I’ve used many tools and made lots of music over the years. This week’s project was a chance to merge the old and the new. One of my first “big” pieces of music was a piece entitled “harmonic study 1.3″, which was the B side of my City Centre Offices 7″ release “Tones (for Sarah)”. [...]
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46/52: harmonic study revisited (with iPad & TouchOSC)
44/52: autumn piano music
This week’s project is the rough sketch of a new piano piece I’m working on. I came up with it on Tuesday evening and ran a quick video to capture the idea. 44/52: autumn piano music (rough sketch) from chromedecay on Vimeo. I recorded a cleaner version with a condensor mic this morning, but it’s [...]
43/52: new video – “a bliptronic day”
I realized something partway through last week’s project with the Bliptronic 5000. One of the things that makes the Bliptronic such a fun musical toy is the fact that you can take it everywhere, thanks to its built-in speaker. Within a few days of having it, I’d used it in my studio, in the living [...]
42/52: Bliptronic 5000!
Last week, my good friend Kent Kingery blew me away by sending me a Bliptronic 5000, which is an incredibly fun little synthesizer+sequencer. This week’s project is an exploration of this great little box. For starters, here’s a quick proof-of-concept track I made with the Bliptronic. 42/52: bliptronic 5000 test run by billvanloo To make [...]
37/52: Bill Van Loo live performance
The documentation for this project is a little late, but better late than never. On Sunday, September 12, I played a short live set at Bethesda Bible Church’s “Praise in the Parking Lot” event. It was a short 15-minute set, but it was a lot of fun. This was an outdoor event – here are [...]
34/52: DIY bottleneck slides
This week’s project was a fun one. I’ve been playing lap-slide guitar for a long time. After college, I put it down for a while, and then picked it back up again 10 years ago or so when I was strictly making electronic music, as a way to make some music that was much more [...]
32/52: new studio setup, new music
This week, I spent some time moving my music studio into a new space in our house. I know it seems like I just reorganized my studio, but this time it was different – my family has a renter coming to stay with us for a few months, so I’ve temporarily relocated. Along with moving [...]
26/52: studio cleanup, and some reflections
52 things is now at its official halfway point. Not coincidentally, here’s what my studio looked like at the beginning of this week: After 26 weeks of weekly projects, my creative space has been in pretty active use! For reference, take a look at what it looked like after a similar cleanup in May 2009. [...]
24/52: Church Music Rig
This week’s post is a look inside my music rig for my church. I spent some time this week getting things set up the way I want in order to expand my musical capabilities, so I thought I’d document and share it here for this week’s project. Here’s the overall rig, once it’s assembled: My [...]
18/52: Floridan Rework
Some weeks, my project posts are all about the process – photos, videos, etc. This is not one of those posts. This is just about spending some time with an old track (circa 2001?), reworking it into something new. Floridan Rework by billvanloo Well, there’s just a little process. Here’s a quick video I shot [...]