Introducing, the all-new-super cool- SEA-CAST, a neat weekly audio cast featuring odd and rare recordings from the Seahorse Sound archives.
This will be a neat new way to share music and sound. Look for new posts each week, and remember to click "Subscribe" or "Follow".
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Feel free to share some of your own music and we will put it up eventually when the time is right. Send submissions to info@seahorsesoundstudios.com
Just posted SEA-CAST #2 featuring LA's own Crooked Cowboy and the Freshwater Indians
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It has been pretty insane here lately... 22 hour work days in order to meet deadlines and finish construction in a timely matter. 14 hours of recording and another 8 of construction. Neato.
Just finished is the new BEDLAM OF CACOPHONY album, "Neuroleptic". Power Grind and Super Tech, these guys are face-melting badasses with a lethal new album. Check out our blog archives for more info on the recording of the album.
Also wrapped in time for the release is the highly absurd, highly anticipated, EDSEL PRESLY album "duartesucksdotcom".
This is going to be one of my favorite productions for a long time. It is odd, honest, odd, absurd and odd again. The only way i can really describe the music is deranged blues with honest free jazz sections and absurd folk like lyrics with vocals from a mad scientist hash maker from Kentucky.
If you were locked in a room with music on repeat, most of the time you will go insane. This music on the other hand will have you waltzing on water with an imaginary dance partner.
Get weird with Edsel Presley.
Here are some pictures from our new studio build in Los Angeles, California. The studio is coming along nicely and we could not be more thrilled or tired.
Here, I scored some compressed fiberglass (roxul) on Craigslist from the Compressed Fiberglass Angel. You know who you are, you special man you. This is basically a pile of gold to me. I love you.
CF is by far the most effective and efficient acoustic control material, it has a high density and works well at most frequencies. Even down to the lower bass frequencies, where most rooms suffer from the worst acoustical problems. Muddy mixes happen because of this. At 1 inch thick, it is still more effective then that nasty acoustic foam you see in a lot studios, it also doesn't look like you put a dirty sponge on your wall. You can also stack it for more lower frequency control.
Here you see the first panel installed on the ceiling of the control room, this stuff gets pretty heavy when your holding it overhead at 6am with no sleep and too much power tools.
This will be the ceiling "cloud". Staggered layers of CF from 1"-3" thick with air gaps in between the surfaces. This will create a much more balanced room from the get go, and also "acoustically" raises my ceiling height. If a low ceiling in a control room goes untreated you can get some really nasty comb filtering, which btw is not a way to cleanse water with a hair accessory. It's a really bad side effect of unhappy frequency response.
Finished! Left some room for future track lighting/disco ball (not)
This will be the fabric covering the CF. You can't really tell from the picture, but the material is beautiful and fancy, i also want to thank the Guardian Fabric Angel in the fashion district.
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There is a neat lil video experiment for a upcoming Conscious Summary piece called
"Prescription: Lullaby"
The song will be featured on a upcoming 7" vinyl release with mastering done by Noah Georgeson (Joanna Newsom, The Strokes) and the amazing surrealist artist Rob Sato doing a custom peice.
CS is offering a guide track and a bunch of random video clips in a .zip file to download. Listen to the song and assemble the clips to make video. There are no rules or directions, you can use as much or as little of the given footage as possible. The most creative video will be chosen and the author will be given a free copy of the 7" and other goodies.
Download the package here. Deadline is May 15th.
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Happy Listening!
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