Archive for the ‘Tranquilistics’ Category
This is a my 2011 Demo on Soundcloud so I’m just testing how their plug-in works in my blog here. I’m currently writing some more material for Tranquilistics and hope to have some more tracks and a video available by the end of the year. The arrival of my son Lee Kai has put the brakes on things a little in the last few months but I have heaps of ideas and concepts to go on with.
This link will take you to my next music video experiment “Ruled by Venus” from my new Tranquilistics project. Tranquilistics – “Ruled by Venus” Music Video 4:40
I have uploaded the first 9 track demo my new music project “Tranquilistics” to Soundcloud as it seems to be a popular and practical way to circulate music. The tracks are still available here on this blog but Soundcloud has some real benefits and seems worth checking out. Tranquilistics is an instrumental and experimental, music project. A dark, hypnotic & surreal collection of guitar based progressive soundscapes with eastern, acoustic overtones and spacious psychedelia.
If you are into Soundcloud or just want a listen:
Tranquilistics – Demo 2011 – Soundcloud Page
I have designed and uploaded a web site for my Tranquilistics music project. I wanted the site to showcase the new material produced and provided an interface for people to listen and download the music and video. While most of this material is available on this blog, the songs can now be downloaded for free and the project has its own space and identity on the net.
The site is HTML and CSS based and was created in Dreamweaver CS5 and PhotoShop to the 960 grid system. The site uses some flash based elements, mp3 player, FLV video and Lightroom image galleries. For music and video there are alternative downloads for users without Flash. I have been teaching CSS web design again this semester and have used various aspects of this interface design for examples and demonstrations in class. This site was tested with Safari and Firefox browsers but please let me know if you see problems with the site.
Some more experimental promo plectrum designs. This one based of the Grand Illusions artwork I did in january, I have been experimenting with colours and material to see what designs work best for the medium, these turned out a little more saturated than the original file but still look pretty cool.
This link will take you to a motion graphic music video of my new Tranquilistics song “Grand Illusions”
Tranquilistics – “Grand Illusions” Music Video 4:48
Overview
This is the first demo draft of my new music project “Tranquilistics” meaning: the study of tranquility – or, the study of chasing tranquility, and is an attempt to produce my own body of original music and explore some new sound textures and directions. This is very much work in progress an I hope it will grow to be a more collective project that includes other artists and media.
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04. Lone Symbiont – April-May 2010
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I had these picks made for promo for the website and for a bit of fun. I have been meaning to make up a bunch of picks for some time. I used these Tranquilistics designs as test run and the results are pretty good. Going to get some Alchemist ones made for fun too, just working out what artwork to put on them. Giving these plectrums out with my demo as promo.
This design is the logo for my music project I have going called Tranquilistics. I didn’t want anything to stiff and formal and after a few days of working glyphs, curves and vectors came up with this design that I’m going with for now anyway. It may be a it hard for some to read as it an “invented” word but I’m happy for it to be a little encrypted. Background art is a vector design composed of several tattoo bird and Phoenix designs that I traced with a Wacom Intous 4 tab using the blob tool. I need to get my technique a little better with the tablet as my usual workflow would drawn be by hand then traced in illustrator to produce the vectors.
Recording a batch of songs for this Tranquilistics project, at home in my lounge room, which has been converted into a make shift studio. Below is the core recording gear I use from a day to day basis, some extras I bring from work or borrow from friends. Its pretty big, sounded weird to me at first and now is just normal (disturbing thought). We have a dedicated room at work in our design labs with a similar set-up, a mac that runs all the Apple audio applications with the M-box hardware, we are soundproofing it at the moment. Not a great deal of the material is recorded live but I have experimented recording my Djembe drum and classical guitar. Steel string runs through the GT-10.
This is my home set-up
Hardware – Recording Gear
Software
