Quickly · 1 hour ago

working now, on Dance Works, seeking to preserve the improvisational aspects of how I play live for this stuff, yet layer, orchestrate, arrange… consequentially takes are going down fast,and I mix standing up (well, there in instruments in front of the console too), all the while moving, walking, pacing, dancing even, find groups and stems, get them talking to each other, do the frequencies, get them out of each others way, move on…

get some rehearsal for next Tuesday between takes.

Ok, go on, grab a sample here

I’ll leave it up for a few days only. The rest will remain at Some Good Sounds or somewhat at MySpace and one of these is where you should be going now.

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Gritty · 24 hours ago

you should see this place right now — a mess of cables and cheap amps as I try to record a keyboard sound in a gritty kind of way…

‘Post’ recording processing, as it were, is important. The line between recording and mixing is blurred, as sounds get processed over and over again. Eq and texture work in the same way as level towards getting a balance.

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Busy · 3 days ago

Recording project, some rehearsal. some personal life… I’ve loaded rough mixes onto myspace, and there is now a project labeled

Berlin Dance Works

up on Some Good Sounds with eight rough mixes and/or sketches uploaded.

Part of the busy business is mixing electronic with acoustic, or at least ‘air’ elements, so I’m reamping keyboards, recording toy pianos against expensive sounding pads, etc etc… see a track like Tendue Dub for an example.