…or can it? Halfway I was expecting the lyrics to go over the top crazy, and they did just a little. I couldn’t post this without knowing for sure. Luckily Cabel’s Blog Lol posted an article about this phenomena. He did something I didn’t dare hoping for: He found the name of the band, dug up their album and put it up for download. That proofs it. But I still got a huge problem believing the leadgitarist being real.

Sonseed- Jesus is a friend of mine

What does one lazy organ-player do when he has a day off at the Nottoden Blues festival in Norway? He ask the drummer to risk his life running across traffic to do a stupid pose at the larger than life Microphone-statue.

model/victim: Jeffrey

I just finished the official Comics Coast to Coast tune. CCtC is a weekly podcast by Brian Dunaway (missiondeep), Tom Racine (booksmart) and Justin Thompson (mythtickle) about … ehm… comics. That’s right, the three panel thingy’s you see in the paper and on the web.

Creating this tune required me to listen to a few episodes, and in one of them Brian used a party-whistle. I immediately sent my wife to the store to get me some, because I knew that, that was exactly the right angle for this thing. The rest is just whistling the theme over and over again, playing the kazoo, noseflute, programming drums, playing the organ, and loads of other stuff you don’t want to know. And there you go.

The tune was first aired: TBA.

Comics Coast to Coast – 1:17

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Henry Lim, a musician and Lego-fanatic, build himself an instrument. From his page you can see that he already was doing 2d pictures, and even a full size statue of Queen Amidala , but this time he started out building a Grand piano. Due to the enormous amount of pressure a grand piano takes from the tension of 88 strings he figured a Harpsichord would be a more reasonable goal.

Lego-Ukelele
Lego-Hammond organ (easy because it is just the case, the rest is electrical)
Lego-tuba
Lego-gameboy daw…hmmm

Check his page for more pictures, the whole production process and audio-clips of the instrument.
http://www.henrylim.org/LEGOSculptures.html

Spiegel im Spiegel- Arvo Part 10:38

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Thanks to ‘Catrian’, who went through the effort of searching for this old school piece of gear in her house and getting it to me, I am now the proud owner of a new DAW.
In case you didn’t know; DAW stands for Digital Audio Workstation. And mine is a vintage piece of gear.
This is NOT an instrument. it is a full fletched workstation. It has 4 channels, meaning 2 pulse channels 1 wave channel and 1 noise channel. Al can be panned individually left, right or center. I’ll explain about the program it is running when the audio is finished. Heck I even found a website where they compared the sound quality of the different types of gameboys up to the Gameboy Advance. Guess what? The oldest sounded the FATTEST!
Of course it did. It looks WAY cooler than any DS out there. Image riding on the train with this thing. Old School FTW! I even heard a rumor that a few games have been released for this thing

Audio examples coming up.

cc-by-nc photo: &y ‘BACON MARTINI’

Here’s the story.
Len Peralta posted an ode to bacon on his blog. Reading that made something in my head click. I could totally relate to that poem, I love bacon too! So I sent an e-mail to Len immediately; what if Len would read the poem out loud accompanied by a medieval harpsichord. That way we would have a full on Shakespearean version of the ‘Ode to Bacon’. I would do the music obviously.

A few days later Len mailed me an mp3 with the vocal track. It was not done by him but by super-voice-over artist Scott Fletcher, in a Barry White/ Isaac Hayes kind of way.  (clip 1)
Out went my medieval idea, in came the sexay R&B style ode to bacon. (with only 2 days until the next jawbone radio show)

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clip 1: Scott Fletcher testing his voice

I grabbed a funky drumloop I sampled a long time ago from some obscure orchestra-album, played a 2 bar bass loop and started to spread out Scott’s voice over the track.
Exactly on the day of the deadline my Fender Rhodes came out of restoration. Needless to say, the moment I tracked that instrument it instantly tied the mix together. There was no time to hire a horny female singer, so the choir was done by me (I hope that doesn’t put you off).
The huge orchestra I had in my mind for this was obviously a no go.. There was no time to hire, record, and even make an arrangement for it, so I grabbed some random trumpet and flute samples I had lying on a hard drive and added some strings. That gave the impression a grand orchestra was sitting behind Scott. Mission accomplished.

To be frankly: with a voice actor like Scott Fletcher there is no way you can screw this up. The track was finished the moment the voice-work entered my mailbox. I’ve got some ideas up my sleeve now…

Enjoy, Ode to Bacon!

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Ode-to-Bacon 1:45

download: ode-to-bacon.mp3 1.7mb