started to crack on with this 6 hours a day guitar routine, now that my exams outta the way. I've realized yet again that I've got a fuck load to learn and I need to keep a constant record of my shtuff. Soooo here's a Dorian modal improv... enjoy

Notes for improvement: Longer chord progressions, remember to hit toggle switch to rhythm when sweeping

failing

lol. I'm more intelligent than you, just wait and see. Enjoy your masturbation.

presentation

I stayed up all night working on a custom presentation. Fully interactive and pretty damn fine looking. Sadly I can't show it because of confidentiality and copyright issues but I can put the shelving up, 3D modeled by haris and photoshoped by myself.

electromagnet

okay me and a friend of mine tried to make an electromagnet today. We failed :(


I guess we're gonna have to use more coils and possibly a stronger magnet another time... Still, no custom pickups for us

blinking circuit

I managed to build a blinking circuit that works on a timer chip. Pretty good next step. I can now read circuit diagrams :)


Annoyingly even with the video feature, the shit frame rate of my webcam won't pick up the blinking, you'll just have to take my word for it.

simple Circuit

completed my first recent circuit today. Extremely basic resistor, switch, LED and battery work - but its a start to build up to circuit bending.

"Without an element of cruelty at the root of every spectacle," he writes, "the theatre is not possible. In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds." By "cruelty," Artaud referred not to sadism or causing pain, but rather a violent, austere, physical determination to shatter the false reality that, he wrote, "lies like a shroud over our perceptions."

pure data
electronics
metal
leather
as3
music
art
logic
avant-garde
philosophy
me

please ripen the dandelion clock

I can't push myself anymore if your gonna make me dizzy now come on lets work together.

let's have a bizarre sleeping pattern shall we?

today I have taken on job number 5. I have until Wednesday to complete my research for a game on a topic I'm not allowed to speak about. Just know... it looks fucking great and it could be some awesome :D!!! SO HAPPY xD bahahahahaaaaaaaa ha hahaaa.. haaaa.... ughhhh. This is gonna kill me....

struggling to get everything done. Hopefully I can get this flash crap out of the way and focus on the sound art stuff soon. I've got a meeting for a prospective job of designing a game friday - more work!! Although I'm quite happy, I've been to work today and had a few hours cracking on with guitar exam stuff.

At the back of my mind I wish someone would pay for me to just explore my own mind and be productive creating all these ideas that I have (I'll put them up one day when I've made them/stop being afraid of people thieving them) but then again to be truly creative you have to be diverse otherwise it seems you become single minded.

The week ahead:

Today: Coffee shop, revise guitar exam, clean house and ESIM flash design.
Tomorrow: travel to Maesteg to CAB, see parents and head back (no time to see friends :( )
Thursday: Games design company, jazz band
Friday: Game design meeting with coffee people, work coffee shop possibly go out in the night
Saturday: Coffee shop, then guitar lesson, possibly see friends in Maesteg if I can afford it and record sound art video with Ben if I can finish it :S
Sunday: Evees friends wedding
Next week: hopefully have ESIM out of the way and maybe the video, everything else:repeat

I hate routine!! Let me be more creative!!

bliss

Metamorphosis (Chrysallis of Pain)

440.35, -127.5

-1782.25 + 125 = -1657.25


- 50 on the buttons Y


orig button -1874.65

-1874.65 + 125 = 1749.65
1624.65

dexterous,
gingerly with the slow.
like a butterfly,
ever so slightly,
I taste my soul.
sheds the skin
so beautiful.
without conviction.
diluted bright eyed,
born love and luminescence without natures lies.
arch a smile.
with a glass deeper than time
grow - be mine...

-1874.65 + 140.8 = -1733.85
-1874.65 + 281 = -1593.65

#548395
#154961


x = -9.7
width = 347.6

the fading red,
trophies slaves to time.
where they linger.
where you will never find.


backdrop1 = 231
backdrop2 = 347

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hahahaha!!



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remixing

Rape a purple zebra meets rape a purple zebras' which is now the new mix with some extra bass lines. The real deal will come when its played live and add a couple of build up bits and possibly see if we can re-add the irregular rhythm part back in with a nice guitar tone.

Turns out drummer girl doesn't want in no more, which has blown things up a bit, she would of been a good match too, seemed to have the right mindset. Oh well here's to putting all your eggs in one basket...

Wednesday we're gonna film cyclops goat nectar with the audio visual stuff. I have a few ideas knocking around which I'll elaborate on once I've thought more about them. My plan is to read theatre of tragedy by antonin artaud before the final video is taken in order to set my mind in the right gear. I'm looking forward to blogging about some actual art for a change.

