20.12.11 - DAY 354 - Hydrogen Super Excluder (ft. Korny Devenney & Michael Sampson)

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An experimental number, full of pop promise, hallucinogenic drugs and death. Short enough to fit on a 45. In the sonic universe with me tonight, were Korny Devenney (http://www.facebook.com/AnthonyKornyDevenney) and Michael Sampson (http://www.facebook.com/pages/MatscaN-Music/350947393632).

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07.12.11 - DAY 341 - My Beast

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A bit of a beastly one this. I started out playing some nice guitar chords. I was happy to call that take a finished song. That was about 9:30pm. I decided to explore some other sounds and grooves, just for fun. Things then got a lot deeper.

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01.12.11 - DAY 335 - Tis The Season (ft. Adam Scott)

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Tonight's track is a collaboration with Adam Scott. Adam wanted to create something Christmas-y for the season. Ummm.... Yea.

A bit about Adam:

My name is Adam. I'm a musician. I'm currently a gigging singer - songwriter so come and watch a gig. I'm also in my 3rd year at Queens studying music focusing on composition and contemporary performance. Have a wee look at my blog to find out more and keep up to date with my life . . .

http://adamscottmusic.tumblr.com

Peace.

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28.11.11 - DAY 332 - Slacker

28.11.11 - DAY 332 - Slacker by SADFAY

Bandcamp issues tonight, so tonight's song has been uploaded to Soundcloud.

My everything hurts. Some buzzing and tape delay for ya.

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22.11.11 - DAY 326 - Near Silence of Nature

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I had a nice walk in a park today, wrote down some lyrics. Came home, planning to make some sort of simple, 'heartfelt' track. It sounded awful and I couldn't bare it. So I changed the words a bit and made something else. It feels equally as over-the-top, but in a different, kinda abstract way.

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30.06.11 - DAY 181 - Music. This Is

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Random notes, lots of effects, general mania.

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29.06.11 - DAY 180 - I'm Tired

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Started to play around with Max/MSP tonight, I was able to route some randomising stuff into Ableton, but that's about as far as I delved into custom made patches. Also, my brain is on about 20% capacity tonight, so this clash of screaming synths and jarring rhythmic mess will have to do y'all!

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27.06.11 - DAY 178 - MAX SESH

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Tonight's track is a live jam with Rory Brady. Testing out an early prototype of his new Max 5 performance system, we set up two computers and recorded ourselves jamming through the system's various parameters.

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23.06.11 - DAY 174 - Quali-Tea Klang

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Tonight, have some bangin' techno, with clangy percussion which has been processed 'ta fawk'!!!

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22.06.11 - DAY 173 - Reicher Seven of Four

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This song is in 7/4 and maybe a bit 'Steve Reich-esque', hence the cheesy (Star Trek referencing) pun title. I used Marimba, Kalimba and Vibraphone patches and a couple of nice fizzy synth patches. The rest was arpeggios and automation.

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16.06.11 - DAY 167 - The Answer Is In Me

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Hey Charlie! Come with us on a magical journey into your OWN EARS. Yes, Charlie, you are the Banana King and we need you to find the magical amulet! Mystery, deception, excellent acting, 1960s kitsch and BATGIRL. Who's your baby? A collaboration with frightening soothsayer Caroline Pugh.

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14.06.11 - DAY 165 - Bonnie Wee Noise

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Caroline Pugh very kindly let me use recordings of her voice for this SADFAY, which basically mangles the recordings in as many ways I could think of, with a fairly limited amount of time. Caroline and I will be collaborating on a SADFAY track, properly, later in the week!

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08.06.11 - DAY 159 - Lynch Mob

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Tonight I felt like taking my time. I decided to just play piano for a couple of hours and enjoy that. The song writing came along at a slow pace. And that was just fine. It was very therapeutic. I think / hope I'm getting better at adding subtlety to my songs, as I feel the vocals and beats just sit right, not too overpowering or taking away from any other element.

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05.06.11 - DAY 156 - Tasty Tasty Brain Juice

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I am bloated and tired after a big load of yummy chinese food earlier. This is something of a representation of that, but it was also a chance for me to use the funky little string-percussion-thing-a-me I bought today too. Also added about 20 layers of voice, because I felt like it.

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31.05.11 - DAY 151 - CRISWELL SOLE RULER OF THE DARK WORLD

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Today is a collaborative track between myself and Chris Allen. After coming up with a couple of generic ideas, several cups of coffee later, GENIUS STRUCK!! The dialogue you will hear is from a selection of vintage sci-fi and horror scripts.

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27.05.11 - DAY 147 - Négliger

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This is a bit of a sound experiment, attempting to explore similar territory to Autechre's later work: Glitchy, contorted rhythms often verging on the brink of collapse. Obviously Autechre spend more than 3 or 4 hours on their pieces, so I'm not sure I've hit the mark here. If anything it's like a piss-take out of Autechre, rather than a homage, which wasn't intentional. But often intention isn't what matters. So yea, this is a bit of a silly track really.

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26.05.11 - DAY 146 - Transthoracic

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The sonic representation of how my insides feel right now.

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23.05.11 - DAY 143 - Slippy Sock Swing

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So this is all about playing with piano and filter delays. The piano parts were deliberately over-quantised for those tight 'stabs'. The layers of effects create a mild 'dreamy' quality, with a light electronic 'quirkiness' underneath. The rhythmic section comes from layering up different processed loops, similar to yesterday's track, I find this a nice way of working: Let's me create, somewhat 'abstract' grooves, which have a nice evolving / rolling quality.

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22.05.11 - DAY 142 - Faded Patterns On The Rose Curtains

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Today has mostly been spent reciting and singing the praises of James Blake songs. I got home about 20:40, after a lovely day of tasty frappe's, pints of Guinness, yummy blue cheese and bacon baguettes and a few glasses of red wine! I sat down to my keyboard and almost accidentally hit the first chord of 'Unluck' from James Blake's album. It was a sign! Today's SADFAY was going to be inspired by, and pay homage to, the amazing crooner from London! Then I whipped out the keyboard riff that runs through this song. Again, it just kinda poured out and instantly I thought, "Yes. That's what I want!" Some random lyrics also seemed to spew out of my head, along with a fairly nice triplet-feel beat. One of the fastest SADFAY sessions I've done and yet I don't feel it sounds rushed or half hearted.

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21.05.11 - DAY 141 - Loose Change

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I attempted to make something kinda minimal and vocal driven, with a strong mood of melancholy (again). I was quite pleased with the rhythmic backing, so I let that ride out a bit. It was 3 tracks of live percussion: slapping loose change in my jeans, tapping and shaking a near-empty box of matches and tapping a small metal box (I now use to keep my tabacco in). I then resampled a chunk from those tracks and applied some processing (flanger, reversing, saturation etc.), so it ended up having a nice crackling, but sorta 'swooshy' sound. For the last section I stuck a rather large digital kick, with plenty of click-y top end, then controlled it's timing with an arpeggiator.

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