this was a song about doing mean things to cats, with the intent of being aggravating, but who wants to listen to that? so, i've taken the vocals out, here.
the drum collage was created digitally out of samples and then dumped to a four-track where the guitar and bass were added. when i compiled my first record, i decided the guitars weren't worth the tape hiss and loss of definition that came with converting to analog and back to digital.
originally created in 1997. reconstructed from source on dec 8, 2014.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/cats-apocalypse
Monday, December 8, 2014
i'm also going to put together parts of a sort of a chiptune compilation from 1997 that i kind of let get away from me...
i don't have a number for it, and i've shipped, so i need to be careful about relabeling. i might delete inri010. the first inricycled is necessary, but the second is increasingly feeling superfluous. i haven't made a decision yet, though. i'll want to get something sequenced first. it might make sense to just add it on to inri004.
i spent the second half of 1997 with my head in an ry30, which i had sequenced to a computer running as a sequencer. i'd play the two things as backup to my guitar parts. this formed the basis of the tracks i recorded over 1998.
i was going to move these ideas into the chiptune disc, but the reality is there's no room for them on it. hence, inrinterpreted - which is a better idea, anyways.
but i still kind of want to capture some of this as it existed at the time - which is the combination of ry30, sequencer and guitar. the culmination of several changes of approach have left this idea stranded, and without an obvious entry point.
i'll have to put some tracks aside and see how much of it is really worth it. but i think something or other is coming up...
i don't have a number for it, and i've shipped, so i need to be careful about relabeling. i might delete inri010. the first inricycled is necessary, but the second is increasingly feeling superfluous. i haven't made a decision yet, though. i'll want to get something sequenced first. it might make sense to just add it on to inri004.
i spent the second half of 1997 with my head in an ry30, which i had sequenced to a computer running as a sequencer. i'd play the two things as backup to my guitar parts. this formed the basis of the tracks i recorded over 1998.
i was going to move these ideas into the chiptune disc, but the reality is there's no room for them on it. hence, inrinterpreted - which is a better idea, anyways.
but i still kind of want to capture some of this as it existed at the time - which is the combination of ry30, sequencer and guitar. the culmination of several changes of approach have left this idea stranded, and without an obvious entry point.
i'll have to put some tracks aside and see how much of it is really worth it. but i think something or other is coming up...
as i'm digitizing this, i'm realizing there's a few things i thought were lost that i can drop directly into inrijected. these are cassettes from the 90s that house raw 4-track recordings of songs before they were digitally manipulated. i'm taking them in through the 4-track, channel by channel. i didn't do this before because, with few exceptions, they would have been unusable to recreate any of the inri releases with. i simply don't have the raw digital noises that i used to build the tracks up, so i couldn't recreate them as they were. further, it's not that i wanted to destroy the existing mixes as they were, i just wanted to balance them out a little...
the compromise i came to was to pencil in an "inrinterpreted" release for late 2015 or early 2016 (if i live that long). that way the initial releases could stand as they do, and i could do fresh mixes for the stuff i feel deserves it. there's just a handful of tracks that i'd like to take the vocals out of and maybe sauce up a little - some of them rather radically. as such, i'm going to consider these new constructions, and i want to wait until i get done the chronology that already exists.
but this is a good time to digitize this because i have a bunch of other inri related stuff i'd like to burn off the drive.
that being said, i would have taken a few of these off last year if i realized they were there. i thought i had everything i had digitized; i figured that what i couldn't find was lost. that's not the case. so, these two or three songs will be up in the next few days as well.
the compromise i came to was to pencil in an "inrinterpreted" release for late 2015 or early 2016 (if i live that long). that way the initial releases could stand as they do, and i could do fresh mixes for the stuff i feel deserves it. there's just a handful of tracks that i'd like to take the vocals out of and maybe sauce up a little - some of them rather radically. as such, i'm going to consider these new constructions, and i want to wait until i get done the chronology that already exists.
but this is a good time to digitize this because i have a bunch of other inri related stuff i'd like to burn off the drive.
that being said, i would have taken a few of these off last year if i realized they were there. i thought i had everything i had digitized; i figured that what i couldn't find was lost. that's not the case. so, these two or three songs will be up in the next few days as well.
prematurely publishing atom's / taught to twist the affected so low
on second thought, i need to squeeze an ep in to august, 2002. i believe the first track is done, but i need to spend some time with the second.
before i left for a backpacking cross-canada trip in mid 2003, i burned a handful of cds and formatted my pc. i didn't want anybody snooping around when i was gone. unfortunately, the burns picked up a weird setting that dated everything to the date of the burn. this issue affects almost everything that was left unfinished between 2001 and 2003, which is a lot of stuff. i was able to date the rabit stuff better because the discs had been burnt previously to this...
the summer of 2002 is pretty messy for me. i was very isolated, going through hormone therapy and on the brink of psychological collapse. so, my memory over those months is quite blurry.
but i've convinced myself that this ep belongs before the untitled piece in the chronology. the truth is it's not in exact order. i specifically remember that the second track was a kind of an excursion in the middle of recording the untitled piece, which i spent most of august and september doing. i put it aside for later completion, which never happened. and a process of deduction suggests to me that the first track must have been in august.
