“If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.” Werner Herzog, ‘A Guide for the Perplexed‘ I’m thinking that this statement, while controversial and easily disproven in a variety of cases, holds some truth. And I think it holds a […]
Dear friends and backers of the DIVE recording project. A long overdue update is in order. Much has been done over the last months. Most importantly, more than half of the recordings have been through a first draft of mastering. It’s been a real pleasure to be working with Michael White who has great ears,
Update on Music for DIVE: mastering, digital distribution, Nostrodamus and a turtle Read More »
‘Lament’ will almost certainly be the last track in the CD.
A very simple, and very elegant, plaintif melody sung (and composed) by Fides over the subdued remnants of ‘The Storm’.
The bed track for ‘Lament’ was built up using the same set of Poly Six improvisations as ‘The Storm’…
A Call to DIVE VII – Lament Read More »
This week I’m presenting a piece which is an apex work in the narrative. It’s a piece in which Fides’ full vocal power and prowess gets to really let loose in a transcendent expression of extreme rage and grief, swept along by a sonic storm of multiple layers of analog synth, wind, waves and wolves.
A Call to DIVE VI – The Storm Read More »
This IGNITE Talk (5 mins, 15 secs per slide – GO!) was presented at the Web of Change Conference Sept. 2013, at Balcones Springs just outside of Austin, TX. Huge thanks to the WOCMob for welcoming this errant pitch! In response to my opening statement “I’m curious why orgs and people fiercely protect outrageous poisonous
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‘Lighea’s Idyll’ is really a full on ambient work, summoning a brilliant sunlit sea, awash in the sounds of ripples and waves in a multiplicity of patterns, and the emergence – gently bobbing up from the deeps – of the mermaid as her natural self, in her oceanic element…
A Call to DIVE V – Lighea’s Idyll Read More »
The exceedingly talented photographer & filmmaker Jeremy Mimnagh created a very cool video for the project, and you can pre-order downloads, CDs, a poster of the cover art, and you can even order me. If you’re really special (I know, you’re all really special!) you can book a visitation from the mermaid herself!
A Call to DIVE IV – Crowdfunder Launch! Read More »
I give you ‘PaulArio’. This is a piece which some of you may genuinely wonder if it actually qualifies as music, and some of you will think maybe Brian Eno met Kayhan Kalhor… Persian Ambient Psychedelia?
How can I explain?
Two searching souls meet one another, and through a strange course of recognition and discovery, become inextricably bound to a divine being, and a mutual pathway of devastation and awakening.
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Greetings encore, diverse divers and lovers of dives.
It was a thrill to send the last missive off, and it’s been an even greater thrill to have so many amazingly cool responses from friends far and near, and new and old. Honoured indeed to have such great folks having a listen!
But the story’s just begun!
In this email I’ll present three more works:
The Pastry Shop, Lighea’s Lovers, and Bar Hades
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An Aria sung over a bed track of waves, gulls, Crystal Baschet, and a buoy bell run through a Line 6 delay modeler. Mussolini’s ‘Vincere’ speech (in which he declared war on the Allies) slowed down
and stretched out so that it screams and moans. Jack boots and Leni Riefenstahl samples. Dulcimers, pan delay and Array Mbiras.
An ambient composition for microtonal instrument creator Harry Partch’s ‘Cloud Chamber Bowls’. Layers and layers of fat classic analog synth (PolySix) layered in with howling wolves as a bed track for an astonishing vocal storm by the truly and terribly astonishing voice of our muse and main protaganist, mermaid and siren, Fides Krucker.
A Call to DIVE I – The Prelude & The Pearls Read More »