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Thanks Be To Rich

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:16:00 -0600

I want to thank Rich Bernett for not freaking out and killing me during this past month. His help, insight and patience were crucial to making this happen. Please watch his films and listen to his music!!!!

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Muted Tones

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:49:00 -0600

Muted Tones was an online sound and music series that ran from September 2002 to March 2007. Each month, individual curators were encouraged to produce new, original, ten minute recordings and document their process, progress, and thoughts. Remarkable individuals created absolutely remarkable things, from drone-scapes to found sound collages to folk songs to avant-garde improvisations to chamber music.

We’d like to thank the creators for their making. And you all for listening.

Muted Tones is dedicated to curator Alicia Frantz.

about

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 13:00:00 -0600

Seven curators, seven months, seventy minutes of music. Each month is assigned to a curator, asked to fill ten minutes with the sounds of their choosing. They are invited to keep a log of their work here, as they create it. At the end of the month, their ten minute piece of music is made available for streaming or download.

Volume four began in September 2005 and ended March 2006. You are welcome to explore our other volumes using the numbered links in the top left corner, or learn more about Muted Tones here.

Joshua Dumas has organized this project and Mike Piontek has coded and designed this website.

about

Tue, 31 Aug 2004 01:00:00 -0600

Volume three began in September 2004 and ended March 2005. You are welcome to explore our other volumes using the numbered links in the top left corner, or learn more about Muted Tones here.

Joshua Dumas has organized this project and Mike Piontek has coded and designed this website.

about

Sun, 31 Aug 2003 01:10:00 -0600

Volume two began in September 2003 and ended March 2004. You are welcome to explore our other volumes using the numbered links in the top left corner, or learn more about Muted Tones here.

Joshua Dumas has organized this project and Mike Piontek has coded and designed this website.

about

Sat, 31 Aug 2002 11:15:00 -0600

Volume one began in September 2002 and ended March 2003. You are welcome to explore our other volumes using the numbered links in the top left corner, or learn more about Muted Tones here.

Joshua Dumas has organized this project and Mike Piontek has coded and designed this website.

about

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:40:00 -0600

Volume five began in October 2006 and ended March 2007. This was the final volume of Muted Tones. You are welcome to explore our other volumes using the numbered links in the top left corner, or learn more about Muted Tones here.

Joshua Dumas has organized this project and Mike Piontek coded and designed this website.

This Muted Process

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:15:00 -0600

In the last year I have traveled and tried to put down roots a few places: Boston, Detroit, New Jersey, and soon Brooklyn. Settling down has been extremely difficult transition for me because I know that my environment will greatly influence my creativity and general happiness. (In my heart I want to go back home to Texas, but I know the influences of my past are too strong to wrestle with for now.) So I’ve been searching for the people, the place, and the energy that will support my vision. Each city or town has it’s own soul, an energy which I can only stand in the presence of. Like any good relationship I will find a city that invites me in, tells me its secrets, and lets me change it a little.

“Try to Love the Questions” is part journal, part essay, and part soundscape. As most of my work it is self-reflective and vulnerable, which I guess is how you would define my style. The narrative is compiled from long distant phone conversations with my close friends as we discussed finding our identities. As a backdrop I created a sonic scenery from two short compositions I wrote in Boston, two live recordings of a mariachi group I met while in San Antonio last month and ambience from a day I spent listening to the birds calling out to the rain of Austin, TX. Each time I create a piece of recorded music I grovel at the feet of the Recording God. I ask to make my process transparent and let the piece speak for itself. I have always found it easier to make acoustic music and let the engineer work the machines, but for the last five years I have been interpreting the machines myself and I am finally learning some of their language.

The title of my piece “Try to Love the Questions” comes from a quote mailed to me by my best friend after I moved for the third time this year.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will gradually without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answers some distant day.

