yup. curve is still going, to my amazement. i was sure it was cooked...

i'm going to be driven to keep pushing over the month, but what i said in the post a few days ago is still absolutely true.

existence (soundblaster mix)

written in the fall of 2001. rendered, remastered and remixed in late september and early october, 2014. this render is from october 1, 2014

http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/soundblaster-mix-6


http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/existence


(bandcamp is being weird with me with the upload. they're identical. the single version is working; hopefully, the thru version will be up shortly.

that was actually the time consuming part. the next five vst mixes should be rapidly constructed. there will be one for voice, one arranged the way i had arranged it, one for stings, one that is a combination of those three and one that is sped up a little.)

i somehow lost my original render of this, which was spliced from two soundcards and put through some pre-amps, so it's not exactly as it was back in 2001, when i initially constructed it. it captures the idea, though.

there's a longer write up on the page.

this is the last midi-oriented piece in the archives for a little while - about six months.

15,000 views

the curve hasn't updated yet, but it's beat. significantly. enough that i plowed through something else, too - 15K hits.

ok, so i got the soundcard mix done, i think. i ended up sending the eight separate mixes out through cubase into one, so it's a bit thicker than i remembered, but that was what i was trying to do in layering them, anyways. i want a fresh set of ears to hear it, so i'm going to wait until the morning, but that will likely be up shortly after i awake.

it's probably going to be the only published soundblaster mix, due to time restraints. the other 4 full choir mixes will be vst-based, and then i'll post a sped up version, as well.

took off for a few hours to see cloud nothings in detroit

i caught cloud nothings in detroit tonight....

i'm actually not going to write much of a review. i've been listening to their newest record quite a lot this year, so i was very familiar with the material; it was nicely loud, harmonically dissonant, ironically obnoxious and just a little bit catchy, and that's what you're looking for with this. did i mention it was loud?

they closed with wasted days, which was the most obvious thing possible, but a nice head cave, nonetheless.

obviously, the stage was a little smaller...

http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/categories/shows/2014/09/30.html

...and, out of nowhere, i get a spike in the last two days of september.

i think i might have hit it after all. nice surprise after a pretty good cloud nothings show.

i'll find out in the afternoon.

it's going to be very close if i didn't.