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I’ve mentioned before (or at least in that right column that talks about what I’m working on lately) that I’ve been doing some remixes for the band modernsextrash. I collaborate with these guys from time to time, contributing electronic elements to some of their tracks. I really dig their sound, and they are a fun bunch of folks.

This weekend they released a new remix called Varia. There are 16 remixes, two of which are mine. (#9 and #16) What I dig about this album is that some of their songs have multiple remixes by different artists. It’s interesting to see the way each of us was attracted to different elements of the track, and where we went with them.

It’s a good listen. Enjoy!
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This track is from our production of Marat/Sade. (more here). In this scene the character make their first entrance, and the Marquis de Sade takes his “throne”. The content of the play is still a little vague at this point, so it has a little optimism to it.

I started with the little guitar riff for this track. Next came the drums, and then the harmony (played by two alto saxophones in the live production). The guitar riff was doubled by a flute player, and the drums stayed in the electronic track. The track ends with Sade taking his seat and the play-within-a-play begins.

Enjoy:

envelop(e): A RADIO PLAY FOR 2 VOICES WITH 3 ASPECTS IN 4 MOVEMENTS from Skewed Visions on Vimeo.

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The Saturations series of pieces all focus on a very narrow “subject” and, similar to photography, saturates it with as much of the subject as is aesthetically desired. Saturations III-C uses samples made on the UPIC (Unité Polyagogique Informatique du CEMAMu) system while studying at CCMIX (Centre de Création Musicale Iannis Xenakis) in Paris, France. Unlike any of my other Saturations pieces, this piece uses one additional sample - a single strum of an acoustic guitar.

In 2007 this work was choreographed by the Tulane Dance Department for ICMC 2007 in New Orleans.

Duration: 4:09

Listen to an excerpt:

It’s summer - It’s feeling nice out.
The thing about Minneapolis is that as nasty as our winters are, it makes us acutely aware of every single beautiful day in the summer. We cherish them.

Listening to my iTunes library on random this afternoon, I decided to come up with a list of all time top 10 summer albums. It isn’t that I only listen to them in the summer - but there is something about them that is inherently summer. Maybe the album was released in the summer, maybe I just listened to it a lot one summer, I don’t know. But the summer-ness of it stuck. Here is my list:

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In November 2009 I was contact by director Rachel Perlmeter about collaborating on an upcoming production of Peter Weiss’ Marat/Sade. It’s a fascinating play about the Marquis de Sade, Jean-Paul Marat, and the French Revolution, with a fair dose of historical ideas of madness as well. Wikipedia sums it up pretty well: “a bloody and unrelenting depiction of human struggle and suffering which asks whether true revolution comes from changing society or changing oneself.”

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