I don’t think it would make any sense (at least not in the way it’s intended) without documentation. I make it sound like I’m writing a prog concept album, but it’s more like a speculative research paper. Long-term project, unsurprisingly.
Research; War Tubas
Friday, July 30th, 2010
Early Listening Equipment (Museum “Waalsdorp”)
The Gamage Ltd Sound Locator No 1 Mk1 (Museum “Waalsdorp”)
Greatstone Sound Mirrors (Atlas Obscura)
A Short History of Acoustic Locators (Kircher Society via. WayBack Machine)
Acoustic Location & Sound Mirrors (Museum of Retrotech via. WayBack Machine)
Motörpunk
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
A (partially) hypothetical conversation:
Q: If punks were so non-conformist, why were all the iconic punk frontmen clean-shaven and short haired?
A: It wasn’t rebellion for the sake of it. It began as a musical rebellion against stagnant pop and prog rock. Prog was, of course, made of hair. In the late 70s, your dad probably had collar-length hair and an embarrassing beard. Short hair and a shaved face was more of a statement then than you realise. Besides, Lemmy had enough hair to make up for the rest of the punk kids.
Q: Lemmy? Motörhead weren’t a punk band.
A: …
