7566. Mike Kenny (pool-70-19-243-36.bos.east.verizon.net) –
02 Sep 2008 19:01:09
[ OLD: Spastic Moose ]
hahaha, in the car. 'hey, while i drive you to the airport, let me play you this 20 minute track of...experimental music. let's see if we can get there without me driving off the road!' :)
the white noise versus procedural noise thing reminds me of a tip i read, which was basically, 'if you want to cover up a note you wrote so no one can read it, write other words over it rather than blacking it out.'
maybe you could do an AAD in which you listen to all previous AADs played simultaneously to block out what you're playing, as-a-deaf-ear style. the album could be called 'sibling rivalry' :) |
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Tom you are a true champion.
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Hey tom I listened to your first one and and this one . First one was harsh ; ) but this one is awesome! I am really enjoying this album . I downloaded it and I wanted to thank you for sharing and putting your soul out there . Thanx
PS ....Thanx alot also for your and Sophia's work on the free Au and vst plugins . Mucho Gracias. I use them all the time in my productions . |
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7553. Tom 7 (h-74-0-114-187.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
28 Aug 2008 08:17:47
[ OLD: Spastic Moose ]
Yeah, I used it to make AAD #14 "As A Deaf Ear". Actually I got bored of the pure noise pretty quick (and it doesn't do a very good job of blocking out other sounds) so it actually has some more severe/complex procedural noise on it too. Not very pleasurable to listen to. I think I have that CD in the car. |
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7552. Mike Kenny (146-115-26-58.c3-0.abr-ubr1.sbo-abr.ma.cable.rcn.com) –
27 Aug 2008 20:40:49
[ OLD: Spastic Moose ]
wikipedia says: "White noise can be used to disorient individuals prior to interrogation and may be used as part of sensory deprivation techniques."
i hope you're using those twenty-minute tracks responsibly... |
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7551. Tom 7 (h-67-100-130-109.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
27 Aug 2008 17:59:53
[ OLD: Spastic Moose ]
I have some 20-minute white noise tracks if you want, BTW |
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7550. Tom 7 (h-67-100-132-9.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
26 Aug 2008 22:30:21
[ OLD: Spastic Moose ]
It's all from the documentary or the music video that runs at the end. Some of the footage obviously is from older videos (like the inverted stuff where I am beating up you and Sam and breaking your drum thing), but it was in the documentary's music video. Actually everything before it goes "My favorite song" is from the documentary part and everything after is the "video", except that I clipped out some particularly repetitive shots of Pitfall II or whatever that game is with the swinging.
Then Come The Chunks! |
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7548. mike kenny (user-208-64-116-195.lahey.org) –
26 Aug 2008 16:42:42
[ OLD: Spastic Moose ]
yeah, 'how to make a dry day moist' was a good track, i agree. good cover art too.
for weird stuff, i found the music off vectobot pretty accessible--there weren't any 20-minute long tracks of white noise or anything ;) |
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7547. Sophia (c-24-91-199-132.hsd1.ma.comcast.net) –
26 Aug 2008 10:15:16
[ OLD: Spastic Moose ]
Omigod that video is boring. But amazing none-the-less. :) How much of it is even from Taleen's documentary? I haven't watched that in so long that I don't remember. There sure is a lot of "Musky With A Hint Of Urine" in there though! The song was short for it cuz Taleen asked me to come up with a special edit of it that would fit her 2 1/2 minutes of end credits.
And yeah, Then Come The Chunks was the "original" AAD before AAD was a specific concept. As I recall, it was the album we made the weekend before we each headed off for our first year of college. We had just finished VECTOBOT the last time we'd hung out, and I was always into this whole "planning for an album" sort of approach to making music, and so I thought if we weren't gonna see each other again for forever, then we should get the whole next album done during that last day that we had together. Or overnight, I think it might have been an sleepover venture.
So far as my favorites from these two albums, I would say:
Audat: Instabjor, intermission, My Life Story, Under The Covers Tonight
VECTOBOT: Handsome Song, How To Make A Dry Day Moist, The Sultry Pantry, The Tunable Creature
But as with Tom, I kinda hesitate to actually "recommend" some of those. I know that I love them all, but sometimes the appeal can be hard to reach, I think. At any rate, I too am glad that anyone is finding weird treasures in there!
p.s. - I just moved my old 4-track tapes out of storage and into my current apartment last night, so ummm... maybe I'll actually get to The Chunks this summer... year...? Yeah I know my promises are hollow... |
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7544. Tom 7 (h-69-3-248-204.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
25 Aug 2008 08:23:05
[ OLD: Spastic Moose ]
This is all before Then Come The Chunks. Made at a leisurely pace, sometimes even writing a song one day and recording it another. |
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Great, new material to listen to!
