just picked this up from Vacation Vinyl’s new Silver Lake location next to Secret HQ
Pete always stocks the place with the best vinyl out there, both musically and aesthetically
1st track off the B-side of this latest Boris LP is truly exquisite, as is the S Lord art direction
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BXI
August 29, 2010Sailing
July 18, 2010yesterday my friend Dan took us sailing
at first I thought it would be relatively dangerous
but then I realized Sailing was completely peaceful
I put this video together and added some music:
vinyl hum
May 29, 2010
Desert Sessions Part 2
May 20, 2010the 2nd edition of Deadman’s Desert Sessions on location
with a field recorder, re-mixed in ProTools by The Signal
Sounds Of Home
May 2, 2010each of us can recall the familiar sounds of home
my friend Max invited me over to capture some of his
orbiter_signal:max&machine
Not transcendent
Grounded in the actual
Acknowledging existence
Analyzing and appreciating nuance
In the immediate implied sound
and in making this collective
natural association we dissolve
Into someone else’s memory
Into a familiar world
Sounds of Home
full length version can be heard here:
http://www.reverbnation.com/controller/audio_player/detachable_player/artist_760929?autoPlay=true
Deadman
April 22, 2010spent some time in the desert recently for Andrew Deadman’s video w/ Brainbowinc
we wanted to shoot “Desert Sessions” to supplement the narrative video content
I used a Roland field recorder to capture this raw performance that went down approx 1:30am
then imported the wav files direct to ProTools for the mix below:
For Release:
Andrew Deadman: ‘The Desert Sessions’ Part 1
Song: “Should I Make My Move?”
‘The Desert Sessions’ is a 3 part video series filmed on location in Pioneertown, CA during the making of Andrews latest Music Video.
Part 2 & 3 will be released in the coming weeks!
The Music Video will be released soon.
Produced by Brainbowinc
Dir. of Photography: Greg Smokler
Field Recording & Sound Mixing: Orbiter Signal
Post Production/Colorist: Aaron Morris
Meditative States: Home
March 21, 2010when my friend Dan traveled back east I asked him to record the sound from his home.
there is a familiar quality in the acoustical air within each of our unique home spaces.
the unconscious associations we draw upon are mixed here with an improvised violin rhythm.
orbiter_signal:field
“But we shouldn’t enclose life in the single moment when individual life confronts universal death.
A life is everywhere, in all the moments that a given living subject goes through and
that are measured by given lived objects: an immanent life carrying with it the events or singularities
that are merely actualized in subjects and objects. This indefinite life does not itself have moments,
close as they may be one to another, but only between-times, between-moments; it doesn’t just
come about or come after but offers the immensity of an empty time where one sees the event yet
to come and already happened, in the absolute of an immediate consciousness.”
– Deleuze Immanence: A Life
V
February 14, 2010
picked up this album for the occasion
Vacation always has great records on their wall. I stumbled in and walked out with SUNN Grimm Robes demos on vinyl. I could hardly believe it when I saw it sitting there on the wall for everyone to see.
“How long has this been up?” I asked.
“We just put that up yesterday.”
The other close call occurred when I saw two Steve Reich vinyl releases on the wall: Electronic Music & Drumming
I lost sleep over only picking up Electronic Music, thankfully the latter was still up on the wall the following day. As I was holding it in my hands, another patron came in:
“What happened to the Steve Reich records?” the patron asked in a panic.
“Sorry, those are gone.”
listening to the Sun
February 10, 2010
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/solar-radio-bursts/
Thomas Ashcraft records the sound of the Sun:
http://www.heliotown.com/Sun_20100207_Ashcraft.html
Moon Phase
January 30, 2010Today we went exploring the Griffith Park Observatory. I wanted to find inspiration for a new collection of musical works geared towards Meditative States. The idea of deep space intrigues me to no end and the color/shape of what it could become finds a home in the way I approach atmospheres in music. I enjoy the idea of sound traveling to us from orbit and the potential for decoding that mystery in the implied tones embedded within music. The visit to the Observatory was both exhilarating and calming. The potentiality of transcendence and the science that accompanies it offers a unique perspective on layering soundscapes. Images below: Temple, Pendulum & Telescope:
photos:orbiter_signal
I asked my friend Chris, an Astronomy enthusiast, if he could relay some information about the nature of the intense brightness of the moon we have witnessed recently:
“The Moon’s orbit around the Earth is elliptical, not circular. The same describes the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. Due to this oblong shaped orbit, at certain points, the Earth is closer to the Sun, and the Moon is closer to the Earth. Rarely do both events happen at the same time. Well, this full Moon phase, January 28th-February 1st, happens to fall on a time when the Earth is closer to the Sun (%30 closer than our furthest point) and the Moon is closer to the Earth. (%14 closer than it’s farthest point) By the way, when the Moon enters this closer phase, people call it the Perigee Phase. So this rare event we find our selves in is known as a Bright Perigee Moon Phase.”
After our visit to the Observatory, I met up with Jimmy of Baby Tiger back at the Orbiter Signal recording studio to work on a few instrumental ideas for a film soundtrack project we are working on. The unconscious associations from the field research hopefully offer substantial insight into the color/shape of the mix below: