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Archive for the ‘New Projects’ Category
MACHETE KILLS AGAIN
September 1, 2010vinyl hum
May 29, 2010
Of The Refrain v2
May 22, 2010
“Sonorous or vocal components are very important: a wall of sound, or at least a wall with some sonic bricks in it. A child hums to summon the strength for the schoolwork she has to hand in. A housewife sings to herself, or listens to the radio, as she marshals the antichaos forces of her work. Radios and television sets are like sound walls around every household and mark territories (the neighbor complains when it gets too loud). For sublime deeds like the foundation of a city or the fabrication of a golem, one draws a circle, or better yet walks in a circle as in a children’s dance, combining rhythmic vowels and consonants that correspond to the interior forces of creation as to the differentiated parts of an organism. A mistake in speed, rhythm, or harmony would be catastrophic because it would bring back the forces of chaos, destroying both creator and creation.”
— A Thousand Plateaus Deleuze
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
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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
Meditative States: Desert
April 1, 2010Meditative States: Angeles Crest audio set to sunrise time lapse shot by Orbiter Signal
the Meditative States collection are experimental orchestral ambient recordings
produced by Orbiter Signal for an upcoming release
my friend Aaron also shot time lapse content for an upcoming music video project affiliated with BrainBow:
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want to work with Orbiter Signal on your music project? email,
been watching the TV #5
March 22, 2010
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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.
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“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
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:
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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:
instrumental variations
January 7, 2010The instrumental track for the “Time Zero” documentary film trailer is a minimal version of the song’s current mix. Here is a version with our friend Chris bowing the upright bass. Also, I enhanced the ambient tones from Max on the harmonica, along with Pete on drums. I have always loved the sound of tremolo on the guitar. Jimmy, from Baby Tiger, plays my vintage Epiphone hollow body guitar on this track out of an Orange amp. Here is a sample of the project:
in the rehearsal room with Jimmy from Baby Tiger