Rainer Maria Rilke

We all go through a search for identity. Each one of us deals with this struggle in our own way. Personally, I shape my identity by the people I surround myself with and the ideas I ingest. Every time I travel my perspective changes as I embrace a new place. I’m living new answers to the same old questions and some day I hope settle into answers I’m happy with.
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Since this will be my last entry I’m inviting you to hear my band Teletextile. We occasionally tour and do radio performances so if you want to know about when we are playing live, sign up on our email list through our website or watch for myspace bulletins. Thanks for spending your time reading this. –Pamela Martinez
www.teletexitle.com www.myspace.com/teletextile

(The quote is from the book My Messy Thrilling Life by Sabrina Ward Harrison, which my friend highly recommends, but I have not yet read.)

Ideas part 2

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:24:00 -0600

(I wrote this Feb 20, 2007)

I still haven’t actually done any work for this project. I’m only thinking about it. But if you remember my first post “What the hell am I going to do?”, well that is still my method. I ask myself that question over and over again until, I am inspired enough by an idea to actually do some work. So it can take a while. Honestly I’ve been asking myself that question since Dec of 2006 and nothing has been actualized yet. That doesn’t mean I don’t have any answer at all though, just nothing inspiring me enough to do something auditory.

However, I do know that my project will not be ‘music’ focused but ‘interview focused’, so today I…. 1. walked to the barn to find and open a box filled with my minidisk recorder and mini disc tapes, then 2. Imagined some questions I could ask my family that would be appropriate enough to broadcast to the world. I guess I want to do this because I’m in a very transitional stage and I want to know more about where I come from and how they see me, perhaps that will make me feel better about the fact that I have particular direction right now.

Questions I could ask
1. What was you favorite thing to do when you were little
2. What do you remember about me when I was little
3. How different does it feel to be a Mexican woman in the year 2007 from when you were a teenager
4. Are you happy with your life
5. What would like to be doing instead of this conversation
6. Where is you favorite place to go in Texas
7. Tell me about a time you remember from you childhood
8. Tell me about a place that no longer exists
9. What was life like when you were a kid, who did you live with, what happened

Other inspirations: Institute of Texan Cultures (museum) including the spinning wheel like the one sleeping beauty pricked her finger on, This American Life on NPR, My Oral History class at Simmons College, Godspeed! You Black Emporer, A Silver Mt. Zion, David Sedaris, South Town in San Antonio, La Villita, Mariachi Music, Basking Ridge, New Jersey, Detroit, MI, the fact that I don’t speak Spanish well.

I heard that Prince supposedly has a hard wired recording system set up in every room of his house just incase he gets inspired, you know like on the toilet. I wish that my recording could be something like that, but instead of rooms in my house, it would be bits and pieces of my life, like how they say your life flashes before your eyes. I guess it’s probably happening and I don’t even know it, it’s like the last show I’ll get to see while I’m alive…I hope it’s good.

Initial Sound Ideas

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:45:00 -0600

So I’ve been thinking about what I want my piece to be about and I thought I would share them. The things that interest me most sonically speaking are and I hope to incorporate them somehow:

1. stringed instruments (I want to play them all eventuall) I think it’s because of their resonance and natural acoustics, you know how they ring out after you stop playing them or if you say something loud enough they echo back at you. (Try this with a piano.)

2. Storytelling, with or without words, complete and incomplete stories, epic or small stories, truth or lies or hidden truths. I like music because I hear a story in it or sometimes it’s a story I feel that I can’t quite repeat acurately with narration.

3. Sounds respresenting other things. This could be anything from Boom!, Click, or that fact that Minor keys are supposed to sound more sad than Major Keys, perhaps this is the same thing as a story??

Originally I wanted to interview my grandmother about our family and set it to music, however I highly doubt this will be possible. I’ll let you know what happens next.

If you are interested in the music I have already written you can check out my latest music with my new band at www.teletextile.com or my old music at www.pamelamartinez.com
Teletextile will release our first album later this year!!!!

What the hell am I going to do?

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:20:00 -0600

Hi Everyone, I’d like to introduce myself…This is what I look like, but what you are really concerned with is what I sound like or at least you should be. I suppose you are also interested in how I develop and idea into a song or an art project. Or at least I hope you are. That’s why I’m writing this shit down you know, for you.

