this one's not out yet, that's the sadness. just needed to vent obscurely online somewhere, listening to blackstar it hit me what a huge difference it makes when an album is not posthumous, even if only by two days.
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 12 January 2016 21:03 (eight years ago) link
I was just reminded that I'm supposed to sing tomorrow night. Oops
― Very selfish, and very ironic (DJP), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link
Xpost haha sorry! Well I'm still going to get the album I wrongly thought was the one in question.
― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 21:45 (eight years ago) link
did an interpretation of 'Revolution 9' for this White Album tribute show (despite never listening to the Beatles really). obviously it was the odd one out, of the night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN3g4QIFevQ&list=PLiTjrHx70WItIldi4-VxcIbGIxAKr_Yqo&index=27
also trying to write a string part for one of my tracks, for one violinist to overdub all the voices. i've got the lead line and a passable little lower harmony, but because i am a dumb drummer, i have no idea what to do for other voices to thicken it up.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 18:06 (eight years ago) link
Had a great concert of musical settings of Shakespeare on Sunday, including a completely bonkers piece for men's chorus and soprano soloist called "Your sister's drown'd" by Ingof Gabold about the death of Ophelia and Ralph Vaughn Williams' stunning Three Shakespeare Songs. I had a solo verse in a Swingle Singers arrangement of "'Twas a Lover and His Lass". Can't wait for the recording.
― its subtle brume (DJP), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 18:11 (eight years ago) link
xpost do you want the 'string ensemble' to give a homogenous impression or more contrapuntal/multitextured?
djp that sounds like a really good program!
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 18:14 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, the rest of the program included Morley, Wood, Martin, a premiere of a commissioned piece by a local composer and friend of our group named Graham Ramsey, and some crazy pieces by another Danish composer whose name I'm blanking on. I think I tossed my program otherwise I'd just write it up from that. :-(
― its subtle brume (DJP), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 18:17 (eight years ago) link
you know what shakespeare setting I really love, and it's part of an opera but it has also been extracted in standalone voice-piano form, is Britten's "I know a bank..." from A Midsummer Night's Dream for countertenor
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 18:26 (eight years ago) link
well Britten in general rules (IMO the best all-around composer of the 20th Century)
― its subtle brume (DJP), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 18:27 (eight years ago) link
i think more homogeneous, because there is already a lot going on with the main vamp & beat.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 18:29 (eight years ago) link
Oh, I have also set up my first voice lesson with a new teacher; in keeping with my general "study with someone who doesn't sing my voice part" vibe, this dude is a countertenor
Here's an example of his work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXtnKajtrts
I am really fucking excited and hope I come out the other side of this with a reliable high baritone range and maybe some of my low notes back
― its subtle brume (DJP), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 18:32 (eight years ago) link
That reminds me of reading somewhere that roles like Pelleas call for a special type of French voice known as a 'baryton martin' that falls in the zone between bari and tenor
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Friday, 29 January 2016 00:53 (eight years ago) link
been working on this for a while. it's an instrumental electronic grindcore project loosely themed around seafood. 5 songs in under 3 minutes!
http://deadcrustacean.bandcamp.com/album/dead-crustacean
― Sissy SpaceX (latebloomer), Friday, 5 February 2016 22:27 (eight years ago) link
recorded those violins today and we ended up just doing 11 unison tracks, incl. three an octave down and three an octave up. sounds great!
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 5 February 2016 22:48 (eight years ago) link
i bet that sounds cool. Did the mismatch in vibratos create a chorusy effect?
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Friday, 5 February 2016 22:57 (eight years ago) link
a bit, but not as much as you'd think, since it was one violinist playing all the parts. definitely enough variation for color & thickness. it was pretty fun to hear it come together.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Saturday, 6 February 2016 01:05 (eight years ago) link
Were you adding strings to a beat-oriented electronic track or to a jazz tune?
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Sunday, 7 February 2016 16:38 (eight years ago) link
(Or something else?)
The former, it's a pretty intense electronic track.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Sunday, 7 February 2016 17:27 (eight years ago) link
dead crustacean is A+, would play again
― ogmor, Sunday, 7 February 2016 21:56 (eight years ago) link
the band i quit last fall is playing Int'l. Noise Conference in Miami this weekend, and imagining being "on tour" with the bandleader is really making me confident I made the right decision.
― sarahell, Sunday, 7 February 2016 22:09 (eight years ago) link
Sounds cool, Jordan.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 00:32 (eight years ago) link
I got a lot of classical guitar practice in over the Christmas break and I think I've finally got down a classical guitar piece I wrote a year and a half ago or so (that I, um, performed last year). I hope to record it, probably over the summer. I want to record a noisy prepared guitar thing soon-ish too. I've been writing something for Pierrot ensemble + percussion on and off but am not feeling that excited about it atm.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 00:41 (eight years ago) link
I am certainly excited to hear about Pierrot ensemble + percussion! Was just thinking about the idea of that combo a few days ago. It's a good idea!
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 00:51 (eight years ago) link
Oh, thanks. I wrote one short movement in 2012 and thought that I'd give a try to continuing it when I have time on my hands + am away from my gear. There's no real performance in my mind but I figure that there are always opportunities for this instrumentation.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 03:30 (eight years ago) link
*recently thought
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 04:10 (eight years ago) link
anyone know any drummers in the Bay Area who would be interested in playing drums for a psych/country rock sorta band
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 22:05 (eight years ago) link
my new voice teacher is super rad and is making me realize exactly how little I know about singing
― its subtle brume (DJP), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 22:06 (eight years ago) link
sund4r what's your classical guitar piece like?
