who here actually makes music?

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I make music as well. I wish all of you could hear it, but I don't have any mp3s to offer.

Ashley Andel, Friday, 8 November 2002 06:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

I make music too too too.

Demos soon.

meirion john lewis (mei), Friday, 8 November 2002 08:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

i'm looking forward to the broadband arriving so i can hear dleone stuff too (been wanting to hear it for ages actually)

gareth (gareth), Friday, 8 November 2002 10:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Me.

http://cacophonix.wh3rd.net/

Keith McD (Keith McD), Friday, 8 November 2002 11:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't owing to a lack of skill/talent/creativity/charisma but I organized (renting venue, hiring bands, publicity....) my first ever show a few months ago & it was so much fun. There will be more to come!

Miss Laura, Friday, 8 November 2002 11:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thanks, ya'll. You guys don't happen to own record labels, do you?

dleone (dleone), Friday, 8 November 2002 13:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't make music but I wanted to jump on and say that N*tsuh's stuff, on the evidence of the two tracks he put on an electro comp. he made me, is very good.

Mark (MarkR), Friday, 8 November 2002 13:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Miss Laura, you still in Montreal?

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 8 November 2002 14:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

i don't know if anyone else does this but i just write songs. all the time. i have so many bits of paper with half finished lyrics and chords progressions and stuff that i dont know what to do with them. the good ideas naturally get better because i play them all the time, and the bad ones sit waiting until i go back to them to steal the one good line from them. i think there's about 400 songs (many just text, no music) in total i have written and considered worth keeping.

maybe a couple of dozen i would like to record. mostly quite different.

as to whether i ever record anything, i cant really afford a 4-track recorder and forming a band is proving to be extremely difficult, so those ideas are gonna sound very bare if its just voice and guitar. not what i imagine them to be.

i think the best thing to do is get out doing shows if you want the chance to get those songs sounding how you want them to sound. practice makes perfect, and money helps.

not that i'll ever do that. too scary.

but hey, i'm only 18, there's time yet.

alistair, Friday, 8 November 2002 14:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

haha no. sorry, dominique.

charlie va (charlie va), Friday, 8 November 2002 17:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

This is me, Sean Fuck:

"yctc011 - sean-fuck tape : **coming soon** solo electronic punk no fi action? glitch-core too and a helen love remix. its a heck of a responsibilty to take on"

END SELF-PROMOTION

www.youthclubtapeclub.com or email me, it's crap but cheap.

slit magnet, Friday, 8 November 2002 18:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

I do, and lots of it.

matt riedl (veal), Friday, 8 November 2002 21:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

I forgot to add that my wife is studying to be an opera singer. She's going to be Belinda in "Dido And Aneas" of Memorial Day weekend.

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 8 November 2002 21:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mr. Darnielle to thread! Oh wait, I guess he's out on tour at the moment...

Anyway, yeah, me too.

Nick Mirov (nick), Saturday, 9 November 2002 00:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

Eyeball Kicks, are you Robert Pollard?

In some ways, yes. But, generally, no.

Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 9 November 2002 01:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

She's going to be Belinda in "Dido And Aneas"

Dan Perry to... oh.

Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 9 November 2002 01:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

There are a few things here. I'm currently working on a larger-scale ensemble piece.

sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 9 November 2002 01:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

i read this as "who here actually makes sense?"

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 9 November 2002 07:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

''I don't owing to a lack of skill/talent/creativity/charisma but I organized (renting venue, hiring bands, publicity....) my first ever show a few months ago & it was so much fun. There will be more to come!''

that's lovely. I did always want to organise a gig by descension, which i always liked to see.

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 9 November 2002 13:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm a bedroom electronica geek:
Here!

dog latin, Saturday, 9 November 2002 13:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

As am I. See Keith McD's response above.

Andrew (enneff), Saturday, 9 November 2002 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mmmm... TR909 is yummy in a dark and brooding Mezzanine-y way. Maybe the odd beat could have been altered - just the bass drum noise, it sounds a little synthetic and not the right noise for that kind of fast beat. Still very nice track though.

dog latin, Saturday, 9 November 2002 17:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

I just bought an RS-9 for $760.

Zesty.

Curtis Stephens, Saturday, 9 November 2002 22:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

i used to play in bands with a few records out.
now i have a new band called solution (sorry no website) and try to avoid recording or plugging our stuff (not that i wouldn't do it if i feel like it). for now we just get together and have fun once a week. i love it more than ever.

joan vich (joan vich), Monday, 11 November 2002 13:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm a rocker. I rock out.

I have no proof of this whatsoever, so you have to take my word for it.

