this is Forces at Work yr talking about?
― Οὖτις, Friday, 2 December 2016 16:00 (seven years ago) link
yeah! it's only taken us like 4 years to put together a 4-song EP.
― tylerw, Friday, 2 December 2016 16:01 (seven years ago) link
I'm guessing you're not in a German progressive metal band?
― Spiritual Hat Minimalism (Sund4r), Friday, 2 December 2016 16:10 (seven years ago) link
haha no
― tylerw, Friday, 2 December 2016 16:22 (seven years ago) link
call the lawyers
― Οὖτις, Friday, 2 December 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link
those guys are more like Farces At Work imo. those are great song titles though
― tylerw, Friday, 2 December 2016 16:24 (seven years ago) link
lol @ FORCILIZED
― Οὖτις, Friday, 2 December 2016 16:25 (seven years ago) link
apparently my colleague in the spiritual group has access to accompanying tracks for our solos, which is good
it also looks like I'll be singing something like 5 solos in this gig, which will be silly (I've only ever sung 1 or 2 but this is what happened when all the conservatory-trained adults drop out and you're backfilling them with skittish high school kids)
― ¶ (DJP), Friday, 2 December 2016 17:12 (seven years ago) link
that looks like a wonderful setlist DJP
― tylerw, Friday, 2 December 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
Our actual set list is going to look more like:
In Bright MAnsionsJoshua fit de battle of JerichoSoon-ah will be doneOld Man LazrusWay up in Beulah landDidn't My Lord Deliver DanielAin't-a that good news?I can tell the world
Solos that I will be splitting with the other adult include some of the following (the first 7 are hers):
Sometimes I feel like a motherless childMy Lord, What A MorningJust Another DayBalm in GileadWere you there when they crucified my Lord?I love the nameStand still, JordanBeen in the StormRide on, King JesusYou may bury me in the eastNobody knows the trouble I've seenI want Jesus to walk with meDeep River
― ¶ (DJP), Friday, 2 December 2016 17:52 (seven years ago) link
Balm in Gilead is a beaut, one of my favorites
― Οὖτις, Friday, 2 December 2016 17:53 (seven years ago) link
The only church music I know is "you saw me crying in the chapel" which, by the use of the word "you" introduces a third party, which really isn't necessary.
― calstars, Friday, 2 December 2016 23:51 (seven years ago) link
The Society of Rockets sounds really great.
― earlnash, Saturday, 3 December 2016 15:16 (seven years ago) link
thx just booked an album release show for 2/5 with these guys http://www.conspiracyofbeards.com/
― Οὖτις, Monday, 5 December 2016 23:48 (seven years ago) link
btw, my gig went shockingly well considering that I was singing with high school students who were freaking out about singing at a private party
I ended up singing You may bury me, I want Jesus, Been in the storm, and Deep River. Didn't think to record it, oops.
― ¶ (DJP), Monday, 5 December 2016 23:51 (seven years ago) link
So ~gulp~ I posted my first thing to Bandcamp. It's basically novitiate synth music done in iOS over the last 9 months but I think it's at least flavorful and hopefully engaging enough despite my (inherited from my guitar days) penchant for annoying additive rhythms?
https://algaemetric.bandcamp.com/album/sixteen-seasons
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:28 (seven years ago) link
Awesome! Can't wait to dig in.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 20:56 (seven years ago) link
playing a memorial concert on Sunday. haven't played out since the summer.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 21:13 (seven years ago) link
what kind of stuff are you playing? solo?
i am on one of the tracks that jon posted! in two days i am supposed to play a show but first i have to extract my car from the city pound ;_;
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 21:28 (seven years ago) link
it's a long story.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 22:28 (seven years ago) link
it went better than I expected.
― sarahell, Monday, 19 December 2016 18:41 (seven years ago) link
excellent to hear, sorry you had that specific occasion to play
― ¶ (DJP), Monday, 19 December 2016 19:53 (seven years ago) link
yeah, there were some press people there, which I hadn't even thought about when I volunteered to play, but when I saw them with their cameras, I said to myself, "Of course." Pretty much whenever I saw someone come up to me hauling pro camera gear, I turned my back to them. Fortunately, my instrument was conducive to that.
― sarahell, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:58 (seven years ago) link
glad it worked out; it's a tough situation all the way around
on my end of things, I sang in our annual "half-hour Messiah" recital where a quartet from my church choir sings several Messiah arias and then does a Hallelujah chorus singalong with the audience; it went well and my wife's Rejoice Greatly was pretty good considering she has a massive cold and this was her first big solo sing post-surgery and post-chemo
― ¶ (DJP), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 16:05 (seven years ago) link
this is happening
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C0TiNVdUQAAdu7f.jpg
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 22 December 2016 19:51 (seven years ago) link
xp - your wife is amazing.
