tom moody

"Jam Science (Organic)"

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"Jam Science (Organic)" [mp3 removed]

Used the MIDI notes of an earlier song ("Rinso Piano") to trigger "rock organ" samples and superimposed the organ parts on another previous, mostly rhythm piece, "Jam Science." Had to shuffle the "Rinso" segments around to find the best-sounding parts of the rhythm score for them to interact with, but didn't want it to resemble those '90s techno remixes where isolated phrases of a song float around on a pre-existing rhythm bed (not too much, anyway). Some head scratching went into making a de novo work. Parts of it sound like a house tune and really cook. Would like to get it all like that.

Hollywood Ending for Kagemusha

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If that Kurosawa movie of 1980 (plot summary) were remade today:
--The impersonator, instead of dying in a hail of bullets, would jump on the back of Lord Shrigen's previously untamable horse and lead the clan to victory.
--His three years as a "shadow warrior" would cause him to mature from a common thief into a Lord and learn a valuable lesson about his better nature.
--An ambiguity would exist whether the impersonator actually learned these lessons or whether he was channeling the ghost of the dead Lord.

blu-face3.jpg

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john pomara - blu-face3

by John Pomara

in this piece printing is done on top of an existing ink jet print. I like the chaos here and the trace of a face in the visual noise.

cf. jimpunk video in the previous post.

WFA II

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jimpunk, "We Fix Antlers II" [YouTube]

the original data grinder. this work comes as close as any to rocking the standardized confines of YouTube. there is always that tension that something is breaking. the pure aesthetics of the digital accident. never trendy, always reliably pissed-off.

"Trumpets"

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"Trumpets" [mp3 removed - later version is on bandcamp]

Jazzy dodecaphonish licks made after listening to Keith Emerson's '80s movie soundtracks for about a week. Not that it sounds like Emerson's dextrous playing at all--it's much more midi. I guess it's just those analog synth trumpets remind me of some of his anthemic dramatics. I struggled to make the ending more tonal after getting fed up with 12 tone noodling.