What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

I sang a couple of songs a capella at my uncle’s funeral service last month:

No Man Is An Island: https://on.soundcloud.com/Us4fgfWXwzKTutXv7

You’ll Never Walk Alone (the sound guy accidentally started the next song partway through, oops): https://on.soundcloud.com/5tP28awPx1AnA8m29

Some new stuff, feeling very happy with it.

https://themanitobanoreply.bandcamp.com/album/a-moment-of-the-false

Some new stuff, feeling very happy with it.

https://themanitobanoreply.bandcamp.com/album/a-moment-of-the-false

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I really like it, especially tracks 2 and 3. I love the way the distorted guitar bursts in in track 2, and the combination of low and high synth pads in the right and left channels on certain sections in track 3. (Did you not consider bringing back the higher pad for the ending? Maybe it wouldn't combine well with the guitar.). Also, the treatment of some of the drum sounds during rolls, where those sounds are very delicate, almost like pinpricks, very quiet but clear. Did you just high-pass-filter them, or is there something else that created that effect?

https://soundcloud.com/matthewmathieu/for-you

first time recording my voice in ~2 years

https://soundcloud.com/matthewmathieu/for-you🕸

first time recording my voice in ~2 years

That's a really wonderful song. Love the vocals and the endless shifting down. If you are interesting in my lowly feedback, I'd say that when the drums come in, it doesn't work as well as it should. Like, you can see on the waveform that it's going to happen and you expect to feel "Yes!" but it only feels "OK!" Also, an ending would be great. Could be a reiteration, but harder, or something new. Right now, feels like something big might happen and it only tapers out.

been doing a thing with some friends where we pull the track list of an old episode of 120 minutes and one guy writes all the songs down and then draws one out of a hat and we have to cover that song

i did blur's "girls & boys" as a beachy/latin disco instrumental

https://houseofsleep.bandcamp.com/track/girls-and-boys-blur-cover

ha! that sounds like so much fun.

I got a new synth & im not afraid to use it to make improvised gong jams and record them

https://on.soundcloud.com/CLrEdZ1XfMEcpvtN7

love both these tracks!

thanks!

love the improv track LL - what synth is that?

Korg minilogue — I’m loving it!!!
Thanks for listening!

i like everything everyone posts. i'm sorry i don't have much more to offer than that. i wish i knew more about theory and gear so i could have something more substantial to say.

i posted a bunch of other stuff on 77 recently so here's a couple other vault things. "setting #10" in particular is one i had high hopes for but i had no idea what to do with it, so here it is a couple years later with no context.

rcco.bandcamp.com

sorry, let me format that as a hyperlink: https://rcco.bandcamp.com/album/rose-creek-community-orchestra

I like Plum

thanks for listening!

hi bj.

thank you for sharing.☺

you're welcome!

Wanted to start making more music for myself after a bad working experience earlier this year. To try and purge that I made a kinda washy, expansive SOTL/Dead Texan style thing. The old me would have made it three times as long, but I find that brevity is often better when you're layering textures instead of changing chords.

https://nowherians.bandcamp.com/track/a-step-down-soon-no-joke

this is lovely

Thanks!

I've made a song featuring boot sounds of various devices https://archive.org/details/2023-ark/Boot+Sounds.mp3

I just did my annual Messiah recital https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWN3UztfxCE

Had some good & fun shows for my band's 30th anniversary: https://www.instagram.com/p/C09ju0tgMnd/

Technique-wise I very recently switched to using a back fulcrum (ring finger & pinky) and a lot of things started clicking in terms of speed and consistency. Promising developments!

wait what were you using before as the fulcrum?

also congrats on your anniversary!!

Thanks! I was using the thumb and pointer finger as the primary fulcrum with the other fingers more free to do finger control stuff, but it felt inconsistent and on my right (non-dominant) hand I was still having trouble with a lot of things. I had the revelation when I strapped on the snare to practice for these gigs (which I almost never do), when I started using the back fulcrum and found that I was getting the consistent rimshots and volume (while still being relaxed) that I was looking for.

