Thursday, December 29, 2011
Saturday, December 24, 2011
post-rant
bla blah motherfucking blah who cares nobody reads this i wouldnt even fuckin read this. I wouldn't fucking listen to this or look at that or take two seconds to listen to what the fuck is going on around me. sometimes I have to wait for the bus. I hate it. I don't have to wait for the bus on the internet so i don't wait for anything and now i dont even have enough patience to listen to a song all the way through and so i have been very very disappointed with music lately and now spell check says i wrote with wrong but did i?
ok. maybe i shouldn't be on the internet. i'm just mad.
fuck this blog why do i bother with this shit.
baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaafuckit
ok. maybe i shouldn't be on the internet. i'm just mad.
fuck this blog why do i bother with this shit.
baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaafuckit
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
i realized today while i was cruising around some music blogs that i've lost my patience for listening. it's feels like i have stopped listening to new music and all i do now is "preview" it. which sort of works for some things, actually its really handy when you're looking for stuff to dj, but it's completely useless when you're looking for something to actually listen to... which is something i do a lot more frequently than i "dj".
so today, after i realized this, i decided to try and give as many new songs a chance as i could. it was really hard. i kept getting tempted to just skip to the middle, or look for a "drop" or something.. but actually when i started thinking about it, most of the music i like doesn't have a "drop" or anything remotely similar, and the real value of the track comes from giving it a full listen, start to finish, and listening to things develop. anyways, i guess im sort of rambling but i just wanted to make a note of that... i need to listen to music more carefully and more patiently. that may just end up being my new years resolution.
in other news, i found a cover of crazy in love by antony and the johnsons and it is really great. haunting and desperate. really brings out a different side of the lyrics. here it is:
so today, after i realized this, i decided to try and give as many new songs a chance as i could. it was really hard. i kept getting tempted to just skip to the middle, or look for a "drop" or something.. but actually when i started thinking about it, most of the music i like doesn't have a "drop" or anything remotely similar, and the real value of the track comes from giving it a full listen, start to finish, and listening to things develop. anyways, i guess im sort of rambling but i just wanted to make a note of that... i need to listen to music more carefully and more patiently. that may just end up being my new years resolution.
in other news, i found a cover of crazy in love by antony and the johnsons and it is really great. haunting and desperate. really brings out a different side of the lyrics. here it is:
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
this time of year is always shitty for some reason. i always panic about not having enough money to get anyone anything worth while for christmas and the weather makes me want to hang myself.
im going to banff again for a party on friday night. should be fun. i have to write a paper for my stupid class before i leave. fuck i hate right now, it's fucking stressful.
i made some new shit today. i was fucking around with hip hop beats and tapes and detuning synths. sounds ok. i sent it to oddlogic for some feedbacks since he seems to be the expert on that sort of thing. i wish someone would press vinyl of some of my tracks already. im sick of this shit.
actually im sick of making music to be honest. im sick of this shit i make and im sick of being so far away from what my goals are. i wanna make heavy glitchy shit... but it aint happening. or maybe it is. fuck whatever. im worried that the law is eventually going to come after me and i'll get so fucked that i'll never be able to make electronic music again.. or something. i dont know. dont know what im so worried about now, it's not like i do that sound collage shit anymore. but still.
i wanna finish this pd for ios shell for the project rob and i are working on. i want to hit 1000 listens on every song on my soundcloud. i want my website to look way cooler than it does. i wanna play at mutek on the biggest stage to the best audience, and blow their fucking minds. i wanna feel good about my music again.
anyways fuck it. whatever.
here's the track i was working on:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/jihvrb
im going to banff again for a party on friday night. should be fun. i have to write a paper for my stupid class before i leave. fuck i hate right now, it's fucking stressful.
i made some new shit today. i was fucking around with hip hop beats and tapes and detuning synths. sounds ok. i sent it to oddlogic for some feedbacks since he seems to be the expert on that sort of thing. i wish someone would press vinyl of some of my tracks already. im sick of this shit.
actually im sick of making music to be honest. im sick of this shit i make and im sick of being so far away from what my goals are. i wanna make heavy glitchy shit... but it aint happening. or maybe it is. fuck whatever. im worried that the law is eventually going to come after me and i'll get so fucked that i'll never be able to make electronic music again.. or something. i dont know. dont know what im so worried about now, it's not like i do that sound collage shit anymore. but still.
