http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/index.htmlElectronic music outtakes and miscellaneous debris from A Drop In Silenceenjohn@twistedsun.netCopyright 2005 john carey2006-09-21T22:25:25-04:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:30:35 -0400a drop in silencesilence@twistedsun.netidm electronic music a drop in silence adis remixElectronic music outtakes and miscellaneous debris from a drop in silence.sit back and enjoy a few random sounds from electronic musicians a drop in silence. the podcast will be updated as often as we feel like which could be a lot or it could be a little but you can count on one thing. its going to be fun.john@twistedsun.netetcetera2006-09-21T22:25:25-04:00http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/f0d0b814bf4ff2d1e8ff148148a5df3b-45.html#unique-entry-id-45http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/f0d0b814bf4ff2d1e8ff148148a5df3b-45.html#unique-entry-id-45

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]]>a drop in silenceidm a drop in silence electronic musicYou scratch my back, I'll Scratch yoursMatt was messing about in Reaktor (I think) and recorded his tinkering. Maybe he will send along a description of the track for me to post along with the song should anyone be interested in whats going on. Anyone who has seen us live may recognize the sounds. Enjoy. john@twistedsun.netetcetera2006-04-13T01:14:23-04:00http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/d57898d89c07991f86f283f858744111-40.html#unique-entry-id-40http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/d57898d89c07991f86f283f858744111-40.html#unique-entry-id-40

This was a live remix of the song Disasimbling which was the last etcetera track released. It was performed during the Signal Festival in Chapel Hill. One of our best sets ever as far as live shows go. Matt came up with this brilliantly simple way of manipulating the track live. Very minimal approach that really worked well.

Enjoy

]]>a drop in silenceidm a drop in silence electronic musicRe: MixThis was a live remix of the song Disasimbling which was the last etcetera track released. It was performed during the Signal Festival in Chapel Hill. One of our best sets ever as far as live shows go. Matt came up with this brilliantly simple way of manipulating the track live. Very minimal approach that really worked well. john@twistedsun.netetcetera2006-04-13T01:06:12-04:00http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/20dc7264944574092823663bd01bbc1c-41.html#unique-entry-id-41http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/20dc7264944574092823663bd01bbc1c-41.html#unique-entry-id-41This is one of the first tracks of ours to utilize recent experiments in algorithms for the construction of tonal material." -Matt

Enjoy.

