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Leviathant
02-08-2014, 11:55 PM
I got started making music back in 1995, making horrible recreations of Nine Inch Nails songs in Screamtracker, and later Impulse Tracker. I used to work over the internet with a guy in Alabama on an instrumental electronic music project called The Product of Frozen Sperm, and even performed a set of thePFS songs 'live' in York at the Fenix nightclub on New Years Eve 1998. I also released an album of original electronic experimental music on MP3.com under the name Leviathant. There were some neat ideas, but I was terrible at writing melodies, much less making songs with any sort of structural evolution. But there was a period of time where I was higher on the industrial charts on MP3.com than Sister Machine Gun. I took a screenshot at the time! No idea where it went.

In 2001, I joined a punk band called Slow Andy (http://www.slowandy.com/). It was kind of a joke band assembled by a bunch of friends, one of which quit drumming. "Hey Matt," the lead singer Jamie asked me, "You program drum machines, right? We have a drum kit, do you want to join the band as our drummer?" So I played drums with the band for five years, and bass for the sixth. We gave out thousands of CDs, played hundreds of shows, and have a full album recorded, but unreleased because the vocals were never finished. I just put up a video compilation of from the years when I was drumming (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9sxMRwwpb0). The first track is painfully out of tune, but I promise we bought tuners after that show. I'm actually pretty proud of most of what we put together, but our standout track is definitely Codename: Trixie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdQTpUoFi0w), which follows the story of the original "The Crazies" film.

During that same time period, I continued exploring the electronic aspects of music by joining up with another group of friends trying out the 'making music' thing. In 1998, "Stasis" was a loosely formed group of myself on drum machines (Yamaha RY10, Electribe ER-1), Jordan Smith (bass, acoustic guitar), Tony Topper (keyboards, some drum programming), and Ryan Shorb (electric guitar). What came out of that project were a lot of sketches, a few jam sessions, but no real songs to speak of. However, I started working on a side-side project with Jordan, a project he came to call Tears for Agnes (http://tearsforagnes.bandcamp.com/). Essentially, Jordan wrote melodies on an acoustic guitar, and arranged them alongside a bed of electronics and field recordings. We released a five song EP in 2002, which I essentially took orders of through MySpace. We set to work on a full-length continuation and expansion, which resulted in the 2005 release of Shui (http://tearsforagnes.bandcamp.com/). We did a short run (100 discs) which we sold through CD Baby, who also puts our music up on iTunes & the like.

In 2006, my wife & I moved into a house that we had to completely renovate. Four years later, we finished, and I started thinking about music again. Doing much better financially than I was in 2003, I finally bought a somewhat decent drum kit. A few years ago, there was a rash of shitty music that came out by the likes of Sleigh Bells, and fuck I've blocked out the other shitty music that was just so simple, and yet so popular... Melissa and I decided that rather than bitch about it, let's put our money where our mouth is and make our own simple rock music. She picked up an Eastwood Mandocaster (http://www.eastwoodguitars.com/index.php/eastwood-guitars/all-eastwood-guitars/solid-body-guitars/item/mandocaster) and some pedals, I got a ridiculous deal on a 50 watt JCM800, and we started Up Your Cherry (http://www.upyourcherry.com/), the initial idea being that it would be a noise-pop duo, with effected electric mandolin, acoustic drums, and drum machines. We have a number of original songs, but have only properly-ish recorded one of them (http://upyourcherry.bandcamp.com/) back in 2012. In true Spinal Tap fashion, we've opened up for several puppet shows, and have been the house band for several theatre acts, playing between scenes and such. I'm really hoping to get more of that recorded this year.

In April 2013, I joined up with a band some guys at work were trying to get started. They basically wanted to do something heavy, and since Up Your Cherry was so sporadic, I offered to try my hand at the drums with them. When I signed on, Jon was writing riffs, Nate was laying down bass, and Lance was doing guitar acrobatics. After a few months, we started to tighten up, and I started upgrading my drum equipment, and bought a Zoom R16, doing multitrack recordings of just about every practice. Here's an example of what we sounded like by August (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/relentless-8-11). Around this time, we started looking for a singer. It took some finding, but now we're fronted by Renee, who's maybe 21 years old as of this post, and has a great knack for picking up on our odd time signatures, and writing lyrics on the spot. We played our first show in the last week of December, and the day after we took our equipment back to our rehearsal space, it was shut down because of water damage to the electrical system. It opens back up February 11... hopefully.

