Get that fresh clean feeling!

Totally forget about One Inspirational Piano. This is way better, because it’s one more. And it’s a complete remix and recode and I have a better idea of what I’m doing now.

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Technically, I think this would need to be a piano duet if this tune were to be played by humans, but whatever.

Merry Holiday Thingy to you, my little Braindouche! droplets! I got myself a little present for the holidays, a copy of Mixtikl, a fantastically fun generative music app. And by fun, I mean wowzers powerful. Unfortunately, Mixtikl lives on Dani’s iPad, and separating her from her tablet is nearly impossible, but I finally got an afternoon to curl up and play. One Inspirational Piano is the first track to come out that isn’t complete donkey shit. It’s still rough, I get that, but I haven’t quite mastered the art of automating the generative loops yet. I’m working on it.

If you’ve already had your holiday, I hope it was a good one, and if you’re still getting ready, have fun, don’t drink to much, and nomatter what they’ve done to you, your family probably still loves you.

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You remember how Dani at Life Unconstrained wanted a theme song? I continue to be incredibly proud of it.

So I’m on my way out to game night with my incredibly nerdy friends, and I get a call from Dani, asking me if I could make up some music for her new video. Here’s the rub: it needs to be Christmas-y. And can you have it for me by tomorrow morning?

Sure, I say, send me the video and I’ll see what I can do.

This here is what I did. Life Unconstrained: Holiday Edition. BOO YA.

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One of the things I just adore about podcasting is it’s speed and flexibility. It’s an audio format just designed for guerrilla activites, and I me some love guerrilla podcasting. The internet can bring you inspiration at the speed of the internet, and if you know what you’re doing, you can zap out a response just as fast.

Because fast means funny!

For instance, it appeared on my facebook feed the other day that a woman asked Cayenne Chris Conroy to explain where his nickname came from. He provided a perfectly good explanation, but for some reason, the woman wasn’t satisfied with this answer. She said “ I have to admit that I was hoping for a story that was a little more… Monty Python-y, or Benny Hill-y.”

Brandi Palmer, I hope this brings you the satisfaction you seek.

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That which was ambient shall be glitched.

Ok, so here’s the story. I said to Dani, “Yanno, I want to podcast tonight, but I’m not sure what I’m going to do.” She said I should “make something plaid”.

Ok. I’ve got an app for that. Seriously.

If you are a noise-making sort of person who has an android, you should definitely download Ethereal Dialpad. It’s essentially a two-voiced qualtizeable theremin synth, and it’s a lot of fun to play with, making little spacey bleeps. One of the visualizations it offers is a multi-colored grid — it looks like plaid! So I recorded a nice little ambient piece that wasn’t especially remarkable.

So I messed it up a little. And I did it again. And again! Fourth time’s the charm here, which you might have guessed by the title, and out of the nice spacey ambient comes this delightfully crunchy, glitchy mess. I’m quite pleased with it.

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Any resemblance of this short tune to the hallucinogenic haze and then blinding clarity that may or may not be associated with ingestion of legally-grey-area strains of sage are purely coincidental. That it’s this accurate is a little scary.

What’s even more annoying is that the original composition file is corrupt, and therefore this tune is DONE. Hate that.

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Yeah, it’s a crap name. And yeah, I also know that “real” drone musicians don’t fuck around with little piddly 2 minute tracks.

I think I’m getting tired of making this sort of music. Time to make something else.

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A sparkly little tune for you, care of http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata. It’s fun, you should go check it out.

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Braindouche.net has moved to… braindouche.net. Yeah. Makes absolutely no difference to you at all, humble listener.

Ok, last one and then I’m done for a while. Fireworks. It’s a drone that sort of sounds like… fireworks. Sort of.

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