]]>a drop in silenceidm a drop in silence electronic musicDISAsimBLINGjohn@twistedsun.netetcetera2006-03-28T13:39:05-05:00http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/166cd12f0651a9abe10f713924fe1af1-39.html#unique-entry-id-39http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/166cd12f0651a9abe10f713924fe1af1-39.html#unique-entry-id-39a drop in silenceidm a drop in silence electronic musicTime ShiftHere we have a random bit of a track thrown together one night using a delay, some voices, and other assorted sounds. Pretty simple in its concept but I liked the result. john@twistedsun.netetcetera2006-01-28T01:29:28-05:00http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/433e6e29ec57a2b79edcb31e5a28d0c2-38.html#unique-entry-id-38http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/433e6e29ec57a2b79edcb31e5a28d0c2-38.html#unique-entry-id-38
]]>a drop in silenceidm a drop in silence electronic musicfirst draft / machine drum remixThis is another rough cut of a track that isn't finnished just yet. It was just played out live like a lot of our rough versions of things and recorded. It was John's first take on the machine drum remix we were working on and its somewhat underdeveloped but not really. I really enjoyed making it a few months back when it came into existance. Just another tidbit from our archives. Maybe someday you will see a finnished version? Enjoy! john@twistedsun.netetcetera2006-01-08T17:29:52-05:00http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/07e650ef27629d088c2784114abeff8b-37.html#unique-entry-id-37http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/07e650ef27629d088c2784114abeff8b-37.html#unique-entry-id-37
]]>a drop in silenceidm a drop in silence electronic musicStill Herejohn@twistedsun.netetcetera2005-09-09T01:58:00-04:00http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/6d0dcfc5ded96df4afaae5c721128811-36.html#unique-entry-id-36http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/6d0dcfc5ded96df4afaae5c721128811-36.html#unique-entry-id-36
]]>a drop in silenceidm a drop in silence electronic musicmachine drum remixSo heres a n interesting one! 5 minutes of machine drum remix for your ears. only this remix was not at all thought out, laid out, or worked on at all really aside from siting here and rocking it out. we have got at least 5 different directions we have taken our machine drum remix and today i decided there needed to be a drum and bass verison so here is my drum and bass machine drum remix and because it will most likely never see the light of day anywhere i thought i would post a podcast here on my birthday as a present for everyone! its loud and it never once lets up aside from one moment of a little funk guitar that i tossed in there for whatever reason. maybe you will see a focused version of this one day but for now what you hear is what you get so turn your stereo up and get lost for 5 minutes or so. happy birthday me!john@twistedsun.netetcetera2005-09-07T01:33:00-04:00http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/7915cfd2e24441b3253dc5e068c18df9-34.html#unique-entry-id-34http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/7915cfd2e24441b3253dc5e068c18df9-34.html#unique-entry-id-34
]]>a drop in silenceidm a drop in silence electronic musicmono 22khzI will have to get matt to do a write up for this song as well because I don't remember what he was going for as he worked on this track. It is yet another old thought of his that was almost a song but was never quite finished up all the way. I think that pieces of it may have been used in a newer song but I'm not sure if matt had ever come back to it or not. I think we used to have this up on our site while back so sorry if you have already heard this. more on the track soon so check back!john@twistedsun.netetcetera2005-09-02T11:52:00-04:00http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/c0d7e3b68298c45eb0a37bdb2afe2af9-29.html#unique-entry-id-29http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/c0d7e3b68298c45eb0a37bdb2afe2af9-29.html#unique-entry-id-29
This edition we have decided to put an actual song on here. It has been taken from a compilation that we wrote this track for about a year and a half ago called 'the landscape." It was a comp put out by a local radio station (wuag) and only 500 copies were made so we figured we may as well share the track with those of you who may not have been able to get a copy. I cant say to much about the track itself, all I know is that it was very much a rock influenced track that ended up being very gritty and sharp in the end which I love. Matt will have to write up something about how he thought it out and how he made it and add it here sometime soon. Enjoy!

And here is Matts take on the song as he was working on it:

When I found out that WUAG would like for adropinsilence to release a track for "landscape" I knew that I wanted to create something specifically for the occasion. Sometimes I can really agonize over the finer points of composition and subject but the deadline was firm so I had to be set on what I was going to do and complete it. At any given moment , like most artists, I have a group of interests or techniques floating in my brain. I made a list of characteristics the track should have and from there just used a characteristic as a starting point for developing the composition.

I'll stop to say why I'm so focused on how things were made not why. What I do before I ever touch the sounds is very important to me. If I could just use my hands and mold sounds over time like they were clay, I would do that instead. However I can't. I could use acoustic instruments but not with the atomic specificity that I find in electronic systems. When I interface with my computer to make a track I imagine all the little processes as my virtual hands molding the clay of sound.

Back to Vertebral; I knew there would be lots of bands on the cd. I thought that in a traditional band setup one person plays the same instrument throughout the composition and the densities of the individual players would maintain a balance. Imagine a jazz composition where the piano player backs off in complexity so that the drummer can solo and vice versa. I try to be aware of my surroundings and pull inspiration from that. In this case my apartments central air systems was making all these curious tones. Used some algorithms and created similar hissing tones but then exagerated them into this sort of cabin pressure feeling thing. I mimed the densities between the drums and bass with the particles of sound in the hissing. Continuing the particle interest into other "instruments" I created the bass sound and edited the drum sounds using particle methods.