― ogmor, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 10:37 (eight years ago) link
since moving and leaving my old band behind i'd been itching to start playing with other people again. managed to get a couple of near-strangers into a practice room at the weekend and forgot what a challenge it can be to start all over again, get to know each other's style, what people are into, trying to avoid bad stoner rock impressions blah blah.
― posted with permission by (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 12:09 (eight years ago) link
thanks sund4r. you should write something for your processed guitar setup + percussion. :)
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 14:31 (eight years ago) link
Ha, actually, I sometimes think about adding some kind of rhythm/percussion layer.
It's a fugue in the octatonic mode in 5/4. I wrote a similar fugue for piano some years back that has been performed/recorded a couple of times but I think I'm a little more excited about this one.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 22:52 (eight years ago) link
I'm eagerly anticipating news of a recording
― ogmor, Thursday, 11 February 2016 10:10 (eight years ago) link
what is going on in my musical life observation: crazy how much better your band gets when you rehearse more than a few times a year!
― tylerw, Thursday, 11 February 2016 15:10 (eight years ago) link
i've also been writing these little piano miniatures and recording them to cassette as interludes. don't really know what you'd call them, a single-note melody in the right hand and i guess a counter-melody in the left. drummer songs.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 11 February 2016 16:25 (eight years ago) link
drummer songs.
^^^ album title
― its subtle brume (DJP), Thursday, 11 February 2016 16:25 (eight years ago) link
Me and La Lechera are playing a show in a couple of weeks, doing semi-improvised instrumental guitar and drums music heavily based on looping with the looper pedal. Excited to play a show, a little more nervous than usual since it's outside of my comfort zone (I don't really think of myself as much of an improviser or strong guitarist) but should be fun. The show we're playing is an experimental music showcase and it looks like we're a lot more rock-based than the other acts. Also I haven't played guitar at all in a couple of weeks and I'm tempted to not play at all before the show just to see what happens but that's probably a bad idea.
I have a recording project called Shredded Sun (shreddedsun.bandcamp.com) with the same people who were in my old band. It takes forever for us to do stuff bc we have kids and jobs and stuff but have four new songs done that I'm pretty excited about, they're very dense and shoegaze-influenced, but we're trying to hold out on releasing them until we have enough for a full album, whatever that means in this day and age. so I'm trying to be patient.
I played bass for a couple of Adv@nce B@se (ex-Casi0tone for the P@infully @lone) shows in December that were pretty fun/interesting, it was an eight-piece band and we never rehearsed as the full group before the shows. The first show was pretty shaky but the second was a lot of fun and I think he's going to put the recording out soon.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 11 February 2016 18:10 (eight years ago) link
! I know Owen from way back, sounded like that show was great.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 February 2016 18:14 (eight years ago) link
The best part of it for me was going "on tour" to play the one show out of town, bc everyone else involved was much more of a pro musician and it was fun to listen to their stories about playing with other famous people or tour disasters or whatever. It was a good crew of cool people and I got to tag along.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 11 February 2016 18:18 (eight years ago) link
i am looking forward to this show a lot and trying to plan my outfit without overdoing it
Also I haven't played guitar at all in a couple of weeks and I'm tempted to not play at all before the show just to see what happens but that's probably a bad idea.i think this could be a good idea really -- the day after the 1 day/week that I don't practice always feels really good, like i am more in control than i expected to be.
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Thursday, 11 February 2016 20:48 (eight years ago) link
what should I wear?
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 11 February 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
something that won't get caught in your pedals or flop in your faceno gloves
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Thursday, 11 February 2016 22:10 (eight years ago) link
I expect to hear not only how it goes but what the both of you wore
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 11 February 2016 22:56 (eight years ago) link
I'll try not to disappoint, ogmor.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Thursday, 11 February 2016 23:03 (eight years ago) link
more and more often, i find myself in the position of getting offered actual money to do musical things i don't particularly want to do (like make sample packs and produce for rappers who i don't care about). on the one hand, i feel like i should do these things because in 2016 this is how you actually make money for putting out the music that you do care about (i.e. commercial opportunities instead of selling records). also i have a hard time saying no to things, although i'm improving.
on the other hand, i have a day job so i don't need the money, and the whole point of keeping music as a 'hobby' should be so that it stays fun, right?
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 19 February 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link
if you don't need the money, don't do it
― Οὖτις, Friday, 19 February 2016 20:39 (eight years ago) link
(i know this is not a bad problem to have. also i think the only compelling reason for saying 'yes' to these things is that i could justify buying that new synth to my partner, because i would just be putting music money back into music.)
xp
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 19 February 2016 20:40 (eight years ago) link
the trap I've seen people fall into is that they justify doing stuff they don't want to do for money as a way to fund their own things they *do* want to do... and then they don't actually have the time to do the stuff they do want to do, cuz they're too busy
― Οὖτις, Friday, 19 February 2016 20:43 (eight years ago) link
that is the advice i was looking for, ty
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 19 February 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link
Could these musical jobs help you: i) improve your skills in a way that would be relevant to the things you actually enjoy doing or ii) cut back on your hours at (or eventually quit) your day job? If not, Οὖτις probably OTM.
― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Friday, 19 February 2016 23:25 (eight years ago) link