Since I’m guessing that you don’t know who I am at all, I’ll give you a quick run down. Originally I’m from San Antonio, TX, this is an amazingly colorful and inspiring place for me. It inspires me because of the things that are good and bad about living there for 18 years of my life. I moved to Boston to go to Berklee College of Music where I studied Music Education. At music school I learned a lot of amazing things and met many of the most talented musicians in the world. (I mean that, I love them) But overal music school almost destroyed my creativity and my confidence. Soon after I went to Library School where I met some of the most amazing people in the world. I got really interested in writing and storytelling there, but I realized I didn’t want to become a music librarian as I once suspected. My new teachers, friends, and some old ones too inspired me and helped recover my creativity and ambitioun. That summer I started a new band, teletextile, with Brian Hamilton and Kristy Foye. So Brian, my BMF (bandmate forever) and I went to Detroit because I needed to make some decisions. Don’t ask me why, but I tend to make a lot of decisions while staying in Detroit. The decision I and Brian made was…“Move to New York City”. So that’s is where Feb’s Muted Tones is coming from. A recovering musician right outside of New York, Basking Ridge New Jersey to be exact.

In Regards to my Tense Form Peice it is already Feb 14th and I don’t have anything done. That is my artistic process, the “What the hell am I going to do?” Method.

Happy Valentines Day,
Pamela Martinez

TJ Tambellini, don’t get your cables in a wad.

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 09:21:00 -0600

Please listen to this with headphones, because Paul Krauss panned the sound in really interesting ways. Thanks for all your help, Pawl.

On January 31st, I went back to the bus stop where I first heard the pigeon elegy, glad to be finishing, glad to have finished January. This project helped fix some trouble I had back then, the day I sat and waved the bus along. I shiver to think where we’d be without projects.

This music turned out quite differently than I had planned, with a RIFIFI voice I can’t quite describe. Maybe the perpetual surprise is what makes recording so magical. Interacting with copies of sounds can bring about entirely different ideas for new sounds, ideas that wouldn’t have existed if the copy hadn’t. The copy creates the original. Different machines tell different versions of the sound narrative; the mix, the color, the texture, the tone all change from speaker to speaker. Each copy in each situation becomes original.

TJ would flip out if he thought I was telling his secrets, but here are a few of the sounds: singing into tin foil wrapped around a wire hanger, singing into shapes, singing into fibers, childhood quiet-time shrieks, every angle of my Midget Grand accordion, shaking a toy drummer, the Blue Line, the wind chimes in my landlord’s yard, instruments and instruments and every inflection of the viola. All bounced off the walls of his bathroom. TJ, I can’t thank you enough for your time, your talent, the Dad jokes, the lows, the highs.

I hope you enjoy the music!

TJ Tambellini, aka Angus MacGyver

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:10:28 -0600

A dryer sheet rubber-banded to headphones isn’t as effective as one would think for muffling the click track.

Early Times with TJ Tambellini

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:00:00 -0600

Early Times came in handy later in the project, too. You may not notice, but this Casio is labeled with notes A through V. T flat is used a lot in this song, an octave above L sharp. Also notice the 2006 calendar against the wall, a reminder that, yes, January 2007 had actually come.

TJ Tambellini wonders, ‘Wha’ppen?’

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:18:00 -0600

Last night we finished recording some odds and ends, including a truly fabulous guitar part by the real star of the show, TJ Tambellini. Listen closely; it’s a mere 20 seconds long but really hits the height. The time change from 6/8 to 4/4 was seamless, though it might shove me inadvertently into a few lines of country-and-western singing. Oh, well, your country-and-western lines are my folk song, she says with a smirk.

Looks like we’ve got a few seconds of sound for each of you out there. The smattering of ideas that converge on these 10 minutes may daze, may dazzle, may dizzy. Maybe this recording is the inevitable effect of the anvil of ambition mentioned below. Over and over again, the music would do something Interesting in my mind, and I’d say, ‘Oh, that would be perfect for the recording.’ At this point I think I’ve crossed the threshold for too many Interesting things; it’s unfair to displace my own boredom issues on the person who listens. Curious messmaking gone awry, this painting is becoming thick with acrylic and disjunct with abstraction. The time has come to learn focus and patience and perseverance with a near-boring line that has potential.

What’s left? A little homegrown percussion, singing, viola, noise, noises, and all the mixing. And the ending.