Simultaneously, I'm working on electronic music still. I've got a pretty decent arsenal of equipment now. Today, I did this (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/drum-a-day-sketch-1) with my Tempest (http://www.davesmithinstruments.com/products/tempest/). It's just a sketch, cut together from a live jam over a single pattern. But it's a start.

Leviathant
03-30-2014, 04:38 PM
I posted a new DSI Tempest sketch last night. You can listen to it here (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/feelers). I'm hoping to move from sketching to painting in late spring.

Leviathant
04-06-2014, 10:30 PM
It would be misleading to call these "new" tracks, but I've posted two new-to-you Slow Andy songs at our shiny new Bandcamp page (http://slowandy.bandcamp.com/album/midnight-hour-ep). For "Restless," most of the audio was recorded in 2001 or 2002, but I re-recorded the drums in 2014.

Leviathant
05-27-2014, 12:19 PM
Here are two tracks from my current band, War Film. Of course they're on Bandcamp (http://warfilm.bandcamp.com/).

Leviathant
07-03-2014, 04:58 PM
Rehearsal recording of one of my favorite songs I play in Warfilm (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/warfilm-white-dress-rehearsal). It was mixed late at night in headphones, so the bass is probably terrrrrible. I flub the drumming a little in the beginning because I'm thinking too much about what I'm doing, but hey, that's what rehearsal's about, right? Of course it's about death by heroin overdose!

Leviathant
08-31-2014, 11:27 AM
I put together an instrumental atmospheric track last night. You can listen to it on Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/the-jupiter-widows). It started with me designing some droney sounds on my Poly Evolver Keyboard, and then I added in a beat that I'd put together earlier in the month, run through my Yamaha E1010 delay into a Moogerfooger Phaser. I was poking around on the keyboard for a melody, and after coming up with one, ended up playing it on my Danelectro Baritone guitar instead - although that was processed pretty heavily through Pod Farm. I doubled the melody on my PRS, run through a shitty-tape-player style effect. Here's a screenshot of my Reaper timeline. (http://i.imgur.com/MWNArZr.png)
Much cutting and pasting of effected tracks ensued, and the result is what I linked to. Thanks!

Your Name Here
08-31-2014, 11:23 PM
I put together an instrumental atmospheric track last night. You can listen to it on Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/the-jupiter-widows). It started with me designing some droney sounds on my Poly Evolver Keyboard, and then I added in a beat that I'd put together earlier in the month, run through my Yamaha E1010 delay into a Moogerfooger Phaser. I was poking around on the keyboard for a melody, and after coming up with one, ended up playing it on my Danelectro Baritone guitar instead - although that was processed pretty heavily through Pod Farm. I doubled the melody on my PRS, run through a shitty-tape-player style effect. Here's a screenshot of my Reaper timeline. (http://i.imgur.com/MWNArZr.png)
Much cutting and pasting of effected tracks ensued, and the result is what I linked to. Thanks!

I listened to it, I liked it, I will be listening for more.

Leviathant
10-28-2014, 09:09 AM
Two new WarFilm tracks @
Spotify (http://open.spotify.com/album/7gkzsH1SqxcFw7OjTFNZy2) • iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ep2-single/id933477605?uo=4) • Bandcamp (http://warfilm.bandcamp.com) • Soundcloud (http://soundcloud.com/warfilm)

eversonpoe
10-28-2014, 09:25 AM
I put together an instrumental atmospheric track last night. You can listen to it on Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/the-jupiter-widows). It started with me designing some droney sounds on my Poly Evolver Keyboard, and then I added in a beat that I'd put together earlier in the month, run through my Yamaha E1010 delay into a Moogerfooger Phaser. I was poking around on the keyboard for a melody, and after coming up with one, ended up playing it on my Danelectro Baritone guitar instead - although that was processed pretty heavily through Pod Farm. I doubled the melody on my PRS, run through a shitty-tape-player style effect. Here's a screenshot of my Reaper timeline. (http://i.imgur.com/MWNArZr.png)
Much cutting and pasting of effected tracks ensued, and the result is what I linked to. Thanks!

once the guitar line kicked in, i was hooked. it reminds me of something i can't quite put my finger on, which is awesome, because it might just be making me FEEL similarly to music i know.

