Noises and such...

I've been making noises...

These are some sound experiments I have been working on.

Think of them as sonic sketches if you like, 

just ideas that were floating around my head. 

Apologies for the poor recordings, I did them in my bedroom DI after my pedal board into my computer. And if I'm totally honest, I don't really understand the whole EQ-ing process so completely avoided it. 

I would urge you that if you listen to a song, listen to it in its entirety, as with most music, it makes
more sense that way...

This first one is quite an ambient post-rock sound-scape with lots of layers of guitars. 

Someday Once Again

Ok, here things venture away a bit from the ambience of  the last one into a bit of Drone and a genre referred to as Noise... because people often describe it as that. Its a just synth-scape and a bass, you may need good headphones to keep up with some of the frequencies of these next 2, but you have been warned about loud noises...

Lifting Down

Even noisier droning guitars (just two layers with my Telecaster), based on those semi-concious moments, drifting in and out of sleep and being disturbed when not entirely concious, sensations of falling and clawing at those last few seconds you're in bed to try and keep hold of them forever. Dreams you fail to take back. I'm sure we've all been there. enjoy! (or hate it, either is good)

Wake

I've also been associating these sounds with images. I'm quite fond of textural 

photography and have been doing a lot of it recently. 

These photos weren't created entirely to suit the music, nor they other way round,

but I feel that the images in each video match the personality of each song that I have 

chosen for them to accompany. 

(just noticed blogger is compressing the files further because it wouldn't let me upload straight from my Youtube which you can find HERE )

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Thanks for reading this or just looking at the pictures.

And if you bothered to take the time to listen to a song in its entirety, congratulations on becoming awesome.

Gojira Pedals

Great news!!

Gojira Pedals, who make all sorts of fantastic custom guitar effects pedals, wanted to put some of my artwork on their pedals!!! So of course I let them :D

Take Me Back II
Digital Photograph 

This is the image Gojira Pedals used. 

Have you ever tried burning receipts and found it rather difficult? 

Have you ever tried to keep an important receipt in your wallet and its gone blank? 

This is because a lot of them aren't printed with ink, the writing is actually made by hot pads that turn the paper's surface black upon contact. I kinda figured this out whilst casually sat about holding a lighter to a receipt, as you do, then blue tac'd them to my wall for.... quite some time. 

When I found them again something strange had happened. 

The surface had formed crystals, they looks like some kind of enchanting alien landscape.
The crystals are hard to see on the photographs, but they are the tiny dots.
I have no idea why they are there, perhaps it might have something to do with whatever makes it blacken with heat? Some sort of carbon layer? Diamonds are made of carbon..... hmmmm....

Here is the unedited image 

Take Me Back I
Digital Photograph

Here is the finished pedal!! 

A brilliant little Octafuzz stomp box! 

who wouldnt want to lower their guitar an entire octave and kick in some killer fuzz with just ONE switch? 

It's fair to say I am well and truly chuffed! 

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Ringstead

Acrylic on acid free paper

30x16.7cm

I went to a coastal area of Dorset called Ringstead a while ago, took thousands of photos and went through them the other week. This painting is what became of them.

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Skindred - Weymouth Pavilion

One of the proudest moments of my life was watching some of these videos of last Sunday at one of the concerts I help organise with Hourglass Promotions. I'm very proud to be part of the global music community and to have given 600 odd people the time of their lives at a sold out show, it really makes all the stress and long hours worth it. It breaks my heart to think that next year the council intend to bulldoze the pavilion (which happens to have managed to survive both world wars) so they can build another huge car park RIGHT NEXT TO ANOTHER WHICH IS ALWAYS EMPTY!! Well, always except when we put on concerts like last Sunday...

please back our Save The Pavilion campaign if you can by clicking HERE, it would be much appreciated!

As Skindred may say "stand for something, or you'll fall for anything" lets stand up for the pavilion.

Now, weather or not your into the music, just check out these videos from side of stage to get a glimpse of what its all about!!

here is some of their studio material

Reggae/Metal with Punk influences.... from Wales... Why not? I think its awesome!

Churning The Earth's Flesh

I know I've neglected my blog for a while, but i promise I'll do my best to keep the art flowing from now on, but I'm a busy guy, sorry.

Here's something i did a while ago (I'll post my latest works once they have dried)

I combined multiple view
points as well as layers of separate places for this piece. A large amount of the spaces i was viewing were in the process of being ploughed.






Churning The Earth's Flesh - Acrylic, Charcoal and Chalk on Wood (MDF)







On a separate note I'd like to try to urge everyone to listen to Godspeed You! Black Emperor, who I'm finding incredibly inspiring at the moment. Stirringly ambient and evocative.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEsdiiYkhT8

Solution

Most of my work over the past few months has been based on spaces, specifically an area which you inhabit, your own space will always, as i have found, affect you drastically. in order to move forwards with life and living it efficiently, changes in these spaces are needed, hence I have moved from one of Dorset's most rural places, to one of its most built up areas. It's very different having spent my whole life around fields of cows etc. for the most part though, its much better, but the stars aren't as bright. 

This is the inspiration for this piece. I have found stepping stones to help me move forwards. 
Solutions.

Conte, Acrylic, Chalk, Charcoal and Pencil on Paper

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Untitled Abstraction

Untitled Abstraction 

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Acrylic on thin card

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