in the spirit of openness and honesty i will say that the universe will someday end
― typo hell #7: 3-5 of those thinking of want to say (Karl Malone), Friday, 1 October 2021 06:03 (two years ago) link
this art is formally normally known as PRINTS
come on
i was working overtime
― typo hell #7: 3-5 of those thinking of want to say (Karl Malone), Friday, 1 October 2021 06:17 (two years ago) link
GODDAMMIT
this art is formally known as PRINTS
*long shot of people walking around all normal like*
i am still angry that this awesome pun isn't trending but here are some prints
https://i.imgur.com/ddVwnPo.jpg
― typo hell #7: 3-5 of those thinking of want to say (Karl Malone), Friday, 1 October 2021 16:11 (two years ago) link
so, i got divorced and then moved to St Louis. i've been busy building my new studio, which is another way of saying "i've been building wall-easels on my living room wall so my dog doesn't lick the paint"
i'm starting up a small cassette label. i dub them all on my own. so yeah, it's that level of quality. at the same time, i sell them for as cheap as I can, and I get to make the art for it. this is for the first release (probably the only), which is a collab with me and C. Vadi. soft drive, four of horses, cover something like this:
https://i.imgur.com/xS0SZ7l.jpg
it's improvised synth but i swear it's good
― just staying (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 November 2021 04:30 (two years ago) link
That’s a lot of news! Cool painting. Everything ok?
― DJI, Friday, 19 November 2021 04:58 (two years ago) link
oof, just hanging in there tbh. this release is a point of pride for both me and c. vadi. shitty yeah, but we're going to put this out in the calendar year 2021 anyway, damn the torpedoes.
― just staying (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 November 2021 05:20 (two years ago) link
did anyone buy Modified Associates from the september sale? i need it. i NEED it. and would you like a tiny 4-track because i’ve been trying to offload mine since kind of forever, n.b. i have no idea if it still works it’s just been sitting around making me feel guilty for like a decade and needs a good home.
― cookie hat, esq. (cat), Friday, 19 November 2021 05:25 (two years ago) link
did anyone buy Modified Associates from the september sale?
that was a dismal sale :o, but someone did buy that one! a guy in STL actually, who I didn't know. I moved here a few weeks ago and drove it over to him. he was nice!
― just staying (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 November 2021 05:28 (two years ago) link
cool, if you could just tell me his address so i can drive across a few states to sneak in his house and get my painting?
sorry the sale was bad ;_; but at least your pup gets to be surrounded by art, many dogs are aesthetically deprived to a tragic degree
― cookie hat, esq. (cat), Friday, 19 November 2021 05:36 (two years ago) link
that's nice that you wanted it though! just knowing stuff like that helps keep me going. plus, i hope to always make the next thing my best thing, every time. i'm gonna do something similar with modified associates for next month (painting over a print of an earlier painting). i have 2 extra of chicken coop, the print from a couple months, so those will be edited very soon :D
― just staying (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 November 2021 05:51 (two years ago) link
i also bought 2 clocks for $11. they were supposed to be "silent", "non-ticking" clocks. incorrect! so i am painting over them and will sell them for major profit
― just staying (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 November 2021 05:55 (two years ago) link
that painting is gorgeous and fierce and vital, i wanna drink up its energy like an ocular vampire <3 thank you for creating such phenomena! the world goodness index bumps up a little with each beautiful* thing that you make/do.
* ‘beautiful’ isn’t exactly what i mean here, more like a genuine expression of one’s unique humanity, but without sounding so douchey/stilted/cliche? ionno, it’s late, my words have mostly drained away
and loud clocks are bad, i will not suffer a loud clock
update when more art!!!!!!!!!
