Brotherhood of the Octopus

Corrugated Recliner

James — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:21:58 +0000

Uses a bit of an audio illusion and an acapella track of some random song from the 90’s that has “hardcore” in its title. Arpeggiators, some phasing patterns, 707 drum sounds.

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Pagan Damiana

James — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:24:14 +0000

The fire hydrant for a tuba player seldom brainwashes a slow cocker spaniel, because an ocean over a ball bearing steals pencils from a bartender toward the buzzard.

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Compass Forever

James — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:34:30 +0000

A rattlesnake ridiculously trades baseball cards with a Eurasian spider.
Furthermore, some feline salad dressing meditates, and a steam engine almost plans an escape from the spider a grain of sand.

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Grass He’s Cold

James — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:30:15 +0000

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Wax Tablets

James — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:03:05 +0000

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Men with a Silent Problem

James — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:04:56 +0000

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Fluency Outburst

James — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:48:03 +0000

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One Pen Chicken Lip

James — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:34:11 +0000

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Manic Progression

Tim — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:01:50 +0000

A little ditty by the fellas at Lab Plus.

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Crossing the Line

Tim — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:02:42 +0000

29+1

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Waxing Gibbous

James — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:26:41 +0000

Teh epix. Snare type hits come from the sound of arcing electricity at the Boston Museum of Science’s Lightning Show.

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Drift

Tim — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:50:58 +0000

More!

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Slow and Steady

Tim — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:19:47 +0000

Trying to get some ideas out for something new.

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Disband Pep

James — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:53:18 +0000

Started reading Handmade Electronic Music and got inspired to pull out the Telephone mic (like this). Proceeded to play doctor with my iMac and cel phone.

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Bucket Birthday Box

James — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:58:20 +0000

Installed some Amplitube plugins to give them a shot, and I’m pretty impressed at how versatile they seem to be. I got inspired and developed the experiment a bit, using Ableton’s arpeggiator and scale plugins, and played the scale knob to make all the chord changes.

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Rayscot Twaddler

James — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:58:10 +0000

This was done back in January but never posted as I couldn’t see a way to make much of a song out of it. I’d just listen to the whole thing looping forever. Here’s an attempt to make it change a little over time. The original inspiration (and some samples) for this one came from “Twilight in Turkey” a piece Raymond Scott composed for the Electronium, which is now owned my Mark Mothersbaugh.

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Follyfield

James — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:58:00 +0000

Arranged field recordings made in New York and Boston with a beat. The recordings and this track were made last April; I wasn’t satisfied with the breakdown (or lack thereof) when the kids start making noise in the middle, so I’m finally just now posting it. The splashy sounds are from the fountain in front of the Brooklyn Museum, some sounds are from the Botanic Gardens next to it, and others are from the Museum of Science in Boston. Everything was recorded with a Zoom H-2.

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Oversize Aisle

James — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:57:52 +0000

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Lister Biggins

James — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:00:57 +0000

Trying out the new Alesis io|26 interface and Behringer B-5 microphone, I made a few recordings tapping and drumming on a banjo, dobro, and various other things near the desk. Looped some to make the tones, stretched some out, and did a lot of timing correction with Live.

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Farbensalz, new + improved

Chris — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:27:22 +0000

Pewter Dachshund has bad-assedly written a soundtrack to complete this video, which appeared in a similar form here before (with a found soundtrack by Signal). I’ve submitted this for consideration in the Sarasota Film Festival… if accepted, it would play in their music video shorts program in April.

It was fun putting this together– I’m sure it was a challenge to make a soundtrack to an already-existing piece of video, especially when I pretty much didn’t want to make any cuts in the piece, but rather to have it flow along, evolving.

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Farbensalz (27mb)

Scungilli

James — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:44:04 +0000

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energy transfer

Chris — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:24:36 +0000

This is not really a cohesive “thing” per se, just an experiment I’m happy with. The cuts to purple are where I edited out parts that didn’t make me so happy. Lo siento, no music.

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Yuff Yuff (10mb)