WRONG NOTES: a blog of ear reverence
Wrong Notes collects posts on music, art, culture and fun stuff. Also included: news about the Ear Reverends.
Podcast, The Worst Song Ever
As a kid, my cousin Dean Fienberg and I had a band called "The Light." We played together as a band for a couple years, had a bunch of songs, and even played a show at a good sized club in LA, called Hop Singhs.
But, most important in the history of things: in 1983, we created and recorded what we now realize to be The Worst Song Ever. In honor of this lowly achievement, I've compiled a podcast that includes this song, called "Dark Is the Night," as well as a funny conversation between Dean and me about why it's so bad.
I've also include two new Wrong Notes tracks—so check-out some new Ear Reverends' music too.
(So, the podcast is available in a so-called RSS Podcast feed, if you know what that is. But all of the contents are also available via these links and player below. Note that the individual tracks linked below are higher quality than the all-in-one podcast track.)
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Wrong Notes Podcast #02
- Talking: Introduction [1:16]
- Music: Spy? Music (new, for Wrong Notes) [1:45]
- Talking: A Little History [0:46]
- Music: New Dawn Coming, by The Light [3:32]
- Talking: Segue into Dark Is The Night [0:48]
- Music: Dark Is The Night, by The Light (The Worst Song Ever) [7:38]
- Talking: Conversation with Dean Fienberg [7:42]
- Music: Nostalogia (new, for Wrong Notes) [1:38]
- Talking: Colophon [0:24]
Or, play it all now! Here!
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Whew! Done with that nostalgia trip. Now back to working on the Err or Man album.
Returning, and forward
It's a long story, everything I've done instead of blogging here for a while. The big things: the new Ear Reverends album "Err or Man" is in the works, the new HereJam studio is up and running, and the new HereJam record label is coming together.
I also finished the preliminary remix / remaster of the five tapes of jams of Slobot, a collaboration from 1986 of Bernard Bernard, Eduard Margidan and myself. I am looking to release a "best of" Slobot compilation this year (joint HereJam / Picayune release).
I have a new podcast coming very soon. But, for today's music, I'll include a link to the Slobot page on the Bernard Bernard site. Click through and play the Slobot tracks there.
more soon!
Podcast, conversation with Bre Pettis (Make Blog), new Wrong Notes
This is the first of the new Wrong Notes podcasts, now with both talking and music.
In this edition I play some new Wrong Notes music and talk with Bre Pettis, host of the MAKE Podcast, about our collaboration—the Ear Reverends created the theme music for MAKE Podcast's opening credits.
(We also briefly talk about and hear some sounds from the wonderful Casio VL-Tone synthesizer / calculator.)
Here's a link to the complete show in a single mp3 [14:22]. This is what you'll get if you subscribe to this blog's RSS feed and your feed reader is podcast enabled. (Also, it's available via iTunes.)
Now, I've always wanted this now-named podcast technology to support playlists, but it doesn't (yet, at least not consistently). So, I am also making available the podcast in playlist versions: here's the complete show as a XSPF playlist and the complete show as a m3u playlist. I am also including links to the individual files, below.
The individual mp3s in the playlist version (and below) are higher quality, and there's also an extra "bonus track" at the end of the playlist (more conversation with Bre about what he's up to next with the MAKE Podcast). So, if you are playlist enabled, definitely check out the playlist version!
- Talking: Introduction [0:55]
- Music: Oh Snap (new, for Wrong Notes) [0:58]
- Talking: Conversation with Bre Pettis, part 1 [2:35]
- Music: I Make Things (Ring) [0:48]
- Music: MAKE Podcast Theme, first sketch [0:11]
- Talking: Conversation with Bre Pettis, part 2 [1:02]
- Music: MAKE Podcast Theme, second sketch [0:11]
- Talking: Conversation with Bre Pettis, part 3 [0:54]
- Music: MAKE Podcast Theme, final version [0:14]
- Talking: Conversation with Bre Pettis, part 4, and Closing [1:49]
- Music: Other Ducks (new, for Wrong Notes) [4:27]
- Talking: Colophon [0:18]
- Extra Bonus (playlist only) Talking: Bre on what he's up to next and robots [3:10]
Here's a XSPF player to play it, too:
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Attention! This podcast also comes with a one-time-only special feature: free high-pitched hardrive noise in the background during some of the talking segments. Absolutely Free! This incredible offer won't be repeated. The high-pitched hardrive noise will not appear in future podcasts. So, be sure not to miss it in this one—listen now before it's too late!
Wing Drops, from Blood Drive
Following-up on my last post, included here is "Wing Drops", another early, rough mix instrumental from Blood Drive. Listen and enjoy!
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Since starting work on Err or Man, the upcoming Ear Reverends' album, I've now ended the Practices series. I actually completed one more, last piece in the series, called "I Make Things" (using the voice of the artist Bre Pettis).
But I probably won't directly release the "I Make Things" song (I think I'll do something with it in an upcoming podcast).
Fortunately, the song started a conversation between Bre and me that has led to the Ear Reverends creating the theme music for Bre's new video series for Make magazine. More about that soon—I think the series launches next Tuesday (May 2nd)!
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I've got a few other music projects happening beyond Err or Man, and I'll just have to wait until time is right to announce them.
But, I can mention now that we're getting close to starting construction on the new HereJam Studio (yay!). And, also, I'll be expanding the roster of HereJam Records to include at least one other, very neat, musician-artists, whose record(s) I am set to produce.
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By the way, there's an Ear Reverends' My Space now. Since I don't have comments turned on here, if you are on My Space, add the Ear Reverends as a friend and leave us some comments there.
Wiper Away, and more to say
Hey! Guess what? Since my previous post, I started working on a totally new Ear Reverends' album.
