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Sorry, Bandcamp no longer supports the version of Chrome that you're using (12.0.742.91). Please upgrade your browser to the latest version and try again. This track was named after a portmanteau (I know right) of Nick Steinborn, the guest vocalist, and Seaborgium, my favorite (-ly named) chemical element. As a grad student in a particular field of chemistry, I decided to nerd out when doing my take-home final for a mass spectrometry class. This song in particular is inspired by McLafferty rearrangements, in which, during analysis, a compound, which would normally cleave into a neutral radical half and an ionic half, actually undergoes a structural rearrangement before cleavage. This is conceptualized by the focal point of ionization binding to an atom some ways away from it, causing part of the "limb" to attach to the "center" and cleave in a separate place, leaving a new species. Furthermore, Nick Steinborn, who I've known for many years, had a lot to do with this song.
For one, he did guest vocals. But the part over which he sings is very much an allusion to his old band, the Premier. Most of the guys from the Premier (including Nick) went on to form/join a rather successful pop punk band called The Wonder Years. I really liked the Premier and Nick's music, so I decided to "borrow" one section in particular from my favorite song of theirs. I asked Nick to sing on it to complete the allusion and voila. Nick is also the sole member of Schedule of No Plan, a loop-centric instrumental mathy post-rock guitar factory music project that's really good. released January 31, 2012 Additional vocals by Nick Steinborn Invalids started as the bedroom project of Pete Davis (with remote internet-based collaboration with other musicians). As of March 2015, it has grown to a proper four-piece band with the addition of Joe Scala, Raymond Bonanno, and Brock Benzel.Tales From the Land of Lawson released January 20, 2012 This recording was engineered, mixed, and mastered by Dan VanHassel.
Tracks 1-3 and 5-6 were recorded at CNMAT in Berkeley, CA June, 2010. Track 4 was recorded at the Uptown Nightclub in Oakland, CA April 14th, 2010. Jacob Zimmerman - alto sax Michael Coleman - synthesizer Dan VanHassel - synthesizer Dan Good - synthesizer, trumpet Matt Ingalls - clarinet, bass clarinet (tracks 1-3, 5) Matt Nelson - tenor sax (tracks 1, 5, 6) Drew Ceccato - tenor sax (track 4) Corey Wright - baritone sax (tracks 1, 4-6) Rob Ewing - trombone (tracks 1, 4-6) CURRENT:Paul Carter - drumsKyle Souza - guitarZach Lewis - bass viShayne Eastin - voxPAST:Michael Groome - vox (BYT-era) Romantic Comedies is out 7/29 via Babe City Records. we're three friends we play music Evan Woodle’s debut solo drum set work, “Nth,” certainly contains evidence of the impressive level of musicianship that you might expect from a thoroughly trained and deeply knowledgable modern-day drummer with a jazz background; the minimalistic, symphonic-like drum piece demonstrates impeccable technique, masterful dynamic control, and the intelligent use of odd and superimposed time signatures.
Behind the perfect execution, however, one can sense a foundation of honesty and humility in the performance. It’s Evan's unique voice and mature artistry that makes this twenty-one minute composition stand out. "Nth" is technical skill meets truly inspired innovation. Subtle, patient, and tastefully orchestrated, it plays devils advocate with its own compartmentalized variety of timbres, walking us through what feels like the entire range and depth of human emotion. Each section is contained while also being unpredictable resulting in a shifting rhythmic landscape that takes us from one view to the next at the exact moment that we need it. Pulsing and pleasingly repetitive, with twists and turns, “Nth” is worthy of hours of intellectual analysis, usable as a driving emotional soundtrack for intense philosophical thought, or most fittingly as a one-of-a-kind listening experience. released September 18, 2015 Composed and Performed by Evan Woodle Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Luke Bergman
Cycles Per Instruction combines free improvised performance with software programs that the band wrote to create sound in novel ways. When all is said and done, the computer ends up being a 4th improvising member of the band, fed by data and expressing sound via algorithms. "Listening to netcat is a stimulating reminder that your brain organically creates electricity" - Loren Chambers The Internet is an Apt Motherfucker This piece combines improvisational playing on cello, synth, and drums, with three main technological components. The first component is a purpose-built synthesis/sequencer program*. The piece opens with this program layering a base motif 64 times with a random time offset, creating a blurred, textural reference to the original motif that varies with each performance. The second component is a generative Markov model of phoneme sequences derived from Wikipedia and a collection of scientific papers*. We use the model to generate novel, incoherent speech sounds.
The third component is a sentiment-aware model of statements of preference derived from peoples’ actual statements of preference on the internet*. We use the model to generate positive/negative sentiment couplets, recited in synthesized speech. This piece combines human improvisors with custom software* that generates sound by analyzing real-time internet traffic. Our goal is to fuse computer network communication with human communication. We capture network traffic and send it to custom software that converts it into MIDI command messages. These MIDI messages then drive software synthesizers that create the sounds on the recording. Each synthesizer has a specific, human-configured sound and set of tunings, but the timing and individual note selection is dictated by the timing and trajectory of packets moving through the network. We improvise with the computers by live-mixing the network synthesizers, as well as on our acoustic/electric instruments. Approximating the Circumference of the Earth
This piece is a structured improvisation for cello, synth, and chango. The chango* is a novel computer musical instrument that uses computer vision to convert patterns of light into patterns of sound. The chango player associates a different tone with each different part of a frame of video and the light intensity in a tone’s region of the frame dictates its volume. Selectively illuminating parts of the frame plays tones and tone clusters with sound intensity proportional to the light intensity. Hardware: 3x macbook pro, 1x misc. laptop, Alesis Ion synth, cello, drums Software: Chango*, NI Kontakt 5 soft-synths, Rax, Wireshark, /usr/bin/nc released April 18, 2014 Trevor Spencer for analog recording, mixing, and mastering. Tony Fader for inspiration, data, and software on The Internet is an Apt Motherfucker. Andrew J.S. for art design. Table & Chairs for releasing experimental music. Racer Sessions for pushing us to start this project, and Café Racer for hosting the sessions every week.