The third Caustic Reverie album will be called Stochastic Resonance and will contain five tracks. There’s a companion piece to Vespers called Compline, though I’m not sure if I want to do the whole Canonical Hours cycle at this point. I’m still working on the artwork and final mixes, but I should have it released early next week to last.fm.
galactophagist : milk drinker
Cookie Monster’s fame may have inspired a galactophagist puppet that never made it into production due to a lactose intolerant Muppeteer.
Fish – “Square Go”
Pink Floyd – “Summer ’68”
Port Mahadia – “Siren’s Call”
Helloween – “Fallen to Pieces”
Andromeda – “My Star”
Riverside – “In Two Minds”
Amorphis – “Shaman”
Spheric Universe Experience – “The Inner Quest”
Jon Oliva’s Pain – “Look At The World”
Iced Earth – “Harbinger of Fate”
Frank Zappa – “Echidna’s Arf (Of You)”
Richard Barbieri – “Fear and Trembling”
Katatonia – “Rusted”
Black Bonzo – “Ageless Door”
I usually end up messing around with fractals and other forms of organized chaos in a visual field, but this week I’ve started experimenting it with music. Through a last.fm group, I was exposed to the music of Tim Doyle, some of which were composed with the aid of a program called MusiNum.
I downloaded it to give it a try but it doesn’t seem to like the fact that I’m running a 64-bit operating system. I did have better luck with David H. Singer’s FMusic. I was initially opposed to algorithmic composition as a viable way to make art, but this is a good deal more complex than pressing two buttons to get a ragtime shuffle in DMaj. I’ve been getting into more spaced-out, minimal stuff lately, so this is a perfect fit.
One new song is finished but untitled, the other is still in the mixing phase.
nugiperous: given to inventing trifles
Irene was the scourge of the rest home’s cribbage tables; she laughed in the faces of those she had beaten, and when she herself lost, she was often nugiperous, blaming her plight on everything from wearing the wrong prescription eyeglasses to have a bad horoscope for the day.
Caustic Reverie’s latest album Mute is available for on-demand streaming and download from last.fm. I’ve added two more songs in addition to the title track: Vespers and Mute (Reprise).
Demians – “The Perfect Symmetry”
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – “Living Sin”
Evergrey – “When Kingdoms Fall”
Pallas – “The Cross and the Crucible”
Andromeda – “Periscope(Live)”
Damon Shulman – “I’ll Break Your Heart”
Marillion – “Market Square Heroes”
No-Man – “Pigeon Drummer”
Jupiter Society – “Abduction”
Paatos – “Happiness”
I’ve just gotten a new recording gadget, the Zoom H4 Handy Recorder from Samson. Although the menu layouts can be frustrating, this thing has remarkably good sound from the built-in microphones and even comes with lots of on-board effects. I tried to record some guitar and bass to test its 4-track recorder functions but I was having trouble getting any signal from the inputs. I guess I’ll probably have to read the dern manual.
Here’s the latest mix of a Caustic Reverie song I’m working on with the working title of Vespers. It’s a lot shorter than the other two but much more chaotic.