― sarahell, Thursday, 22 December 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
hey Sarah you performance looked/sounded so rad from what I sawhey Shakey I'll be at that show
I came out with a new free EP of weirdo lo-fi Chaki funk http://chaki.bandcamp.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DmhRMcE53Y
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 22 December 2016 20:58 (seven years ago) link
xp Shakey that rocks. And that poster is amazing btw.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 22 December 2016 21:10 (seven years ago) link
all shakey's band posters look like that.
― sarahell, Thursday, 22 December 2016 21:18 (seven years ago) link
looks great shakes, is there going to be a bootleg of it?
― tylerw, Thursday, 22 December 2016 21:21 (seven years ago) link
Terrifying cover art Chaki
― calstars, Friday, 23 December 2016 19:30 (seven years ago) link
I've been struggling lately to master L Cohen's fingerpicking on The Partisan.
― dinnerboat, Friday, 23 December 2016 19:38 (seven years ago) link
I upgraded to Live 9 Suitenow I just need a laptop to run it onand to set up the rest of the gear in my new basementoh and buy some gear
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Friday, 23 December 2016 19:47 (seven years ago) link
really that's more "what is going on in your consumerist life"
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Friday, 23 December 2016 20:08 (seven years ago) link
I'm in one of those phases rn where I just feel like selling all my gear bc I've had no creative impulse at all for months now.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 23 December 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
I thought that was when you were supposed to buy new stuff, so you feel obligated to use it
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Friday, 23 December 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
It'll come back, Nick.
I am getting a new EP mastered and feeling very positive about the production end of things, although starting again with a blank slate is always both freeing and scary.
I also was feeling very positive about starting to dj, until I realized that using a controller is very different from using CDJs and that beatmatching by ear is a drag.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 23 December 2016 21:02 (seven years ago) link
i dont know how i'm going to perform my new ep live. i think im going to use a roland sp 404 + live bass guitar + one of those korg monologues.
― kurt schwitterz, Saturday, 24 December 2016 02:05 (seven years ago) link
What kind of EP, Jordan?
Someone asked me to write a 10-string guitar piece for his 2018 Master's recital, which should be fun. I'm planning to start getting a new electric piece together over this holiday and maybe start writing another string quartet movement.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Saturday, 24 December 2016 09:08 (seven years ago) link
:-) she really is
― ¶ (DJP), Saturday, 24 December 2016 19:18 (seven years ago) link
Sund4r, have I asked you if you know of these guys? i was friends with the guitarist when he lived here and i figure the new music guitar world must be relatively small.
My new EP is more experimental club music on the same label as the last one, very physical found-sound drums and synths mostly made from sampling audio and running it through my ES2 pedal.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 16:58 (seven years ago) link
where is the master spreadsheet of y'alls links and bands and labels and stuff
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 17:55 (seven years ago) link
That's really a thing?
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link
nah (unless...jaymc.xls?)
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 21:27 (seven years ago) link
I don't know them, Jordan. I should get better at that networking thing. I'll check out more of their stuff. Cool that they did Ferneyhough! And the EP sounds cool.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Saturday, 31 December 2016 00:34 (seven years ago) link
house-sat for my parents for the week after christmas, was bored out of my mind cept for taking the odyssey, a couple pedals and my zoom recorder with me - this is the best of what I did
― Executive Ball Clicker (euphemism) (haitch), Saturday, 7 January 2017 15:14 (seven years ago) link
Yesterday, I participated in a workshop about how to create grassroots new music scenes and organize concerts. I took a bathroom break and was informed by text that Future was asking for clearance to sample one of my songs. Today I am scoring a commercial for Wal-Mart. Interesting times.
― fgti, Saturday, 11 February 2017 16:23 (seven years ago) link
:)
― flopson, Saturday, 11 February 2017 16:33 (seven years ago) link
do you still live in mtl? i'm afraid our few remaining diy spaces are about to go the way of toronto's :( saw some stuff on fb recently about strange ppl taking photos around some of the van h0rne/beaub1en area spaces... i was p devastated when cops shut down 'the cove', took a while for people to rebuild
i was asked to play drums in a band then the guy who asked me to join disbanded the band and then i asked the remaining members if they wanted to start a new thing w/o him, and they all agreed, and now i'm playing guitar and so far it's going REALLY well
― flopson, Saturday, 11 February 2017 16:37 (seven years ago) link
I lived in L.A. last year but moved back to Toronto for a scoring job that never got past the demoing stage. I do not understand why DIY spaces are being shut down.
― fgti, Saturday, 11 February 2017 16:55 (seven years ago) link