Saturday, November 19, 2016

i've got the album back on inri018 up, now. totally done.

i'm behind schedule, as always. i've been unexpectedly hungry the last few days. i dunno. but i need to eat again.

the next task is to sequence inri021 (the record) and i'll be heading offline to do it. if all goes well, i should have several completions through the next update - including a new lp and a new symphony.

publishing inri018

this track represents my first serious attempt to break out of the synth-pop sound i'd been developing over the first half of 1998 and into the more epic electro-noise-rock that defines the next period. while i'd been careening in this direction the whole time, and the track is ultimately a failed experiment, this is really the portal i go through that ultimately opens the way for what follows.

conceptually, the track was initially meant to mock the news cycle; the circus riff was tongue-in-cheek. you can imagine wolf blitzer and judy woodruff getting out of their clown cars and reading their teleprompter, type of thing. while i've eliminated the vocals from the official release, and there were never any produced for the re-recording, the bonus tracks are both early vocal mixes. it's admittedly hard to ignore the conceptual history of the track in explaining why i have a punk song built around the circus theme, but by the time i got to re-recording the track in late 1998 i'd truly moved past the concept.

yet, i wanted to retain the musical ideas in the track and even take it to a different level. the way the track is sequenced here retains a memory of how i wanted the track to unfold into a lengthy, multi-part epic separated by long sections of guitar-effects generated and digitally shaped ambience. this is not just an idea that would resurface in my next piece, my second symphony, but also something that would follow me for my entire musical career. these collages are crude, but this is where the idea first developed.

conceptual issues aside, i also had a lot of difficulty getting the guitar tone i wanted for the track - a problem i really hadn't previously had on this kind of scale. in hindsight, i think i'd just become a little more aware of the tonal options in front of me. up to this point, when i ran into the problem of the evasive tone, putting it down for a few days and approaching it fresh solved it, but that wasn't working. this track was dragging on for months. i was lost in production...

then, out of the blue, there was a power outage that knocked my computer out as i was running a part of the track through an ambient transform. the track - and all the digital additions i had added to it - were largely destroyed. what was left was this completely corrupted wave file of disjointed guitar fragments. i've never been a religious person (obviously), and i don't want to say i took at as a sign or something. yet, i let chance assert itself; the corrupted wave file became the final version of the track, and i moved on to the next thing.

the actual, proper track was then forgotten about for years. i'm only finally dusting it off now, in 2016, and releasing it here as a single, along with a collection of experimental collages that approximate what the track was meant to sound like. this ep should really be thought of as consisting of two versions of the song, separated by the two minutes of silence after the fifth track. the track was abandoned for good reason; the motif is silly. so, my frustrations with the composition shall have to be recorded in the annals of time.

initially written in 1997. recreated and reconceptualized in late 1998. salvaged somewhat at the end of 1999. remastered in 2013. compiled on nov 13, 2016. finalized on nov 19, 2016. as always, please use headphones.

the album version of this track appears on my second record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inriched

this release is compiled in the following places:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/merch/inri-box-set

this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (1997, 1998, 2013, 2016).

*download only

credits

released December 1, 1998

j - guitars, effects, bass, drum kit, synthesizers, sequencers, drum programming, noise generators, sound design, sampling, found sounds, tapes, digital wave editing, cool edit synthesis, loops, vocals, chance, production

if i knew it was going to take me a year and a half to get through this detour of remixing material from 1998, i'm not sure i would have taken it. i think the results speak for themselves: this was worthwhile. but, it was terribly time consuming, too.

a lot of the delay was the consequence of malfunctioning gear and environmental noise. i probably would have been dealing with the same problems, regardless.

but i'm almost there. finally. a few more days.
this morning's been kinda weird, actually.

i have finished the cover art for inri017. it is 100% completely done.

i've closed the audio for inri018. but, in the process of writing up the liner notes, i ended up publishing all of the remaining inri material - except the final sequence on the second lp, which i need to sequence the vocals out of.

that means.

1) inri019. symphony #2.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/teenage-jesus

2) inri020. boogeyman ep single.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/boogeyman

3) inri021. lp #2.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inriched

4) inri022. outtakes from 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inrijected

5) inri023. glitch remixes from 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inrimixed

6) inri024. reclaimed mixes from 1998, directly from tape (2015).
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inriclaimed

period 1.3 starts here

7) inri025. too cold single.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/too-cold

8) medinricated glu remix stub.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/02-medicated-to-the-one-i-love

9) inri026. grade 12 marketing project donation request.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/gene-os-a-soundtrack-for-an-italian-breakfast-cereal

10) inri027. grade 12 electronic music assignment.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/pop-music-a-tribute-to-carbon-dioxide

11) inverted tricil remix stub.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/03-inverted

12) inri028. grade 12 electronic music project.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/warning

13) inri029. war ep.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/war

14) inri030. liquify ep.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/liquify

15) inri031. remix compilation.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inrimake

16) inri032. lp #3.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inridiculous

17) inri033. book it! single.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/book-it

18) inri034. ambient works vol 0 compilation.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-works-vol-0

now, i need to finish mastering the first couple and write liner notes for the rest....

i'm going to stop for a bagel, though.