“Time Freak,” a short film by my friends Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey, has been nominated for an Oscar. I wrote and recorded the song for the credits. The Oscar ceremonies take place on February 26 this year. “Time Freak” will be screening soon in 200 theaters across the country, and will be available on iTunes starting February 10.

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• leaving a change of clothes at work
• buying a new backpack that can hold a laptop and other gear snug against the upper back
• running errands
• round trip Tues/Thurs day care, 2 miles
• over the bridge to Sidewalk Mon/Thurs/Saturday, 3 miles
• over the bridge to record store, 3.5 miles
• round trip to coffee shop, 3 miles
• don’t replace the batteries for the scale

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In early September I spent 5 days and nights completing a 50-mile loop around the Three Sisters mountains in Oregon. The bookending weekends were spent enjoying Portland. In lieu of the epic travelogue that I had envisioned before heading to out, I’d just like to post a few pictures and say that I had a nice trip, thanks for asking.

A failure.

One of the easiest ways to fatten a soundscape is through the use of delay. For the novice, this is one of the easiest ways to get started, filtering a sound through a DL4 or some similar device and creating a wall of echoing cacophony. When I listen to an experienced noise act, however, I prefer these techniques to be a bit more camouflaged. A piece of noise should deliver the illusion that each sound has been uniquely generated. Alternatively, delayed sounds can add rhythm or texture, but if they are to remain overt they should (at the very least) be sufficiently warped through another filter.

This record is a “fan favorite” on communal music sites such as rateyourmusic, but because of the self-imposed principles stated above, it has been ruined for me. When I hear a blood-curdling yelp front and center in the mix, only to notice it clearly regenerated several seconds later in the right channel, the crucial fourth wall has been toppled. When the band makes no effort to rebuild the wall, executing this misjudgment of method continually for 30-minutes, I turn off the piece and move on to something else. This band has essentially taken one of their previous classics and fed it through a simple delay chain to beef the sound: the equivalent of mirroring a wall in a restaurant to suggest expanse. At the very least, they could have covered it up.

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