Grade 7 exam in the next few weeks, means more crappy sleep - hooray!

crux

rape a purple zebra is finally mixed up and out on the Maradolia myspace (yay!) we're gonna do some further mixing on wednesday so Ben can have a little input. I kinda like the new track a lot but even though some places are purposefully dissonant it doesn't have the fucked up kick I was hoping for to contrast the really gay solo. I guess its all a learning curve, probably do one more track this way then start putting a lot more thought behind the idea of next 5 tracks and make that a recurring theme.

my ties getting in the way

I'm in the right state of mind to make up my audio/video visualizer for interactive sound for the video of cyclops goat nectar we're gonna record on Sunday. Sad thing is I have work in a few hours and I need sleep, if I was any real kind of creative I'd grind my way through them both. FUCK!

see beyond words and motions

Creative Spurt

following on from last nights post I've uploaded a few tracks.

Maradolia: Cyclops Goat Nectar is up and ready. I'm not sure whether I love it or really fucking hate it. There's a bunch of overly complicated jazz chords using the key tone theory and what I call intersecting scales where the chords underlying specify not one mode but at least two. The chord progression uses two chords for each mode, the first set of chords underline the dorian/dorian harmonic minor equivalent, the second is the phrygian its equivalent, the third is the aeolian and the harmonic minor.

The guitar tone is pretty fucking shit, I'm gonna really have to experiment with cubase to see if I can get the one I used and gentle sniff back, and start writing down my settings bleeeuurgh.

The intro is intentionally dissonant using and array of overlapping chords, which is meant to hurt your mind before being subjected to some nice melodies (stupid theory I have).

The whole thing is improvised(poorly) in three sections, I don't know if it really works or if it needs to be scrapped but it was definitely an interesting idea, I know I need to work much more on improv of non standard modes.

Banana Split: Banana split is the intro to rape a purple zebra, it gained its name because it sounds like an out of tune ice cream truck. It's an intro to a much larger song which appears as if it has taken me months to complete (hopefully up soon)

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HithertoNothing: Stuck a bunch of other Audio Scrap Book tracks up which I like. Space tiger is a doodle about a bad day, for julia is... however you want to interpret it.

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Why is it that all the creative ideas come with bad moods? It means that they're not refined and sound maybe a bit out or a little wrong? Is that good? Of course you don't get things perfect the first time or when your in that state of mind. Are they worth refining and tweaking and making more musically pleasing, or are they fine in they're raw imperfect state that really capture an imperfect moment? Hmmm Food for Thought.

One more thing, should I rename the blog aspiring to pretentiousness?

welcome back

Why is it that I can only be creative when I feel melancholic?

melancholy = creativity

Burn the effigy

An effigy in the forest, created from dead wood symbolizes the self unbound by this one reality bound by society and culture. The effigy's form is constricted and tormented. The effigy is burned in an attempt to purge the one reality, the ashes are painted upon the flesh. It is the purity of an unbound self that is placed upon the skin.

maradolia

I've been working on the myspace for my soon to be (hopefully) band maradolia. I've knocked up some 3D models in maya that I've edited in photoshop.

Original maya render seen below



I wanted to text to kind of look scratched into the obelisk. The idea was taken from graffiti often seen in archaic tombs/architecture. Where normal people are as desperate to leave their mark as the ancients, although in a much more crude way. Without trying to sound too pretentious, this kind of resembles our music, as more often than not we resort tothe crude and gritty to get a point across.




The image below is the final(for now) photoshop version



I may still dick around with this a little and most definitely will continue to improve this kind of idea. I don't really want to go into it with too much detail interpret it how you like.










Hopefully will have the new track up soon, our drummer cinched and some sound art, which will really make this band come alive xD woot woot!!

Audio Scrap Book

Okay, so I've been speaking to a friend of mine about an ambient music collaboration. I'm a little late grabbing some audio files thanks to my home computer being a complete dick but I've managed to get hold of a bunch of scrap tracks that I've quickly sketched out. None of the audio clips are final, they are completely rough and the quality does vary, however for the kind of musical collage we're going to be creating they should be quite suiting.

I can't link them on here because blogger doesn't have the option, which is a bit shit, none the less, the links below should be suiting enough.

My Uploads named Audio Scrap Book"x" www.myspace.com/hithertonothing

The place where the final versions will eventually show up www.myspace.com/cheerupgothy
(Check out his music whilst your there, especially parenthesis which is a personal favorite)

Introduction

A friend recommended that I start a blog. Now that I've finished my degree and have a bit more spare time on my hands, I think I will.

Hopefully the blog will consist of lots of creative things I develop. Art, Music, Sound art and music visualization software and games.

I'll probably end up spilling my guts ranting about my personal problems, experiences and general bad luck.

I'm pretty sure someone will find the things I develop quite interesting - its all about innovation and pushing things forward for the sake of it and/or expressing myself.