Leviathant
11-16-2014, 05:32 PM
The Moog Sub 37 that I pre-ordered in April arrived the day before Halloween. I'm still exploring it, and this weekend I decided to put something together. That I've posted it online is probably the side effect of listening to Coil's Time Machines a few times too many in my life, but you can listen to the track here (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/anxiety-37). It's all Moog Sub 37 and outboard effects, multitracked into Reaper, where levels were set, and a stereo mix was output.

screwdriver
11-17-2014, 02:27 PM
The Moog Sub 37 that I pre-ordered in April arrived the day before Halloween. I'm still exploring it, and this weekend I decided to put something together. That I've posted it online is probably the side effect of listening to Coil's Time Machines a few times too many in my life, but you can listen to the track here (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/anxiety-37). It's all Moog Sub 37 and outboard effects, multitracked into Reaper, where levels were set, and a stereo mix was output.

preliminary thoughts? I played with one over the weekend -- the layout almost seemed too crowded for me, but I guess I'm just used to my relatively sparse little phatty

Leviathant
11-17-2014, 07:04 PM
preliminary thoughts? I played with one over the weekend -- the layout almost seemed too crowded for me, but I guess I'm just used to my relatively sparse little phatty

Well... on one side of the Sub 37, I have a Poly Evolver Keyboard, which has 78 knobs. On the other, a Korg MS2000, with 34 knobs. I think the Sub 37 has 40 knobs. The thing is... it's really well laid out. It was a little bit intimidating at first, but most the functions are right there for the tweaking, and in a very sensible layout. Some of the deeper modulation stuff that's tucked behind menus takes a little getting used to, but I find it to be the most intuitively laid out synthesizer I've used. Instant gratification. It sounds deep in ways my other synths don't, and it's the best looking synth I think I've ever seen, although that's not terribly important. The Voyager's layout looks like it was designed by engineers in 90s CAD software. The Sub 37's layout looks like engineers laid it out, and then handed it over to a clever graphic designer with an eye for efficient, balanced layout.

Leviathant
12-08-2014, 10:41 AM
Over the weekend I made a remix for a friend's band, which you can hear here (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/black-tooth-moan-space-station-x-unknown-intruder-mix). It may or may not be strongly influenced by Error.

screwdriver
12-09-2014, 09:24 AM
Over the weekend I made a remix for a friend's band, which you can hear here (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/black-tooth-moan-space-station-x-unknown-intruder-mix). It may or may not be strongly influenced by Error.

excellent excellent work, man

Leviathant
12-20-2014, 11:33 PM
I put a new electronic track up on Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/raked-out-of-the-ashes). It started out as me learning about the modulation routings and the sequencer on the Sub 37, which is what drives the main line that runs throughout the track (with the filter running in 1-pole mode). I double it up with another track of Sub 37 on a sub-sub-bass patch. This seemed to go well with a drum pattern I'd made on the Tempest - what you hear throughout the track is a single pattern that's been manipulated, entirely within the Tempest.

Wanting to change things up a bit, in the middle I came up with a little melody on the MS2000, which I don't give nearly as much attention as I should. I ended up doubling up on those lines with guitar. Before and after that melody, I fired up my Poly Evolver Keyboard and played the first thing that came to mind when I sat down.

I've got a vague notion of an 'album' that I'll be collecting a lot of this stuff into at some point next year. When I'm working on these tracks, I've got ideas in mind of short science fiction vignettes, a la The Twilight Zone, that inspire the mood and direction of each individual track. We'll see if I actually follow through on that.

screwdriver
01-22-2015, 05:41 PM
I put a new electronic track up on Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/raked-out-of-the-ashes). It started out as me learning about the modulation routings and the sequencer on the Sub 37, which is what drives the main line that runs throughout the track (with the filter running in 1-pole mode). I double it up with another track of Sub 37 on a sub-sub-bass patch. This seemed to go well with a drum pattern I'd made on the Tempest - what you hear throughout the track is a single pattern that's been manipulated, entirely within the Tempest.

Wanting to change things up a bit, in the middle I came up with a little melody on the MS2000, which I don't give nearly as much attention as I should. I ended up doubling up on those lines with guitar. Before and after that melody, I fired up my Poly Evolver Keyboard and played the first thing that came to mind when I sat down.

