Author Archive
Table Tangle
Posted in Songs on October 15th, 2009 by James (contact)
‘S’clearly a bubblin’ twofer! Sockasock!
Padding Polly Frostbottom v.1
Posted in Songs on April 30th, 2009 by James (contact)
This really needs some work – it’s way too long at over 7 minutes, with two parts that don’t necessarily go so well together. I’m trying to decide whether to take it in a more or less accessible direction.
New Feed Address
Posted in Site Info on March 24th, 2009 by James (contact)
The RSS and podcast feed addresses have been moved to Feedburner, though the old addresses still work for now.
The new address is
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/brotherhoodoftheoctopus.
They Jets_v1
Posted in Songs on February 3rd, 2009 by James (contact)
Version one of song two of the RPM album.
I Harmonium_v1
Posted in Songs on February 3rd, 2009 by James (contact)
First version of the first song of the RPM album.
RPM Challenge Time
Posted in Songs on February 2nd, 2009 by James (contact)
I’m actually doing it this year – I’ll be posting updates to my profile page there, and will probably post the tracks as I work on them here, as well. Hopefully I’ll have an album of material by the end of the week, and can spend the rest of the month tweaking and finalizing the tracks. No real concept for the album, just going with whatever comes to me.
Corrugated Recliner
Posted in Songs on October 17th, 2008 by James (contact)
Uses a bit of an audio illusion and an acapella track of some random song from the 90’s that has “hardcore” in its title. Arpeggiators, some phasing patterns, 707 drum sounds.
Pagan Damiana
Posted in Songs on September 23rd, 2008 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.
Compass Forever
Posted in Songs on September 23rd, 2008 by James (contact)
A rattlesnake ridiculously trades baseball cards with a Eurasian spider.
Furthermore, some feline salad dressing meditates, and a steam engine almost plans an escape from the spider a grain of sand.
Waxing Gibbous
Posted in Songs on August 7th, 2008 by James (contact)
Teh epix. Snare type hits come from the sound of arcing electricity at the Boston Museum of Science’s Lightning Show.
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.
