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I’m at the Third Coast International Audio Festival in Chicago.
Come track me down and say “hi!”
Also, please take a listen to my experimental submission to the Book Odds ShortDocs challenge and tell me what you think.
El Pajaro Volador (The Flying Bird)
I composed all the music in this piece using samples provided by the band, The Books, manipulated in various ways along with other sounds from my interview tape. My goal was to try to help augment the excitement and enthusiasm that Rosalia Roio, my interviewee, expresses as she plays her instrument. I also wanted the music to creep into the interview bit by bit, eventually overtaking the dialogue. (I’m not sure how well this worked, in retrospect.)
I added a lot of textural layers and sonic gestures that are difficult to hear in my final “radio” mix. So for anyone who’s interested, here’s a special “music only” version:
The Onion Sports Network: Performance-Enhancing Genie Use
Baseball Superstar Accused of Performance-Enhancing Genie Use
Here’s the most recent video I mixed for The Onion.
My first video for The Onion!
You may have noticed that I’ve included The Onion News Network on my “I’ve Worked With” list there on the right side of the page. My job is basically to clean up the audio and make all the edits unnoticeable. (Video editors usually edit for visual coherence first and audio second, which means there are occasional irregularities in the sound that need to be fixed–and that’s what I do.) So if you watch this and don’t notice anything out of the ordinary, then I did my job well!
I’ll have some more videos from them coming up soon, this time with some more creative sound design. In those cases, I’m also doing the audio equivalent of green-screening; inserting their characters into an artificial sound environment I’ve created.
New Live Poll Allows Pundits To Pander To Viewers In Real Time
I haven’t posted much bike-related content lately, but yesterday my buddy and erstwhile bandmate, Joel, brought this series of videos to my attention. Appropriately, they combine a bunch of my interests: bikes, experimental music, and Frank Zappa!
I’m struck by how much Zappa, in his clean-shaven youth and skinny tie, could easily be a modern-day hipster. Something about his unshakable sincerity also reminds me of an composer friend of mine from college—Dan Futura, are you out there?
I also think it’s interesting how everybody on TV or the radio during that era seems to have kind of casual, polished swagger in their voice. I can’t quite put my finger on what it is…
And I love how he plugs his record at the end!
Allen: Is there anything you’d like to say in closing?
Zappa: Yes, I would… Next week this record is being released called called “How’s Your Bird?” … Go out and buy it. It’s wonderful. It has everything but a bicycle.