I've got a vague notion of an 'album' that I'll be collecting a lot of this stuff into at some point next year. When I'm working on these tracks, I've got ideas in mind of short science fiction vignettes, a la The Twilight Zone, that inspire the mood and direction of each individual track. We'll see if I actually follow through on that.

somehow missed this until it came up in my soundcloud feed today. probably the thing of yours I like best so far. nicely realized, and the sound is crisp

Leviathant
01-22-2015, 08:27 PM
somehow missed this until it came up in my soundcloud feed today. probably the thing of yours I like best so far. nicely realized, and the sound is crisp

Thanks dude! The stuff I'm putting up there is, theoretically, demo material, and if I get enough of it to fill out an album, I'm going to revisit everything and spend a little more time on the mixes, and maybe expand some of the ideas into longer versions. I particularly liked mangling the drums on this track, but I also feel like I'm leaning on that too much lately. Anyway, thanks again for mentioning it :)

Leviathant
01-25-2015, 01:20 AM
Thirty second clip of a work in progress (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnye4hyuIjY).

Leviathant
03-17-2015, 04:33 PM
Last Friday, we got our names on the door to see a couple of guys who go by the name Thugfucker, because they saw a tweet Melissa made about a sign with their name on it. The doors opened at 10, we got there a little before 11, and we sat through at least two hours of a DJ playing Deep House music, which sounded like the 90s but even more repetitive. The guys in Thugfucker recognized Melissa from her Twitter profile and invited us to the green room to hang out before their set. We had joked earlier that we wondered if when they took to the booth, to their credit, their music was actually varied, they were mixing stuff live, and it was definitely an improvement on the stuff that had been spinning for hours beforehand. Which is smart - never bring an opener who can upstage you.

Anyway, I haven't been able to dedicate much time to music in the last couple of months, because I just bought a building in Philadelphia that has a performing arts space on the first floor and an apartment on the second floor, and since the middle of February, we've basically been gutting it. It's exhausting, and it interrupted a really good flow I had going. Seeing all the people at the Thugfucker show who were actually paying attention to the DJ spinning incredibly repetitive and boring music inspired me to make my own really boring repetitive music.

I spent a night with the Tempest making sounds I wouldn't normally make - a kick drum that kind of emulates an analog kick played against a high noise floor with compression, misc percussion ticking sound, noise snare, simple analog bass. For about five minutes, I mute and unmute parts, but aside from a little bit of filter adjustments on the bassline, keep it relatively static. (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/nibiru-cataclysm) All sounds are from the Tempest, everything's in-the-box except for the high-pitched noise pad, which is just a sample of the line noise, amplified and run through a very long delay. Not my usual thing, but still fun.

Leviathant
10-11-2015, 11:16 PM
So, most of my gear's in storage, or at least packed away in the second bedroom. I have been extraordinarily busy at work. The whole theater-building thing is kind of on pause, but there's a lot of dull administrative crap going on there too. There's just plain a lot going on right now. I had set up a little spot upstairs where I had my Sub 37, Tempest, and Zoom R16, with the intent of doing some minimal electronic stuff without any computers (using the Zoom as a tape deck, basically), and a few months ago, when I sat down to get started, I discovered that my Sub 37 had an issue with the cutoff knob, so I sent the controller card off to get fixed, and pushed off to the next thing.

As a reaction, I decided to go all-in-the-box for my next exercise. I have about a year's worth of rehearsals with Warfilm recorded in 8 channel multitrack format. I spent a day or two going through most of them and finding notably weird noises... sometimes as simple as plugging a guitar in. In one case, an amp was slowly dying while Lance played his gutar. Nate has a bunch of handmade effects units and they make amazing, nonmusical noises.

So I took all that into Reaper, cut and pasted it into little bits, and arranged it around a set of samples from a documentary about Bellevue (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf0yBCxJ_Zk). A friend & coworker was playing the clip one night, and I sympathized with the sentiment. And I started thinking about making an aggressive, noisy house for those samples to live in - 95% samples from Warfilm recordings, the rest from my Tempest. That's how Stabilize into Equilibria (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/stabilize-into-equilibria) came into being. And as usual, here's a screenshot of the Reaper session (http://imgur.com/2Y1a6ud) - 42 channels total on this one. Kinda nuts. It could be mixed better, there's a lot going on. But I'd rather just get it out for now.

Leviathant
01-01-2016, 07:14 PM
Today, I recorded an instrumental version of a future Up Your Cherry song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDV9Y6B6IPg

eversonpoe
01-02-2016, 11:54 AM
it's amazing how my laptop speakers don't convey those lower parts at all. i knew you were doing SOMETHING down there with your left hand (uh...that sounded dirty, sorry) but even with my ear right up to the speaker, it just BARELY comes through. i had to put on headphones to hear it. but i like it a lot!

