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Day: May 26, 2012
"TipTop One Two"
"TipTop One Two" [mp3 removed]
Rather dorky, vintage videogame-like themes made with a modular monosynth. Sounds kind of 8-Bit but this is analog-recorded-to-24-Bit all the way.
The way it works is X amount of time to make a patch (with knobs and cables) that sounds interesting and then back to the computer to write MIDI notes that exploit the patch in some way. Then record and in the case of "One" here, overtrack.
"TipTop Three"
"TipTop Three" [mp3 removed]
Drum & bass version of two mono-synth themes (including the "Sonar Death Ray 2" riff).
Spartan Workout Video
Was thinking about a "It's Only Humanist"-style essay that considers the movie 300 as the dark side of digital creatives' supposed fascination with all things ancient and Greek. The pitch would go something like
300 reflects young filmmakers' yearning for manly virtue and ancient rituals of violence in the disconnected, affectless time of the Internet. The Spartans' CGI abs and pecs conjure a warrior cult of the body, in contrast to the aestheticized holistic beauty favored by the Athenians: free-floating signifiers of sweaty buffness but also a grotesque cyborg "skinning" of the human form.
Unfortunately writing this would entail watching 300 in its entirety.