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SELF PROMOTION / Bonus Tracks from In Our Hiding Voice!

« on: November 10, 2011, 06:37:59 pm »

Just in case any of you missed out on the bonus cdr that came with the limited edition version of In Our Hiding Voice, I've decided to make them available again as a stand alone digital release. I think these three tracks deserve to be heard by more than just 50 people!

Available here:
http://sublamp.bandcamp.com/album/in-our-hiding-voice-bonus-tracks

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STUDIO + RECORDING TECHNIQUES / Balanced Output to Stereo Input?

« on: November 10, 2011, 05:55:49 pm »

Maybe you guys can help clear up my confusion here. If I'm going from a mono balanced output on a mic preamp into a stereo line input on my recorder, I can't just connect them with a normal stereo cable right? I would end up with a left channel that is out of phase with the right channel, as far as I can tell. Or do I have this all wrong? 

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SELF PROMOTION / In Our Hiding Voice

« on: January 18, 2011, 01:29:43 pm »

Hi Everyone, just thought I'd share a link to my new album. CD's are available for pre-order from Hibernate Records, but the digital edition is now available through my bandcamp page. If you purchase the album through me, it's only $5 and comes with a pdf booklet of album art.
Thanks!

http://sublamp.bandcamp.com/album/in-our-hiding-voice



From the label:
We kick start 2011 with an album called 'In Our Hiding Voice' from Sublamp aka Ryan Connor, a sound and video artist. Connor was raised by scientist parents living outside various national parks in New Mexico, Utah and Colorado. To date his work has been released through labels such as Ahora Eterno, SEM, Dragon's Eye, Friendly Virus, Pehr and Serac. From an early age, Connor became fascinated with science and nature; an influence that has later fed into his work as an artist. With initial interest in pre-language experience, Connor uses textural sound and images to tap into an emotional response from those who should listen.

In Our Hiding Voice is centered around the kind of listening you might engage in whilst hiding from something or someone, perhaps hiding in empty buildings, underground tunnels or dark rooms in abandoned houses... The initial intention was to create an album based around warm and fuzzy guitar tones but it was after Connor had watched Tarkovsky's 'Stalker', that he began to explore darker and scratchier territory. Connor kept returning to his imagined visuals of children playing hide and seek in a decayed world like that of 'Stalker' and it is through this inspiration that the murky textured drones on offer throughout this album were constructed.

The sounds that you hear are mainly derived from electric guitar takes and run through a Fender tube amp. Several hours of source recordings were eventually woven into a selection of sound collages built from moments of unintentional hum, noise between recordings and other raw material. These sounds were then processed by recording them onto magnetic tape and then looping them back through an amp. Sometimes, the sounds were recorded off a broken speaker on-board his reel-to-reel as Connor deliberately damaged the playhead with a magnet.

(Words: Harry Towell)

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SELF PROMOTION / New Sublamp Release - WICKERSHIPS

« on: June 16, 2010, 03:02:27 pm »

Hi Everyone,
I'm excited to announce that my new release Wickerships is ready for pre-order at AhoraEterno!
Created using broken pianos, detuned autoharps, sand, wood, bells, and the pacific ocean, this collection of 10 tracks is an audio description of a submerged landscape.

Order Here:
http://www.ahoraeterno.com.ar/releases/i_wickerships.html

SUBLAMP - WICKERSHIPS - AhoraEterno 2010


Here is the description from the label:

"Wickerships, the brand new record of Sublamp, is a trip towards an elemental region of human being. Sensibility of sounds let us think in a primal thing, instinctive. These words do not be understood if this record were something simple: there is a great sound an emotive effort to raise this level. Sounds capes are mixing, one by one. We recognize some piano, guitars, but everything is hiding behind a great musical treatment.

There are no melodies in this record. We suppose them: this is the virtue. There are space and freedom to listening to. Wickerships does not offers any trouble to hear it, but it request a trained sense. It is a great jump in his production. There are not fissures. In a time of specialization and sophistication, this record appears as a search of something essential. This is its value. "

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COMPUTER MUSIC / iPhone Max/MSP app!

« on: February 09, 2010, 05:10:42 pm »

You can build custom interfaces on your iPhone directly from Max! They claim to be designing a higher resolution version for the iPad, which is making me completely reconsider that thing as an affordable alternative to the lemur. Hope it works with Max for Live though, I can't see why it wouldn't.

http://nr74.org/c74.html

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ACOUSTIC ELECTRIC / Miking Piano Strings?

« on: January 14, 2010, 04:35:33 pm »

Hello Everyone!
A piano fell out of a truck on my street a while ago, leaving the soundboard unharmed beneath a pile of broken keys and splintered wood. Best day of my life! I've been trying to figure out the best way to record this thing, but the results have sounded pretty weak so far. Any advice on miking (micing? mic'ing?) a piano soundboard? I have a Rode NT1-A and a Shure Beta 57a, not the best selection but better than nothing. What would you guys suggest I use?
Thanks!
-Ryan