these tracks are both messy, conceptually. i've resisted publishing them up until this point. i'll have to write explanations over the next few days.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/atoms-taught-to-twist-the-affected-so-low
before i left for a backpacking cross-canada trip in mid 2003, i burned a handful of cds and formatted my pc. i didn't want anybody snooping around when i was gone. unfortunately, the burns picked up a weird setting that dated everything to the date of the burn. this issue affects almost everything that was left unfinished between 2001 and 2003, which is a lot of stuff. i was able to date the rabit stuff better because the discs had been burnt previously to this...
the summer of 2002 is pretty messy for me. i was very isolated, going through hormone therapy and on the brink of psychological collapse. so, my memory over those months is quite blurry.
but i've convinced myself that this ep belongs before the untitled piece in the chronology. the truth is it's not in exact order. i specifically remember that the second track was a kind of an excursion in the middle of recording the untitled piece, which i spent most of august and september doing. i put it aside for later completion, which never happened. and a process of deduction suggests to me that the first track must have been in august.
these tracks are both messy, conceptually. i've resisted publishing them up until this point. i'll have to write explanations over the next few days.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/atoms-taught-to-twist-the-affected-so-low
now, as for what i'm doing next....
this is an incomplete mix of the track. it's the last (or second last) track in the midi-oriented style that dominated my output over 2001. it's also very explicitly techno-oriented. so, i'm going to complete it in the same way that i completed the previous midi oriented tracks. the difference is that this track already has a lot of guitars recorded. it's actually quite angular from that perspective.
what i'm going to have to do is:
(1) properly notate it. most of it is written into the score. what's left to write into it is fairly minimal.
(2) a chiptune version will find it's way to thru. it's either the last or the second last component of the chiptune disc, depending on how this ostrich thing works itself out.
(3) i'll need to do a full vst version.
(4) i'll then need to combine that vst version with a proper mix of the existing version.
(5) there's also four existing mixes that need to be cleaned up, including a raw guitar version.
so i'm looking at quite a few versions of this. it's probably not going to take forever, though.
the first step needs to be actually listening to what i have and that's going to need to wait until probably thursday at the earliest.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/untitled
this is an incomplete mix of the track. it's the last (or second last) track in the midi-oriented style that dominated my output over 2001. it's also very explicitly techno-oriented. so, i'm going to complete it in the same way that i completed the previous midi oriented tracks. the difference is that this track already has a lot of guitars recorded. it's actually quite angular from that perspective.
what i'm going to have to do is:
(1) properly notate it. most of it is written into the score. what's left to write into it is fairly minimal.
(2) a chiptune version will find it's way to thru. it's either the last or the second last component of the chiptune disc, depending on how this ostrich thing works itself out.
(3) i'll need to do a full vst version.
(4) i'll then need to combine that vst version with a proper mix of the existing version.
(5) there's also four existing mixes that need to be cleaned up, including a raw guitar version.
so i'm looking at quite a few versions of this. it's probably not going to take forever, though.
the first step needs to be actually listening to what i have and that's going to need to wait until probably thursday at the earliest.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/untitled
i think the best way to understand my situation is to look at the results of the two tests i took when i applied for a cra job around 07 or 08 or something. it's a concise argument...
the first test they had me do was the general competency level test. there were actually two tests, but let's consider the second. this is basically an iq test. i had a score of 80/90. nobody scores that high. the stats i saw put that in the 95th percentile, but that was the highest percentile published, so it means it's at least the 95th percentile. that means i scored higher on this test than at least 95% of the people that take it. the minimum pass mark is 51/90. now, this is something that's consistent for me - i've repeatedly scored at elite levels on every iq-type test i've ever taken.
the second test they had me do was the situational judgement test, which tests workplace behaviour. i've actually failed this test three times. this is also consistent with my history of anti-social behaviour.
now, the government's perspective was that they couldn't hire me because i don't understand workplace behaviour. maybe that's actually a correct analysis. further, maybe these things are related. maybe i can't pass the behavioural test because my intelligence is too high. maybe the smart-person approach is inherently contradictory to a hierarchical organizing principle. maybe i'm just an anarchist. or maybe there's an underlying condition.
but, for employment purposes, it's the results of the second test that are more important. the challenge i have, now, is getting a health professional to put two and two together.
the first test they had me do was the general competency level test. there were actually two tests, but let's consider the second. this is basically an iq test. i had a score of 80/90. nobody scores that high. the stats i saw put that in the 95th percentile, but that was the highest percentile published, so it means it's at least the 95th percentile. that means i scored higher on this test than at least 95% of the people that take it. the minimum pass mark is 51/90. now, this is something that's consistent for me - i've repeatedly scored at elite levels on every iq-type test i've ever taken.
the second test they had me do was the situational judgement test, which tests workplace behaviour. i've actually failed this test three times. this is also consistent with my history of anti-social behaviour.
now, the government's perspective was that they couldn't hire me because i don't understand workplace behaviour. maybe that's actually a correct analysis. further, maybe these things are related. maybe i can't pass the behavioural test because my intelligence is too high. maybe the smart-person approach is inherently contradictory to a hierarchical organizing principle. maybe i'm just an anarchist. or maybe there's an underlying condition.
but, for employment purposes, it's the results of the second test that are more important. the challenge i have, now, is getting a health professional to put two and two together.
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