An Instance of Being Delayed

Showed this piece today, critique was really positive. I don't think I even got a negative comment come to think of it, or if I did I was too tired to notice or have conveniently blocked it from memory. Anyways, this is some church organ sampled off a record and along with some flute and bass clarinet I played then sampled again. The initial concept was to build up this lo-fi beat I had made with samples and live recordings of multiple layers of instruments and sounds. So while I was recording the flute and clarinet I was listening to this beat which inherently influenced how I was improvising. So now that the original beat is gone I like to think the essence and idea of that silly little loop I was playing along with still gets infused into the track now. The original application of delay to this track was accidental, I was trying to try it out on the flute and I accidentally put it on the master track. So then I extended the duration and experimented with layering delay lines both synced to tempo and frequency. I had wanted to play with repetition and duration and push this simple idea into a bit more of an extreme so if your interested in really listening, I'd recommend hooking up the stereo and putting it at a decent volume and just sit and listen for the full piece. I hope you enjoy, thanks for listening and reading my rambling introduction.

 Delayed Delay by OwenArdal

More sounds

Just a quick procrastination post, I should be finishing my essay so less ramble this time. This was just a single take using an electric guitar, with a loop pedal and I think there was also a tremolo pedal in the mix too. I was just simply hitting notes with the volume down and pulling it up to remove the attack, which makes it not really sound that guitar like at all. This was from first year I think...?

 WHOMPWHOMP by OwenArdal 

Throwback- Fishman

So this has become somewhat of a joke around the Integrated Media (INTM) department incase you weren't aware...This was originally an assignment for Non-Traditional Art class in high school. This was  Fishman's second appearance in a work, the first being in a collaborative comic strip with Sam Rosenberg, where animal-human hybrids lived in a world fueled by Wu-Tang...or something of that sort (Sam wrote it, I Illustrated it) The idea was to incorporate serialism in our work and I did this by showing specific parts of Fishman (eye>foot>hand>mouth) in a specific order repeatedly. The cutaways were too rushed so other then the main walkcycle of Fishman's whole body I didn't like it. I ended up chopping up the video and just using the Fishman loop as a screen saver. Then last year in Hybrid Media Lab we needed some footage to remix with a MaxMsp patch Daniel masterminded so I submitted Fishman. Dan loved Fishman and borrowed him for one of his later patches in the course, and I continued to incorporate Fishman into every assignment till the end of the course. Fishman even made it only Bentley Jarvis' computer and he would use Fishman for his demos; Bentley even mused about him being the INTM mascot. I think everyone in my department is probably getting sick of Fishman other then a few loyal followers whom cheered as he came onto the projector in between other student work at this years INTM halloween social. Anyways, if your reading this thus far, your also probably aware that I'm rehashing this idea because I've become absolutely uncreative/uninspired as of late. FISHMAN; EVOLUTION is coming soon...also with some colour hopfully and sound this time, so it will be more experiments, and I'm really out of practice so its been quite challenging, I just hope the motion looks as it does in my head...anyways these rambling intros have become a theme on this blog but I would hope if the few of you that care to read this would find all these shenanigans going on this my head amusing while I continue to procrastinate...Fishman is a blessing and a curse becoming a joke himself, and making me into one...haha

Fabricated Artifact; Archaeopteryx

So I'm posting here now because I have so much on my to do list that I'm struggling to get anything really started at all. Technical difficulties have me in a standstill on one of my projects and general lethargy on everything else. Still trying to stay motivated and productive, but I digress; heres a post which I should have updated weeks ago now. I guess I had high hopes while I did the project. I got pretty caught up in the process so once it was over I was a bit underwhelmed with the results. I had a fractal idea of different things I wanted from the piece so I think I could have used some more planning to get better results. I guess I the piece as a whole as a bit unresolved. Anyways, this is a terrible rant to introduce a post, so here it is.

 So the process involved scanning objects then printing them out in black and white on velum and doing matt medium photo transfers, then cutting them out and arranging them into this composite creature you see here. Then a combination of ink, acrylic, water colour, chalk and charcoal were used to blend them all together. Some of the objects used included twigs, pebbles, feathers, bones, horns, grass clippers, and a raccoon skull (that I boiled and bleached myself). Also its just on raw, unstretched canvas and is roughly 34x39 inches

Ill also offer a brief explanation to contextualize the collage. I've been toying with these kind of biological/diagrammatic images along with some fabricated evolutionary studies. So if your not aware, the Archaeopteryx is generally accepted as the evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds. And I'm fascinated that some people are still refusing to accept that evolution exists, so this is essentially toying with the idea that someone would go and piece together a creature from parts and pass it as scientific fact. I'm obviously not legitimately doing that here but I think it might be an interesting direction to push this idea in. 

On a side-note, I'm over-analysing this because is not my typical medium, I ended up signing up for a couple drawing and painting courses, so I'm obviously not very confident, but I'm working on getting better. (I typically work in sound/video if you don't already know that-but you probably do if you are reading my blog)

So this is by far the wordiest post on here yet, probably because I'm still in denial over my excessive workload, so posts will probably slow down until december. By then I should hopefully have my final projects documented to post so just for that reason ill put a little bonus collage here too. This one was just for fun from the summer, and I really just like it, nothing serious...just Hippos and Crocs. This ones just tiny 6x12 inches

The Rappin' Reverend

First post of non original material, but this is just too much fun not to share. Enjoy The Rappin' Reverend, Dr. C. Dexter Wise, III  speaking some truth. Two tracks here, first one up is titled "I Ain't Into That" second track is "The Original Rap", both are the extended versions. I have some more weird old vinyl which I will try to periodically transfer to digital format so I can share them with all of you.

 The Rappin' Reverend by OwenArdal