Uncle Nobody Productions

Description: Various household appliances like microwave ovens, digital cameras, water fountains, and washing machines (hence the pun-like title) recorded and processed via computer along with other synthesizer forms added. Phonographic recordings made in Kyoto, Japan during Sakura festivities April 2004. Recording completed April 13, 2005. Status on part one: Closed

Description: The synths were run through an analog filter to give the upper register an organic lush creaminess, and ultra beef in the bass. The three jolts that occur toward the middle and end were a manually triggered envelope that opened up the cutoff and resonance of the filter on the bass track. The metallic sounds were accomplished by striking and scraping a spiral coiled steel sculpture turned upside down, which had a wonderfully resonant quality. Most of the subtle panned effects were the result of several digital and analog delays on this track that were interacting on one another and manipulated in real time. The sprinkling track was done by pouring small finish nails onto the same steel sculpture. And finally there was a volume swelling track of cymbal samples that were tuned an octave or two up, driven by a random arpeggiator, and run through a step LFO on the analog filter. Status on part two: Closed

Description: Recording of Fischer Price children’s music box/record player step at a time, reorganized, and processed via computadora. Acoustic guitar accents – background conversation purposefully included, digital camera internal noise via contact microphone then processed via artificial intelligence. Phonographic recordings of crowd at the Broadway Bound children’s production of Annie at the Moore Theatre – Jan 2007, as well as general ambience of Pill Hill, Seattle WA Jan 2007 via microtrack recorder. Tibetan bells and generic jingle bells. Recording completed January 25, 2007. Status on part three: Closed

Description: The main track is an improvised pad patch on the Roland V Synth playing moody drawn out chords. There were occasional accent effects applied to this after recording using a Korg KP3 Kaoss Pad. About halfway through and continuing more or less to the end is an animalistic growling/squelchy sound that was the result of running the same V Synth track through a Sherman filterbank, whose 'tracking' function was failing to sync with the pitch of the chords and hence the complanatory dissonance. And last but not least there were a few other momentary effect sounds added with the V Synth for subtletly.