Category: transient lines

[vid] riding the F riding waves

Sunset F-Train ride last week, out and back over the Culver Viaduct, the highest point in the NYC Subway system. The soundtrack is my riding waves [disquiet066], recorded in 2012 as a posthumous duet with late-musician Jeffrey Melton, better known as nofi.

🎼: riding waves [disquiet0066] off 2013’s transient lines:

[dispatch] Road To The Well Festival Win

September 05, 2016 at 08:48AM
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Last night (09.04.2016) the wonderful and dark indie film Road To The Well (dir. Jon Cvack), which used my Americana track Man Again, won Best In Festival at the 2016 Long Beach Film Festival.…

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prologue: in recollection and amazement



improvised guitar drones, loops and melody lines over beats.

guitar / amp:
jolie (gibson es-335 dot reissue, peekamoose custom electronics)
vox ac4c1-bl tube combo

efx chain:
(ebow –) earthquaker “warden” compressor –ehx pog2 –ehx freeze –ibanez ts-808 tube screamer –small sound/big sound mini overdrive –tc electronic flashback delay+looper –strymon blue-sky reverberator –line6 pod xt phaser modeler

software / hardware:
sony acid, motu 828mk2, XP

title is reference to jack kerouac’s “list of essentials” in his belief & technique for modern prose:
17.…

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grey sky undertow

2000 miles later,
just beyond the dream state transformed,
on a wave-smashed boardwalk, we sat in silence,
and waved goodbye to our grey sky undertow.

after all the love had come and gone,
you and I kept holding on
‘til there was no one left to blame.…

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ursula

In February 2002, I met two of my long-time FM DJ heroes, Vin Scelsa and Pete Fornatale, though a producer with whom I was working, Bill Kollar. Pete hosted the radio program “Mixed Bag” and Vin hosted “Idiot’s Delight,” first on WNEW and then on WFUV in New York City.…

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dreamy solace of rivers and bridges [disquiet0088-3d]

PROCESS
Headphones required.

The melody is 5 patterns repeated 3 times on a guitar, played live with a touch of boost, delay and reverb.

The rhythm is built from a royalty-free drum construction kit for ACID called “Black Paint Weathered Beat.” There’s a 1-measure intro and a 4-measure pattern, and both repeat 3 times.…

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fire in the arcade (the reflectors)

I recorded and released records as The Reflectors from 2000 to 2010 (most of the band’s catalog is on Spotify, iTunes, CDbaby, Bandcamp, etc…). Arcade Fire co-opted my homonym this year and has been touring as “The Reflektors.” So I’ve resurrected my Reflectors to return the favor.…

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soma

“Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology.”
– Brave New World (Aldous Huxley, 1932)

i blow my mind
almost every night
with my early girl
and a couple transient lines

it’s not that i
have too much time
it’s just that i
make time to fry

i am slipping in and out of time
watching as my neighbors fly
out their windows way up high
every time i close my eyes

but this mass hallucination
is just a restless indication
that we can’t deal with
how really real all of this
really is

you can take a holiday
from reality
whenever you like

i go offline
anytime i have time
with my early girl
and a couple other close friends of mine

you say you want to feel real
why do you want to feel real?



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one city

she walks into union square
sends the pigeons flying
didn’t think i’d find her there
didn’t think of trying

she sits on a bench above the subway
as the trains rumble by
i see her shake

inside the hiss of a subway’s brakes
it means everything and nothing just the same

a city
to strangers
one city
two strangers
one city
too strange

dreams between drags on a cigarette
while i watch
under the lights of an august city
that will never stop

red street, the light of a taxi’s brakes
it means everything and nothing just the same

a city
to strangers
one city
two strangers
one city
too strange

riding waves [disquiet0066-nonofi]

PROCESS:
@nofi was one of my first followers on SoundCloud from the Junto (I started with #0004). Over the last year, I admired and absorbed a lot of his work and we shared laughs a few times on Twitter. I feel lucky to have had even the most cursory electronic interaction with him.…

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02:50 night sky dead letter office [disquiet0065-pianoverlay]

PROCESS:
Start point: 02:50
Duration: 02:40
Added drums and guitar as the two new elements.
All the talk of space in the original track inspired me to break out the ebow for the 1st time in a while.
To get more interstellar, I applied plate reverb, reverse delay and phaser to guitars at different points.…

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