The end.

TJ Tambellini is an audio genius.

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:56:00 -0600

So this friend of mine saw a special on Nova about the magnetosphere. Apparently, every ___ years the electrical field holding our planet in relative harmony needs to flip. North becomes South; inside is outside. A big flip was scheduled to happen this new year, and I think the normal magnetic tension we’ve come to trust somehow just, well, broke. My people and I have had an exceptionally rough start to the year, even cosmically rough. Machines have broken in inexplicable ways. Everyone is breaking up, moving around. I got an eviction call in the middle of the night. Strong people are really sick. The ground is quaking, lightbulbs flicker.

The whole theory has since been debunked by some smart, sciency folks, but I’m glad to blame my late start on something external and omnipotent. Earlier this month I took a spontaneous, all-night, solo drive to Columbia, South Carolina to help care for these troubles, these people. Bruce, the Subaruce, became a whirring practice space that night, and I pulled a lot of mental pieces together [see above]. The concepts I’d been mulling took on more notes over different chords during that ride. Still, by mid-month nothing had been recorded.

I hope some grade-school kids read this and blame missed homework on the magnetosphere, which is exactly what I’m doing. Excuses aside, this has become a two-week project. Let’s pretend that I’m just getting started; here’s why I’m a little anxious:

1. I don’t understand technology, particularly the recording and amplifying types. And the computer type. For that matter, the mobile phone type, too, but I’m learning a lot about the first two for this project. TJ Tambellini is an audio genius. He can make things work that shouldn’t and teaches me the basics so graciously.

2. Despite the late start, I wasn’t able to avoid the anvil of ambition that falls on me with this sort of thing.

3. Influences and inner-ear tunes are hard to escape, even for a minute. I’m deciphering which parts are core, inescapable, and which parts are peripheral, remote. When I hear a folk-rock-pop line or progression, what should I do with it? Part of me wants to glorify it; part of me wants to exploit it. Part of me wants to toss it.

4. Not only did I write and arrange all of this, I shortsightedly thought it would be easier to play all the parts. True, we musicians tend to be unreliable and scheduling a quick recording session, nearly impossible. Still, the music would be richer and so much nicer with friends playing the parts.

Enough, enough. Let’s hear what sounds the next few days bring.

TJ Tambellini writes the songs that make the whole world sing.

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:16:14 -0600

QT singing with Bruce.

Phase I - complete

Wed, 21 Aug 2002 14:20:00 -0600

oh boy.

I’ve had a heckuva time with this here bronchitis. It’s slowing me down in every capacity. Especially the vocal one. Which is very important to me, being a singer. And someone who chatters endlessly. But I did not let this stop me from asking the Tiny Hairs to help me out with my muted tones project. I handed out a copy of the song in question to all six members of the group and delivered my proposal - albeit raspy and peppered with coughs. Even though they hadn’t heard the song yet, they seemed for the most part enthusiastic about the idea. What a great group of fellas. They are a busy bunch, so things may not work out for us this time around. We’ll see what happens.

For now, I’ve got some serious coughing to do.

xoxo
sr

vocoding the human genome

Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:26:00 -0600

Word on the street is that a friend I casually encouraged (read: repeatedly prodded with guilt-laden threats) to participate in muted tones is mixing down this very day. Further reports indicate the use of a vocoder. To say that I am pleased is an understatement. I should have the masterpiece in my hands sometime next week.

In case you were wondering, the Bronchitis has its back to the wall, and is wimpering like the sissy it is. It’s only a matter of time until I beat this lingering cough into submission and make a complete recovery. Many thanks for the cards and flowers.

Have a great weekend!
xoxo
sr

Phase II - planning

Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:37:00 -0600

This weekend I went to a play And They Put Handcuffs On The Flowers, saw Casey Meehan and The Late Night Radio (they played the party after the play), saw Lying in States at the Wicker Park block party, played a show with the (Richard Nickel) transaction Ensemble in Pilsen, went to a going away party, goofed around with a big beautiful dog named Cleo, and had marathon band practice for the autumn-waking. And that’s after a week playing three shows! I was saying to Allison (the drummer for the autumn-waking and the transaction Ensemble) that being busy like this was the goal I had in moving to Chicago. I had a moment somewhere in there while I was loading in, or setting up, or something - where the phrase “it’s working” popped in my head. Wow. It’s working. Who knew?

