first remix: Twin Sister’s Lady Daydream

Posted in music on July 26th, 2011 by marcus – Be the first to comment

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.

Here’s a link:

Twin Sister : Lady Daydream (quiet lights sleepdrone lope remix) by Quiet Lights

I hope to do more soon.

Erb to Haml Rake Task

Posted in development on July 19th, 2011 by marcus – Be the first to comment

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

So now its as easy as ‘rake erb:to:haml’.

Thanks to this post

Quiet Lights : The Big Fear

Posted in music on July 16th, 2011 by marcus – Be the first to comment

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.

Put out on 12″ white vinyl from our friends at Old Flame Records

new Quiet Lights video : Break Trouble Wait

Posted in design, music on April 15th, 2011 by marcus – Be the first to comment

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.

Break Trouble Wait from Quiet Lights on Vimeo.

Tickets & Music video pitch for Web2NewYork

Posted in development on August 15th, 2010 by marcus – Be the first to comment

Here’s a video pitch I did for Web2NewYork about ticketsandmusic.com. Thought it came out pretty good in terms of ‘site in a nutshell’.

Tickets & Music building API for ticket information

Build a Better Burb : Architectural proposal competition for suburban Long Island

Posted in design, development on July 20th, 2010 by marcus – Be the first to comment

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.

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The site was developed from the design work and direction from the great 10x. The whole thing came together quite nicely.

Quiet Lights

Posted in music on July 15th, 2010 by marcus – Be the first to comment

quiet lights

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:

Criminal Minds Promo – Featuring Music from Quiet Lights from Quiet Lights on Vimeo.

New Tickets & Music Launched!

Posted in development on June 15th, 2010 by marcus – Be the first to comment

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.

Cut by cut by cut

Posted in music on May 25th, 2010 by marcus – Be the first to comment

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.

Artisan Documentary Teaser – Dave Lefner from Ric Serena on Vimeo.

Its nice when 3 separate art forms can come together beautifully into one.

Not all chances are broken (Argentine – 2 In the Afternoon)

Posted in music on May 15th, 2010 by marcus – Be the first to comment

argentine

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.

Argentine – 2 In the Afternoon