February 14th, 2010
Demo: “Oracle”
I see you’d make a fine woman for a fine man
I think you’d keep a fire alive
To me, you’re as tender as life really can be, and one day
I’ll tend to that fire in your eyes
Though like life, lights will dim.
The sun has not always been.
When I feel my head come undone, I must find you.
Your thread has a mending vibration.
As long as I can see, you’re my Lady Chani.
You are the Oracle in me.
Though it’s hard to champion through
All those things we are bound to lose,
How easy to be with you
February 9th, 2010
New Demos, or: Hi, yes. Do I know you from somewhere?
Maybe? I could have sworn that we have passed each other frequently. Anyway, you look good! Well, from what I remember, I mean. Not that you didn’t then, though! If that was even you… which… man, I really thought I knew you from somewhere.
Well now that we’re no longer strangers, I’ve got something to give you. It’s part of what’s been taking up so much of my time, lately. These are the demos I’ve done so far for this year’s RPM challenge.
I’ve been thinking a lot about mortality lately. I feel such a life within myself, handed down by generations of ancestors; yet in order to grow, I’ve been taught to look towards the future. How can I depend on something that hasn’t even existed yet, and why should I just ignore thousands of years of cultural anthropology?
I prefer to think of the past as receding before me, with the future sneaking up from behind.
So in these songs, there are several references; to time, the ancient, the future, eternity, and where the thread of my life is woven among those strands.
“Down Through The Ages” – Cool and steady slow burn:
“Victor Omega” - Buddy Holly playing ska while tripping on acid:
“Oracle” – An 80′s ballad awash in happy nausea:
January 16th, 2010
Supplies arrived
I’m accumulating the supplies for a lot of fun projects and experiments in the coming future. Just this weekend I came home to find silk screening equipment, my order of electronic components, and a soldering iron. I also bought a belt/disc sander recently. As the demand for my work increases, I’m innovating a few steps in my process to streamline the whole deal.
I may be most excited about the silkscreened resist-mask I’m going to do. If it works the way I think it will, then I could apply flawless masks of about twenty enclosures an hour. The acrylic-based paint should make a nice and tough mask, which will let me experiment with etchants a bit, without worrying too much about loss of detail.
The idea is to help reduce the cost of my work enough so that doing a large batch of enclosures would become more affordable. This would free me up to work directly with pedal companies on large-scale products.
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