I was able to take some vacation time for the first week of April so I stayed at home the whole time and managed to make two new tracks from beginning to end. It was my first chance to do some songs using some of the Loomer instruments and plugins that I recently bought, and I was really happy with them. It took me a while to find my footing at the start of the week but once I got going I had a really fun time working on these tracks and was very happy to have everything finished by the end of the week. Other than the Loomer stuff, I also used some LinuxDSP plugins in Mixbus. Hydrogen was also extremely useful for doing the drum parts.

Overall it was a successful week and a great chance to just sit down and experiment and explore some new sounds. I’m hoping this project will help grease the wheels for the next album I want to do.

Here’s a link to the bandcamp page for the A/B side singles, April, Dreaming of Summer.

I put this patch together in the hopes that it would help me in my next musical project. It gives me five different instruments that can be triggered by MIDI, but each instrument can use an unlimited collection of .wav samples. Each MIDI hit will trigger a random sample from the collection, allowing an unpredictable rhythmic texture to be produced. To be used as a partner to an existing drum machine as a way to add a bit more ‘realism’ to the sounds.

Download randomHITS. (needs pd-extended)

Just recently I was able to supply 6 instrumental tracks from Cut That Cut Out to Slant Six Games for some promotional videos they put together. The tracks were used as background music for several interviews with some producers and designers. Cool! You can see them on the Slant Six youtube page.

I’ve created another album on bandcamp for a new set of low-fi tracks. This one is called Cellular Fidelity. I’m planning on recording everything on my phone, basically the same as Low-Fi. It’s only 3 tracks at the moment but I thought that posting it up might light the fire I need to start making more of these.

I just added a couple t-shirt designs I’ve made for my dodgeball teams.

Have a listen to my attempt at a Girl Talk-style mashup on the remixes page.

I’ve just release a new album on bandcamp. You can read more about it here or you can listen to the whole thing here.

I’ve redesigned the site a bit, both functionally and visually. I’ve been using it for almost a year now and I have a much better idea of how it can function most effectively.