When I listen to music I like to imagine what the sounds look and feel (sometimes smell) like and how they behave. When the track was all done the bass had this very hard bristly texture and the whole track had a biomechanical suggestion to me. The gestures in the bass seemed to move in vertical strands so that's how I came to naming it, a direction of an organic structural element.]]>a drop in silenceidm a drop in silence electronic musicVertebralsee blog for description...john@twistedsun.netetcetera2005-08-18T22:23:00-04:00http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/f70033eb30ed3091af38545a0563b5fb-24.html#unique-entry-id-24http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/f70033eb30ed3091af38545a0563b5fb-24.html#unique-entry-id-24a drop in silenceidm a drop in silence electronic musicevery day, somthing has tried to kill me, but it has failedAnd this, ladies and gentlemen is another bit of a jam from a night spent tinkering with some new gear. Simple, yes but sure was fun to play with. I kept this one short because although in the moment it was fun to build it up it did not really translate well to someone who might want to simply get to the meat of it. Right. On with the show.john@twistedsun.netetcetera2005-08-18T21:46:00-04:00http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/ffd5034d58f3e128bab24dc580c38dcc-22.html#unique-entry-id-22http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/ffd5034d58f3e128bab24dc580c38dcc-22.html#unique-entry-id-22a drop in silenceidm a drop in silence electronic musicpart two of jeet kune doHeres a little something from the past, it is part two of a song that was made nearly two years ago and is taken from an unreleased ep. It's an ambient piece matt made while he was experimenting with some simple ideas with chord structure and it's kind of a play on ambient music in general. I find it really haunting and lush even though it appears to be so simple on the surface. Check it out and see what I mean and as always, leave a comment to let us know your opinion. john@twistedsun.netetcetera2005-08-09T10:07:00-04:00http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/089af7f992d363d94199db071c841fd9-19.html#unique-entry-id-19http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/089af7f992d363d94199db071c841fd9-19.html#unique-entry-id-19a drop in silenceidm a drop in silence electronic musicrevenge of clusterThis song was round two using the same set of sounds and whatnot from cluster but this time around it was recorded directly in the computer using a program called wiretap as it was played. The original cluster was recorded with a couple of cheap mics on a mini disc player as it was blasted out of a $15,000 speaker facing made by dynacord as I am sure you could tell after hearing it. (kidding) This version was an entirely different jam and like the other was recorded live. There is no post editing to be found on this track. We started to record the track about 5 minutes into it so we could spare you the boring build up to something a bit more exiting to hear. Both clusters were made with really simple sounds and effects which may be obvious to some but it feels so good to pump this track out some big speakers or blast it in your car stereo. Anyways, till next time.john@twistedsun.netetcetera2005-08-08T14:05:00-04:00http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/948fb87dfa8f720346798a7df8fee8c7-0.html#unique-entry-id-0http://www.adropinsilence.com/etc/files/948fb87dfa8f720346798a7df8fee8c7-0.html#unique-entry-id-0

This is podcast number one in a new series by electronic musicians A Drop In Silence called etcetera (etc.). These podcasts will act as an outlet for our recent ideas as well as a place to sneak in some live/unfinished/unreleased material. There will be a new podcast added about once every two weeks, but it could end up being a more frequent thing. Any commentary on the podcasts will be available here on this page.

The first podcast is an excerpt of a recording of a little jam session in the studio while we messed around with some new ideas involving clusters of audio. It was performed and manipulated on the spot. The sounds are really simple and the song is not without some sloppiness but we hit on some really nice moments in there.

Please feel free to leave comments or questions on this site or mail us directly using the contact page.

Here's to a fresh start-- now let's see where this might take us shall we?]]>a drop in silenceidm a drop in silence electronic musicclustersThe first podcast is an excerpt of a recording of a little jam session in the studio while we messed around with some new ideas involving clusters of audio. It was performed and manipulated on the spot. The sounds are really simple and the song is not without some sloppiness but we hit on some really nice moments in there.