David Fisher : What is Noise Blog

I was going through one of my hard drives today and found some music that I had recorded, mostly in 2006. I’m excited about going into the studio on Sunday and wanted to share some of the tracks with you. Few of them are “complete” and most are just short snippets and ideas that I had. I’ll try to make commentary below where I can.

I made this when I was messing around with Scuplture in Apple Logic

I have no idea, but it’s fast and cool. I need to reuse this soon.

This is from right after I got my drumkit (for sale now!) and started messing around micing it. It’s sloppy and was only one take. I got better thankfully.

I can’t remember exactly, but I love this. Need to work on it more later

A few layers of acoustic guitar. Fun imho.

Likely using a JP-8000 on this? No idea.

Honestly don’t remember this, but it was in my personal mix folder so I’m hoping it’s mine

This is a remix I did in 2005 for some guy. All I got was the vocal tracks and a few random other tracks. No drums, etc… didn’t hear the original for several months. Think I got the gig when selling some equipment (god knows what I sold) and he liked my rig. Could have been better, but it’s fun and reasonably mixed

Something I did super quick. It doesn’t have enough harmonic movement imho, but it works. Not a favorite of mine

Ever get a keyboard and think it sounds cheesy? Ever wonder what happens if you fully embrace that and go with it? That’s what happened here.

No idea again, but it’s freaking cool.

I wrote and played this all on drums and minimoog. Nothing else. It was for some Emerson film students. The film was some acid trip about someone waking up only to find their house was a ship and sirens were coming in for some weird fantasy scene. I didn’t get it, but the music came out ok. The music is sync’d with the film, and thus goes with it more than a click.

I wrote this in several iterations. It’s the reason the paint is thin on my desk from bashing things on it for a snare sound. Could have been better, but i liked the general idea. I need to learn to write lyrics.

I was applying over a year ago for this job and they needed to have something showing that I could record a song with vocals. I had only my voice to deal with so I did a cover of “True Faith”. I’m not a good singer and had to put it together in one night. Beware

Something of me playing bass and drums. No idea.

Enjoy!

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I really like having a semi-serious blog. I don’t generally talk about friends, dates, drinking, parties, or other innane facets of life. However recently I’ve been reading a friend’s Livejournal and really enjoying it. They have a lot of super-short entries that I replace generally by using Twitter, but I somewhat miss and want to have something that’s permanant that I can log my daily life and such in and have close friends keep up with. More than for them, it’s for me to be able to remember my life. Realizing that many of my friends have been actively blogging since 2000 or so with LiveJournal and that I have no such log. A semi-professional seeming blog just doesn’t do the same.

So what I think I’m going to do is use the massive power of Wordpress and create a private section (or a few) with permissions so that I can give various people rights to read certain parts of my blog. You’ll have to register on here (or use OpenID) but I’ll start writing private posts soon as well too and if I like you I’ll let you read them. At the same time, don’t be shocked if I don’t give you access to the entire thing as it will likely be a brain dump of everything that I’m thinking and doing and I’d rather that not be out there for everyone in the world. Hope Wordpress’s security is decent.

So uh, register or something. It takes all of two seconds.

No, I won’t be whining like a depressed 13 year old on MySpace, but there’s stuff in my life that I’d love to log and share with a few people.

On another note, I’ve upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 and I really like it. These guys know how to do Open Source software well and design accessible and killer UIs. I know it’s not as strong/robust as something like Plone/Drupal/Sharepoint (and the fact that it’s PHP bothers me) but it does a lot that I’ve seen is rather difficult to implement on the larger CMSs. Also upgrading versions didn’t require the dreaded “migration” and nothing broke that I’ve found yet. +1 on Wordpress. I remember using Movable Type when I was at Berklee as the CMS for the Production and Engineering program’s website and it made me want to shoot myself. I love Wordpress.

Tags: blog, cms, friends, livejournal, Uncategorized, upgrade, wordpress