Heads up from Release Magazine, plus performance ideas
27/Jun/2008 00:38 Filed in:Aeriae
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1 _ Alternative and electronic music
watchers Release gave Aeriae the nod
today. To them I say, 'Cheers!'
2 _ I have begun to work on a live performance. The nature of it is decided principally by the fact that I don't find it interesting to watch a person behind a laptop, especially when 100% of the gestures making the music are not discernible. Second, this music is way complicated. Compositionally speaking, this is part of the genre's great appeal to me - that the compositions aren't defined or limited by what a human can do in real time. For these reasons I wondered for a long time if there was any way to perform this music that would satisfy me. This year I saw Moldover's video on Controllerism. His methods are informed significantly by DJ practice, which is something I've never had any interest in, but the whole thing was striking, practical, visual and creatively legitimate. I'm taking what he's generously offered as a starting point and am working on integrating it into my own work. It's been very hard so far, but I've got the hardware, I'm building stuff with the software, and it is coming together. I've got a live version of AMay which I muck up 60% of the time, and I'm working on Skirr. What lies ahead is months of practice, refinement, track translation and building. So it's quite a ways off, but I believe I'll get there, and be able to offer a live version of Aeriae.
2 _ I have begun to work on a live performance. The nature of it is decided principally by the fact that I don't find it interesting to watch a person behind a laptop, especially when 100% of the gestures making the music are not discernible. Second, this music is way complicated. Compositionally speaking, this is part of the genre's great appeal to me - that the compositions aren't defined or limited by what a human can do in real time. For these reasons I wondered for a long time if there was any way to perform this music that would satisfy me. This year I saw Moldover's video on Controllerism. His methods are informed significantly by DJ practice, which is something I've never had any interest in, but the whole thing was striking, practical, visual and creatively legitimate. I'm taking what he's generously offered as a starting point and am working on integrating it into my own work. It's been very hard so far, but I've got the hardware, I'm building stuff with the software, and it is coming together. I've got a live version of AMay which I muck up 60% of the time, and I'm working on Skirr. What lies ahead is months of practice, refinement, track translation and building. So it's quite a ways off, but I believe I'll get there, and be able to offer a live version of Aeriae.
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New Aeriae remix: Delta's 'Believe Again'
30/May/2008 19:27 Filed in:Aeriae
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I like Delta Goodrem plenty. This seems to surprise
most folk and causes them to deduct coolness points
from me. Today I recommend you stow away any
preconceptions and listen to my (COMPLETELY UNOFFICIAL)
Aeriae take on 'Believe Again'. Somehow it's my
favourite thing I've released this year, actually (note
- released, not composed). You can pick it up from the
B-Sides +
Remixes page.
Background info on this remix: Delta's 'You Will Only Break My Heart' single (got it for the princely sum of $4.99 at JB Hi-Fi as I recall) came with a U-Myx version of 'Believe Again' on the B-side. U-Myx is kind of the Fisher Price of the remix world, allowing folks to produce very simple remixes of a given track using colourful onscreen blocks. Now I didn't use U-Myx to remix the track (it would be physically impossible to achieve anything like this with U-Myx) but what U-Myx offered me was access to a lot of isolated audio tracks from Believe Again. Just Delta's lead vocals, just her backup choir, just the guitar, etc. This provided great flexibility re: the source material.
Background info on this remix: Delta's 'You Will Only Break My Heart' single (got it for the princely sum of $4.99 at JB Hi-Fi as I recall) came with a U-Myx version of 'Believe Again' on the B-side. U-Myx is kind of the Fisher Price of the remix world, allowing folks to produce very simple remixes of a given track using colourful onscreen blocks. Now I didn't use U-Myx to remix the track (it would be physically impossible to achieve anything like this with U-Myx) but what U-Myx offered me was access to a lot of isolated audio tracks from Believe Again. Just Delta's lead vocals, just her backup choir, just the guitar, etc. This provided great flexibility re: the source material.
Aeriae remix of Catcall's 'August' playing on FBi
03/May/2008 19:05 Filed in:Aeriae
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I heard Catcall's 'August' on FBi over summer and was
immediately a big fan. I did a remix of the track in
January; Catcall was well chuffed. The remix
is now doing the rounds on FBi FM. Head over to my
B-Sides + Remixes
page to download the remix.
'Hermiones' is Track Of The Week at garageband.com
14/Apr/2008 23:01 Filed in:Aeriae
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I've been on garageband.com for a few years now, and
while I've scored 'Track Of The Day' many times, I
never managed to crack their elusive-seeming Top 20 in
the Experimental Electronica genre until now. My
(relatively weird) second B-side from Hold R1,
Hermiones, has done the trick and got the
Track Of The Week slot in the process. The moral
of this story is that you just can't pick how any
particular track will be received.
Link: The Hermiones page on garageband.com
The track is free to download from garageband or my own B-sides page.
Link: The Hermiones page on garageband.com
The track is free to download from garageband or my own B-sides page.
Hold R1 reviewed in Cyclic Defrost Magazine March 2008
11/Mar/2008 23:56 Filed in:Aeriae
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New track: Lenticular Cup
18/Feb/2008 12:27 Filed in:Aeriae
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In January I participated in The Twentieth Project, in which
an assortment of artists record a track in the
space of a day. The results are gathered on a
compilation CD. My track Lenticular
Cup appears on the January 20th,
2008 CD. The CD isn't publicly available but the
Aeriae track is. You can download it from this
LastFM page.
Aeriae on radio
31/Jan/2008 00:01 Filed in:Aeriae
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