Notes for improvement: Longer chord progressions, remember to hit toggle switch to rhythm when sweeping
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
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
Notes for improvement: Longer chord progressions, remember to hit toggle switch to rhythm when sweeping
Thursday, 2 December 2010
Saturday, 27 November 2010
presentation
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
electromagnet
Monday, 22 November 2010
blinking circuit
Sunday, 21 November 2010
simple Circuit
Wednesday, 10 November 2010
"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."
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Saturday, 23 October 2010
Friday, 22 October 2010
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
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!!
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!!
Sunday, 17 October 2010
Saturday, 16 October 2010
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
ohgpsdhgpihgsfh;fkj;;;;;;;;;;;gd
hahahaha!!
do[sjgsogjsd
fdapdsdpuugsdpdupu
-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
ohgpsdhgpihgsfh;fkj;;;;;;;;;;;gd
hahahaha!!
do[sjgsogjsd
fdapdsdpuugsdpdupu
Wednesday, 6 October 2010
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!
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!
Monday, 4 October 2010
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.
Friday, 1 October 2010
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!
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
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?
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?
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Thursday, 1 July 2010
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.
Thursday, 24 June 2010
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!!
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!!
Sunday, 13 June 2010
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)
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)
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
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.
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.
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