i wanna finish this pd for ios shell for the project rob and i are working on. i want to hit 1000 listens on every song on my soundcloud. i want my website to look way cooler than it does. i wanna play at mutek on the biggest stage to the best audience, and blow their fucking minds. i wanna feel good about my music again.
anyways fuck it. whatever.
here's the track i was working on:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/jihvrb
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
more
oh yeah ok and some other stuff. so i've been hanging out with this guy travis who is writing/wrote cocoa4artists, which is a lot like processing but it's for cocoa for mac os and ios development. no i dont know all the right buzzwords but what i mean is it's an easy way to program for macintosh COMPUTERZ.
anyways, i've been hanging out with him and he has begun building the sound part of c4a, and so he's sort of asked me to dream up a live interface and he's gonna build it. so that's awesome but I have no clue what i want. and i think i kinda made an ass of myself today when we hung out... sorta. been feeling kinda dumb lately. i guess it's because i'm realizing how little i've been learning and how much i've been drinking (a lot). i wish someone would take a big shovel and open my brain and just shovel as much knowledge in there as possible. and i wish they would anesthetize me before this. and that it wouldn't leave a scar.
so here's the isarithm vid, as promised. watch it huge cause rick did a really awesome job on the vid.
http://vimeo.com/27209266
anyways, i've been hanging out with him and he has begun building the sound part of c4a, and so he's sort of asked me to dream up a live interface and he's gonna build it. so that's awesome but I have no clue what i want. and i think i kinda made an ass of myself today when we hung out... sorta. been feeling kinda dumb lately. i guess it's because i'm realizing how little i've been learning and how much i've been drinking (a lot). i wish someone would take a big shovel and open my brain and just shovel as much knowledge in there as possible. and i wish they would anesthetize me before this. and that it wouldn't leave a scar.
so here's the isarithm vid, as promised. watch it huge cause rick did a really awesome job on the vid.
http://vimeo.com/27209266
Isarithm from remixthebook on Vimeo.
im back
yyyeeeeeeeee ok
im back. fuck knows why and who cares.
so, i've been working on some sound design stuff lately. actually i've spent the last couple days working on this shit and still not much progress. i kind of want to find an auto tune that does chords.. maybe they all do that. what the hell do i know. anyways so i've been fucking around with resonators and vocoders and convolution reverbs (using tonal stuff as ir's and as the initial thing etc) and.. not really getting a whole lot.
although I have found that edison, that wave editor that comes with fl... is amazing. and you can do this wicked "reel" thing where you scrub through the sample like a record (yeah i know that's not really that interesting) but it actually sounds good. and I guess it's more like a tape than a record cause instead of adjusting the position you adjust the speed... and for some reason it sounds better than any other thing that i've heard that does this, other than real tape/records (actually i think it even sounds kinda cooler than a record).
ok so yeah I'm not the most eloquent blogger but really i think i should mention.. this blog isn't really for you. it's for me. which sounds retarded, I know. "why don't you just keep a journal then?" you may be asking, to which i would not respond... because I would not hear you.
but really i do keep a journal/sketchbook. but I like this because ... i'm an attention whore. and this makes me feel like someone out there is listening, but I cringe when i try to imagine who they are and what they think when they read this. I guess I'm an attention whore in denial.
anyways, i'm working on some new tunes. two new tunes. one is sort of finished. and the other one was finished but now i'm reworking it. been thinking about making depth and space in my tracks a lot lately. i was reading this interview with a producer (i cant remember who or where) and he was talking about songs that sound the same on mp3 as they do on vinyl. i dont want my songs to do that. I want people to hear my music and think to themselves "i would really like to hear that on vinyl". and then when/if they do, i want them to be rewarded.
