A bit of help

[Astral Poetry]

Does anyone have the descriptions that Toby posted of each song on his solo album? He took them off his myspace page and, since I believe the cd will be coming in any day now, I'd like to have them for the first listen (you know, ritualistic type stuff). Please pos....Boston Legal's on!!

 

[aura]

I found one...

Kandu vs. Corky (Horrorca)

This one's a drone metal song that loves bell-shaped things. The rhythm is basically a bell-curve shape over and over again, and some of the instrumentation (bells, and sine waves) are themselves bell-shaped. Part of the original idea was to mic things really loud but play them extra-quietly, so that they sounded really artifact-laden on tape. The strings at the beginning use this idea, as well as some of the cymbals, which we miked right above the rim of each, and a simple touch would produce an insanely resonant bass tone. That's basically all there is to it... droney, bellcurvy, miked loud, and microtonal. The title recalls this incident... horror + orca = horrorca! Below you can listen to the entire song!!

additional musicians - sam gutterman, sheel dave, mia matsumiya, ryan mcguire, forbes graham, doug la rosa.

 

[aura]

Hmm...found another, for "Ruby Blood," which I believe was taken off of the album and replaced with "Eptaceros."

Ruby Blood

This song probably gave me the most trouble out of anything I've ever worked on. basically I started off with one of the ideas I mentioned on the horrorca page, that is, miking things really loudly and then touching them in unconventional ways. For this song, I knew that certain metal objects such as cymbals or pots would produce weird but recognizable tones under these circumstances, so I set out to do a piece consisting of only that. It didn't really work, and I blame the fact that out of all the objects I had, there were only maybe 10 variant tones between them. (Who knew that most cookware makers tune their pots to either G# or F#?) In any case I ultimately had to end up adding guitar and vocals to make the piece into something more than just a soundscape.

 

[xfer]

is ruby blood the one that was heavily transformed into a song on the new kayo dot album?

 

[aura]

The video from the CMJ showcase reminded me of the sample of "Ruby Bones" that I heard...