Saturday, February 28, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
Track 05 - Dustmen
Dustmen is the 5th song on the album but it's the forth song I'm making available. This is for a simple reason, I haven't recorded the 4th song yet. I'm going to shoot for recording it next week and hopefully releasing it next Friday. I'll make the remixing pieces and parts for Dustmen available later today.
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Friday, February 20, 2009
Track 03 - Ashes/Anorexic Exit
The third track and remixing samples are now available. The tempo is in the README as well as the id3 tag. Enjoy!
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Sunday, February 15, 2009
Delete Format Forget: The Industrial Years, 1997-2007
I'm already thinking about the next album release I will do. It will be a final and complete release of the material I worked on from roughly 1997-2007. This will be all of my Industrial/Coldwave influenced stuff. Those were a very difficult 10 years for me. I worked on alot of material for others but my personal music output was extremely low. It works out to be about one song for each year. On a side note, I've already recorded half that many songs in the last couple months working off and on for The Fall of Man/Groovfuct.
Even though my output was low, I'm still proud of the material. I'll remaster songs that need it. Some of the material only exists now as 128kbps mp3 as the original wav files and recordings are lost so I will do what I can to make those sound as good as possible.
Of course, it will all be licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA license with the audio bits for the songs, where available.
Even though my output was low, I'm still proud of the material. I'll remaster songs that need it. Some of the material only exists now as 128kbps mp3 as the original wav files and recordings are lost so I will do what I can to make those sound as good as possible.
Of course, it will all be licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA license with the audio bits for the songs, where available.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Track 02 - Glow
The next track is up and ready for your listening pleasure. The individual tracks for remixing will come later today or tomorrow. I'll be uploading a README file as well with the licensing and other important info. If you need to know the tempo of any of the songs, it's in the ID3v2 tag of the mp3.
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UPDATE: The zip containing the Glow remixing tracks are now available. I also updated the names of the files in the Icy Skies Falling zip. There is also now a README file, please read it as it has important information regarding the format and use of the files as well as contact info and licensing.
UPDATE 2: D'oh, I forgot to add the BPM in the zip file names. I think I'm going to have add a readme to the zips. in any case, I'll have to upload the zips again. The tempo is available in the mp3 tags in the meantime.
UPDATE3: Ok, the zip files are all updated and include a README with the tempo.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
UPDATE: The zip containing the Glow remixing tracks are now available. I also updated the names of the files in the Icy Skies Falling zip. There is also now a README file, please read it as it has important information regarding the format and use of the files as well as contact info and licensing.
UPDATE 2: D'oh, I forgot to add the BPM in the zip file names. I think I'm going to have add a readme to the zips. in any case, I'll have to upload the zips again. The tempo is available in the mp3 tags in the meantime.
UPDATE3: Ok, the zip files are all updated and include a README with the tempo.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
An Artists Intentions
...are irrelevant to everyone except the artist.
There's a video on youtube.com of David Lynch ranting about how it's "bullshit" that people watch movies on iPods. Sorry Mr. Lynch but what is bullshit is that you think that you can control your art once it's out in the wild.
You can't force people to see things the way you want. The best you can hope for is that at least a small portion of your message gets across to the viewer. Each person that sees it has a mind of their own and will come away with their own impression. Not only that but how your art is delivered can change over time. Paintings are reproduced in books, posters, coffee mugs. Music that was on vinyl disc is now listened to on mp3 players, heard in commercials, video games, and poorly produced youtube slideshows. Films that were seen on a screen with 200 other people in surround sound, are seen on VHS on a mono TV, DVD in 2.1 stereo and yes, even iPods with some crummy earbuds. Even if, for example, an artistic work hangs in a gallery and is never reproduced in any way, time will alter how the piece looks. Colors will fade, varnish will yellow. Ultimately it's the VIEWER, not the artist that determines how a work is delivered.
Art is a form of communication. Like any communication that hangs around for a long while, how people view it changes over time. The importance of any art is relevance to the viewer or listener, not the intentions of the artist. As with folk music, folk tales and urban legends, variations are introduced with each successive teller or performer. No two live stage performances of plays are alike. No two productions of the same play are alike. THIS IS NOT A BAD THING. People have always built upon others ideas so there is no such thing as an original thought. There's no such thing as original art.
The artist's idea, concept, first thought doesn't matter at all. Even the final concrete form it first takes doesn't matter. What the viewer or listener gets out of it, what they come away with is what really matters. What you as an artist want doesn't matter. You can rant against iPods, ebooks, crappy speakers, remixes or whatever new form or presentation a work of art takes over time but it doesn't mean a thing. Relevance is all that ultimately matters. You can't control how another person sees, interprets, manipulates or otherwise changes any work of art, whether in their mind or in the material world.
Artistic intentions, ideas and concepts are not sacred. If you don't like that, too bad because that is the reality of any artistic endeavor.
There's a video on youtube.com of David Lynch ranting about how it's "bullshit" that people watch movies on iPods. Sorry Mr. Lynch but what is bullshit is that you think that you can control your art once it's out in the wild.
