An online documentation of the random stream of consciousness from an electronic musician, audio recording engineer, drum player, drum builder, amateur ethnomusicologist, paint huffer, art enjoyer, and space traveler.
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"Brian Miller is a Sound Engineer and Record Maker from the wild hills of North Carolina. He makes crazy sounds sound crazier and is more likely than not inhabited by some kind of interesting demon or space virus."
Dan Perjovschi is the new current artist in residance at KU and currently has an installation at the Spencer Art Musuem. It consists of black marker on white walls and takes up the whole center hall of the museum. If you need a good laugh, as well as an interesting take on world affairs, go check this out. An example of my favorite "writing on the wall" for this install- G8, G20, G-Spot. Below are some links . . .
The Arkestra played a fun show at the Jackpot in Lawrence KS on 9-24-10. All the bands were on point (Strong Smells and Mouthbreathers threw it down and it was the first time I saw them) and Thee Oh Sees were tight and grungy. Turnpike had their cameras up there, so hopefully I can update this post with some videos. One of the camera guys set up near my bass drum and said he got some good shots of me rocking that bitch like Dokken. I really like the poster too! I got pics below of the drunken circus that is the Arkestra. The Kansan posted this article about our stage presence.
I was laying down some drum tracks in my living room floor and the crazy crackheads that live in my apartment started setting off fireworks (a week late). I had my mic up, so I opened a window and got a quick recording. I guess it isn't really field recording if you record in your house . . .
We played a show at the replay with a band called Tommy Ferrari from Lawrence. It was a helluva good time. I am posting a couple of pics of my set up and my favorite track from the night, which we call "the reggae jam." I had a stand up drum kit and some
I had done a bunch of tinkering recordings for The Owl People, and given their current ensemble state of a trio, they needed a drummer/ambient-noisy-ologist, so they asked me to join up with them. We played a local music showcase called StimPac at the Granada in Lawrence, Kansas with 12 other bands on May 15th. This was a trio, with the two dudes beside me (Mark and Brett) playing a Micron and a Casio with effects, and a kaos pad and a Casio-esc Yamaha keyboard. They ran that into a mixer of mine which had one effects loop running through some effects pedals and the moonshine fuzz and one effects loop ran into my computer for proper ambient processing. I also used my custom made drumracas with heavy effects on them, some of my field recordings, and my circuit bent Disney toy.
Loud sound systems plus ambient music means guts were rattling. I gave the sound guy one mono signal, so I had control over everything but the over all loudness. The Granada gets real deal acts and have a real deal sound system. This wasn't no 1000 watt 2 15" monitor set up, that place was packed with wattage. I would turn a knob, or put some of the exposed wires from my circuit bent toy in my mouth and I could hear and feel it. I turned the water wobble grain-ish type effect up, and that shit gargled the whole joint. I have never got to play an ambient show through such a dope or loud PA.
I like this idea of field recording bell towers, sounds like a good way to kill time with microphones. It may be helpful to know about some bell tower history and why they roll the way they roll. it would be cool to document at various distances from the epicenter as well.
I had to attend a work related endevor to a part of Kansas that is less than an hour away from both Colorado and Oklahoma. The drive out there looked like this from the windshield of the car-
I had brought my laptop field recoding rig along in case our hotel in this small (but very nice and friendly) town of Ulysses was near a bell tower (google said something about a catholic church near by).
