May 2013
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Gouge Away finished our demo. You...
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April 2013
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Musical updates
Busy musical week ahead of me. Playing first Fell Types show in 7 months with Gun Outfit tomorrow night:
https://www.facebook.com/events/282619068538123/
We’ll be playing a brand new song, which is long and epic, and hopefully you all will like it as much as I do.
I’m in the middle of recording a demo for a new band I play guitar in called Gouge Away (w/ Greg M, Brian Lam, and...
March 2013
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February 2013
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WatchListen to Untitled by Moon Family Band.
Hey, so I don’t know why I didn’t post this a month ago, but here it is now, for posterity. Last year, when I went to the retreat in Moon, VA, I made a video of the week. I wanted to do something different this year. As I’ve been getting more and more into recording, and I had just got a new recording interface which I wanted to try out,...
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November 2012
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More solo stuff. Trying out various tunings. This...
October 2012
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September 2012
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Ask me anything...
For better or worse, I’ve activated the “Ask me anything” feature in tumblr. We’ll see how this goes…
August 2012
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WatchHey, check out this EP I recorded by Demands, a new DC hardcore band. This is my first full band recording. Drums recorded to the 4-track, then bounced to the computer for mixing and overdubbing guitar, bass and vocals. Learned a lot about drum mixing. Hit me up if you want me to record your band!
July 2012
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June 2012
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Hello tumblr friends,
I am playing a solo in a...
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Spoonboy 2012 tour demos
Last week David came by to record some songs for a tour demo. We did really simple 4 track recordings, just guitar and vocals. This is the debut recording for my new microphone, which reproduced the vocals very naturally, needing very little EQ work in mixing. These songs are really good too:
<a href=”http://spoonboy.bandcamp.com/album/tour-demo-2012”...
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new song I’m working on. total Lungfish...
May 2012
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So I’m cleaning out my hard drive, and...
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Got back to DC yesterday from biking the GAP trail...
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WatchFinished drum tracking the Fell Types full length. Here I am bouncing tracks from the 4-track to the computer. Listening to just the drums isolated from your songs is really weird.
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Playing around with tremolo
April 2012
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WatchHere’s the first new Fell Types material we’ve recorded in nearly two years. We’ll be playing these songs next week at St. Stephens. This is sort of a teaser for our full length, which will be coming out sometime this summer.
March 2012
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fiddling around on the lap dulcimer. Got a couple...
February 2012
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WatchTracked some drums this weekend on the 4 track to use as beat-making fodder for Queer Pressure. That’s my housemate Dee on the drums, and Queer Pressure is my other housemate Abby’s hip-hop project. We recorded Dee playing all kinds of different beats on a stripped down drum kit. Go Go beats, Reggaeton beats, house beats, rock beats. Tonight I’m going to mix them down from the...
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January 2012
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Bless all the Debris by Michael Cantor
&amp;amp;lt;a href=”http://michaelcantor.bandcamp.com/album/bless-all-the-debris” _mce_href=”http://michaelcantor.bandcamp.com/album/bless-all-the-debris”&amp;amp;gt;Bless all the Debris by Michael Cantor&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;
So here is the full EP that Mikey and I have been recording on the TASCAM 4-track I brought with me to Moon, VA....
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Hey, so that song I posted earlier this week. I...
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WatchRetreat to the Moon, Winter 2011-2012
Here is the Moon Retreat video, that I posted the stills from the other week. Shot on an iPhone 4S.
Music at the beginning is an instrumental version of “Specters of Projection” by Michael Cantor, recorded on a TASCAM 424MkII 4-track cassette recorder. (stay tuned for the full recording + some other Mikey songs, coming out later this month) ...
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Here is a new song. Saw the Karp documentary last...
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So I just came back from spending a week in Moon,...
December 2011
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WatchI’m really excited for this video to be online. This past fall I got the opportunity to compose and record some soundtrack work for video projects at my day job. This is a short video we made for Yellowstone National Park. My coworker Kathi got to fly out to Yellowstone to shoot all this beautiful footage. I worked closely with her and a couple of other coworkers on the composition and the...
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Here is a 25 second long fast post-punk song....
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Here’s something new I’m working on....
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SCMS Holiday Card
I haven’t posted any design work in quite some time. This is something I did recently at work. We have a long time client named SCMS (Supply Chain Management Systems), who, although they have a dry name, do great work. They are a non-profit who provide HIV/AIDS medication all of the world in at timely delivery and efficient supply chains. They contracted as to make them a holiday card to...
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New Guitar
So I bought a new guitar. This is a “lawsuit”-era Japanese made guitar from the early-70s, a knockoff of the Gibson Hummingbird 12-string acoustic guitar. “Lyle” brand on the headstock. Bought it off of craigslist for $180, and is probably the nicest condition 40 year old guitar I’ve seen. The finish is pristine, neck is straight, intonation spot on, and no buzzing...
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November 2011
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October 2011
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WatchVacation video for my week in Puerto Rico with housemates Abby and Sean. Footage was taken mainly in San Juan, Piñones, the rainforest El Yunque, and out in the Caribbean off the eastern coast. Most of shot with my Canon G10 (hence me barely being in the video), with some footage shot by Sean with his underwater camera. Music is “La noche” by Orquesta el Macabeo, who we saw perform ...
September 2011
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Poster concepts for the Fordists / Regents /...
Some initial concepts for posters for an upcoming show at the Black Cat this sunday. Unfortunately I never really found the time to finish these up, get them beyond these initial B&W type explorations. Was looking at a lot of old Blue Note jazz record covers and posters
