I never really got into Daedelus, but I like this track and the video.
It’s good to see something like the Monome (a pretty, open-source MIDI controller) used expressively and live, in the same way a guitar functions. Watching him hit the thing actually adds to the song. Via DoseNation.
“The Gloaming,” live from Nigel Godrich’s basement in ‘07
Radiohead is probably the best live band out there, and since the Beatles quit playing shows just before they hit their peak, you could make a convincing argument that no one has ever been better on stage.
Of course it helps that they’ve got millions of dollars in […]
Danger Mouse is on fire lately, and I couldn’t be happier that he produced the new Beck album. I go back and forth on Beck - he’s one of those bands/artists that make consistently good records when they could be making great records. Kind of like Coldplay, but they’re more on the crap-when-they-could-be-great side of […]
My portfolio for commercial sound design is now up and running at JonathanGraves.net.
Why don’t you have a look?
This is a wonderful video for Ensemble’s collaboration with Cat Power (Chan Marshall) - it appears to be made entirely of home movie disaster footage, and the song comes off sounding like peak-form Fiona Apple.
Courtesy of Pitchfork TV.
MacProVideo.com has the best tutorials I’ve ever used for stuff like Logic and Final Cut Pro, and they’re running a contest right now based on a recent release, Logic 404: Mixing Electronica.
You can remix a really generic dance track by Olav Basoski (sorry Olav), and if your remix is chosen as the best of the […]
Sorry I haven’t been good with the blog lately - I went home last weekend to hang out with my dad and I’ve been recording and editing nonstop. One last track to go before my record is done and I can have a life again.
Here’s the sixth track - kind of an interlude.
It’s made completely […]
The Notwist is a glitchy, breathy rock-ish band from Germany that I quite like. Supposedly they were a metal band at some point, but their last record, Neon Golden, had an almost Beatles-ish pop air to it. Stately electronic pop music.
They have a new record out called the Devil, You and Me. Here’s “Alphabet” - […]
Behance just featured my portfolio on the front of the site, and also featured the other sound design ad I did for Sony Bravia.
This is what my email looked like today:
Woo!
Design supersite Behance has started a portfolio site, and my (imaginary) clip for BMW was picked as a featured project today.
They say: “Our editorial team features a small number of projects every day. With hundreds of options, we only pick a few that promote new thinking.”
There’s a lot of great stuff up there - look […]