Also., I probably should have figured this out a long time ago, but if you turn everything down in the mix so it doesn't touch the red, and then put a limiter on it and just bring it down so the highest peak hits -3 ish.. then your track sounds way more bad ass. and crisp. and sexy. and i guess what i'm saying is that i'm all about transients, so when i found out that hitting the limiter too hard gets rid of your transients.. i died a little on the inside. and by a little i mean a lot. and by died i mean an atom bomb exploded in my brain and a tornado mixed with a hurricane in my heart and i was torn to little shred that were then eaten by bugs.
so that's what i've been thinking about.
also im going to apply for a job at the banff center, and to do an internship with chad (i think it's an internship that i'm applying for) somewhere in the states over the summer, and i got an email from someone with the remix the book project inviting me to do some microblogging for them on twitter. so big things. scary things. exciting things.
i'll post the vid that me and rick made for the remix the book thing in my next post.. which will be in a couple seconds.
all the best.. you princes of york, you dukes of i hope you're not reading this,
-greg
im back. fuck knows why and who cares.
so, i've been working on some sound design stuff lately. actually i've spent the last couple days working on this shit and still not much progress. i kind of want to find an auto tune that does chords.. maybe they all do that. what the hell do i know. anyways so i've been fucking around with resonators and vocoders and convolution reverbs (using tonal stuff as ir's and as the initial thing etc) and.. not really getting a whole lot.
although I have found that edison, that wave editor that comes with fl... is amazing. and you can do this wicked "reel" thing where you scrub through the sample like a record (yeah i know that's not really that interesting) but it actually sounds good. and I guess it's more like a tape than a record cause instead of adjusting the position you adjust the speed... and for some reason it sounds better than any other thing that i've heard that does this, other than real tape/records (actually i think it even sounds kinda cooler than a record).
ok so yeah I'm not the most eloquent blogger but really i think i should mention.. this blog isn't really for you. it's for me. which sounds retarded, I know. "why don't you just keep a journal then?" you may be asking, to which i would not respond... because I would not hear you.
but really i do keep a journal/sketchbook. but I like this because ... i'm an attention whore. and this makes me feel like someone out there is listening, but I cringe when i try to imagine who they are and what they think when they read this. I guess I'm an attention whore in denial.
anyways, i'm working on some new tunes. two new tunes. one is sort of finished. and the other one was finished but now i'm reworking it. been thinking about making depth and space in my tracks a lot lately. i was reading this interview with a producer (i cant remember who or where) and he was talking about songs that sound the same on mp3 as they do on vinyl. i dont want my songs to do that. I want people to hear my music and think to themselves "i would really like to hear that on vinyl". and then when/if they do, i want them to be rewarded.
Also., I probably should have figured this out a long time ago, but if you turn everything down in the mix so it doesn't touch the red, and then put a limiter on it and just bring it down so the highest peak hits -3 ish.. then your track sounds way more bad ass. and crisp. and sexy. and i guess what i'm saying is that i'm all about transients, so when i found out that hitting the limiter too hard gets rid of your transients.. i died a little on the inside. and by a little i mean a lot. and by died i mean an atom bomb exploded in my brain and a tornado mixed with a hurricane in my heart and i was torn to little shred that were then eaten by bugs.
so that's what i've been thinking about.
also im going to apply for a job at the banff center, and to do an internship with chad (i think it's an internship that i'm applying for) somewhere in the states over the summer, and i got an email from someone with the remix the book project inviting me to do some microblogging for them on twitter. so big things. scary things. exciting things.
i'll post the vid that me and rick made for the remix the book thing in my next post.. which will be in a couple seconds.
all the best.. you princes of york, you dukes of i hope you're not reading this,
-greg
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
failing from ukiyo.
damn. damn my forgetful head. damn my focus on music, on love, on real life.
please... i need a redo. i need to be pushed through. i can't do another semester of this.
i did the work... see?
come down here. see what it's like. just one letter would be enough.
please... i need a redo. i need to be pushed through. i can't do another semester of this.
i did the work... see?
come down here. see what it's like. just one letter would be enough.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
life just got a whole lot better
Yep.
Life just got a million times better. I finally have a way to find awesome new music. I'm so happy I could barf.
Two new albums coming down the tubes for me to listen to tomorrow, thanks to a wonderful website I will absolutely not mention. Sorry... to anyone who may be listening... which frankly would surprise me if anyone was. Hey, speak up if you're out there, maybe I can let you know what this website is.
Yep.
Life just got a million times better. I finally have a way to find awesome new music. I'm so happy I could barf.
Two new albums coming down the tubes for me to listen to tomorrow, thanks to a wonderful website I will absolutely not mention. Sorry... to anyone who may be listening... which frankly would surprise me if anyone was. Hey, speak up if you're out there, maybe I can let you know what this website is.
Yep.
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