what is going on in your musical life

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whoa that is a fun cover! your band sounds great ivy. i have never played with a rock band that loud and it sounds like fun :)

There are a few things going on in my musical life, none of them esp exciting but definitely more hopeful than the last few years in there is something going on at all:

* my gongs being featured on my coworker's EP, we took promotional photos and video and it was fun

* band i've been jamming with for ***3 years*** finally has date to record in july -- finally!!

* I put together a playlist of my most recent solo recordings. They def could use a mastering (recorded in my basement) but if you like the Dusseldorf school of German rock music from the 70s, the album Moebius/Plank/Neumeier album Zero Set, weird solo synth music by women like Dorothea Raukes/Deutsche Wertarbeit DO I HAVE THE PLAYLIST FOR YOU. My faves are BB Music, Good One, and Explosive Sampler https://on.soundcloud.com/iX6z8KCsHDL7CJDn6

sorry the official title is Exploding Sampler

I have a new single up for Bandcamp Friday.

https://chrisirregardless.bandcamp.com/album/i-have-a-snake-thank-you-very-much

love to hear a la lechera update, especially when it involves gongs

meanwhile, our bassist finished the album art today and it's so good. (front and back cover are here.) we're doing a very very small run of vinyl, realizing a dream of mine even though it's so expensive and we'll prob never do it again

that's hot

By chance I came across instructions on Reddit earlier this week about how to recover data from broken HDD’s via HDDSuperClone. I had a go last night on my main production HDD that broke catastrophically (or so I thought) right in the middle of a few key projects in 2008, which I refused to bin just in case.

12 hours later and I’ve managed to rescue almost all of it. It’s like a time capsule, all my dubstep masters I thought were lost together, hundreds of ‘320 dubs’ I never burnt, flyers for all my gigs, clips of my tracks on Rinse / the Breezeblock etc.

Tbh it feels like a dream, I genuinely thought all this stuff was gone forever and now I have all the stems and Ableton projects etc to actually remaster and commission some modern remixes etc. Happy af right now :)

Amazing!

that rules so much willl!!!!

That is wonderful!!

Yeah, that's great!

excellent news!

Lol Ivy 5318008

my new band finally has a name and thus an Instagram page (I guess this is pretty much required now)

anyway, Field Hospitals with a brief snippet of a song

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5hHBAXvlda/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

that sounds freakin great!!!

Sweet! I've been shedding to record a tricky jazz version of the Zelda dungeon theme this weekend, with a band that does not have a good name.

thanks ivy and Jordan!

coming up with band names is the worst, we settled this by online poll with the 4 members, ranked choice balloting lol

I feel like it's maybe a decent name but at least not actively bad where it could hold you back

Omg — please don’t make me talk about the band name spreadsheet. We have a spreadsheet and we still can’t agree on something. I’d share my side of the story but it’s too long — the lack of decisiveness is making me lose faith :(

Nice UMS! That sounds great can’t wait to hear the whole thing

Its so hard to find a name that isn't taken these days unless it's something like Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her (which IIRC is taken).

I think if you can get just the name as an IG handle you're on the right track.

it really is the hardest thing, I do recommend setting up the poll thing where everyone picks their three favorites in order, it forces a decision

actually ivy, Faith/Void is such a great name I'm jealous

the path to a great band name is to steal it from a friend who is never going to form a band (his original idea was “faith void split” and i’m glad we ditched the “split”)

Yeah it’s a great band name

All I’m doing these days is “new set, new songs”. Was distracted for three weeks in rebuilding my rig to make it multi-channel. It was a productive dead end. Solved the problem and realized I didn’t like the results as much. Tore it up and went back to stereo

Interesting! I'm in the final stages of obsessive mixing for this drums-only record I'm working on (a collaboration with my main early drum teacher, which is a really nice thing). Getting to like "v14" for some tracks. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel though, just tweaking a few more tracks. I had a big breakthrough the other day when I remembered the existence of parallel compression/processing (exported five tracks of drum kit that I had processed to death down to one, brought it back in, took most of the processing off the original tracks, and blended the two).

Meanwhile I did this session, it was basically a sight-reading/first rehearsal/recording session deal. It had been a long time since I've been in an "everyone recording live" situation. I wish I had been able to play a little more freely, but after a couple takes you don't want to be the one who fucks it up when it's going ok. I only made one mistake that will haunt me the rest of my days on this one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaFC3kAXjKg

I only made one mistake that will haunt me the rest of my days on this one

real!!!! you sound fantastic tho

meanwhile i'm going through a very intense unwound phase so i've decided to learn a bunch of unwound songs on drums. discovering that my drumming goal specifically in my band is "play more like sara lund"

great goal ivy. i did not realize that i followed one of your bandmates on letterboxd (and previously on twitter/bluesky when i was on there)

sounds hot jordan

Hornado!!

Great drumming jordan

Thanks guys <3

The other tune on that session was an intricate arrangement of the Zelda dungeon theme, curious/apprehensive to hear how that came out

i really want to hear that!!!!

album has been distributed to stores/streaming services. first single out 5/1. so nervous i feel like my body's gonna turn inside out and also so happy omg

Congrats!

Congratulations!

Zelda, lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCM-YRSZFlw

I keep thinking of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_/_Void_Split