Music

Last Saturday, the weather in Vancouver turned into heavy rain and thunder with the temperature being in the mid 20’s (Celsius). It  very apocalyptic, so I decided to get my field recorder and my shotgun microphone and record the sounds.

Here is the link to listen to the sound: Apocalypse

I am excited to be collaborating with my friend Laura Lee Coles on a new audio visual project called Tesla’s Insomnia. Laura Lee has a photography exhibition in Seattle on September 4th and has asked me to do a minimal version of Tesla’s Insomnia, so I’m looking forward to that. Here is a description of the project:

Nikola Tesla was one of the planet’s foremost inventors, who had an obsessive fascination with natural resonance.  Tesla explored and discovered the key to unlock the very secrets of nature’s electric dynamo – the planet earth’s rhythms.   He is known to have created a mechanism, which captured the electro-magnetic fields and pulsations of the earth.

It is well documented that Tesla suffered from chronic insomnia, sometimes sleeping less that 3 hours a day.   He is known to have run electrical voltage through his body, both for display at lectures and for helping him to sleep.

The proposed work Tesla’s Insomnia is a portrayal of an imagined insomniac-dream state conceived by two interdisciplinary artists from the non-profit collective POPULATION OF NOISE in Vancouver, CANADA.

TELSA’s INSOMNIA is a trans-disciplinary sound and visual interactive performance that portrays an abstraction of the theory of electro-magnetism, sound and visuals, though first recognized by Tesla in the 1890s is still relevant in the current digital revolution.  The artists believe that there will be continued exploration, invention and discovery in this area to further the art – science connection.

In response to Tesla’s fascination with the natural resonance of the rhythms of the planet EARTH, Tesla’s Insomnia consists of harvested electro-magnetic sounds captured within the urban landscape, and combines them with various visual images.  The methodology of the visuals specifically explores light, energy, motion, time and matter to capture an instant moment in time that bends light and material reality to reveal the center of time and space, the in-between place, the crossing over point, the intersection of here and there.

The artists combine a sound/visual concept to depicting what the sounds could appear like if visible.  Layering, collage, assemblage, audio-visual real-time mixing, sound-scape and live performance are incorporated to present Tesla’s Insomnia.

I recently finished my music composition for the Lingua Aqua project. Click on the link to learn more about it. You can also listen to my music for this installation here: Lingua Aqua Music

This week, I had a voice over session for a Spanish phrase book that is being developed by a company down in the US. I ended up having to do the editing, which actually was really good for getting faster at editing audio and using key commands. Since I was working on several projects at one time, I used Adobe Sound Booth on my laptop to do all the edits. I ended up editing 1107 phrases all together. There were 8 chapters and it took about an hour to complete each chapter.

Well I finally managed to finish all the wiring in my studio and my new addition of the CAD Maxcon 2 analog console is going to be a refreshing change as to how I will produce music in my studio.