11 Mar 2008

Notes

Frijodedun - This was recorded off-the-cuff as grist for a bb/tm audio ping-pong session. An improvised and somewhat dissonant piano track with excessive reverb, it stands as a nice little imperfect gem on its own. --bb

Egrit - Frantic and distorted with clipped rhythms. Sort of a cross between jungle and punk. Pungle. --bb

Jocular - One of the last “live overdub” performances of the early days of Tomorrow’s Man. The percussion was hammered out with pointer-fingers on an Alesis QS6 driving the standard midi soundset, later looped where there was a good part, drenched in DX effects, then overdubbed with a couple actual QS6 synth lines and finally spattered with a small yellow sandpail full of samples. Ah, those days at the beach! So...so...jocular! --tm

Promenade of Drones - One of the last tracks I made using CSound. Actually, it was a Python script generating oodles of CSound oscillators. A couple months later I started delving into SuperCollider (which would have made this piece a lot easier btw). -- bb

Stark & Strain - This was my first attempt to use what was at the time a new music production application, Ableton Live, an early version of which had come with an OEM hardware purchase. Although the interface terrified me at the time, I loaded up some samples, armed a VST synth, and let ‘er rip for a few minutes. This was the live output. I enjoyed this result so much that I did not use Ableton again for six years. Why sour my perfect average? “Stark & Strain” can now be found on the album The Trial & Asylum of Peppery Penguin, available from iTunes. --tm

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