this was re-recorded significantly earlier, but left to sit. i updated it over the christmas holidays, re-recording some sections and adding samples.
the star wars samples have actually been removed. that required a bit of splicing, but it's the only actual editing on the track.
original version:
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/viewless-2
initially, it was a song about being young and not listened to. as i grew up, i realized this is a general condition of society that is not limited to young people. so, i've generalized it here to reflect the illusion of what we call democracy.
recorded in december, 1998. edited on nov 19, 2013.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/teenage-jesus-original-1999-cd-mix
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
anticipation (original album mix)
this was constructed as a bridge between tracks 16 and 18, which are conceptually linked. it samples the initial demo tape recording and adds some noisy sequencing.
recorded in december, 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/teenage-jesus-original-1999-cd-mix
recorded in december, 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/teenage-jesus-original-1999-cd-mix
circus (original discarded outtake)
i spent the entire fall with this, only taking a break to do the offspring cover. i eventually got really frustrated by my inability to get the tone i wanted, put it aside, then went back to it, then gave up altogether. it might be the first example of me getting lost in overproduction, and in that sense it's sort of important.
recorded in november, 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/circus-orginal-1998-outtake
recorded in november, 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/circus-orginal-1998-outtake
circus (original album mix)
i had spent the last three months frustrated by my inability to get the tone i wanted for this. often when i ran into that problem, putting it down for a few days and approaching it fresh solved it, but that wasn't working.
there was a power outage that knocked my computer out as i was running a part of the track through a transform. the track - and all the digital additions i had added to it - were largely destroyed. what was left was this completely corrupted wave file.
i've never been a religious person (obviously), and i don't want to say i took at as a sign or something. yet, i let chance assert itself; the corrupted wave file became the final version of the track, and i moved on to the next thing.
the closest thing to a completed version of the actual track is here:
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/circus
recorded in november, 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/circus-original-album-mix
there was a power outage that knocked my computer out as i was running a part of the track through a transform. the track - and all the digital additions i had added to it - were largely destroyed. what was left was this completely corrupted wave file.
i've never been a religious person (obviously), and i don't want to say i took at as a sign or something. yet, i let chance assert itself; the corrupted wave file became the final version of the track, and i moved on to the next thing.
the closest thing to a completed version of the actual track is here:
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/circus
recorded in november, 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/circus-original-album-mix
circus (zoo mix)
i was playing around with some guitar ambience stemming from a track i was working on (circus). i had bigger plans for this that would eventually be realized with {e}.
recorded in november, 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/circus-zoo-mix
recorded in november, 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/circus-zoo-mix
Monday, November 18, 2013
idiotic (original discarded mix promoted to album mix)
when i re-recorded this, i created two versions. the first is an instrumental version with bad panning, the second is a vocal version with dumb samples designed, primarily, to mimic a skinny puppy song, rivers.
i guess i'm moving to riverz end, here. the samples make the track unlistenable. there were continuity reasons why i went with the sample version the first time around, but it was against my better judgement, even then. i should have followed my gut.
(meaning, i've placed the non-sample version where the sample version originally was and kicked the sample version out to inrijected)
recorded in aug, 1998. edited on nov 18, 2013.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/the-harsh-truth-is-that-only-idiots-wish-for-happiness-v2
i guess i'm moving to riverz end, here. the samples make the track unlistenable. there were continuity reasons why i went with the sample version the first time around, but it was against my better judgement, even then. i should have followed my gut.
(meaning, i've placed the non-sample version where the sample version originally was and kicked the sample version out to inrijected)
recorded in aug, 1998. edited on nov 18, 2013.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/the-harsh-truth-is-that-only-idiots-wish-for-happiness-v2
dirty magic (remix/cover for inrimake)
somebody on their mailing list was putting together an offspring cover disc. this is half-serious and half tongue-in-cheek - as the band was at the time. while the reaction on the mailing list was polarized, the truth is that it's not outside of the realm of imagination to think they could have released this on smash or ixnay as an 'intermission' or something. well, minus the noise aspect, i guess.
