I needed to do a little housekeeping on mah banks before some upcoming performances, so I strapped a little gimbal camera to my chest and talked my way through it. Come for the rambling, stay for the Clark Kent drinking game.
In a fit of personal nostalgia, I’ve been looking back at previous posts, journals, and spreadsheets recently. One pattern that has emerged: once every year in the early summer, I make major changes to my studio in an attempt to fix things that have been driving me crazy.
Last weekend, Greg and I made some completely unplanned…err, improvised ambient music at my house. He played for several hours during the party, and I joined in a bit. The release is the stuff we played together. You can listen and download the audio for free if you’re into that kind of thing. It was … Read more
It all started with party planning. I decided to have a summer grillin’ bash, which is obviously a good idea in the first place. Of course, I invited Greg Wilder, and he immediately said, “what if I played ambient music the whole time?” Thus, the Ambient Grill was born. Or, the concept was born. The … Read more
Like most of the songs on IX, “My Softest Side” questions how to relationship. How honest should we be with each other? How much do we, and how much should we know about the person on the other side? Are we really better together?
I’ve heard people talk about how a recording can come out fully formed, but I’ve rarely experienced it myself. The album version of the song Enough’s Enough, though, just kind of happened one day.
How do you name a musical project without vocals? With a little help from Adam Curtis, of course! Here’s how we did it for Doctor Body’s “Live from the Orgone Accumulator.”