Archive for February, 2011
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Metal On Metal
Inspired by my research into horror movie sound fx and DIY instruments I decided to gather up an assortment of metal objects and start recording.Scrounging around the house I had no trouble quickly locating several candidates for my ‘metal …
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Industrial Field Recordings
The other day we had some unusually warm weather here in the Midwest. I took the opportunity to get out for a walk among the mountains of thawing snow and ice to collect some sounds.My neighborhood is in close …
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Pickup Coil Recordings
A short time back I was reading an article about using a telephone pickup coil to record EMFs created by everyday electrical devices. The article on the Radium Audio Labs blog comes from the brilliant sound designers over at Radium …
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DIY Music Instruments
After yesterday’s post Making Horror Movie Sound FX I began wondering were I could acquire a violin bow and and possibly a cymbal for super cheap. Before I discovered cheap bows on Amazon.com I looked around for some DIY articles.…
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Making Horror Movie Sound FX
Recently I’ve been looking into doing more sound design. When I was putting together Suffer This Mortal Vessel: An Exorcism I found myself digging for a microphone instead of digging for samples.
Obviously I am interested in creating dark and …
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[TDT007] Suffer This Mortal Vessel: An Exorcism
I’m glad to announce that today my 40 minute soundscape Suffer This Mortal Vessel: An Exorcism was released on The Dark Tapes net label. If you’re not familiar with TDT you need to check their other releases on Tumblr as …
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Live at Thinktank, Vol. 4 – Social Issues
Back in March of 2009 I was invited to perform at one of the Twin Cities so-called “difficult listening sessions.” The Thinktank collective encourages: “… awareness and activity for the harder, darker, stranger sounds of the underground.”
Lacking very little …
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User Projects
This collection of techno tracks was constructed entirely on a Yamaha RM1X. Clips were constructed ahead of time but the arrangement was improvised. User Projects was mostly an experiment in creating tracks for live performance utilizing the Yamaha hardware.
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CD01
The first full length album released under the Epilektric moniker, CD01 has a gritty lo-fi quality to it. The tracks are experimental and highly influenced by IDM artists like Autechre and Aphex Twin although they don’t sound much like those …
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The New Epilektric.com
It’s an exciting day because Epilektric.com has been relaunched with a brand new look. The new site is running on content management software and this makes it’s very easy to keep updated.
Previous attempts at building this site involved static …