We’re trying to get the schedule and logistics worked out for this SRB/Tiny Hairs recording. It looks like we are going to work in small groups, starting with a session recording a new version of the song. As it stands, the song is only about two and a half minutes long. Not a whole lot of room for the Hairs to do their thing. I’m hoping I can stretch it to five or a little longer. I’m going to work on that this week, making sure the song still makes sense in a longer form.

That’s all I’ve got for today.Hope you’re enjoying these last days of summer!

xoxo
sr

The Belmont Milds

Sat, 28 Sep 2002 17:41:00 -0600

Dateline: T-dot. Saturday, Sept. 28. February 2003 is just over four months away. Not too soon for Jonny D. to start thinking about his Muted Tones curation entry. And it’s never too soon for him to stop referring to himself in the third person.

Okay. I’d just like to say I’m really excited about this. Let me just get the Oscar acceptance speech stuff out of the way. I was so thrilled and surprised when Josh asked me to participate. I used to always whine and complain that I never got asked to do anything sexy and exciting like curate an international online music series. Like what, do I have to legally change my name to “Jim O’Rourke” or something? Now I no longer have the right to be such a big whiner and complainer — so, thanks Josh. This is also my first experience with weblogging, or “blogging” I believe you kids call it.

It’s a sunny summer day here at the beginning of autumn in Canada. The leaves still haven’t begun to change. This summer has been so gross, I suspect they never will. Or if they do, they may stay that way forever. These days my worldview swings so wildly from utterly hopeless and apocalyptic to ridiculously optimistic and positive. Anyone know what I’m talking about?

ANYWAYS (to borrow a Chuck Klosterman-ism), last night I went over to my buddy Brad’s house to make some noise. I haven’t known Brad too long, I met him earlier this year through Wavelength booking, but we hit it off pretty much right away. He makes really great electronic tracks on his own, and performs with a band/live PA thing called Anorak — though they just changed their name to North — and DJs as well, under various different monikers. I took my bass up the street to his place, right at the top of the hill which separates downtown Toronto from the encroachment of suburbia (and is actually the old shoreline of glacial Lake Iroquois, but I digress). Brad lives with two other guys in a house that’s nice and big by T.O. standards, and he has a whole room dedicated to his music set-up. His gear array is positively sci-fi compared to my spartan keyboard table, though he describes it as “pretty ghetto.” He’s got a good handle on sequencing, running an old ‘80s drum machine through a MIDI sequencer, with lot of other little synths and samplers running through various effects. I can’t say I understand how it all works.

So Brad plays some tracks and loops he’s been thrown together on his own. I play along, dropping in dubby Tortoise/Joy Division basslines. It sounds great. Brad’s beats are all brittle and broken up — they sound like they’re in bizarre times, but he insists it’s all 4/4. His synth sounds are alternately warm and icy — I guess the closest comparison would be Aphex Twin, but does that mean anything anymore? We work on two different songs, each basically a 45 minute jam. Since the loops just keep going and going, we can stop and take smoke breaks and just listen. Brad tweaks this and that, and I drop the bassline back in, twist it around, or try and play along on his housemate Jason’s drum kit. The second tune I help shape more melodically, as Brad builds up a keyboard part in response to my bassline, which I jam out through a sample he made of his own drumming. Brad jokes that it sounds like that song “Somebody’s Watching Me” (about as paranoid as pop hit can get). At one point I drop in the bassline to “Once in a Lifetime.” So there is a definite new wave feel going on, though I think the closest touchstone for what we are doing would be To Rococo Rot — tuneful live dub bass meets ambient electronica. I’m digging it, definitely. There are some truly “lost in music” moments during the jam that I don’t always get from my rock band activities.

We finish up around 10:30 for the sake of the neighbours and drink more beer and smoke more smokes and talk about, well, music (what else?). We decide this will be an official collaboration, so we have to come up with a name for it. I jokingly suggest The Belmont Milds, since we both smoke the same brand of cigarettes. It turns out to stick as a working title…

down a quart…

Mon, 12 Aug 2002 18:38:00 -0600

robots,

this weekend I tried to finish the insulation song, but it’s getting more and more like all my other songs (surprise!) and I was hoping I could make something new.

