
sterling wednesday: fall light falls
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../melody in chaos
sterling wednesday: fall light falls
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The Momentum exhibit runs through February at the San Jose Museum Of Art. Sound artist, writer and Junto founder Marc Weidenbaum curated the sound (as an “intervention”) for one of the installations, the video Untitled #8 (2004) by Josh Azzarella. Back in August, Marc sent out the silent video as project Disquiet0138-videosonicvoid, and challenged us to create a looping piece:
…Compose a 2.5-minute soundtrack to complement the silent video “Untitled #8, 2004″ by the artist Josh Azzarella.
So this is awesome. Producer and musician Lee Rosevere asked if he could “bash and crash” over Drifting Moon / Spinning Earth, so I stripped the original drum and percussion tracks and sent him a pre-master studio file. From 3000 miles away, he came back with the glorious result above.…
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sterling tuesday: legend of the fall
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PROCESS
Every frettable note (incl. harmonics) on Jolie (my Gibson ES-335 DOT reissue), granulated and held through an Electro-Harmonix SuperEgo synth engine and then fleshed with infinite feedback through a TC Electronic Flashback tape delay. Both pickups were active and thrown out of phase to broaden the aural spectrum.
PROJECT
Step 1: Record 8 seconds of white noise in your own personal style.…
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Inspired by New Orleans, where making melody out of chaos is the art.
…So there you have it, we wrote our ticket out
We’re headed anywhere we want to choose.We never really planned it, just never had doubts
We were going somewhere – never gonna loseYeah, the stakes are high
But our vision’s clear
Maybe neither of us is pure, but our moment’s hereIt’s ok to embrace uncertainty
A quiet life we may never see
So for now this noise makes a symphonyIn the middle of chaos, you’re my melody
so here I’m landing, took the red eye out
I see the causeway that leads to youSt Mary guides us down from the clouds
Harmony carries us throughSo there you have it, we wrote our ticket out
We’re headed anywhere we want to choose.
Though I’ve never surfed, I’m obsessed with surfing, so this is xclnt beyond words. Australian surfer Carel Olivier showcases his hometown beach and his incredible skills to the songs Britney Sea by Wolf Asylum and my Long Road Ahead [off Goodbye Monday Blue (2009) and Reflected.10×10 (2012)].
…My Surf Reel // 2014 from Carel Olivier on Vimeo.
sterling saturday: eastward survey
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sunset: brooklyn
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PROCESS
Transposed the swype into notes by turning the QWERTY keyboard into a musical keyboard:
1. Correlated the major scale to the letters following G by repeating the octave pattern though the alphabet (e.g., J=C, N=G, V=A, etc…)
2. Assigned low octave (1) and high octave (3) to the bottom and top rows, respectively, of the qwerty keyboard.…
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northern cardinal charting a southern flight path
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sterling saturday: supercollider king
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…Drifting Moon / Spinning Earth
09.28.2014 1:22a, 09.30.2014 10:34p, 10.01.2014 6:30p, 10.03.2014 8:35pShe had to leave Ohio
Find a strength she’d never known
She had to shed her skin
What she was was too far away from what she was withinYou pay the price / To be yourself
When you’re not the one / The world expectedBut we are each a universe
Where every drifting moon / Deserves a spinning Earth
Everything you are, we are, too.
rainy saturday sterling: leave me be
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sterling thursday: silhouette against striated sky
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sterling sunday: sofa suncatcher
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pacific platform portal
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24 hour party puppy
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