Hello World, I have been engaged in a project to more widely release some of my albums that were previously only on Bandcamp. The following albums are now available on Spotify and all the usual places: “Body Movements” is a remix companion to my album “They Want To Make Your Body Move. I Want To Hold You Perfectly Still.” […]
Just changed 11 of my albums from a more restrictive license to CC-BY (attribution only). Get to it internet, make weird things from them and enjoy. Albums affected: Instinctive Drowning Response Six Tones for Sleep (or Death) Heart Removal Kit Regardless Of Your Heart One Day You’ll Rot. A Young Person’s Guide To Time Travel I Meant To Break Your […]
Note: An earlier version of this post on my old blog referenced to a video of a live performance which seems to have been taken down. Updated to point to a more relevant video of the same track One of the most fascinating things about releasing your work under a Creative Commons license is to see the life it can […]
Today I was lucky enough to yet again be able to submit a track for the Disquiet Junto. Disquiet Junto Project 161: Netmix Relabel The Assignment: Create a new track from three tracks from three different netlabels. These are the steps: Step 1: Create a new piece of music by using nothing but the following segments of the following songs: […]
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 […]
Today I have released my new album entitled “I Meant To Break Your Will, Never Your Heart”. This album was originally finished in October of 2013 and was scheduled to be my first physical release. Due to various issues the album has sat dormant during that time. With the release for physical product still several months off I have decided […]
Disquiet Junto Project 0124: Derive and Thrive Create a new piece of music by using nothing but the first 45 seconds from these three pieces of music: Erissoma’s “The miracle in the human brain” from the addSensor netlabel Kayaka’s “O” from the As4cords netlabel D’Incise’s “Graphein” from the Audiotalaia netlabel Background: All of this music is available for free, non-commercial […]
Today C. Reider has released his new album “The Conjucts”. The first track on the album reworks my songs “Hello World, I Am Lonely Too” and “Fall Asleep Walking” as well as field recordings by Manabushimada. Like the song, the entire album is reworked from material that was released with a Creative Commons license allowing derivative works. This album is […]
@@ERROR by Schemawound This Disquiet Junto project was done as a celebration of the efforts of the Endless Ascent netlabel, and to support its employment of licenses that allow for derivative works. These Junto netlabel remix projects are intended to promote reworking as itself a means of music distribution. This track is comprised of three pieces of music, all originally […]
Today my new mini-EP entitled “BEASTS” was released by Dystimbria. “Dystimbria is a free-netlabel inviting composers to explore various approaches in-between ambient and noise music, discarding the safe, pastoral qualities of ambient and the macho posturing of noise for a more open-ended and abstract electronic terrain. The tracks released here will each utilize sound samples from previous Dystimbria releases, lending […]
@@TRANCOUNT by Schemawound This was the assignment for this week:This is a shared-sample project. Create a new piece of music by employing segments from the following three tracks. All were initially released on the great netlabel Bump Foot: The first 20 seconds of “Bongo” off the Aguas Tonicas album Los Desposeídos “Broken Robots” off the Gridline album Red Music “The […]
@@TRANCOUNT by Schemawound I have long admired the concept of the Disquiet Junto but have not ever gotten involved until today. This was the assignment for this week:This is a shared-sample project. We’re going to celebrate the dual forces of the phenomenon known as the netlabel and of the Creative Commons license that allows for derivative works. We’ll do this […]