Problem: writing songs on the guitar. Not inherently a problem, but I’ve got patterns, and theys hard to break.

Solution: I think I need to switch it up. Last fall I struck up a conversation with tim (tw) walsh about this idea. He suggested keyboards. At the time, I didn’t play the keyboards. But now I do. I recently played a Wurlitzer electric piano, and fell in love. It’s all I can think about now. The sound just made so much sense…I sat down and music came out. Not bumbling sound - music. Yay! Now I just have to raise the dough.

Yesterday I was talking to Peter of the Tiny Hairs, and asked him if he thought the whole band would be interested in working with me on a song for muted tones. He said probably. So, I’m going to propose it to them this weekend. Don’t tell.

I also decided that I’m going to use one of my older songs. Actually it’s the last song I wrote. It’s pretty short, but not many people have heard it, and it has loads of room for more stuff. you know…it’s got potential.

I’ve been trying to get my friend Justin to send me something to maybe fill some of my minutes - but he’s been wholly unresponsive. Maybe public prodding via this log will help encourage him.

Congratulations, Andy, on finishing your submission! I’m excited to hear it!

Okay, gotta run - I’ve got motor-oil to drink.
xoxo
robo-bertsch

What are Thieves?

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:23:00 -0600

…SCROLL………DOWN…
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…R E A L………L O W…
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…D…….O……W……N….
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What are Thieves?

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:58:00 -0600

_____________________________________________
——————N A R R A T O R———————
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10 MINUTES OF DANNY DEMAGGIO RELATIONS
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

00:01-
00:11-“Your Own Economy”
01:27-“Black Comedy” (thanks to Juice)
01:50-
03:13-“We’re smacked-up and dizzy in a room full of speeding tennis balls, ATOM!”
03:46-
04:10-“Whale” (ear to the beat: instrumental from :Mechanical Bull: Release 2004)
06:09-“The Luxury of Writing”
08:15-“XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX”
09:41-“classified ads”

My release is ready!
..H O W E V E R..
_________I_________
_______AM________
_____HAVING_____
___DIFFICULTY____
___UPLOADING___
_______THE_______
______FILES!!______

:Sooner or Later:
I will be offering a downloadable PDF- with instructions for how to assemble some corresponding artwork. Its basically a cd-case kit.

I would like to thank the whole TenseForms gang- (slapping Josh a high-five.)
Thankyou to WaterThieves and Associates & 1212 Royal Oak Family
Thankyou to AudioPants Records- (for equipment usage.)

E.Q.U.I.P.M.E.N.T:
……………………..: Realistic/Moog Synthesizer
……………………..: Crate/Mini Amplifiers
……………………..: Various electronic devices, Norelco Beard trimmer
……………………..: Ghost Busters music box
……………………..: Pink Panther music box
……………………..: Art & Lutherie Canada 6-string Guitar
……………………..: Yamaha Midi Keyboard (lost code)
……………………..: PowerBook G4 Inherent Microphone
……………………..: Homemade Chime section, made by Colin & Adam Garbett
……………………..: Ryan Cady’s Tiger drumset
……………………..: Evan’s Drums: snair (kalkaska)
……………………..: Multiple Personalities
……………………..: BEAVER FEVER
……………………..: WaterBuckets, BathTub, highball glass, good old H2O
……………………..: Hollowboddy Guitar (Deanna Srock)
……………………..: Fender Jazz Bass- (thanks Drax & Annie)
……………………..: Baby’s Arm- (Daniel Richard Powers)
……………………..: DIGITECH (station), various matrix settings (heavy tremelo)
……………………..: GarageBand, AfterEffects, Photoshop, graph paper, various inks
……………………..: Toy electronic drumsticks-Made in China
……………………..: I WENT TO SCHOOL BUT I CAN’T SPELL

—————————JON________________________________
I L O V E Y O U, DOOOD!

M E L O D I C E C H O L A L I A C
——RELEASE 009——