You can't force people to see things the way you want. The best you can hope for is that at least a small portion of your message gets across to the viewer. Each person that sees it has a mind of their own and will come away with their own impression. Not only that but how your art is delivered can change over time. Paintings are reproduced in books, posters, coffee mugs. Music that was on vinyl disc is now listened to on mp3 players, heard in commercials, video games, and poorly produced youtube slideshows. Films that were seen on a screen with 200 other people in surround sound, are seen on VHS on a mono TV, DVD in 2.1 stereo and yes, even iPods with some crummy earbuds. Even if, for example, an artistic work hangs in a gallery and is never reproduced in any way, time will alter how the piece looks. Colors will fade, varnish will yellow. Ultimately it's the VIEWER, not the artist that determines how a work is delivered.
Art is a form of communication. Like any communication that hangs around for a long while, how people view it changes over time. The importance of any art is relevance to the viewer or listener, not the intentions of the artist. As with folk music, folk tales and urban legends, variations are introduced with each successive teller or performer. No two live stage performances of plays are alike. No two productions of the same play are alike. THIS IS NOT A BAD THING. People have always built upon others ideas so there is no such thing as an original thought. There's no such thing as original art.
The artist's idea, concept, first thought doesn't matter at all. Even the final concrete form it first takes doesn't matter. What the viewer or listener gets out of it, what they come away with is what really matters. What you as an artist want doesn't matter. You can rant against iPods, ebooks, crappy speakers, remixes or whatever new form or presentation a work of art takes over time but it doesn't mean a thing. Relevance is all that ultimately matters. You can't control how another person sees, interprets, manipulates or otherwise changes any work of art, whether in their mind or in the material world.
Artistic intentions, ideas and concepts are not sacred. If you don't like that, too bad because that is the reality of any artistic endeavor.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Track 01 - Icy Skies Falling
Here it is, the first track from the new album The Fall of Man/Groovfuct. You can download the finished track as well as the individual tracks for remixing. The files are hosted at MediaFire which looks like the least annoying free file hosting service out there. It will have to do until I get my own hosting again. I'll post another track next Friday.
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UPDATE: I chose the wrong license. I will update the tag in the mp3 to reflect the correct license later tonight. Please honor the new share-alike license, even if you downloaded the older version. Thank you.
UPDATE 2: I also just noticed I uploaded one of the loops in the wrong tempo. I'm fixing it now.
UPDATE 3: Ok, it's fixed. The correct loop is in the zip file and the tags on the mp3 have been changed to reflect the correct license.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
UPDATE: I chose the wrong license. I will update the tag in the mp3 to reflect the correct license later tonight. Please honor the new share-alike license, even if you downloaded the older version. Thank you.
UPDATE 2: I also just noticed I uploaded one of the loops in the wrong tempo. I'm fixing it now.
UPDATE 3: Ok, it's fixed. The correct loop is in the zip file and the tags on the mp3 have been changed to reflect the correct license.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Giving Away my Music
I was inspired to do this based on this post on webcomics at my friend Cat's website. Comics are a bit different from music and my line of thinking may be a complete failure but it can't get any worse than it already is. So...
Despite the success of iTunes, I don't think selling digital downloads of music is sustainable. And as I'm essentially unknown, I'm not even going to try. From now on, I'm going to give all of my music away for free in high quality 320 kbps mp3 format (when available, some of my older stuff isn't any higher than 128 kbps). Every week I will post a new song for you to download and enjoy. Once I get enough songs, I'll call it an album and sell a hard copy (CD and maybe even vinyl if possible) of the collected songs - but the digital songs will remain free.
Trying to guilt people into buying music and putting up barriers between listeners and music is just plain stupid and crappy and I'm not going to be part of that nonsense anymore. All my work will be Creative Commons. I think I will make it available in a CC share-alike license so people can remix it if they desire. I'll see if I can find hosting somewhere so I can make it available for download on Friday. So stick around, the music is coming.
Despite the success of iTunes, I don't think selling digital downloads of music is sustainable. And as I'm essentially unknown, I'm not even going to try. From now on, I'm going to give all of my music away for free in high quality 320 kbps mp3 format (when available, some of my older stuff isn't any higher than 128 kbps). Every week I will post a new song for you to download and enjoy. Once I get enough songs, I'll call it an album and sell a hard copy (CD and maybe even vinyl if possible) of the collected songs - but the digital songs will remain free.
Trying to guilt people into buying music and putting up barriers between listeners and music is just plain stupid and crappy and I'm not going to be part of that nonsense anymore. All my work will be Creative Commons. I think I will make it available in a CC share-alike license so people can remix it if they desire. I'll see if I can find hosting somewhere so I can make it available for download on Friday. So stick around, the music is coming.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Last Post
Two followers on my Shadowjack site. Other than that, I might have 3 (maybe a half dozen if I include family members) people in the world are vaguely interested in what I do. There's no reason to keep these blogs up.
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