@ Lil Indies - Orlando, FL - May 19th
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Unquiet CD now available
Why I decided to bother making these cd's I am not entirely certain, but now that I have I am extremely pleased with them. This cd contains Unrelated Passages and Quiet Instructions on one disc. I hand printed the recycled cardboard sleeves and printed the insert on vellum. I was going for an early 90's Thrill Jockey meets Drive-In Records (the seminal Michigan space rock/indie pop label) aesthetic. I feel like I succeeded in that. This run of cd's is limited to just 25 copies.
These will be available at upcoming shows or you can order one from me. They are $5 postage paid. If you wish to order one contact me at hifienvelope@gmail.com
Monday, December 26, 2011
Sloppy Kisses
Over the X-mas weekend my friends Timothy Murray and Anna Wallace have released some music via Soundcloud with their new group, Sloppy Kisses. If you love thrifting, John Waters movies and phasers, this is the stuff for you! Anna's voice is like a lounge singer crossed with a theremin. Tim and I have played in many bands together and he has played in the Hifi Envelope in the past, so you know he's gonna come correct with that bass and omnichord. Some dude called Ryan is holding it down with some fun, tight electro-drum kit drumming and nice clean production. These cats can swing. Check 'em out.
http://soundcloud.com/sloppykisses
http://soundcloud.com/sloppykisses
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Surface Music Re-issue
It's almost X-mas and I wanted to put this out there before the end of the year. Looks like I'm just squeezing by on this re-issue, but at least I'm getting it done. This way I have all of the cd-r's that I put out years ago available in a digital format. There were a couple of other releases, but I do not plan on making those available. I think that what I have available for download via bandcamp is a good representation of my output as the Hifi Envelope. Now I can put a little more effort into fully realizing the songs that I have written since 2009 that I have performed live with, but not had the energy or focus to try to properly record.
Though it is fairly mid-fi in terms of fidelity, Surface Music represents a big step forward for me. Up until 2000 I had primarily worked on a tape four track with outboard effects and a sampler to record and compose. Sometime that year I started playing around on the computer making beat sequences with free trackers I found to download. In 2002 I was introduced to a couple of programs that really changed how I made music. The songs on Surface Music are the results of those changes. Through adapting newer technologies and applying what I had learned playing drums in Noetry and bass(among other things) in the French Horns, I was growing my ability to map out a piece both dynamically and melodically.
Originally this was released as a cd-r in 2004 on Lostgate Backgrounds. It is released here with an extra song that was from the Party Music release from 2005 that will not be re-issued. "Fond Belt Memory" was written and recorded with Timothy Murray in 2003(of Orlando bands Noetry, Temporally and Telethon) one afternoon while we were waiting for friends to pick us up to go to a Belle and Sebastian concert. Since it was recorded at the same time as the rest of the songs on Surface Music, I though it would be fitting to include.
Download Surface Music here: http://hifienvelope.bandcamp.com/album/surface-music
Though it is fairly mid-fi in terms of fidelity, Surface Music represents a big step forward for me. Up until 2000 I had primarily worked on a tape four track with outboard effects and a sampler to record and compose. Sometime that year I started playing around on the computer making beat sequences with free trackers I found to download. In 2002 I was introduced to a couple of programs that really changed how I made music. The songs on Surface Music are the results of those changes. Through adapting newer technologies and applying what I had learned playing drums in Noetry and bass(among other things) in the French Horns, I was growing my ability to map out a piece both dynamically and melodically.Originally this was released as a cd-r in 2004 on Lostgate Backgrounds. It is released here with an extra song that was from the Party Music release from 2005 that will not be re-issued. "Fond Belt Memory" was written and recorded with Timothy Murray in 2003(of Orlando bands Noetry, Temporally and Telethon) one afternoon while we were waiting for friends to pick us up to go to a Belle and Sebastian concert. Since it was recorded at the same time as the rest of the songs on Surface Music, I though it would be fitting to include.
Download Surface Music here: http://hifienvelope.bandcamp.com/album/surface-music
Friday, October 7, 2011
The Incomplete Works of The Hifi Envelope
I have re-issued it on bandcamp here:
http://hifienvelope.bandcamp.com/album/the-incomplete-works-of-the-hifi-envelope
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Abandoned Drive-Ins
Several of my songs are being set to some footage of abandoned drive in theaters in Florida. This film was shot on Hi8 by Alex Ojeda in the late 1990's and is being transferred and edited by Aaron O'Laughlin. Aaron has made a youtube channel to document its development.
Needless to say, I am super excited and grateful to have the opportunity to be part of this project.
Needless to say, I am super excited and grateful to have the opportunity to be part of this project.
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