Author Archive for Ryan
PART II!
This time I had a friend take only 579 pictures of my face.
This edition of Headshots, The Movie isn’t as hypnotic as part I, however it does find our hero in faraway lands escaping a Turkish prison and running from the forces of evil.
Feel free to compare and contrast part I and part II. There is a seizure warning in effect for children under 12 who watch both videos simultaneously.
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In December, I bought a looper. The idea was to lay down a couple of foundation guitar parts, rhythm heavy things I could sing over or that would free me up to do something other than guitar. As things progressed the Fela-style afrobeat jams were by far the most interesting and fun to play.
Thus began Me Mountain - a combination of afrobeat and post-punk.
We recorded the drums and foundation loops live using a pair of C414B’s as overheads and a couple of MD421’s on the kick and snare. We ran those four tracks into my RME Fireface 800 and Digital Performer over a few hot days in our practice space.
I like the results. Would you like to join my band?
I’m outraged. My muxtape has 0 favorites [ed: I'm up to 1 favorite!]. I mean come on people!
Who doesn’t like montage songs and credit themes?!
Who doesn’t like Real Genius, The Jewel of the Nile, Weird Science, Back to School, & Beverly Hills Cop?!!
The Autry National Center hired Black Dollar to do sound design for a video piece in the new Cowboys and Presidents exhibit.
The Autry needed a convention soundscape to play behind a slideshow of former presidents roughing it like cowboys. It had to flow seamlessly from decade to decade while not showing any particular political bias.
I didn’t have access to university archive or old new reels; I had to rely on the internet to give me my material. I used Miro to download any and all convention related material I could find on YouTube, Google video, etc. After stripping out the choice audio from the convention footage, I added in some crowd sound effects from my personal library and mixed it all together with DP5.
When you go to the exhibit, you’ll hear the audio as you walk in.
Here’s what the Autry has to say about the exhibit:
During the spring and summer of 2008, April 12 through September 7, the Autry National Center will premiere Cowboys and Presidents. This national traveling show will explore the fascinating and ongoing intersection of cowboy culture and presidential politics from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush.
The exhibit will explain how the presidency became intertwined with the emerging image of a heroic American cowboy at the turn of the twentieth century and will explore the ways that U.S. Presidents have used this powerful iconographic symbol to define themselves and their administrations to the nation and the world. It will also show how the press, foreign governments, and domestic political opponents have found cowboy imagery useful in criticizing presidential policy and leadership.