― cookie hat, esq. (cat), Friday, 19 November 2021 06:16 (two years ago) link
thanks cat! that makes me feel really good :)
i am at my slowest time right now, just with the move and everything, but getting ready to turbo boost again, i hope
― just staying (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 November 2021 06:43 (two years ago) link
Karl pls come to CA and paint my horse. I mean do a portrait of him but you can also paint on him, I have paint for that and he doesn’t mind! I will pay you and also we have superior tacos here
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 19 November 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link
lol!
just painting a horse and eating tacos! that sounds fucking amazing
― just staying (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 November 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
in general i'm very bad about drawing or painting specific objects or things, particularly animals. but for some reason horses are ok! cats and dogs are impossible, horses are ok
― just staying (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 November 2021 16:58 (two years ago) link
could you would you paint a horse on a horse
― Evan, Friday, 19 November 2021 17:01 (two years ago) link
ztbd died on a monday morning. he was painting a horse on a horse and it kicked him
― just staying (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 November 2021 17:09 (two years ago) link
I love you cassette cover horse!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 19 November 2021 18:52 (two years ago) link
i will answer from the perspective of the horse, using the same cheerful voice i use for all god's beautiful creatures:
"TANX!"
― just staying (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 November 2021 19:05 (two years ago) link
this weekend I'm working on the other side of the j-card (4 song titles, a small amount of text)
I don't want to spoil it, but there are going to be...EVEN MORE HORSES!!
HORSES: *cheerful neighing*
― just staying (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 November 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
That's a good painting!
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 19 November 2021 19:50 (two years ago) link
mo horses mo better
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 19 November 2021 20:18 (two years ago) link
just a pencil drawing with some pastel chalk over the top, actually, but thanks! I put some fixative on there so it shouldn't smear in the long-term.
― just staying (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 November 2021 20:45 (two years ago) link
the amount of horse puns on the track list is just ridiculous. four horse puns. i only contributed to half of one of them. C. Vadi is just a horse pun fanatic.
― just staying (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 November 2021 20:46 (two years ago) link
Oh yeah looking at it now I can see it is obv a drawing not a painting. So I take it back!
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 20 November 2021 00:38 (two years ago) link
how might a curious listener find samples/examples of this horse pun synth improv?
― cookie hat, esq. (cat), Saturday, 20 November 2021 00:42 (two years ago) link
that's a very good question, cat! it'll be up on bandcamp in a couple weeks! i'm pretty sure we'll just make them all free to listen to (about 32 minutes in total), or digitally "own" for $5 up to $5B, (pay what you can model that is billionaire-inclusive), and then of course the EXCLUSIVE cassette version, which probably be $8.
me and c. vadi have a pretty similar setup and approach. this was all recorded in that brief window earlier this year where i had an amazing studio in chicago (i'm still paying rent on it through december, but now i'm in st louis). an art studio, i mean, not a music one. but it had plenty of space, so i set up this big table in the middle for me and c. v. to set up our gear and do headphone improvisations. on her side of the table she had a synth running through some pedals (gain, equalizer, etc). She also has a Lyra-8 Organismic synth that she used on a release earlier this year (https://cvadi.bandcamp.com/album/the-lyre). On my side of the table i had a Bass Station 2 and a 404A sampler running through gain, a carbon copy delay, and reverb.
i thought we immediately had very good musical chemistry. c.v. is a trained, excellent keyboard and piano player, among many other skills, and she's adept to the point of being able to quickly adjust to anything i might do, even if i go off on a new direction without warning. i've never had so many good improvs with someone else, so naturally.
we recorded about 8 hours of playing over 3 different sessions at the studio, this summer, and then she edited it down to what it is now. it was really nice to completely let her handle that process - not only the recording (all captured directly to Logic), but the mixing and editing, the deciding which parts of all that sound best together. i love doing that kind of music work as well, but it was very nice to just be able to do the music thing for a few hours and then return back to the painting and drawing and all that stuff. rather than sitting a computer, listening to many hours of recordings, selecting, deleting, listening to things on a loop a million times, getting lost in the DAW, etc
― just staying (Karl Malone), Saturday, 20 November 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
c vadi's gear:
Ibanez ts7TubescreamerTC electronics hall of fame Digitech JamMan Jhs lucky cat delay Korg poly 61 synthesizer Roland sh-2 synthesizer
she also has this awesome, mobile "synth in the woods" setup where she can play and record off the grid, on battery, all in a setup that fits in a backpack. i believe that this could be a million dollar idea
― just staying (Karl Malone), Saturday, 20 November 2021 18:50 (two years ago) link
we're also going to do a couple of "album release" shows, in late december/new years time - hopefully in 2 of KC/STL/CHI/MIL. those will be interesting and potentially terrifying for me because i haven't played music on stage in...15 years? 2006/7. and also they'll be improvisations, and our first performances in front of people. *gulp* but i'm very, very excited about it as well. we both have personal missions to release this thing in the year 2021, purposefully, like as a fuck you to this year. that year happened, but also this happened, that kind of thing.
