Prof Mover

Settling down into new ways. This is what you see here (Tascam 4 track as a mixer/feedback master, and a tape EQ looking all 80s) plus DD-6, DD-7, and Pulsar Tremolo all wired up together in 3 different feedback loops.

That's it.

Peared Down

Think about it. Some sweet sticky duck down gown of your very own. Insert some yeast under your skin, balloon up, let it dry and cut it off, right up the middle.

Iron,

Add buttons,

And try on your as-yet crisp, soon-to-be roughnsoft, grungey denimesque fav shirt of the 90s.

EAT

Can't seem to shake that guitar. I lose it every few years, but it keeps coming back for more. Slightly modified blues tuning, lost the diminished chord on top, brought the 5th down to a 4th. Sounds better. There are 3 main elements to this. The "beat" pedal loop, the "tone" pedal loop, and the guitar. All 3 feed into the "tone" pedal loop in variable ways.

Wifey Blues

Wifey Blues by Some Pepper
Bluesing aways on current and favorite setup. Beasty beats from trem, eq, pog, and delay. Bluesy bleeps from fuzz, me30, delay, and all working together through 4-track.
No source, all output.
This widow ain't no sponge on society!

Just grateful.

- db

Patricia Brewer

Is in the foreground. Lotsa tapes. 49. Gonna make you some tapes in August. Now is the time for requests. I will mail them if necessary.


that 4 track is nothing but a glorified mixer. don't get your iron oxide panties in a bind, they'll peel right off. the tapes will get their say in the "mixing" process.
I will feed them through each other.
Also, if you want the original content of the tape I give you that I recorded over, I'm digitizing them beforehand, and will put them somewhere for you to download.

- db

Didn't think you needed to see this

But then I listened to it on these things Carl gave me called "headphones", and I like it a whole lot! Wet "n" Wild!


If you can't hear a "beat" at the beginning, you're not wearing enough "headphones".


" - db"

Two for one: The Sun and Arizona

Gonna premiere this Charmaine's Names song tonight while hosting the West Philly Roundup. And some Arizona for good measure.



Some of you are lucky enough to have an earlier more experimental version of "The Sun" on tapes I made for you. You oughta know who you are. Let's pump up the illusion together, strangers. You oughta know you're strangers. Stranger and stranger, only strangers become more familiar.


- db

Worthy

New song.

thump and wump

Very happy.
Got an equalizer pedal from Davey and a octaver from Carl.
I've cut the crap, pared down to what I'm most familiar with, oscillators in the right places, the DD-6 out of the loop and at the end. That's where it was with ye olde Touch&Taste. I can tell the threshold before it squeaks out its own sound, and the feedback levels for resonances that fill out. The DD-7 is firmly in the middle, creating its lovely over powered organ sound. Line feedback, new to me, is fed from the tremolo for that nice sucking sound into the equalizer which RULES and can adjust pitch AND volume. AWESOME. Anyhow, after playing with it for the better part of today, I'm happy to announce that I GOT THE BEAT:

Another Prepared Pedals Tune

This time longer development, oscillations centered around an M2 interval, with the top down low. The composition is in the preparation, the performance is up to these two little guys.

Enjoy!



Here it is. I step in near the end to add to the suspense. Aside from volume, I make two changes:
Lower the feedback on the low tone, up the feedback on the high tone. Then quick resolve.

Prepared Pedals

Two little delay pedals just hanging out on this speaker. They are set up to play you a song if I turn the power on. Don't mind if I do.



Both feedback settings are set to the lowest they could possibly be to generate a tone, hence the slow crescendo. The one that's focused more on being the M3 up from tonic has the wonderful ability to ever so slowly realize its full sound, so it comes in later. Really, they both are settling into a comfortable drone as they go.

Unfortunately, one of the more charming aspects of this piece is the ability to play different overtones with your head by walking around, turning your head, really any kind of movement. It does not seem to have the same effect in playback. Future plans with this is to make a recording and play the positions in the room.

I know I could listen to these oscillators settle in for hours. If anyone else is interested, I will make a longer recording available.



- db

We Always Cared About Him Until the End

Been making losa tapes recently. Latest one called The Runs, but actually known to me as The Stops. Part of it features this tape-tempo addled layering of two old recordings, one on guitar, one on piano. Don't they sound real nice like with eachother?

We Always Cared About Him Until the End by Some Pepper

Otherwise, The Runs theme is taken from a soundtrack recording session with the talented and strange saxophonist Michael Bauer. That theme comes back in after The Stops, which itself features double spaced periods of silence.
But this time, the theme is alternately played directly onto this unique tape by direct line feedback tonally managed by the EQ on a stereo receiver.
Here is a long clip from that tape, featuring the return of the theme, followed by a radio/drum game.

Excerpt from The Stops by Some Pepper

By the way this is


STEP TWO: THE STOPS: THE LAST STEP


of our highly acclaimed series on how I do the things I need to do. To update you, Step One has graduated to be the first youtube video used on a tape, "Nobody Notices the Mistakes. Ya'hear? Nobody!". It was given to Sakiko from Daily Life. See if they are playing near you. They are are good.
The end of this clip fairly well displays the layers and tape manipulation typical of these projects, as more inputs are sidelined by receiver feedback and power blanks (what I call the sound cutting out from hitting stop or play on the tape deck feeding into the four track (which itself feeds into the final tape recorder). I fade out, but this thing continues.

If you would like a tape, please ask.
- db

Mouse Pioneer

Mouse Pioneer by Some Pepper

No video this time. This is made by manipulating feedback through very fast delays and a pitch shifter. Then there's some drumming. Then there's the end where, I allow the overtones to bleed into the high pitched delay-generated oscillation that has otherwise been a stalwart through the rest of the piece. The first movement is called "Mousey Eyebrows" and the second is "Pioneer Song", to give you some context.

Bye Bye Bonnie, Have Fun In Georgia

Nice little piece of art here in exchange for a nice little piece of art from Bonnie.
I like the angle on this, I'm using that big silver radio in the back left.

Finally

I've been trying to accomplish this goal for 5 years now.
This is a major reason I make music. I just wanted to set up some natural sounds that I could listen to while I did math. I wanted something that would not be as mind numbing as a loop, but didn't change too much as to be distracting.
Maybe this isn't the one, I find myself very distracted by it.
I think of this phenomenon frequently and warmly, like my cat.
Who's got a face?



You can skip me talking at the beginning, I caught myself off guard, and I apologize.