what is going on in your musical life

that's how i feel about it -- and many people who like me as a person would not know an event is happening unless i tell them, so it's purely informative
i wish accomplished people didn't display shame about it, i guess -- their shame leaks over into less-accomplished people like me and it seems unwarranted

their problem. never understood the "oh don't look at me, don't look at me" or pretending to be embarrassed about success - it's an infantile, stupid, vestigial Gen X trait

Recital for a half dozen friends a little later tonight. Chopin Op 28 no 20, Satie Gymnopédie 1, and accompanying my housemate singing Thom Yorke “Ingenue”. Wish me luck.

you're living my dream, which i failed to achieve because i gave up! good luck, you'll do great!

I like your tape pieces a lot, flappy!

Yeah, that's interesting stuff. That's not a Tascam Portastudio, is it?

And that's very cool, silby. Hope it went well.

yeah it's a tascam 424 mkiii
thanks for the kind words!

Wow! I got one of those in 1999 to put together the portfolio that I ended up using to get into a composition course and switch to a music degree. Used it all the time for several years to record, mess with tapes, and make no-input mixer noise. When I first switched to computer recording, I even still used it as a (crude) interface. Looking at what they go for now, maybe I should have hung on to it.

Might do "Freddie Freeloader" at a jam tonight, if my drummer friend is up for it. My guitar duo will be performed by a couple of McGill guys this weekend.

At this: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cowan-cicchillitti-duo-tickets-49760096789

I still have a 4-track cassette Portastudio. Haven't used it in a while but I love retaining the option.

Another new one, from yesterday. Back into Disintegration soundalikes.

my latest record, a mix of doo-wop/hip-hop/techno and ambient

https://operatorplug10.bandcamp.com/album/dolls-2018

first song is markedly more upbeat than the rest

as far as instrumentation: live keyboards, some electronics (hardware/ableton plugins), samples from movies (buffalo 66/love and friendship/slums of beverly hills), guitar (track 2), majority of all sounds are played live (i don't quantize as a rule, tho some of the beats are looped), also incorporates field recordings from vancouver

Cool shit!

Another attempt at completely demolishing a semi-oldish tune: https://austinato.bandcamp.com/track/untitled-99-austins-astralpop-autopsy-remix

I'm feeling genuinely grateful that this month I get to do pretty much all the things that I do. Had a great brass band gig last weekend (which was a block from my house and David Murray stopped in later), I have a short DJ set tonight opening for a friend's band, and next weekend are the jazz gigs with Ler0y J0nes that I've been shedding for.

Wow

hi 5 jordan! i feel similarly about this month but mostly this week. If someone asked me to be in their Halloween cover band of a band I actually want to play the songs of, I would be almost fully satisfied.
making things happen does take a lot of effort, but it is worth it imo. have fun tonight and enjoy your jazz gigs! i am playing tomorrow with 2 ilxors! if you know me/us irl you probably already know this because i have been talking about it incessantly :)

so the exhibition I mentioned upthread was on Friday and I managed to put together just over half an hour of music for it. I wasn't completely thrilled with what I finished - another few days to work on it both in terms of song and sound design would have really helped - but everyone seemed to appreciate it and I got speaking to a guy who asked if I would be interested in doing something for his science fiction event, which is exciting (despite my lack of knowledge about science fiction). It was a real buzz, to be honest - there were people there who I didn't know who seemed to be actively enjoying it and the friends I brought along for support said they overheard some nice things said. I was happy with how it sounded on the night, in the room, and it's 30 mins of music I can develop I didn't have three weeks ago, so I'm considering it a victory.

It's also motivated me to get a bit more serious about this. I've been to so many local things where people play music that I think is on a par or worse than stuff I'm doing, and if I thought I could make my laptop loops come alive on stage then I would definitely start looking into trying to play gigs.

joy, that is outstanding! I would love to do something similar with my music, as "soundtrack" is basically where I see my music heading. Of course, I'd really have to buckle down and practice a lot more before I would be ready to play out.

Couple more "new" songs from this weekend here and here. Really pleased with my recordings lately.