keep in mind that this was just before 'pretty fly' was released (this was oct, that was nov), which had a large effect on the band's fan base. not to say that the offspring were an underground punk band in 1998 or anything, but they had yet to really hit that crossover audience. they were a popular punk band, rather than a punk-influenced pop band.
personally, i didn't like 'americana'. at all.
what this, here, is, is a cover of a track on their second record, ignition, which was released in 1992. even there, it stood out as a sort of a pop/rock song that wouldn't have been out of place on a police record. that's kind of why i went with it. in fact, the offspring have revisited this track themselves on multiple occasions, although i can't cite precise track names.
i think it works on a post-punk level.
recorded in september, 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/dirty-magic
keep in mind that this was just before 'pretty fly' was released (this was oct, that was nov), which had a large effect on the band's fan base. not to say that the offspring were an underground punk band in 1998 or anything, but they had yet to really hit that crossover audience. they were a popular punk band, rather than a punk-influenced pop band.
personally, i didn't like 'americana'. at all.
what this, here, is, is a cover of a track on their second record, ignition, which was released in 1992. even there, it stood out as a sort of a pop/rock song that wouldn't have been out of place on a police record. that's kind of why i went with it. in fact, the offspring have revisited this track themselves on multiple occasions, although i can't cite precise track names.
i think it works on a post-punk level.
recorded in september, 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/dirty-magic
stupid (original album mix)
this was initially an anti-tobacco song, here converted into an anti-tobacco-and-tongue-in-cheek-pro-pot song by loading it with silly samples. there's a completely instrumental version of this i'm putting on inrijected that, in hindsight, should have been the released version.
the initial write-up stands:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/stupid
even at the time, i preferred this instrumental version (which also has an extended ending) and don't remember the logic behind including the sample/vocal version. i think i may have honestly made an error in construction and then never fixed it.
recorded in aug, 1998. edited on nov 18, 2013.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/stupid-2
the initial write-up stands:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/stupid
even at the time, i preferred this instrumental version (which also has an extended ending) and don't remember the logic behind including the sample/vocal version. i think i may have honestly made an error in construction and then never fixed it.
recorded in aug, 1998. edited on nov 18, 2013.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/stupid-2
so, i finish doing the dishes after making some scrambled eggs and i look down in the sink and see a little worm type of thing squiggling around.
i'm aware of the tremendous diversity that exists amongst worm species, which is why i'm curious to know what the fuck. the thing is that i've never seen this before, anywhere. harmless worm i should not be concerned about? parasite i should be extremely concerned about?
it was small, but far from tiny. about 2 or 3 cms long. definitely a worm - too thin to be a maggot. it did not change it's shape in response to stimuli (in this case a knife that was trying to kill it). nor was the knife successful in splicing it. it didn't seem to have a head, so i don't think it was a snake (and therefore a vertebrate that would be hard to chop in half). i didn't really want to let it stick around long enough to find out. i transported it to the toilet on the knife and flushed. it seemed to still be alive as it disappeared.
i spent a little time on google, and "sink worms" are actually a real thing, but they're generally described as black and extremely small. none of the pictures at all describe what i saw.
if i had to guess, it struck me as a parasite. but a parasite of what? the only thing in the sink was a green pepper that was washed and chopped, which is a process that makes it hard for parasites to come out undetected. i haven't brought any raw meat in here and probably never will.
has anybody else ever seen a feisty little worm in their sink?
i think i can safely deduce that whatever it was did not originate inside of me in any way. i didn't shit in the sink. honest.
nor did i cough in the sink. there's just no way...
