A few months ago I took a crack at my first remix project. Was really drawn to this song ‘Lady Daydream’ by Twin Sister. They had stems available so I took those then added some various loops. Was a lot of fun thinking about music in terms of cutting/pasting/adding/subtracting in ways I don’t normally do in Quiet Lights. Also was much less obsessive.
Love haml but have erb lurking in your code? I stumbled on this rake task looking up ways to get custom Devise views moved to haml to sit nicely w/ the rest of my code:
namespace :erb do
namespace :to do
task :haml do
files = `find . -name *.html.erb`
files.each_line do |file|
file.strip!
`bundle exec html2haml #{file} | cat > #{file.gsub(/\.erb$/, ".haml")}`
end
end
end
end
Recently Quiet Lights put out The Big Fear. An EP created from our Seizure’s Palace recording sessions. Has a nice flow to it I think as the 4 songs each lend themselves to the next one. Really happy with how it came out.
I saw a video for the song ‘Dragonfly’ from Porcelain Raft a few months back and thought it was just amazing, like a Lynchian dream. (http://vimeo.com/13864775). Looked up the creator of it on a whim and she agreed to do one for us. I’m really happy with how it came out.
Calling all architects and those with friends who are, a project I did development for is now live. Its an architectural design competition for proposals to rebuild a stretch of land near Levittown or an area near Huntington Stating off the LIRR. Some really nice prizes and a chance to get involved with shaping the future of suburban landscapes.
The site was developed from the design work and direction from the great 10x. The whole thing came together quite nicely.
Finally have a site up for my new music project, Quiet Lights. The music has a nice subtle tension to it. Everyone in the group has so much to add and I’m pretty excited about the things we’ve done so far.
Also, Ric’s documentary which QL did the music for (and featuring some music from my previous project, Rival Songs) will be completed soon. We also have a promo in a CBS Criminal Minds spot. They used the music from our track Throat Cut (stream it here). You can check it out here:
I’m pretty stoked to finally roll out the soft-(re)launch of Tickets and Music. I wanted to create a way for people to get access to the best deals for a given show from any location. I don’t think searching the 3rd party brokers is always the best way to go, sometimes they have the only deal and sometimes they don’t.
My new group/project did the music for this (we don’t have a name yet, thinking about Lake Fire). Shot by my talented friend Ric Serena The work the artist featured here is just incredible. Really shows how far you can stretch the art of linoleum cuts.
When I first moved to NY I wanted to take a break from playing in bands and maybe concentrate on other things. Of course after about 2 weeks of being up here I was going crazy and wanted to start making music right away.
So I fell in with this band Argentine, it was great. They had shows booked and next thing I knew I was playing all over the city and was contributing to the next album. I couldn’t believe my fortune at finding a group of people so fast that thought of music the same way I did, something I never had in Orlando.
Well, the project fizzled in the middle of recording the next album. However, I’m still friends with and making music with many of those same people today. Here’s one of my favorite tracks from the sessions that will probably never see the light of day. Its got this great lightness to it interlaced with longing. I play the organ, lead guitar, and do the backup vocals. Its one of my favorite tracks I’ve ever played on: 2 In the Afternoon.