Tom Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 04:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

i do, obsessively. but i dislike everything i make and never call anything finished so nobody really hears anything and i have no mp3s up anywhere. Well actually there's some old business here: http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/185/20.html

Honda (Honda), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 05:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

I used to but haven't done anything for ages - there's an old song here http://www.beefheart.com/fireparty/membersmusic.htm

Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 10:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ok, I put some of my songs up here:
http://artists.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/AndyN./

A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 16 November 2002 19:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

eleven months pass...
I do. I've put out a couple of records but the next one is experiencing a very difficult birth.

one year later and it's still being born. goddamn

the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 17 October 2003 03:00 (twenty years ago) link

When's the release date Jimboat?

colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 17 October 2003 03:19 (twenty years ago) link

i shifted it from feb '04 to april '04. feb is probably still realistic though

the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 17 October 2003 03:25 (twenty years ago) link

Putting your music up in a message boad besieged by critics is incredibly brave/stupid. I think so.

mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 October 2003 07:45 (twenty years ago) link

I'm the drummer in a band called the German Exchange
http://www.thegermanexchange.com

We have done some fun recordings and are currently struggling to try and afford to release our new ep.
But its all fun!

Mr Monket (apn99), Friday, 17 October 2003 10:55 (twenty years ago) link

mark g - on the upside, most of them don't give a toss!

the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 17 October 2003 10:56 (twenty years ago) link

I do, I just don't record or perform for people.

Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Friday, 17 October 2003 11:23 (twenty years ago) link

Surface, that's cool.

mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 October 2003 12:07 (twenty years ago) link

FYI - my band broke up.

I have tons of ancient 4-track ridiculosity still stored here, but the newest recording on that site is possibly 3 years old now.

I'm recording on a digital 4-track nowadays and hope to have summa dat stuff ready to ear-peep before the month is over. Like anybody cares ha ha.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 17 October 2003 12:34 (twenty years ago) link

My band isThe Vowels - In Cahoots with...The Vowels release date Jan. 6, 2004. Out on The Sea Isle.

scott m (mcd), Friday, 17 October 2003 14:27 (twenty years ago) link

for the record: i make computer music under the name Handsome Sultan in hamilton ontario canada.

astroblaster (astroblaster), Friday, 17 October 2003 16:02 (twenty years ago) link

i make computer music, some of which im gonna shop DHR as soon as i finish the vocals.
my rock band is playing its first show tonight. im quite excited. we've been together for 5 years and we're only now getting around to organizing our songs enough to play shows.

Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 17 October 2003 18:53 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.kilnrecords.com/body/sb/pages/mp3/sb_mp3.html

(you can ignore the Humectant Interruption track on that page since it's not us, tho perhaps you _should_ listen to it anyway).

Russ

Russ, Friday, 17 October 2003 19:41 (twenty years ago) link

i write music of a kind of experimental mind set i guess. Kind of improvisatonal electonic stuff. Kind of similar to stephen mathieu (full swing) if it is close to anything. Although his is not too improv from what i hear.

Still have not posted any although I have burned a few cds for friends.

hector (hector), Saturday, 18 October 2003 17:17 (twenty years ago) link

I'm about to go upstairs and make some music on me drums.
Any suggestions on a (break)beat that I should learn?

oops (Oops), Saturday, 18 October 2003 23:56 (twenty years ago) link

"George of the Jungle"

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 19 October 2003 00:27 (twenty years ago) link

Also, do the burundi beat!

colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Sunday, 19 October 2003 00:44 (twenty years ago) link

Reggae/dancehall beats are hard as fuck for me to do. They all end up sounding like hip-hop after a few bars. I guess cause it's the opposite of hip hop, ie the kick is usually on the beat while the snare is ALWAYS off the beat. Not just off the beat, but off the off-beat.

oops (Oops), Sunday, 19 October 2003 01:00 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...
Hail!

The icefrosted realms of letchworth are killing the false!

Niroth will fucking kill you with necro BM
Autofire will make you skin up with demented beats`o`war

and theres some others too, but they havent bought us enough beer yet.

hehe
Go to www.niroth.da.ru, you bastards!

NecroBastard, Thursday, 27 November 2003 15:16 (twenty years ago) link

I did a song on compilation album called "I wish I was John Peels son" that he played, once.

I laso quiver gingerly on stage playing a tambourine and wearing a large bulb on my head for this band:-

http://www.freedunit.co.uk/

but I guess that doesn't count really.

flowersdie (flowersdie), Thursday, 27 November 2003 15:31 (twenty years ago) link

I make music in my room with a 4-track as well as with a drummer. As of yesterday I own a wonderful new Fender amp, so I will probably be inside most of the weekend if I can help it.

Nothing is online because I don't have a good way of transferring audio into my old, ancient, USB-deficient, 5-gig computer.

Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Friday, 28 November 2003 08:02 (twenty years ago) link

I make drone music with some electronics, my amp and bass guitar.

I play in a band with my roommate and our friend who lives downstairs. We aren't very good, but we sure are loud and noisy.

Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 28 November 2003 08:31 (twenty years ago) link

Really excited by how these turned out. I've bought 8k+ CDs by other people in my life, so somehow it just feels right to have one with my name on it.

I'd say it's minimalist, contemplative, melancholic, a little haunted:

https://ianmanire.bandcamp.com/album/improvisations

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsQCa1NWIAw65eF?format=jpg&name=large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsQCa1IWYAEii-H?format=jpg&name=large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsQCa1HWIBEEGlT?format=jpg&name=large

Soundslike, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 00:25 (one year ago) link

really lovely stuff! i've only started listening

it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 00:41 (one year ago) link

those are lovely Ian/soundslike, I'll visit bandcamp and check out.

some here are well aware that I've got a 'band' called Carta, we've released 4 or 5 albums if you count the remix release which is here: https://carta.bandcamp.com/album/the-sand-collectors-dream-remixed

Attempting to do a new album, it's been exceptionally difficult, between needing to find a new drummer (we did and she is excellent) and time to actually practice (difficult as at least three of us are dealing with extremely ill parents).

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 05:25 (one year ago) link

Thank you!

Did a test listen and thank god no glitches or anything--for me it was anxiety-inducing to commit things to a glass master heh.

Really digging Carta, AKM. Picked up 'An Index of Birds'--reminds me of The Sonora Pine so far, one of my favorites.

Soundslike, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link

soundslike I am really enjoying your pieces. I wanted to buy the CDs but they are $6 with $26 shipping to Australia - I know the US Postal Service has jacked everything up but wow. Any reason the digital costs twice the physical? I wondered if there was a pricing error or if you want the donation amount for the CD to be entirely up to the buyer.

assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 03:16 (one year ago) link

Thank you for checking them out!

Yeesh, yes, US Republicans have nearly done in the US postal service. I couldn't believe the (remarkably convoluted) rate chart (here: https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/Notice123.htm#_c346 and here: https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/Notice123.htm#_c419).

It looks like to Australia might be more like $17.30 + a special evnelope they made me buy (sent one to Japan today and had to buy that). If will try to break down the international rates by country more specifically, so it can more accurately reflect the cost--I think I just looked at shipping to the UK, which seemed the most likely, and for some reason is more than to Australia and Japan, despite being a fraction of the distance haha. That price (around $18 US) is still absurd, I'm so sorry... There are a couple friends in Australia I'd want to send them to, maybe I should send several to one person, and tjey could then ship domestically at a more reasonable rate...

I put the digital at $12 just to make it $1 more than the CD + shipping within the US, as I'd like to actually get rid of the 300 CDs I made haha. But if you could settle for digital-only, all the albums/EP compiled on the CDs are "name your price," individually...

Sorry again for all the complication!

Soundslike, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 05:33 (one year ago) link

No problem at all, I actually enjoy paying for music and aside from the beauty of your design there, I feel better about digital delivery anyway. I only raised the pricing issue in case it was an error you needed to know about. Congratulations!

assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 06:44 (one year ago) link

Really appreciate that--was trying to make an attractive artifact, without driving myself insane thinking it had to be my one perfect graphic design statement--just wanted to keep it simple.

If all-digital works best, have at them, and no shame in paying $0--I'm not a professional musician, it's just a labor of love.

Soundslike, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 23:04 (one year ago) link

five months pass...

Made a new album:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5NCSmhXYAAdiwT?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5NCT3fWMAAsM6G?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

https://ianmanire.bandcamp.com/album/evensong

Dark, thick, slightly unsettled ambient/drone but hopefully the emotion put into it comes across.

Feel free to grab it for a name-your-price of zero

Soundslike, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 03:28 (seven months ago) link

two weeks pass...

I'm making a CD version of the album I released digitally a few weeks ago (previous post), with the addition of a cover of Low's "Laser Beam," and want to give it a new cover.

This is the music: https://ianmanire.bandcamp.com/album/evensong

I've narrowed down to these two options:

Option A: conveys reverberance, unease, mystery of the music. "Cooler," more graphical

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6uTO4cW8AAqe93?format=jpg&name=large

Option B: captures organic vs inorganic, beauty in decay, slightly chaotic quality of the music. "Warmer," more abstract.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6uTQrcWsAAFFH9?format=jpg&name=large

For reference, rear cover and inside cover:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6uTiadWkAAcHkc?format=jpg&name=large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6uTZqWWIAAkqd5?format=jpg&name=large

Any thoughts?

Soundslike, Saturday, 23 September 2023 16:45 (six months ago) link

Yeah, Option B seems the better choice. The shift in mood between Option A and rear cover is jarring and they seem to work against each other.

sawdust lagoon, Saturday, 23 September 2023 23:35 (six months ago) link

Thank you!

Yeah, much as I like the under-the-bridge album, I think it's ultimately too clean and a gular for this music, which is more breathing and messy.

Soundslike, Saturday, 23 September 2023 23:47 (six months ago) link


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