...so, i'm slowly coming to the conclusion that it's not likely to have been parasitic. parasites have lots of different life cycles, but none of them land one hanging out in my sink.
i'd still like to *know* though.
bottom line is i think i should bleach my sink. can't see where else it may have come from. the green pepper thing is just...
i mean, you slice a pepper in half. you run it under the water and play with it in your hands. you take the seeds out. i surely would have seen something.
i suppose it's not impossible that i hallucinated it. i've been thinking about parasites recently. see post about smoking.
i'm trying to convince myself that it was the larval stage of a bug i see around, but i can't find anything that fits.
and i haven't seen any bugs around either, lately, for that matter. i think i kicked the roaches out by patching a few holes and leaving the lights on, and that chased the centipedes away. well, after they ate all the spiders, i guess.
i'm aware of the tremendous diversity that exists amongst worm species, which is why i'm curious to know what the fuck. the thing is that i've never seen this before, anywhere. harmless worm i should not be concerned about? parasite i should be extremely concerned about?
it was small, but far from tiny. about 2 or 3 cms long. definitely a worm - too thin to be a maggot. it did not change it's shape in response to stimuli (in this case a knife that was trying to kill it). nor was the knife successful in splicing it. it didn't seem to have a head, so i don't think it was a snake (and therefore a vertebrate that would be hard to chop in half). i didn't really want to let it stick around long enough to find out. i transported it to the toilet on the knife and flushed. it seemed to still be alive as it disappeared.
i spent a little time on google, and "sink worms" are actually a real thing, but they're generally described as black and extremely small. none of the pictures at all describe what i saw.
if i had to guess, it struck me as a parasite. but a parasite of what? the only thing in the sink was a green pepper that was washed and chopped, which is a process that makes it hard for parasites to come out undetected. i haven't brought any raw meat in here and probably never will.
has anybody else ever seen a feisty little worm in their sink?
i think i can safely deduce that whatever it was did not originate inside of me in any way. i didn't shit in the sink. honest.
nor did i cough in the sink. there's just no way...
...so, i'm slowly coming to the conclusion that it's not likely to have been parasitic. parasites have lots of different life cycles, but none of them land one hanging out in my sink.
i'd still like to *know* though.
bottom line is i think i should bleach my sink. can't see where else it may have come from. the green pepper thing is just...
i mean, you slice a pepper in half. you run it under the water and play with it in your hands. you take the seeds out. i surely would have seen something.
i suppose it's not impossible that i hallucinated it. i've been thinking about parasites recently. see post about smoking.
i'm trying to convince myself that it was the larval stage of a bug i see around, but i can't find anything that fits.
and i haven't seen any bugs around either, lately, for that matter. i think i kicked the roaches out by patching a few holes and leaving the lights on, and that chased the centipedes away. well, after they ate all the spiders, i guess.
Saturday, November 16, 2013
got your mail...
From: Jessica Murray <death.to.koalas@gmail.com>
To: grandmother’s email address
things are ok here. glad to hear things are better with leo.
my fancy, high end headphones broke but they're easy to fix (the cord is replaceable), so i should be able to send a check out on the first of december for them.
i kind of forgot about the mail. i've updated the address at the banks and odsp, so there shouldn't be any more bank stuff coming. the student loan people are going to want me to send them a form and update the address. i should update my address at carleton, too, as well as with cra. thanks.
i'm going to go with an internet phone that will be very cheap, but the number is just for local calls. really, i just need the phone so that i can get documents to cross the border with. otherwise, i wouldn't bother.
i've been working on uploading a lot of music i wrote in the 90s, and getting back to a website i've been working on. the goal is to get that done before the new year, then finish the projects i've left half done. i'm going to start looking for something part-time in the spring, as i'm going to be running up against an odsp review in the fall that i'm not certain will be renewed.
everything i've been doing is accessible from here:
http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/
i'm spending all my time alone, but i think i've needed the space, and i think i'm going to need a bit more.
i'll try to get that stuff cleared up on monday.
j
To: grandmother’s email address
things are ok here. glad to hear things are better with leo.
my fancy, high end headphones broke but they're easy to fix (the cord is replaceable), so i should be able to send a check out on the first of december for them.
i kind of forgot about the mail. i've updated the address at the banks and odsp, so there shouldn't be any more bank stuff coming. the student loan people are going to want me to send them a form and update the address. i should update my address at carleton, too, as well as with cra. thanks.
i'm going to go with an internet phone that will be very cheap, but the number is just for local calls. really, i just need the phone so that i can get documents to cross the border with. otherwise, i wouldn't bother.
