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
mo horses mo better
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
wait no, CENTAURS
― a swift, a shrike, a kite, a (cat), Monday, 29 November 2021 18:52 (two years ago) link
cyborg centaurs, in case it wasn’t clear
― a swift, a shrike, a kite, a (cat), Monday, 29 November 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
oh IT WAS CLEAR
all i can say is we will have to see where the ____ puns lead us. but to me a centaur is an obvious next step from ____
― skull. kneel. kneel. kneel. kneel. (Karl Malone), Monday, 29 November 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
it's pronounced "Centorgs"
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 November 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
i think before we go any further with this, we need to think about the origin story of the centaurs. and i'm talking about a human having sex with a horse, the real deal, and how their relationship affected other humans and horses that knew them at the time
― skull. kneel. kneel. kneel. kneel. (Karl Malone), Monday, 29 November 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
zoophile mad scientist and her cybernetically augmented offspring, their dynasty controlling the grim near future with iron hooves. literal iron hooves!
― a swift, a shrike, a kite, a (cat), Monday, 29 November 2021 21:07 (two years ago) link
just checked, preview track still slaps
― a swift, a shrike, a kite, a (cat), Thursday, 2 December 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
thanks cat! you are very encouraging :)
― skull. kneel. kneel. kneel. kneel. (Karl Malone), Thursday, 2 December 2021 21:29 (two years ago) link
i calls ‘em like i sees ‘em, bub 🕶
― a swift, a shrike, a kite, a (cat), Thursday, 2 December 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link
i am hoping that we can sell 33 tapes. that's my breakeven point with cassette tape costs, and plus i want a good excuse to put out another release and do more recording with carrie.
carrie is a funny person, and would be amazing on ilx. i'm in a low-key long-term campaign to get her to join
https://twitter.com/TheGnarrator/status/1466511663151079424
― skull. kneel. kneel. kneel. kneel. (Karl Malone), Thursday, 2 December 2021 21:35 (two years ago) link
alright, the horse puns are out for real today! no more bullshit!
https://softerdrive.bandcamp.com/album/four-of-horses
― skull. kneel. kneel. kneel. kneel. (Karl Malone), Friday, 3 December 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
i saw your message cat, thank you so much! i hope you are ZONIN now
― skull. kneel. kneel. kneel. kneel. (Karl Malone), Friday, 3 December 2021 22:43 (two years ago) link
https://c.tenor.com/kuSoD0BPiMIAAAAC/meow-trance.gif
― nebulous remnant (cat), Saturday, 4 December 2021 01:09 (two years ago) link
i'm starting the first of 2 small sales on my instagram (@Zach_TBD, in a few minutes. the first will be 10 drawings, all pencil on paper, most on 9"x12", each $50
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Friday, 10 December 2021 22:54 (two years ago) link
first positive music review of my life i think?
I really hoped to have time to write about this album before the end of the year, but ran out of time (maybe in January!), but this Softer Drive (@TheGnarrator & @weinventyou) is excellent. I've been listening to it quite a bit the last couple weeks. https://t.co/7tfsJ0GWWa— Foxy Digitalis (@foxydigitalis) December 17, 2021
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Friday, 17 December 2021 01:26 (two years ago) link
Sometimes I try to put myself in a state,call it Loose Control, for now,where expressive results are bent into javelined roads,thin and slivering lines which get all covered up and forgotten under relentless waves of new stuff.
Imagine automatic writing but more visual,thin and slivering lines instead of language,the brush’s residuals replacing the text.
When I Loosely Control my hand starts to moveon its own, independently,thickened water sloshingly flyingup and around the edges of a bucketwhich is swirling in elliptical orbits,the inverse of my motions,the effects of my causes becominguntethered from their origins, and yet I know that I am part of it all.It is from me and yet it doesn’t see me.
A forgotten mark gets scattered up,reforms as a ladder and tipsin new directions,one of many landing strips,loud movement then stillness,a flood and then a covenant.
I make my bed and then I sleep on top of it.My heart beats uninterrupted.It makes me live so I listen,five liters of blood in a circuit,all sustained without a rhythm. I don’t understand but I trust that I will wake up safe.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link
safe at the end, whoops
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 19:45 (two years ago) link
or actually, i'll replace the last line with
I don’t understand but I still wake up.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 19:46 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/edNHfhP.jpg
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 19:52 (two years ago) link
fuck, i accidentally left in "thin and slivering line" twice. how embarrassing.
thin and slivering lines which get all covered uptemporary paths getting covered up
it's important to me OK
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/DR4ctnf.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/apQ6dlg.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/mfU6VaC.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ZFksfnt.jpg
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 19:56 (two years ago) link
Karl <3 if i weren't drowning in a bucket of shit right now i could maybe offer more substantial appreciation, but i can at least say that's a beautiful poem and your art is evolving fascinatingly
― not really genocide if you feel bad about it (cat), Tuesday, 21 December 2021 22:38 (two years ago) link
cat, the fact that you would say that even when you're in a bucket of shit says a lot. thank you <3
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 22 December 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
4 dayo:
https://i.imgur.com/JrtN1k4.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/3R4PYKq.jpg
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 26 December 2021 01:06 (two years ago) link
those are pretty great
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 26 December 2021 22:54 (two years ago) link