Post by tommy on Jan 26, 2009 23:49:34 GMT -5
There are two things I've really been wanting to do with my groovebox, but until Saturday night I was pretty sure I had broken it (Thank God it's fine, though!).
I sort of doubt either of these would be worthy of going on Crunchy (which is fine, since I'm co-founding a netlabel for weird and bad-but-enjoyable music) but I was curious if anyone would even be interested in hearing this kind of thing at all.
First of all, I've been in a band called Commander Amarao (which had to go on hold when I shorted circuited my thing) with my friend, Christopher. The idea is, we make catchy (or at least pretty catchy) electronic music and scream over it. We scream about anime. I don't even like anime all that much, but it's a fun gimmick. We're hoping to release an album on the label we're starting ASAP and play some shows, once he gets over his stage fright, and just have as much fun with it as we can. I guess anybody who likes teethandfeet (one of our biggest influences) would like us, and maybe some greasy community college otakus. We made a VERY ROUGH demo of one of our songs, which is actually just a little bit of a recording experiment I did, just to see if I could get record good quality audio on my computer, which I couldn't. So, don't expect us to sound TOO much like this: www.sendspace.com/file/h06pvd
Pretty bad, huh? The lyrics are lines from Bible Black, which I don't recommend anyone watching.
The other thing I'm working on is really nostalgic, you could say. It's an attempt to recreate music from the bands I was in in 10th grade, which were really bad by most people's standards (that is to say, it was really unstructured and confusing). The thing about it was that most of our music was entirely improvised, so I'm partially doing this to learn more about using the groovebox, by forcing myself to recreate all this really contrived stuff. The music my friends and I made was all basically noise rock, but we'd never heard of that before (and at the time, I thought we sounded like King Crimson combined with the Pixies) and wouldn't have liked noise at the time anyway.
The biggest draw for me in wanting to make this (other than just being fond of these sloppy old recordings) is the sheer spontanaiety that went into it, and how free and unconstrained it was. There are a lot of melodies which were totally strange and unpredicted but actually totally catchy. We all managed to keep in a key, somehow, so it's not atonal noise, just really strange stuff. I don't know when this will be completed. I counted out how many patterns I will need to record for each song, and the total is around 150 patterns, for 12 songs (one of which is 6 minutes long and takes 30 patterns).
I promise that this will be an interesting listen, if nothing else.
Anyway, that's just an update about two (presumably) unappealing things I'm working on.
Does any of it sound interesting to anyone?
I sort of doubt either of these would be worthy of going on Crunchy (which is fine, since I'm co-founding a netlabel for weird and bad-but-enjoyable music) but I was curious if anyone would even be interested in hearing this kind of thing at all.
First of all, I've been in a band called Commander Amarao (which had to go on hold when I shorted circuited my thing) with my friend, Christopher. The idea is, we make catchy (or at least pretty catchy) electronic music and scream over it. We scream about anime. I don't even like anime all that much, but it's a fun gimmick. We're hoping to release an album on the label we're starting ASAP and play some shows, once he gets over his stage fright, and just have as much fun with it as we can. I guess anybody who likes teethandfeet (one of our biggest influences) would like us, and maybe some greasy community college otakus. We made a VERY ROUGH demo of one of our songs, which is actually just a little bit of a recording experiment I did, just to see if I could get record good quality audio on my computer, which I couldn't. So, don't expect us to sound TOO much like this: www.sendspace.com/file/h06pvd
Pretty bad, huh? The lyrics are lines from Bible Black, which I don't recommend anyone watching.
The other thing I'm working on is really nostalgic, you could say. It's an attempt to recreate music from the bands I was in in 10th grade, which were really bad by most people's standards (that is to say, it was really unstructured and confusing). The thing about it was that most of our music was entirely improvised, so I'm partially doing this to learn more about using the groovebox, by forcing myself to recreate all this really contrived stuff. The music my friends and I made was all basically noise rock, but we'd never heard of that before (and at the time, I thought we sounded like King Crimson combined with the Pixies) and wouldn't have liked noise at the time anyway.
The biggest draw for me in wanting to make this (other than just being fond of these sloppy old recordings) is the sheer spontanaiety that went into it, and how free and unconstrained it was. There are a lot of melodies which were totally strange and unpredicted but actually totally catchy. We all managed to keep in a key, somehow, so it's not atonal noise, just really strange stuff. I don't know when this will be completed. I counted out how many patterns I will need to record for each song, and the total is around 150 patterns, for 12 songs (one of which is 6 minutes long and takes 30 patterns).
I promise that this will be an interesting listen, if nothing else.
Anyway, that's just an update about two (presumably) unappealing things I'm working on.
Does any of it sound interesting to anyone?
