Monthly Archives: March 2007

4TempleDispatch

Here’s an audio tidbit that I’ve just finished (its really hard to work on these things because there are many plugins to play with)
which is an example of instantaneous construction. I first played with two similar drumloops and added a snare sound.
then I duplicated the snare to an ambient electronic noise track. I played two acoustic guitar tracks (recorded over the mike
in my iMac) and added a bass line which was duplicated and disturbed. I cut and paste and edit routinely though i love live tracking
and manipulating live sounds with loops. So then I put all this through a bevy of absurd plugins- you can discover very interesting stuff just noodling around with various eqs and filters. This has become my style of recording lately. The audio snippet is a called-off car chase from a police scanner that I found in cyberspace. I cut it up and moved stuff around and it actually sounds like it was meant for the track though it does change its perspective from a piece of music to something a little more intense.

Update Theme Breakage

I updated to WP 2.1.1 and it flummoxxed up the theme i was using…so i spent most of
yesterday trying to make it work. In the end I had to update WP to 2.1.2 by hand…
(which is real easy, just don’t replace your content folder and keep your wp-config.php
on hand) and then i went to the new widget/default theme until i find or create a theme
i like. I had used Semiologic but there’s something wierd about the Bluehost sql
and some of the Semiologic stuff….
That’s all for now!