There's a famous Tony Williams clinic where he talks about this, but it never quite made sense to me since it seemed like a rigid way of playing. But it seems to me you can use the back fulcrum (or a middle finger fulcrum, where it's sort of a triangle between the thumb + first finger + middle finger) and still have rebound. That's what I'm working on anyways. And almost immediately my stroke started to look & feel better, more integrated with the wrist movement, less to think about, more consistency across different surfaces.

It's hard to find drummers who teach this, but I also heard Nate Wood very briefly say in an interview that he switched to a ring/pinky finger fulcrum three years ago and that he wished he had done it a long time ago, that it's a better way to play drums. Everybody's hands & brains are different though.

I'm still trying to figure out how this works when playing the ride cymbal (ie switching to french grip and playing jazz patterns) though, if I move back to more of a pointer/middle finger fulcrum or can keep the same grip.

Btw I reserve the right to repudiate all of this in the future. :) Maybe this will be a blind alley, or a situational tool for certain kinds of playing.

Here's Nate Wood talking about it in depth with Mark Guiliana (who clearly does something completely different, which goes to show that there's no one way):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCAQkeqCs54

I was on the Cities And Memory podcast stream yesterday - doing what I would do if I could record inside the abandoned submarine pens at Kotor, Macedonia: https://audioboom.com/posts/8419423-kotor-bay

that's a cool idea for a podcast and your track sounds awesome

What budo said. I am listening my way through close to 500 of these recordings now. Yours was a highlight.

Re: what I was blathering on about above, I've already gravitated more towards using the middle finger as a primary fulcrum rather than the back fingers, there's more bounce and it's easier to go back and forth with the ride cymbal if I'm playing jazz. But either way has helped my wrist motion a lot, and gives a lot more control & power than relying on thumb & first finger and letting all the other fingers move with the stick. It's hard to explain but I'm still letting the stick move in the hand & rebound, and I'm working on more freely moving between the different fulcra for different situations.

i made this short instrumental alt tuning guitar piece i'm happy with. i tend to not have the patience to see a chord progression through but this one came together nicely. i feel like it could use a soft bed of noise underneath or something. suggestions welcome: https://on.soundcloud.com/Va2jV5iQ2rvZBDdn8

vault stuff. multi-part vaporpop suite. shoutout to js.

i love that!

@heez - way late but that's a lovely song would love to hear more

back on a very tenuous basis, the spectral REprojections compilation is bandcamp-only. overlapping with the philomath material quite often, we nicknamed it "beyond benton." if philomath represents the bustling center of the galaxy from which this music originated, the REprojections are the farthest edges of where you might end up; related by coincidence more than anything.

something tangible+based in reality about all this music is that it was recorded in late 19-summer 20, so right in the initial wave of covid/lockdown. not meant to be sad or depressing, just a statement of fact: it's what was coming out of my brain as the last semblance of any sanity slipped away. sure does sound nice sometimes, considering.

―BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIAL―

we're so excited to see you again, friend! you must have grown about three feet over summer break! great job, have a lasso! remember to ask if you need help with anything and don't forget to use your shelf marker! have fun!😃

hi. here's a previously shelved project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz4P9W_VUL0

idk, ya'll. mental health clinic that was supposed to get me housed is bawking left and right. "mid january" is the word now. i keep getting parking tickets for sleeping in my car. no one will advise me on safer places. my gofundme is still open and even a handful of $5 or $10 donations would help greatly. i was supposed to be housed back in october. my friend is trying to help navigate the hold-up and advocate in the meantime.

anyway, if you can or if you know anyone, please and thank you-
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-austin-become-stable-again

really loving this, no surprise! i wish i had more than $10 to donate, but that's what i can spare right now. stay safe <3

I’m singing Messiah again today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AczLXk4Ifas

https://soundcloud.com/matthewmathieu/inheritance-part-ii-domestic-labor-theory-of-value

first time ive recorded a song in like literal years, click here if you like full blown orchestras, 7/8 time signature, and little ditties about socioeconomic class