To lengthen the wait, to stretch out the day longer
The night is so cold, the wind cuts us both stronger
Oh, this moment
Just be forever
My fingers and toes have no feeling to hold, oh
I know that you long to be warm on your way home
but for you I would wait till the cold takes us both under
Oh, this hour
Just be forever
It crumbles my heart to think of us part, oh
To know that you hope for the night to be through, oh
And the last thing I save is the palm of your wave, oh
Oh, this moment
Please be forever
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Quotes from famous architects
Taking a history of architecture class coupled with redesigning an architecture magazine for class has made it impossible for me to do anything other than draw furniture.
"Design what the public ought to like—not what it does like" -Otto Wagner
"We must be free to create—not imitate." -Otto Wagner
"Decoration = Crime!" - Adolf Loos
Truth of Materials. Fitness of Purpose -Gerrit Rietveld
"Form Follows Function" - Louis Sullivan
"Less is more" - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
"A house is a machine for living." - Le Corbusier
"All houses should be painted white—by law!" - Le Corbusier
Alvar Aalto is a current favorite:
Along with anything these guys do:
"Design what the public ought to like—not what it does like" -Otto Wagner
"We must be free to create—not imitate." -Otto Wagner
"Decoration = Crime!" - Adolf Loos
Truth of Materials. Fitness of Purpose -Gerrit Rietveld
"Form Follows Function" - Louis Sullivan
"Less is more" - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
"A house is a machine for living." - Le Corbusier
"All houses should be painted white—by law!" - Le Corbusier
Alvar Aalto is a current favorite:
Along with anything these guys do:
Saturday, October 10, 2009
My senior project research consists of watching youtube videos of rad instruments
Two things I love—this instrument and Mr. Bojangles.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Good ideas for covers:
Beach Boys --> Pure Imagination
Grizzly Bear --> Pretty Young Thing by Michael Jackson
Beach House --> "The Weather" by Built to Spill
Bibio --> All Creatures of our God and King
Caribou --> Hallowed be thy Name by Iron Maiden
Detektivbyrån --> Claire de Lune by Claude Debussy
Michael Jackson --> Cross Out the Eyes by Thursday
Dirty Projectors --> Happy Together by The Turtles
Boards of Canada --> Two Weeks by Grizzly Bear
Blood Brothers --> Re:Stacks by Bon Iver
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
summer
Back in April/May I had the extreme pleasure of working on the Typophile Film Festival opening credits. I helped design/write/storyboard. I came back from new york to find my dreams a reality. The production team did an incredible job. The video is already doing quite well on the blog circuit, so I thought I'd contribute:
Summer was perfect. StudioCase was ideal. New York is #1.
Great things have happened in music since May. Some already-heavy-hitters released great records (grizzly bear, dirty projectors), and some newer bands (woods, bibio) are blowing my mind.
I finally purchased Foreign Born's new album, Person to Person, and it is so solid. Great jams, great percussion. I also purchased Uzi and Ari's Headworms. They're from SLC and I've been seeing them around since '05 (even opened for them a few times). Headworms is definitely their best work yet— it manages a great balance of electronic and acoustic.
Also, school is getting good.
Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles from Brent Barson on Vimeo.
Summer was perfect. StudioCase was ideal. New York is #1.
Great things have happened in music since May. Some already-heavy-hitters released great records (grizzly bear, dirty projectors), and some newer bands (woods, bibio) are blowing my mind.
I finally purchased Foreign Born's new album, Person to Person, and it is so solid. Great jams, great percussion. I also purchased Uzi and Ari's Headworms. They're from SLC and I've been seeing them around since '05 (even opened for them a few times). Headworms is definitely their best work yet— it manages a great balance of electronic and acoustic.
Also, school is getting good.
Friday, July 31, 2009
We are the music makers and the dreamers of the dreams.
I've had some good ideas for bands/recording projects:
Last summer, being in new york, I got really into street performers. Some seriously amazing musicians, often playing some rad make-shift instruments. I got the idea to orchestrate a grand recording project where I would write music and have street performers play different parts. Perhaps specify some basic chord progessions to the accordian player and have him go for it. Or play the melody for the flautist and get some improvised counter-melody. Or give some bare-bones rhythms to the bucket drummers to embellish. I didn't even start writing for this project last summer, unfortunately, and even now, more than two months into my visit this year, I still only have some rough sketches. Too bad. That drummer playing alone in the middle of the williamsburg bridge at rainy midnight would have been ideal.
Also last summer I had the idea to start a Michael Jackson piano-jazz cover band. Though I do play the piano, I overestimated my jazz-piano abilities. Amanda, whose vocal jazz offerings astound, was all ready on vocals. Could have been really special. I think I was most excited about "the way you make me feel."
The last few days I've been into hardcore, and more specifically, the idea of doing a hardcore cover of a very-not-hardcore song. I think a Bon Iver hardcore cover band would be especially poignant.
A more practical idea for me, though, would be to continue a project I started 6 years ago (though many of the ideas surrounding it have evolved considerably). Music that is very rhythmic and acoustic-sounding. Many toms and stick-clickings. Vibraphone/Glockenspiel/Various keyed instruments/Horns/Omnichord. Vocals that are both strong in melody and harmony. The important thing, though, is that it would be guitar-less.
And yet more practical would be just me and a glockenspiel, with a lot of looping and pitchshifting. Perhaps a brushed snare or ride, and definitely a guest female vocalist. Unfortunately most of this is out of the question now that my band moved away and I no longer have access to such stellar musicians/instruments.
I guess what I'm really saying here is that I want to make music that fits under the "conceptual blogcore" umbrella.
Last summer, being in new york, I got really into street performers. Some seriously amazing musicians, often playing some rad make-shift instruments. I got the idea to orchestrate a grand recording project where I would write music and have street performers play different parts. Perhaps specify some basic chord progessions to the accordian player and have him go for it. Or play the melody for the flautist and get some improvised counter-melody. Or give some bare-bones rhythms to the bucket drummers to embellish. I didn't even start writing for this project last summer, unfortunately, and even now, more than two months into my visit this year, I still only have some rough sketches. Too bad. That drummer playing alone in the middle of the williamsburg bridge at rainy midnight would have been ideal.
Also last summer I had the idea to start a Michael Jackson piano-jazz cover band. Though I do play the piano, I overestimated my jazz-piano abilities. Amanda, whose vocal jazz offerings astound, was all ready on vocals. Could have been really special. I think I was most excited about "the way you make me feel."
The last few days I've been into hardcore, and more specifically, the idea of doing a hardcore cover of a very-not-hardcore song. I think a Bon Iver hardcore cover band would be especially poignant.
A more practical idea for me, though, would be to continue a project I started 6 years ago (though many of the ideas surrounding it have evolved considerably). Music that is very rhythmic and acoustic-sounding. Many toms and stick-clickings. Vibraphone/Glockenspiel/Various keyed instruments/Horns/Omnichord. Vocals that are both strong in melody and harmony. The important thing, though, is that it would be guitar-less.
And yet more practical would be just me and a glockenspiel, with a lot of looping and pitchshifting. Perhaps a brushed snare or ride, and definitely a guest female vocalist. Unfortunately most of this is out of the question now that my band moved away and I no longer have access to such stellar musicians/instruments.
I guess what I'm really saying here is that I want to make music that fits under the "conceptual blogcore" umbrella.
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