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Unwind resumes for 2011 summer

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2011 Unwind web graphic

Unwind, a weekly event for ambient, downtempo, experimental electronic and nujazz music, returns to the patio at CS3 for the summer, starting with a kick-off party on Friday, June 3, 2011.

Join me and fellow residents Adejai (aka Josh Helton) and Josh Elias along with occasional special guests every Friday this summer from 8 p.m. until later on the patio at CS3: Calhoun Street Soups, Salads, and Spirits.

Sponsored by Fort Wayne Electronic Music (FTWEM). Find Unwind and FTWEM on Facebook.

In preparation, I have posted 2011-05-31 Unwind practice live session for FREE download. It’s much more beat-oriented than I intend to play, but I was trying out different configs for my Ableton setup.

UPDATE: I moved the 2011-05-31 Unwind practice live session (1hr00m27s, 72.6 MB MP3) from my Soundcloud to here for posterity.

 

More Short Fictions

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I have uploaded More Short Fictions (9 MP3 tracks in a 44.3 MB zip archive), a collection of shorter sequenced pieces and sketches composed and produced in Fall 2010. They were all previously posted to my SoundCloud page, but I’ve moved them here for posterity. Here is a tracklisting:

  1. Beat Down v.01 (2:16)
  2. Empty Nest v.01 (2:08)
  3. Fraction Faction v.01 (2:13)
  4. Operandi v.01 (4:48)
  5. Phat Sod v.01 (2:35)
  6. The Profession v.04 (5:01)
  7. Toolkit v.01 (2:24)
  8. Wibble Wobble v.01 (1:23)
  9. Yearbook Staff v.01 (2:13)

Some of these are real gems, so please check them out. Also, don’t miss the previous collections Short Fictions and Prototypes I.

From-the-vaults-podcast: Arrivals mix

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2010 Arrivals cover

My next from-the-vaults podcast is a mix of seven tracks from Arrivals (38min, 59.3 MB MP3), a previously unreleased follow-up to 2009′s Departure Lounge. Many of these tracks had appeared in various podcast mixes and live sets and were remastered with the intent of releasing a second EP in 2009. Instead, I decided to shelve them and go in a new direction, which lead to the material for Elsewhere and Vernal. So, here they are in a spankin’ new mix.

Tracklist:

  1. Chthonic(min) v.01, from 2008 Spring mix
  2. Circular Object (Sunset Island dub), from 2008 Summer mix
  3. 8-bitch v.02, from Free Flow Set
  4. La Palama (1984 CIA Factbook mix), from 2008 Summer mix
  5. Snwd_Ndr v.01, from 2007 Winter mix
  6. Untitled (2007-11-25), from 2008 Winter mix
  7. Aguadulce v.01, from 2008 Summer mix

As an added bonus, the complete album Arrivals is now available for purchase on Bandcamp: Immediate download of 7-track album in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.

NOTES: All tracks were created with Ableton Live Suite and Reaktor 4 and mastered using Sound Studio 3 and Ozone 4.

 

From-the-vault podcast mix: Live practice set, 1997-04-03 (2010 Remaster)

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My next from-the-vault podcast is a live practice set from April, 1997 (53min:36sec, 97.4 MB MP3). I don’t recall what event this was in preparation for or have a tracklist, so I’ll just offer it without specifics.

NOTES: My gear for the set consisted of an Akai MPC-2000 sampler/sequencer, Alesis SR-16 drum machine, Novation BassStation analog monosynth, Korg Prophecy digital monosynth, Yamaha TG-33 digital synth, Tascam Porta 07 4-track/mixer, Alesis Microverb III multi-effects, Digitech RDS-4000 flanger/chorus/delay, DOD distortion and flanger pedals. I added EQ, multiband dynamics, stereo widening and loudness maximizing to clean up the mix and remaster for 2010.