Leaving A Dead Planet

Leaving A Dead Planet from benmadethis on Vimeo.

An experimental video/animation i made recently about the digital world we choose over the tangible life we sense. In the digital, everything is everything... in the sensory, everything is you.

3/20/10 Arrangement Test 1

New concept. We were fairly limited in our instrument selection for this session, so I decided to try something new. To choose from we had a clavanova, and drumset, and one amp to work with. The first round was guitar, clav and drums, so we each picked one and recorded... then rotate... record again... rotate... record again... rotate... and so on until 6 tracks were made. These are those.

they are not all perfect, but they each have their golden moments.

DOWNLOAD HERE

Contributors:

Ben Livingston (tracks 1/4 - Clav, tracks 2/5 - Guitar/Bass, tracks 3/6 - Drums)

Ben Clancy (tracks 1/4 - Guitar/Bass, tracks 2/5 - Drums, tracks 3/6 - Clav)

Matt Johnson (tracks 1/4 - Drums, tracks 2/5 - Clav, tracks 3/6 - Guitar/Bass)

three slash two slash two-thousand ten

A friend came over to help me record a demo of a riff i've been working on. After hours of layering instruments over a simple guitar/drums mono track, i ended up with this loud, constantly building song that sounds like hundreds of cars rolling across the desert towards salvation. listen here... if your into that sort of thing.

There's also a special BONUS track that i made in about 20 mins after mixing on track one was complete. BONUS!

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contributors: Boone Wilkinson (drums on track 1), Ben Clancy (All other instruments and sounds)

Why Does Time Persist?

THE ARROW of TIME (part1)

Very interesting lecture about the nature of time and why it does what it do. watch it for your brain.

A Day Ahead of The Snow

NOISY SOUND RELAY second official release.

We recorded this short session two days ago. It snowed in Louisiana for the third time in my life one day ago. We must have caused this.

The first recording was cut short by angry neighbors, so this is basically two versions of the same song.

I recorded the bass track after it snowed, but i had only heard the full track once before.

Full Album Download : A Day Ahead of The Snow

contributors:

ben clancy (lap steel, bass), ben livingston (trumpet), matt johnson (drums)

TURN ON YOU

I'm in the planning process of a very large information design project (Information Design examples) about an american singer songwriter (not going to say who) and i've been working on some ideas for visual representations of the data (yes... graphs). Here's the first of hopefully many to come.

This is a chart of Wilco's recording and album release schedule from 1994's "A.M." to the 2009 release "Wilco (the album)".

The colors used for each album are pulled from the general color of the cover art.

neurons that shaped civilization...

TED talk about empathy neurons and the connection between my brain and yours.