Project Soundwave accepted our proposal for their Green Sound Festival next summer! It won't be the exact show format presented in the proposal, but we will be playing at the Lab in SF together with a lineup of great experimental artists that Project Soundwave customarily features. Stay tuned from more details soon.
In addition to preparing new music and visuals for the festival, Shores have been working really hard as of late. We wrote yet another new song, working title "Comet Tail", and finalized most of the instrumentation for the song score for Jaakko's 16mm short. Our good friend Stephen Cavoretto from Dora Flood and Memories Mystic will be making a guest appearance on this song, playing trumpet to accompany Alex's trombone-doo (dij circular breathing through the trombone). Sean also has been practicing the saw more, which he is incorporating into both new songs. Meanwhile I've had my hands full learning my new gear, the APC 40, which is basically a mixing and control board for the Ableton live, which is really cool because it give me the ability to control and effect the tracks more real time. I've also been practicing mixing and EQ'ing. We've been recording all our practices this month as a way to explore the evolution of new material and develop more of a structure in how we perform their material. Mixing all the tracks afterwards has enabled me to listen to all the individual parts more closely and play them for the guys as we communicate about where we want to take the songs. All of this is translating into a more cohering aesthetic for our sound overall, which is great experience and satisfying artistically, though at the same time all the work is wearing me out! That's alright, sleep when dead as they say. A much needed vacation coming up in December before the real work begins next year, recording our album, preparing for the Project Sound>wave Green Sound Festival, and starting to play shows more regularly. fun fun...
Monday, November 30, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Film score and music video
Our good friend Jaakko Vilpponen, a student at the SF Academy of Art, is making a 16mm music video for Shores! He came up with a basic story and collaborated with me on sets and props, and Shores are writing a new song called "Conver" to perform to his storyboard.
We'll be using The Undertakers' performance space in the Richmond, recyling some of the sets from their recent Haunted House and building a couple new ones to boot. We're in the process of rehearsing the song, and will be recording it in a couple weeks. Filming is this weekend and the storyline is mesmerizing.
The basic idea is that the main character, played by me is a kind of musical monster alien who's been commissioned by an unnamed protector to rescue four office workers from their drab mundane lives and use music to convert them also into monsters. A lot of friends and fellow artists are collaborating on the filming, sets, and projections; below are some shots of a couple of the sets, from photos of the Haunted House. Stay tuned soon for more on this exciting project!
We'll be using The Undertakers' performance space in the Richmond, recyling some of the sets from their recent Haunted House and building a couple new ones to boot. We're in the process of rehearsing the song, and will be recording it in a couple weeks. Filming is this weekend and the storyline is mesmerizing.
The basic idea is that the main character, played by me is a kind of musical monster alien who's been commissioned by an unnamed protector to rescue four office workers from their drab mundane lives and use music to convert them also into monsters. A lot of friends and fellow artists are collaborating on the filming, sets, and projections; below are some shots of a couple of the sets, from photos of the Haunted House. Stay tuned soon for more on this exciting project!
Monday, November 2, 2009
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