a few recent works

i tend to be lazy around this blog and wanted to write a non music one so i thought 'well it's supposed to be about music' so here's a run down of a few recent releases and the rational behind them.




this album remixes laica's 'id situation (a 10" of which can be bought here taking the idea of cctvs and surveillance and humanising the machines. the second track ends with the death of two cameras and the feedback from their dead circuits.



this album was written to commemorate the centenary of the opening of world war one.

the tracks do not use lo-bit sound but rather a form of processing i developed to mimic lo-bit but still allow higher frequency responses - there are still unusual sounds present that you could not get in a lo-bit file

this idea was to mimic the often ludicrous use of noise reduction technology in the remastering of early audio and film, to allow an ironic 'documentary' feel to the work which would act as a counterpoint to the subject matter.




for this release i used the data from the photograph which forms the cover to create the music so, in a way, it is literally a portrait (and an ironic take on growing older)

goodbye frankie knuckles (electronic music wasn't all made in academies)

frankie knuckles passed away today at the shockingly early age of 59. his place as a pioneer of electronic music can not be under estimated. the work he and other early house djs put into creating the sound of electronic dance music has shaped all genres of electronic music in one way or another.

in addition it is worth remembering that their music created a safe scene for queer people of colour and helped shape the wider queer scene.

goodbye frankie.

and as a special bonus here's larry levan's spiritually uplifting remix of 'aint to mountain high enough.'

as long as we have a soul there will always be house and garage

remixing in the library

since listening to uschi-no-michi's 'ameratsu' i've had an urge to remix it using darwin's 'on the origin of species' as a guide to the length of the cuts.

the idea was to record the length of each chapter in the book and then produce cuts corresponding to these lengths with each page represented but one second of time so that a twenty page chapter would be represented by twenty seconds of time, a thirty page chapter by thirty seconds and so on.

in the end a strict adherence to page lengths proved impossible as the main vocal was cut off half way through a word and other cuts featured periods of silence. in the end a slightly looser version of the original idea was used where the length of a cut could be slightly lengthened or truncated (and where a larger section of the main vocal was taken) to allow for a more organic sounding piece.

the finished piece is available on my bandcamp while the original can be found here