That's great bj. Having a forced deadline to generate material sounds very appealing rn.

very cool boxedjoy

thanks DJI xpost

We recorded the set from Friday -- here it is! Someone said it sounded like a lavender-scented bog, feel free to decide for yourself. Drums/percussion, harmonium, electric guitar <3 https://bit.ly/2EnyvOv

that's me on guitar

recorded by tarfumes!

whoa...

thta shit drones so hard. i love it!

damn, that sounds really, really good. I especially like when you can't quite make out what the percussion is doing and it all blends together. Looking forward to giving it a listen in better conditions/headphones later.

yeah, great job you all! love the NAP trio name, too :)

yes

thank you! i am hoping we can scoop up another gig or two. as a frequent show-goer, i think this would be comforting to hear on a cold wintery night.

Enjoyed the drone jam.

LL were you micing the drums through some kind of processor/pedal setup? Sounds very cool.

the drum set was un-miked (miced?) but the kalimba/tongue drum was being run through amp+ delay iirc? i was playing that somewhere in the middle for a few minutes (you can tell it's me because the drum set stops). otherwise it was manned by the harmonium player.
thank you!

the band i've been playing with recorded at electric audio with steve albini last week. in 20+ years of playing music i've never recorded in a pro studio before so i was pretty nervous but it turned out good. we recorded live to tape, so no mixing after the song was on tape, which actually ruled because obviously he knows how to get good sounds in his studio with his gear (the drums in particular sound amazing) and it means no mixing. unfortunately for me this band has a whole album they did before i joined that they haven't released yet, so they're going to try and get that out first before we put out the stuff i'm on, but i still think it might come out sometime this year?

― na (NA), Tuesday, May 8, 2018 9:19 AM (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so six months later and the album i am not on is still not released (and neither is the one i am on). my bandmate has been trying to set up an album release show for months now so it can be officially released. he's now aiming for december or january. so i guess the albini-recorded album that i AM on will come out sometime in like ... 2022? never? it is mastered now at least. meanwhile my bandmates want to get together to write new songs and i'm like why? we have two whole albums that aren't even out yet, why are we writing new songs? tied up in this is that i kind of want to quit the band but feel bad doing it before the album i'm on comes out

That's a shame. Hope you can get everything sorted.

I made a little jam on my Circuit last night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1KLVo2HITE

n/a that is frustrating -- idk what the solution is but the problem is clear

well i offered to help with booking the album release show and shortly after venting the above got back an offer for some decent dates at a couple of decent clubs, so maybe we can at least get the album without me on it out in january

good job!
apparently that is the part of the equation that they had been stalling on
get that record out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58xH2NqLejs

We recorded the set from Friday -- here it is! Someone said it sounded like a lavender-scented bog, feel free to decide for yourself. Drums/percussion, harmonium, electric guitar <3 https://bit.ly/2EnyvOv

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, October 15, 2018 3:23 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's me on guitar

― na (NA), Monday, October 15, 2018 3:46 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

recorded by tarfumes!

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, October 15, 2018 3:46 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You all rule. That was such a killer set, and I really hope NAP continues to be a thing.
(And I'm sorry I didn't get the first minute of your set on the recording.)

I very much enjoyed listening to that set yesterday!

thank you!! i am strategizing what we should do next, where, and with whom. i always figure that winter months are actually good for local bands because there are fewer bigwigs coming through.

good in terms of opportunities, less advantageous in luring people out to see the show

the drum set was un-miked (miced?) but the kalimba/tongue drum was being run through amp+ delay iirc? i was playing that somewhere in the middle for a few minutes (you can tell it's me because the drum set stops). otherwise it was manned by the harmonium player.
thank you!

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 16:46 (yesterday) Permalink

Ah cool. I wonder if I'm hearing the drums getting picked up by other mics?

tbh i don't think there were any mics aside from the tiny contact mic on the harmonium

I have something semi-big deal-ish (well, to me anyway) coming just around the corner. I don't want to say much at this point, but after the next couple of weeks, I hope to have a pretty significant (again, probably moreso to me personally) announcement. Watch this space, I guess. Or don't.

!!!

So, things moved along pretty well this weekend. Enough to the point that I feel like I can post this:
https://i.imgur.com/khRWbYu.png

No release date yet, as this release will coincide with another one which is not quite ready to go yet. Will post more details as they become available.

So, coupled with my last post, here's a very early sneak peek at what I have in store:
https://i.imgur.com/A22EDFX.png

Again, no release date yet because we're not quite ready on all fronts, but stay tuned.

Whoops, already see some mistakes in those proofs. Oh well, plenty of time to fix them.