― just staying (Karl Malone), Saturday, 20 November 2021 18:56 (two years ago) link
safe travels friend
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 20 November 2021 19:34 (two years ago) link
MY EARS ARE STOKED
that is all so, so cool. congratz and kick ass!
― cookie hat, esq. (cat), Saturday, 20 November 2021 21:57 (two years ago) link
thanks!
i have a better answer on this now. the release date will be Dec 3 but the bandcamp will go up sometime next week, with pre-order options for digital or cassette, and the first track streaming.
also we are now called softer drive, because there was already a softdrive.bandcamp and on spotify and it's not worth itlol
― just staying (Karl Malone), Saturday, 20 November 2021 22:33 (two years ago) link
lol @ showing up those soft drive chumps by being even softer \m/ “oh, you think you’re soft, huh? that’s cute. check this out”
― cookie hat, esq. (cat), Sunday, 21 November 2021 00:49 (two years ago) link
for a minute, medium drive was also in the mix, and i was preparing to check softest drive if necessary!!
― just staying (Karl Malone), Sunday, 21 November 2021 00:54 (two years ago) link
:D
https://i.imgur.com/7U3AEAD.png
https://i.imgur.com/9DfymZV.png
― just staying (Karl Malone), Monday, 22 November 2021 22:42 (two years ago) link
https://media2.giphy.com/media/GHc1i70ZAUBcA/giphy.gif
― cookie hat, esq. (cat), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 02:05 (two years ago) link
J-card
https://i.imgur.com/fQRWU2j.jpg
― just staying (Karl Malone), Sunday, 28 November 2021 04:00 (two years ago) link
🐎🐎🐎🐎!
― a swift, a shrike, a kite, a (cat), Sunday, 28 November 2021 05:05 (two years ago) link
ok, we finally have our bandcamp set up and ready to go! there is a preview track up on there now
https://softerdrive.bandcamp.com/
― just staying (Karl Malone), Sunday, 28 November 2021 23:40 (two years ago) link
bro!!!
― a swift, a shrike, a kite, a (cat), Monday, 29 November 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
that is some dreamy horsecore, i like it
― a swift, a shrike, a kite, a (cat), Monday, 29 November 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
lol thank you! i just told my musical partner that you said it was "dream horsecore", and she replied
HORSESCORE and seven dreams ago
― skull. kneel. kneel. kneel. kneel. (Karl Malone), Monday, 29 November 2021 18:17 (two years ago) link
she is the one that came up with 3 1/2 of our 4 horse puns, obviously
― skull. kneel. kneel. kneel. kneel. (Karl Malone), Monday, 29 November 2021 18:18 (two years ago) link
horse pun savant & musical badass, the makings of a superhero right there
― a swift, a shrike, a kite, a (cat), Monday, 29 November 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link
can the next release be the soundtrack to the movie based on her exploits please
― a swift, a shrike, a kite, a (cat), Monday, 29 November 2021 18:27 (two years ago) link
well i’m getting ahead of myself, shld probably let this one get released first. congratulations!!!!!!
― a swift, a shrike, a kite, a (cat), Monday, 29 November 2021 18:28 (two years ago) link
but for the follow up tho, i’m picturing a blade runner 2049 with cyborg horses
― a swift, a shrike, a kite, a (cat), Monday, 29 November 2021 18:37 (two years ago) link