This album is now shown under "forthcoming" on the home page—it's called Err or Man, and I've been busy writing and recoding demos (there are about 15 songs).
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Before starting work on Err or Man, I made the tough decision to put on hold Blood Drive—the Ear Reverends' album that was past due. I needed a fresh start on something new.
So, I let go of Blood Drive and then found out that I still really like the album—so, there's a decent chance I'll come back to it and release in the future. But, Err or Man is the big focus right now.
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I've released two early, rough, mixes of instrumentals from Blood Drive. The first, "Wiper Away", is included here (and I'll do another blog post for the second right away). Listen and enjoy.
These are pretty rough in various ways, but I wanted to have at least some of Blood Drive out there before Err or Man.
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I am re-thinking how I use this blog, and am considering doing a more conventional "podcast" with some talking along with the music. This would be a way to tell you about what's happening in the process of creating Err or Man (and other projects), and letting you hear the work in progress.
So, keep an ear out here for more and new things. (Oh, and I'll be re-doing the site at some point too—I have a new design in the works ;-)
New Bageon is music, new
I've released a new, short, Wrong Note piece, called "New Bageon". It accompanies this post. Listen to it loud.
For the first time, I've released a high fidelity copy online as well. If you know about the awesome FLAC file format, and enjoy hi-fi (as I do), please feel free to download a FLAC copy of "New Bageon".
Listen to it even louder! It's also released under the attribution, non-commercial, share alike Creative Commons license, so I hope you'll find some creative, loud, ways to share it.
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Also, btw, fyi, if you use iTunes, you can now subscribe to Wrong Notes music via iTunes too!
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Speaking of copyright, check-out this story about Fox Lawyers C&D Buffy Fandom Musical (C&D = cease and desist = lawyer speak). Talk about vampires...
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The Buffy story also references two excellent posts by danah boyd:
when media becomes culture: rethinking copyright issues
and
remix is active consumption not production (when media becomes culture, part 2).
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Coincidentally, danah's is one of the voices played in Joi vs the Burtonator, which title is itself a kind-of play on the connections between lawyer speak and (1960s Japanese) monster movie themes (and, there: we're back to copyright and monsters and slayers...).
As if podcasting
Back before it was called "podcasting", this blog was set-up for wrong-note-casting Ear Reverends' music. But, this has exceeded the more limited design of podcasting.
So, I'm starting to update various technology things on this site to make it compatible with other podcast sites. With this post, I hope Wrong Notes will start to appear on sites like Odeo, iTunes, Yahoo! Podcasts and others.
Here's My Odeo Channel (odeo/b61433ddad1d1b84). (I had to stick that link and number in here to get Odeo to give me a channel!)
More updates soon.
Welcoming back to this site
(hi all. Sorry for the incredibly long gap in posts. I'm making new music and will have more to post here soon.)
Want to mention a great new CD by my musical amigo, Bernard Bernard, which you can now listen to and buy on CD Baby. Here's my review:
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Bernard Bernard's In The Land Of Giants Air Is Flesh is an album that is equally very accessible and very mysterious, by which I mean you can listen to it once and get totally into it and want everyone to hear it; and you can listen to it over and over again and still find yourself fascinated with it sonically and lyrically and want everyone to hear it.
Thinking about the album in terms of its mysterious sonic qualities, I might be tempted to compare it to Brian Eno's Another Green World and other early albums. But, I'd also want to point out that there is an earthy quality to the Bernard Bernard album that I'm at a loss for words to call, other than the funk — with which I might compare Bernard's album to a 21st century Funkadelic re-imagining their psychedelic masterpiece Maggot Brain. So, let me make that clear: imagine Another Green World meets Maggot Brain. Wow!
So, taking the Maggot Brain reference one step further, Bernard's album has a subtle humor, good feeling, and subversive-freaky-friend groove to it. This is maybe the first thing that will hook you on it, if it's not a catchy lyric or two that you'll immediately find yourself humming.
But, there are, at the same time, deep piles of interesting musical and lyrical fabric that you will want to explore with each subsequent listen. Sometimes I'm following weaves that seems to have been left by Moondog's original Theme; sometimes I'm feeling textures imprinted by Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation; sometimes I'm living in the scenes that appear on patches cut out of Tom Waits' Rain Dogs — there is a lot to be found in there!
And, this is where I come to again and again: at the same time, In The Land Of Giants Air Is Flesh is not really like any of these things. It's an original — one of the rare, original, beautiful albums that will ever be made — ever.
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So, with me, lately:
I've moved into a new house in Seattle, and this means I've been busy looking, moving, cleaning, unpacking, arranging, rearranging, etc., and half-sleeping a lot lately. But, the music is back! I'm already set-up better than in the last place — my bAs*Sment studio, which never quite came together.
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One of the projects I'm working on right now, which I'm really excited about, is a stereo mix / master of some music Bernard Bernard and I made together a long time ago, with our friend Eduard Marghidan who is currently doing the (live) electronic music radio blog on the Greedy Soul site. I not ready to say much more about this project quite yet, but we're working towards a full-length CD release.
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So, I'll be updating this site more henceforth. Also, now that things have settled down technology-wise around podcasting, I'll update this site so that it matches what everyone else is doing in terms of so-called "podcast compatible feeds" (I had hoped that podcasting would come to embrace what I was using on this site, but what I did ended up being a case of being too early to the party and not being noticed when everyone else arrived). I'll also figure out how to make it all iTunes podcast compatible.
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I've been into these Arturia Vintage synths lately (which I got for my half-birthday — self-portrait above taken then in the bAs*Sment), and also recording demos of new songs with my acoustic guitar (not pictured, but it looks like one of these).
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