tweak and twang

Fully Funtional..

So, I have just got back from a two week tour with Sylent Running. It is a band with Barney McAll (piano/synths) and Nir Felder (guitar) from NYC, Chris Hale (bass) and Gian Slater (vox) from Melbourne and Ben Vanderwall (drums) from Perth. I was playing Ableton and doing some live input vocal processing of Gian. Killer musicians and great shows up the east coast culminating in two nights in the back room of Bennett’s Lane before some awesome Melbourne crowds.

Barney and I did the record over the internet, sending Protools sessions via FTP - it was at times manic but an incredibly fun experience. All the Melbourne components for the album were done in the container, so I thought it was time to put some shots up of how it is looking. I built some baffles with my good mate Ptero_Stylus from Diafrix (thanks Glen!) and got some of the new SoundBites panels from local crew Sound Acoustics for ceiling reflections. The baffles are movable so can be reorganized depending on what you are recording in there. For the Sylent Running album Empathy Chip, I recorded Gian’s vocals using an awesome U-87 clone from Australian company Jeanne Audio - check them out.

Prior to the Sylent stuff, I did sound for Eugenia Lim’s Nowhereland exhibition which ran at Blindside Artist Run Space in the Nicholas Building, Melbourne. A component of the sound design for this work involved me recording iconic dancer Yumi Umiumare as the reassuring inner voice of Japanese cannibal and minor celebrity Issei Sagawa. Spooky…