A collection of time-lapse scenes that I shot while on vacation in Toronto recently, photographed using my Canon G9, with help from CHDK and an intervalometer script. I used VirtualDub to process the 3,000+ photos into actual video. The music is an untitled track that I started back in 2007, but never got around to finishing.
An independent game developer got in touch with me to ask for permission to use my track “Lost in Bass” in his game “GraLL” – a 3D puzzler involving strange scientists, hazardous obstacles and a mysterious, spherical robot!
While digging through drawers full of old junk one day at my dad’s house, I found some cassette tapes filled with silly home recordings. One tape in particular contained recordings of my sister and I as young children; reading nursery rhymes, telling jokes, inventing bizarre radio stations and other ridiculous shows, plus a wide variety of other incredibly random sound bytes and noises. In other words, I had stumbled upon a sample goldmine!
“1985 EP” is a collection of strange, brooding, electronic rhythms that were inspired by the quirky, nostalgic sounds I sampled from that childhood cassette tape.
“Sirene” is a techy drum&bass track with a slightly trancey vibe, heavily inspired by Enya’s “Boadicea” (from which I lifted the lovely, breathy vocal). Cheers to HPC for the title suggestion, without which the track would still be laying unfinished as “enyafunk002″ or something equally stupid.
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