Waxing Gibbous
Posted in Songs on August 7th, 2008 by James (contact)
Teh epix.
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Disband Pep
Posted in Songs on June 29th, 2008 by James (contact)
Started reading Handmade Electronic Music and got inspired to pull out the Telephone mic (like this). Proceeded to play doctor with my iMac and cel phone.
Bucket Birthday Box
Posted in Songs on June 14th, 2008 by James (contact)
Installed some Amplitube plugins to give them a shot, and I’m pretty impressed at how versatile they seem to be. I got inspired and developed the experiment a bit, using Ableton’s arpeggiator and scale plugins, and played the scale knob to make all the chord changes.
Rayscot Twaddler
Posted in Songs on June 14th, 2008 by James (contact)
This was done back in January but never posted as I couldn’t see a way to make much of a song out of it. I’d just listen to the whole thing looping forever. Here’s an attempt to make it change a little over time. The original inspiration (and some samples) for this one came from “Twilight in Turkey” a piece Raymond Scott composed for the Electronium, which is now owned my Mark Mothersbaugh.
Follyfield
Posted in Songs on June 14th, 2008 by James (contact)
Arranged field recordings made in New York and Boston with a beat. The recordings and this track were made last April; I wasn’t satisfied with the breakdown (or lack thereof) when the kids start making noise in the middle, so I’m finally just now posting it. The splashy sounds are from the fountain in front of the Brooklyn Museum, some sounds are from the Botanic Gardens next to it, and others are from the Museum of Science in Boston. Everything was recorded with a Zoom H-2.
Lister Biggins
Posted in Songs on June 7th, 2008 by James (contact)
Trying out the new Alesis io|26 interface and Behringer B-5 microphone, I made a few recordings tapping and drumming on a banjo, dobro, and various other things near the desk. Looped some to make the tones, stretched some out, and did a lot of timing correction with Live.
Caliph Bins
Posted in Painting/Drawing, Songs on June 4th, 2007 by James (contact) 
Holy crap, I made something. It’s like Pan Sonic scored the theme to a kids’ show. Or something.
More Learning Zbrush
Posted in 3D on April 10th, 2007 by James (contact)
facepreview
Originally uploaded by thegibbon.
Kind of amazing how quickly you can get something like this going - creepy deathmaks in mass-production!
And More Learning Maya
Posted in 3D on April 10th, 2007 by James (contact)
Originally uploaded by thegibbon.
One of the first tutorials I did, the lighting came out pretty dark so I had to blow it out a bit afterward to get all the detail to show.
More Learning Maya
Posted in 3D on April 10th, 2007 by James (contact)
Originally uploaded by thegibbon.
Another render from one of the Maya tutorials I’ve done, personalized a little bit, but mostly just following instructions to get comfortable with the app. Using HDR for lighting, which makes it look all super.
Learning Maya
Posted in 3D on April 10th, 2007 by James (contact)
Originally uploaded by thegibbon.
A render from one of the Maya tutorials I’ve done, personalized a little bit, but mostly just following instructions to get comfortable with the app.
Learning Zbrush
Posted in 3D on April 10th, 2007 by James (contact)
Originally uploaded by thegibbon.
Posting way too little lately, mostly because I’ve been working a lot more on learning Maya and Zbrush. This is an example of a fine mess I’ve made of a face in Zbrush.
The Gramelon
Posted in Songs on March 27th, 2007 by James (contact)
A submitted christian man celebrated the tee, oversized canvas.
Wiretap Cabaret
Posted in Songs on March 22nd, 2007 by James (contact) 
In 2000, she successfully sued them after they ran a piece about her relationship with the house, and she gets treated in a bad way. We don’t watch Big Brother here and we wouldn’t know much about it if it was not for the controversy this incident has created.
Your Caulk Is Super
Posted in Songs on March 18th, 2007 by James (contact)
The first time I laid my hands upon it, I knew it had to be mine.
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Rejuvenate Disorder
Posted in Songs on March 18th, 2007 by James (contact)
Neon lights, Nobel Prize. When a mirror speaks, the reflection lies.
Loom Banks (Poisonous and Evil Rubbish)
Posted in Songs on March 18th, 2007 by James (contact)
While promised he’d make the team, the certainty of his position remained as yet up in the air.
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Opposite the Red House
Posted in Songs on March 9th, 2007 by James (contact)
The fire hydrant for a tuba player seldom brainwashes a slow cocker spaniel, because an ocean over a ball bearing steals pencils from a bartender toward the buzzard.
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Terminal Grotty
Posted in Songs on March 8th, 2007 by James (contact)
Although he had no way of telling for sure, he thought he was out longer this second time. That was the lesson of the dream which was really a memory.
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Popamixo
Posted in Songs on February 25th, 2007 by James (contact)
Just rediscovered this half-hour mashup mix I did in 2001 in a car on the way to play some Bonk festival thing with Tim. It was a couple days after he and I decided to start cutting up pop songs and use Live to mix them (I think it was version 3 then). There’s a picture floating around somewhere with us in our rubber suits and chimp masks at the New College Halloween party that year.
It still sounds pretty good, though it’s kind of hard to listen to “Get Your Freak On” these days, and there are a few obnoxiously stretched moments, but overall still a crowd pleaser.
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