Was this stuff from before or after the mythical never heard first AAD, Then Come The Chunks? |
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7542. Tom 7 (h-66-167-250-81.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
24 Aug 2008 23:41:16
[ OLD: Spastic Moose ]
Oh, yeah. For sure. Spastic Moose was not only where I learned/developed my musical aesthetic but also literally how to play the guitar and other instruments. AAD didn't come about until my junior year of college, though it might very well have been inspired by an album that we made in one day at the end of some summer before going back to college in different states. I recall that one being great but I honestly can't remember what it sounds like or even where the tape is, which is moot anyway since I don't have a device that can play cassette tapes any more.
It's great you think there are weird treasures. That is exactly what we wanted! |
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7541. Mike Kenny (146-115-26-58.c3-0.abr-ubr1.sbo-abr.ma.cable.rcn.com) –
24 Aug 2008 20:36:34
[ OLD: Spastic Moose ]
"I, Too, Love Broomsticks" is a great one. I think I listened to all of Vectobot and there are some good tracks on that. Some weird treasures. I haven't yet listened to Audat, I don't think.
So the synth-driven instrumentals, and poppy guitar songs were something you were doing back to high school? It's good stuff! Did you apply the AAD idea then, or did that come later? |
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7539. Tom 7 (h-74-0-114-187.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
24 Aug 2008 09:20:57
[ OLD: Spastic Moose ]
Also, while I was doing archaeology I found the old documentary that our friend Taleen made for the band, which has a music video for How To Make A Dry Day Moist made on an authentic VHS-based linear editing machine. The video had poor quality sound for the song and then I realized that she had truncated the song a little, so I mildly expanded it to include a few scenes from the documentary and replaced the audio with the real song in decent quality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEKCPGmwMSI
This is really navel-gazing (maybe it's so old it counts as umbilical gazing?) now though. |
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7538. Tom 7 (h-74-0-114-187.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
24 Aug 2008 09:17:59
[ OLD: Spastic Moose ]
On Audat, my favorites are:
Under The Covers Tonight
My Life Story
Marc Vs. Tom (Edit)
No More Books
We Don't Eat Glass
at least those are the catchiest. I like a lot of the instrumental weird ones (Goose on the Loose) and intermezzo moves (I Call It Me Me Me) too but I have a harder time recommending them.
On VECTOBOT:
The Sultry Pantry
How To Make A Dry Day Moist
I, Too, Love Broomsticks
and the same thing applies to the rest of the tracks. I put them both on last.fm, so that might be a convenient way to page through 'em without downloading. |
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Aww. Well, I am glad you enjoy the stories. I didn't complain about this one being boring even though I think it's boring. (Still, I gotta record my accomplishments somewhere or why bother accomplishing them?) I'm more glad to inspire you to run. If you keep at it, you will get faster quickly. And then we can race! |
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7534. mike kenny (146-115-26-58.c3-0.abr-ubr1.sbo-abr.ma.cable.rcn.com) –
23 Aug 2008 17:21:10
[ OLD: Spastic Moose ]
hm, any favorite tracks you might direct me to of this album? |
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Awesome. You and your wacky running adventures. I think I'm falling in love with you, Tom.
In seriousness: I have started running because of you. I mapped it, and apparently I'm under 10 minutes per mile, so I'm officially running as opposed to jogging. You better watch out, man. At this pace, in 1000000 years or so, I will have become a better runner than yourself. |
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Ha, I'm ashamed to have not come up with the power-pill Pacman joke! Thank you for bringing it to my attention. :) |
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those pac-man pellets were painkillers!
i enjoyed the focus on transaction costs here too (lady looking to sell, kids looking to buy, growler dudes getting past regulatons). :) |
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7522. Tom 7 (h-67-100-130-26.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
19 Aug 2008 19:27:27
[ New! Escape 200704130 ]
Uh, well, I think the game is already more polished than most "1.0" games, especially free games. I have some specific things I'd like to do for a 1.0 release, personally, though who knows if they'll ever happen? (Sound, new level browser, browsing comments and documentation in-game, and most importantly a collection of "official" levels presented in some game-appropriate way for players that are just beginning.)
Anyway, does it really matter if the game is marked "beta" or not? =) I actually think it's kind of funny to be perpetually in beta. |
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Cool! so finally, it wont be beta? |
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Nope! But how would they? It wasn't the guy(s) that are usually there, it was some new to me people. Maybe they can recognize me from/for my zest for good beers. |
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Did the East End guys recognize you? |
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This post was the most recent major update to the game. I've added a few little things, but none big enough to do another release (and now I've lost access to all three of the machines I was doing releases from, which is not to say I couldn't do it again, but I'd need to install some stuff, and will). There are lots of new levels, though. I mean, that's sort of the point of the game!
Soon I will be working on a mobile version, after I finish up a blocking project and also catch up on some sleep. |
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