February 2012
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January 2012
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Well crap
So right now I have six songs that are basically finished as far as composition goes. They are:
Wired Jungle
Midnight Highway
Tweak
Occupy
Intro #1
Emotions
Not that listing off their titles will do you any good, but bear with me here :) There are also 2-3 other incomplete songs that may or may not develop into full compositions.
Anyway, as far as the album goes, I have a few problems...
December 2011
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I didn’t expect this to happen quite this soon, but the new Partition 36 album is now about 25% finished. This is the same one titled 63 that I mentioned in my last post. With two CDs, intro tracks, and an accompanying art/writings book (yikes…), this album will likely be my most ambitious project yet. And if the tracks I recently finished mixing down are any indicator, also my best...
October 2011
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What the heck is "Orchestral-Synth" anyway?
Last night I finished a new song that turned out… interesting. It starts off moving in one direction, then takes on a different character once the melody comes in. Yet all the parts work together to create a weird orchestral-synth vibe. It’s nuts. The song is titled “Emotion” (this might change) and will be on the new album. I’m going to work on mixing it down...
It’s been a while since I’ve given an update, so I thought I’d drop in and let everyone know what has been happening.
Work on the new album is progressing, but it’s been slow since I’ve been working on side project stuff in between writing new material for Partition 36. The album also started to go off on a tangent where it was going to include tons of lyrics and...
September 2011
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I'm feeling generous today. How about a sample...
This is a downtempo track off the upcoming album, now tentatively called “63”. It was heavily inspired by Boards of Canada, Jean-Michel Jarre, Metroid Prime, and some of the Serial Experiments Lain soundtrack.
Wired Jungle by Partition 36
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Encoding Files, Again
About six months ago, I wrote about a Python script I made that made my life easier when it came to encoding files. Well I made some simple changes and updated it to v1.1.
Changes include:
Ability to override the default tags
Command line option to change the Ogg Vorbis quality
Somewhat cleaner output
Verbose output for debugging or embedding this in scripts
The program can optionally...
August 2011
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Chasing a white fluffy mirror
My studio is set back up! Ok, so “studio” is a bit of a stretch. It’s really just a computer desk in the corner my basement with some synths next to it and some studio monitors. But hey, whatever works! Being back and working on music feels great. It’s always been a creative release for me, and so not being able to work on music usually leaves me feeling bottled up. ...
July 2011
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Unexpected Delays
As you may have noticed, both this blog and the Partition 36 Facebook page have been pretty quiet lately. Unfortunately this is because I’ve been in the middle of moving my studio and have hit some unexpected delays. So while I can sorta use my laptop to work on side projects (such as the Japan Aid Collaboration CD and a joint project my friend started called treeFungus), I can’t...
May 2011
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Thinking about what's next
Music is the salt that cleans the wounds of the soul. It’s the reflected image we see when we look at our inner self in a mirror. It’s the scalpal that we use to perform surgery on our inner selves. And it’s the map that guides us on our toughest journeys through life.
You may not have noticed, but Inside The Beat had an interesting flow. The songs at the beginning of the...
April 2011
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The Optic Nerve Is Finished!
So The Optic Nerve is finished! It took quite a bit longer than I planned, but I think the extra wait has been worth it. The single consists of four tracks: the original song, the “Near-Sighted Mix”, the “604 Mix”, and a new remix of “Cyberpunks”. All of these total up for a length of just under 30 minutes, which is a bit long for a single, but I don’t...
March 2011
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The Optic Nerve Delayed
So I’ve got some bad news: The Optic Nerve single is being delayed. The holdup is a remix I’ve been doing of the title track. None of the mixdowns I’ve done so far have sounded right, where they either lack punch or lack definition. So rather than hastily patch things up with a bunch of sonic bandages and put out something sub-par, I’m simply delaying it. In a way, this...
February 2011
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Encoding Files
Warning! Geeky post ahead! I wrote this post to offer some insight into how I handle the preparation of the .mp3 and .ogg files that I use on the website, as well as the .flac files I keep for archives. So, it’s a bit jargon-y. Sorry. But I figured someone would find it interesting or useful.
Sometimes I can be a bit OCD about the files on my computer. Everything has a certain place,...
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Turning a Vacuum Cleaner Into a Synth
Wow, things have been incredibly busy lately! I’ve had a lot going on in life that has kept me from updating this. Sorry everyone! Thankfully things are starting to level out, though. The work on the new single is progressing rapidly. If everything goes well, I should meet my original goal of having it done early next month. However, don’t hold me to that. There’s always...
January 2011
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New song time! Listen to it in the embedded...
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The Out of Focus Nerve?
Late last year, not too long after I had released Inside The Beat, I started working on a new song that I called “The Optic Nerve”. It had a much more noisy sound to it than my previous work and would probably be described as some sort of industrial music.
For the longest time I was stuck with what to do for a melody or verse section. I knew that I wanted it to have lyrics or some...
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December 2010
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Quick Review, Partition36′s “Inside the Beat” →
Looks like my last album, Inside The Beat, got a review! It was written my a friend of mine and posted on her blog.
Be sure to click the link above and check it out!
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“…to be able to analyze a sound, put it into sensible musical form on a...”
– Peter Zinovieff, What The Future Sounded Like
He was one of the founders of EMS, an old synth manufacturer. I just like what he said :-D
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Playing With (and Failing At) FM Synthesis
Well, after taking a week off, I’m back at working on music. Sadly the short break didn’t bring any new ideas to the songs I was working. However…
It did bring an idea for another new song, which is actually about 1/3 finished already. Well, it’s not a totally new song. I took a fragment of one I had started a few weeks ago that wasn’t going anywhere, gutted it,...
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What's been going on lately
After thinking about it, I decided the easiest way to keep my old blog posts around was to simply move them to a different subdomain. So they can still be accessed from oldblog.partition36.com (which is also a link on the right).
Aside from that, I’ve been bouncing between a few things lately, trying to decide what to work on next. There’s two new songs in the pipe, one of which is...
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Obligatory Hello World
(loop for c across "Hello, world" counting 1 into spaces do (format t "~{~a~}~a~%" (loop for s from 1 to (1- spaces) collecting " ") c)) ;; You didn't think I'd have a *normal* first post, did you? ;^)
So…obviously the Partition 36 blog has been redesigned and moved to Tumblr. I’m still in the process of fixing stuff up, including putting...