Offnominal

I recently participated in the latest Exqisite Corpse musical collaboration game with a number of other very talented artists, and now the game is over and the songs and source files are available thanks to Sebastian, who served as facilitator and moderator of the game, as well as designer of the very novel website for viewing the results. Here’s how it worked:

This exquisit corps consisted of several rounds of development, a moderator was in charge of ensuring that the collaboration was done secretly.
Round 1: All participants secretly submited one word. This word was passed on to another participant as their initial inspiration.
Round 2 and 3 consisted of each person receiving two results from other particpants which they were placed in charge of to edit and remorph for resubmital.
The resulting sounds from round 3 [plus some wild cards] were then used to create the final songs you hear here. So in effect everyone made all the material, and everyone’s imprint in in everyones resulting songs. Hope you will enjoy moving through the evoliution of the sounds from initial word to resulting product.

Of course, I’ll likely feature a bunch of these tracks on this weekend’s podcast…

After a couple of weeks dealing with the funk (the respiratory type, not the P-type) things are getting swinging again around here. After taking stock of the scraps, bits and itchy snippets scattered about Shabby Road, I find the following projects shaping up:

• A series of dronescapes laced with minimal glitchiness, using a lot of FM synthesis.
• Another series of abstract peices sourced entirely from sounds taken from spaceflight - from the typical magnetosphere-based ambiences to extreme twisting and warping of radio communications and the sounds of large rocket motors doing their thing.
• A related piece to the above concepts involving multimedia, perhaps music + a multi-part peice of fiction mediated and presented via WP involving the existential angst of a spacecraft’s AI. Possibilities for collaboration abound.
• An esoteric exploration of a very famous rock record from 1971 that I won’t name here. Hopefully Hippocamp won’t beat me to this one before I can get it out.
• A strange smattering of peices involving the chance meetings of guitar, physical modeling synthesis and convolution reverb.
• All the while, I have some finished pieces floating around that sound a little like this one (called Uphill) that I completed for Andrew Duke’s project over at mnml.nl that I’ve mentioned before, and this one (Little Fingers On The Triggers, featuring Ryne on processed vox) submitted for consideration for a comp for Experimedia.

All of these are in the pipeline to receive release, but the exact methods thereof are yet to be determined. I will likely shop at least a couple of these around for label release, some for net.labels, and some just available here. I would like to get myself to settle down and provide some posts dealing with practical techniques and experiments, and possibly some further group remixing projects. In the meantime, I’ve got a new episode of the podcast completed - but I’m going to make you wait until this weekend to hear it.
Okay, back to work…

 

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