i've been working on uploading a lot of music i wrote in the 90s, and getting back to a website i've been working on. the goal is to get that done before the new year, then finish the projects i've left half done. i'm going to start looking for something part-time in the spring, as i'm going to be running up against an odsp review in the fall that i'm not certain will be renewed.
everything i've been doing is accessible from here:
http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/
i'm spending all my time alone, but i think i've needed the space, and i think i'm going to need a bit more.
i'll try to get that stuff cleared up on monday.
j
publishing eat my fuck (inri016)
this is something i did between inri demos. i needed a break from structured writing. just wanted to make some noise...
i suppose this is the biggest sample collage of them all, but it's best not to take it too seriously. the idea here eventually morphed into a project called "fuel true anarchy in the americas" (jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/ftaa), a play on the ftaa trade agreement, which itself got toned down in scope.
there's everything from science docs to hitler in here. it's meant to be a passive trip through real and imaginary time that is experienced with the aid of psychedelic drugs, rather than any kind of political statement. it's quite consciously absurd, often juxtaposing ironic statements with their contradictions.
the core of the ambience was produced by a program called sound raider. i then took the sound it created and shaped it by adding in vocal samples, looping certain parts, running things through effects, sequencing the noise into a more melodic shape, etc. it's consequently a sort of a collaboration between myself and the machine, rather than the work of the machine itself.
no sane person could really listen to this passively. you basically *need* drugs to get anything out of this at all.
...and i think i'm probably the only person that ever experienced it properly. hey, it's never too late...
created in the summer of 1998. released as a standalone ep on nov 16, 2013. as always, please use headphones.
this track also appears on my third record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inridiculous
i suppose this is the biggest sample collage of them all, but it's best not to take it too seriously. the idea here eventually morphed into a project called "fuel true anarchy in the americas" (jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/ftaa), a play on the ftaa trade agreement, which itself got toned down in scope.
there's everything from science docs to hitler in here. it's meant to be a passive trip through real and imaginary time that is experienced with the aid of psychedelic drugs, rather than any kind of political statement. it's quite consciously absurd, often juxtaposing ironic statements with their contradictions.
the core of the ambience was produced by a program called sound raider. i then took the sound it created and shaped it by adding in vocal samples, looping certain parts, running things through effects, sequencing the noise into a more melodic shape, etc. it's consequently a sort of a collaboration between myself and the machine, rather than the work of the machine itself.
no sane person could really listen to this passively. you basically *need* drugs to get anything out of this at all.
...and i think i'm probably the only person that ever experienced it properly. hey, it's never too late...
created in the summer of 1998. released as a standalone ep on nov 16, 2013. as always, please use headphones.
this track also appears on my third record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inridiculous
credits
j - sound raider, sampling, cool edit synthesis/sequencing, digital effects processing, digital wave editing, flute
gauntk9 - anti-social quip
released july 1, 1998
gauntk9 - anti-social quip
released july 1, 1998
ignorance is bliss (cynicide mix)
this was never meant to be recorded like this, only played live, usually drunk, but a friend of mine talked me into recording it for inclusion in a radio rock project we were hatching up. well, he was hatching up. i didn't really have much of an artistic investment in it, i just agreed to play bass, because my friend needed a bassist more than any other reason. he wanted this to be a "hidden song". i obliged.
however, he was a little taken aback by the result. he wanted it to be twangy and country, which indicated a misunderstanding of the content. it's comical on a surreal level, but it's not a cheap comedy skit. his ideas would have devalued it and that sort of pissed me off; my refusal to redo it pissed him off. this was part of the reason that the project never went anywhere, except to spark rabit iz wolf:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/rabit-iz-wolf
recorded in the spring of 2001.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/ignorance-is-bliss-cynicide-mix
however, he was a little taken aback by the result. he wanted it to be twangy and country, which indicated a misunderstanding of the content. it's comical on a surreal level, but it's not a cheap comedy skit. his ideas would have devalued it and that sort of pissed me off; my refusal to redo it pissed him off. this was part of the reason that the project never went anywhere, except to spark rabit iz wolf:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/rabit-iz-wolf
recorded in the spring of 2001.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/ignorance-is-bliss-cynicide-mix
hexonxonx (remix/cover for inrimake)
i put together a skinny puppy tribute disc over the summer of 1998 called 'the souls that create'. this was my contribution to that disc. the original version is found on skinny puppy's 1989 record 'rabies', which is better known as 'the one that al jourgenson fuckered up'.
