Every now and then someone will ask me “Why don’t you start charging for your music?” It’s a reasonable question. With so many articles recently focusing on the death of the music industry it is only natural that there is a link in peoples mind between music and industry. While I respect that many have chosen to make music their […]
Anyone who has read my blog knows how much I love both Supercollider and Renoise but the two have always occupied two different areas of my workflow. I have decided it was finally time to start combining the strengths of the two. Supercollider is amazing for sound design and renoise is a very good sequencer. NOTE: Despite the Renoise focus […]
The Assignment: Make music from the near silence of phone calls. This week’s project explores the near-silence inherent in phone calls. These are the steps: Step 1: Record the near-silent sound of phone calls between your phone and three different other phones. Step 2: Develop a short, original piece that accentuates the differences between the sounds of these three calls. […]
I have a new track out on the Poverty Electronics Vol. 2 compilation. Due to the themes of the label I wanted to try something a little more minimalist in my approach. The track was created by duct taping a homemade contact mic to the cone of my studio monitors. I then did a live performance using the mixer volume, […]