Flat out busy rationalising projects and getting ready for my next batch of marking. The new CD packaging for Venus Vulture – Signal Artifacts is nearly ready. I’d forgotten how much work it is to put these things together right. It will be available when the official release comes out on Resting Bell soon. I’m putting together a “shop” page for the website to make it more straightforward to get things.
I’ll post again when there’s something tangible 🙂
Tag: ambient music
New Venus Vulture track available
I’ve joined reverbnation to use their promotional tools – especially the widgets that can be embedded on other sites. Now I need to figure out how the embedding works … at the moment the link on the top right should be a little media player, but I can only get the line to work. I’ve uploaded a new ambient track on my page there – Tolela visiting the ghost July 1913. Have a listen, become a fan (as I type this, you would become my number 1 fan).
Yeah – new stuff uploaded
Gathered together some new things and something old to keep the interest up:
New video at Youtube – August Sleep – a minute and a half of dream swirls.
Old music – the remix I submitted for the Post Piano Open Remix Project from Taylor Deupree and Kenneth Kirschner a few years back – here on archive.org. Including some of the working files, and the graphics too.
New computer images – A new set of 25 images. This makes a nice slideshow, the images run across each other; August Sleep.
angles-moire video on YouTube
I’ve put up a new Venus Vulture video on YouTube . It’s a more blocky thing than the earlier videos, with some drum patterns built across the drifty soundscape.
Moire patterns (there’s an acute over the e, and I guess there’s some way to put that on here, but I can’t figure it) are interference patterns created by intersecting sets of lines – say when you’re passing a wire fence and the lines of another fence beyond interact to create highlights and lowlights. In the video the striations on the blocks seem to bend a flicker a little as the pixels of the image can’t quite manage to show the details. Some artifacts from various compressions through the process, but still intriguing.
Dawn, New Life reviews
There are some peer reviews of the Dawn, New Life track here at ccmixter. Great to know people are listening and thinking about the track.
forgotten trees package arrived
Very excited! The package from the States arrived last night – the book and CD look great together. I’d forgotten (no pun intended) that I’d ordered silver CDs … wow they’re so shiny! Now I’ll get to planning the book release party with Bruce at the bookshop.
Dawn, New Life track on ccmixter.org
Forgotten trees book of photos and poems nearly ready
I been changing and tweaking the poems and I’m now in the process of finishing off the book. I’ve whittled over 60 of the best poems down to about 45, culled about 50 photos from over 200 I liked. The document is almost ready to go to press, just waiting on our isbn.
Great News – Forgotten Trees as a book!
I had some poems I’d been working on and I’ve decided to make Forgotten trees into a three-level piece: music, graphics and text. There will be a 100 page book of photos and poems to complement the CD. Get both, read the book and look at the photos (which are new, not available electronically through the website) and listen to the music in the background (with a cup of herbal tea, perhaps). Intended release date is April 19th – at the moment just working through a sizing problem with the CD tray insert.
Forgotten Trees tracklist and cover ready
This is the cover.
I’ve finalised the tracks for the album too – here is the list.
1. If ever we encountered birds 4.03
2. Ahead, a clearing 0.19
3. In the distance, chainsaws? 4.06
4. A meadow, a stream, a spiderweb 7.52
5. Near dusk, a campsite 7.52
6. We thought we saw a rainbow 0.55
7. Dawn, new life 7.32
8. Distant smoke, a logging camp? 11.34
9. Ahead, another clearing 1.20
10. Follow the streambed 4.12
11. Forest edge, cities 11.36
Track 7 contains samples from Suicide (ft Hannah Harniss), 2008 Hannah_da_masta
Licensed to the public under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
from http://ccmixter.org/media/files/Hannah_da_masta/13533
Check the website for more details about the release.
Sean Monaghan - Writer 