it's based on a combination of reconstruction and sampling, with the vocals performed by a text-to-speech program.
for those curious, the walk/ogre version of dig it with the text-to-speech vocals was released a few weeks after this, and it's hard to think i had nothing to do with that.
recorded in july, 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/hexonxonx
it's based on a combination of reconstruction and sampling, with the vocals performed by a text-to-speech program.
for those curious, the walk/ogre version of dig it with the text-to-speech vocals was released a few weeks after this, and it's hard to think i had nothing to do with that.
recorded in july, 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/hexonxonx
eat my fuck (original album mix)
this is something i did between inri demos. i needed a break from structured writing. just wanted to make some noise...
i suppose this is the biggest sample collage of them all, but it's best not to take it too seriously. the idea here eventually morphed into a project called "fuel true anarchy in the americas" (jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/ftaa), a play on the ftaa trade agreement, which itself got toned down in scope.
there's everything from science docs to hitler in here. it's meant to be a passive trip through real and imaginary time that is experienced with the aid of psychedelic drugs, rather than any kind of political statement. it's quite consciously absurd, often juxtaposing ironic statements with their contradictions.
the core of the ambience was produced by a program called sound raider. i then took the sound it created and shaped it by adding in vocal samples, looping certain parts, running things through effects, sequencing the noise into a more melodic shape, etc. it's consequently a sort of a collaboration between myself and the machine, rather than the work of the machine itself.
no sane person could really listen to this passively. you basically *need* drugs to get anything out of this at all.
...and i think i'm probably the only person that ever experienced it properly. hey, it's never too late...
recorded in june, 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/eat-my-fuck-2
i suppose this is the biggest sample collage of them all, but it's best not to take it too seriously. the idea here eventually morphed into a project called "fuel true anarchy in the americas" (jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/ftaa), a play on the ftaa trade agreement, which itself got toned down in scope.
there's everything from science docs to hitler in here. it's meant to be a passive trip through real and imaginary time that is experienced with the aid of psychedelic drugs, rather than any kind of political statement. it's quite consciously absurd, often juxtaposing ironic statements with their contradictions.
the core of the ambience was produced by a program called sound raider. i then took the sound it created and shaped it by adding in vocal samples, looping certain parts, running things through effects, sequencing the noise into a more melodic shape, etc. it's consequently a sort of a collaboration between myself and the machine, rather than the work of the machine itself.
no sane person could really listen to this passively. you basically *need* drugs to get anything out of this at all.
...and i think i'm probably the only person that ever experienced it properly. hey, it's never too late...
recorded in june, 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/eat-my-fuck-2
wish (r2d2 mix)
i ran the track through a digital noise reduction and it came out sounding like this.
recorded in may, 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/wish-r2d2-mix
recorded in may, 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/wish-r2d2-mix
the phantom of the washing machine
glitchy phantom backing tracks, with basement sounds.
recorded in may, 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/the-phantom-of-the-washing-machine
recorded in may, 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/the-phantom-of-the-washing-machine
slipping away (remix/cover for inrimake)
this is a reconstruction of a stabbing westward song that was meant for inclusion on a fan-made compilation that i'm not sure ever came together or not. it received positive feedback on the mailing list. it's not very similar to the original; really, this is so dramatically different from the original that it's reasonable to say something like that it's "inspired by" the original rather than a remix or a cover. it does contain creatively reinterpreted samples of the original.
recorded in may, 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/slipping-away
recorded in may, 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/slipping-away
why (wtf mix)
this is a glitchy, instrumental remix of the track 'why' that i only vaguely recall putting together.
recorded in april, 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/why-wtf-mix
recorded in april, 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/why-wtf-mix
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