No doubt, times have become difficult in this current economic downturn. We may find more time on our hands than we are comfortable with. Winter being here reinforces that yearly cycle of studio cave dwelling, with a chance to refocus towards the coming seasons. Many of us here in the Northwest choose to utilize those spaces as our creative juices are compressed to quartz for the coming sun. From some other time... Passion of the Tribe by Morphed ProductionsMy recent winter/recession tech project was to install XP x64 on the studio tower machine. Knowing there was all this available power not being used by my old 32 bit OS always had me wondering what I could really be capable of on this machine. It was well worth the effort.Currently I am running 2 dual Opteron processors on an Asus k8n-dl board, for quad processing. I moved my streaming audio library onto a SATA drive and record drive on it's own IDE (I'll go SATA for this later). The performance and stability is quite noticeable. Running an Ableton session the other day, had the CPU meter in Ableton running smooth at 93-97%...!!! I kept waiting for hiccup or crash, but solid as a rock. Latency is dirt low.XP took the install of Pro Tools 8 without a hitch. Once I got up an running, I set all preference settings to the most demanding, low latency, high CPU hit I could. The hardware buffer ended up comfortable at 512 for recording and over-dubbing and the monitor latency is ALMOST INEXISTENT!I got to tooling around with the above audio project and in hardly any time rapped up the "Passion" track . Mixdown was smooth considering I was able to do all the pre-production at 96k 24 bit. Mastering was such a blast, it just came right out....certainly good enough for the few hours I put into it. The hardest part was learning the instrument parts...which is exactly what I like to hear in a computer based music production environment.Here's the tribal bellydance piece I promised from my last post. Tempel by Synchronicity FrequencyAlso, Morphed Productions is now on Soundcloud. Please 'friend/subscribe'.
nuLude by Synchronicity Frequency made this over the past couple of dayz...free DL... Harmonique Gruve Blazt!
Karnalage by Synchronicity Frequency feel the intro, you'll be ready for the beat when it kicks in. Some of you might recognize this from my last run in with the portland police. you'll want a subwoofer for this one!
Updated blog profile page to include players for Decapitation Renovation and Motions Through Ambience. These are two distinctly different albums, yet the styles reflect SF's own patented sonic desctription as, Harmonique Gruve Blazt.Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer var so = new SWFObject("http://www.db798.com/pictobrowser.swf", "PictoBrowser", "330", "290", "8", "#000000"); so.addVariable("source", "sets"); so.addVariable("names", "Album Artwork"); so.addVariable("userName", "Synchronicity Frequency Shows"); so.addVariable("userId", "43516730@N08"); so.addVariable("ids", "72157622636057542"); so.addVariable("titles", "off"); so.addVariable("displayNotes", "off"); so.addVariable("thumbAutoHide", "on"); so.addVariable("imageSize", "medium"); so.addVariable("vAlign", "top"); so.addVariable("vertOffset", "0"); so.addVariable("colorHexVar", "000000"); so.addVariable("initialScale", "on"); so.addVariable("bgAlpha", "33"); so.write("PictoBrowser091021175915"); Listen for free and download an entire album for as little as $4.99, directly from Synchronicity Frequency and Morphed Productions.
It's like a reverse wet willy.The Synchronicity Frequency site page on Morphed Productions is almost finished. In the meantime, I thought I'd post these couple of tracks, as a sneak listener to the upcoming release by Synchronicity Frequency, Decapitation Renovation.The track is titled Flek, and opens with a field recording taken as the mountain awakes with the morning sun. The birds, the bugs and the trees create a sound collage difficult to emulate and best conveyed through direct capture of that moment, a true picture of sound. The classic struggle between nature and man ensues and leads us into the melodic phrase of the track, and before you know it.....d-rop! Here comes the cut. Tweaked, glitched, chopped and consantly unfolding.Enjoy this preview into the caverns of the human experience. And, as an added bonus, here is the remaster and remix of Sensory Journey, originally released in 2006. This track will be featured on body mod and performance DVD being produced by Operafication and is not available on the re-release of the self titled Synchronicity Frequency album due out this fall. Ms. Hilary will vocalize the opera-tics for the final DVD Operafication version. I am so looking forward to this production!
Please subscribe to our Morphcast (Current subscribers need only open iTunes or their feed reader to receive latest video update)Morphed Productions is proud to announce it's 3rd podcast release, Morphcast #2: Spectrums Redefined. Delivered by the narrative stylings of Noah Mickens, we are walked through a labyrinthe of music and sounds produced at the MP studio, offering up the razor's edge of the sub-underground audio spectrum, diversity and multimedia cross-platforms to any appreciator of exquisite experiments of audio explorations and visual medias both post produced or performed live. Previous Morphcasts have been delivered as mp3 or enhanced AAC, but this time around we decided to go by way of video podcast. We feel this format is the most straightforward for the end-user to experience our podcasts on not only iPODs or PC, but video capable internet phones and mobile devices. And though Morphed Productions is purely focused on custom music and sound production, we think you'll enjoy the video/photo colliages that accompany our podcast. Accompanying imagery will be from performances, projects and our own digital manipulations, headed by sound designer and visual artitst extraordinaire, Jason Cesarz, aka noyouyesme. Also, featuring a studio session with Gabriel Darling and company, music, writings and general post apocalyptic dream-gazing. This Morphcast includes the original trailer for the Morphed Productions open-source multimedia project, "New World Horror". For more info, click the banner: Morphcast #2: Spectrums Redefined Video will load here (may take several minutes) on page or your can subscribe and download it into iTunes.
As promised, our full length enhanced podcast: Morphcast #1 - Audio Shape Shifting This is an enhanced AAC podcast which provides pictures and links to the respective artists involved in these amazing projects. Currently, iTunes is the most commonly used way to view the enhanced content. Simply subscribe to iTunes to view content with audio, or most other media players will still play the audio file. Subscribing has the MorphCast updated every time we release a new show, automatically when you start iTunes.Check us out at morphedproductions.com and have us provide sonic enhancements to your project.
Transmissions in audio; a source for mind bending audioscapes, creavite composition and experimental audio manipulations. Morphed Productions is dedicated to providing a diverse aural environment for your production project. Unique and versatile compositions you see with your ears.We can provide music and sound for any media form, visual performance, film, broadcast, web sound, really, anything....Please Subscribe to the Morphed Productions PodcastThe first podcast will feature an introductory series highlighting some of the projects MP has taken part in over the past couple of years as well as new projects and sonic explorations produced at the studio.Morphed Productions will also be producing series' for a variety of Portland based artists, musicians and galleries.www.morphedproductions.com