Leviathant
01-02-2016, 01:20 PM
it's amazing how my laptop speakers don't convey those lower parts at all. i knew you were doing SOMETHING down there with your left hand (uh...that sounded dirty, sorry) but even with my ear right up to the speaker, it just BARELY comes through. i had to put on headphones to hear it. but i like it a lot!

The first four notes go: MOOOOOOOOOOG. MOOOOOOOOOOG. MOOOOOOOOOOG. MOOOOOOOOOOG.

Leviathant
11-03-2016, 08:27 PM
I made a music again. Have a listen to Fascist Weave (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/fascist-weave) over on Soundcloud.

A coworker of mine sent me a link to this Politico video (https://www.facebook.com/politico/videos/10153509222526680/) in the wee hours of the morning back in, like, June. The next morning, he challenged myself and our manager to make a tune using samples from that video. We had about a month to make time to complete the process. It was enough to light a bit of a fire under my ass, and I turned out a version of what's at that Soundcloud link, but without the acidy Moog line, and with the noise only having been processed by a software filter. I revisited it a few months later, running the noise through some outboard gear to give it a little more grit, and last night, I put the synth line on top and pushed the updated cut to Soundcloud.

The drums are my Tempest, using the onboard overdrive and pushing the channels on my 1280b console a bit. The sample bits were manually placed on or near the proverbial grid in Reaper, with some delay FX from Line6 Pod Farm 2. The synth line's my Sub 37, apparently recorded at slightly the wrong tempo, so I just kinda cut and paste them mostly into place.

Leviathant
12-13-2016, 07:54 PM
Woah. Just a little over a month between tracks.

I've had a beat in my Tempest for a while now that I've been trying to find a home for. For now, that home is called Shook to Beat the Devil (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/shook-to-beat-the-devil). It started out with me programming some drum sounds into the Tempest that were inspired by videos of the Metasonix D-1000 and the Moog 701 & 702 drum synth modules. The thought being, I paid less for my Tempest than a D-1000 costs, and it's quite the noisemaker. If I can make pretty faithful 606 drums, surely I could emulate what I heard from the Metasonix and Moog modules.

I could listen to that beat on repeat for longer than one should, but it's probably not that enticing to anyone else, so it sat as a pattern on the machine for a while.

Last month, having traded my MS2000 for a JU08, I started tinkering around with my setup again, and I got a beat going on my 606, but I wanted to crunch it up. So I ran it through a Lizard Breath Chameleon Stereo Boost, which I was running off one of those Danelectro pedals with variable voltage. I used this combination to overdrive the inputs on my Sound Workshop console, and was pretty pleased with the results. To thicken things up, I added that Tempest beat, and that was alright, but it wasn't until I added in the bass melody (played on the JU-08, also run through the voltage starved stereo boost pedal) that I felt good about the track.

It was still a bit too minimal, so I decided to tinker around with higher-register lead sounds on the Sub 37 in conjunction with the arpeggiator.

I had a bunch of samples from election protests around the country, but rolled them back a bunch. The one in the middle's from Philadelphia, the bit at the end is from Portland.

Leviathant
03-25-2018, 11:48 PM
Hello 2018. Hope you've got your good headphones on.

If you're following the narrative above: I moved into the new place in September, but it's going to be many more months before I get settled, so I haven't had much time for making music. I have had some time though! Working backward from newest to oldest:

Here is a solo Moog piece (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/consequently) I created and performed at last year's National Puppetry Conference, where I'm on staff (because I'm married to the music director) and I'm occasionally called on to perform live score work for puppetry shorts. This one was for a piece by Marte Johanne Ekhougen, aka doctorsuperhelga. The Soundcloud link is to an "in-studio performance" - I played this into my computer and uploaded it as-is.

I revisited Swifter Things (https://workerscomp.bandcamp.com/track/swifter-things-version) this past December: now with effected vocals, and a little more skittering and warbling. The bed for this track is a live recording, but the vocals were recorded separately in a demo.

Going back another year, in December 2016, I recorded another crunchy analog thumper, Shook to Beat the Devil (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/shook-to-beat-the-devil). It's not as cool as Stabilize into Equilibria, but I still dig it. There's a lot going on with the texture of the rhythm section, which is a combination of a voltage starved TR-606 and my Tempest pumping out a beat using sounds I created, inspired by the Metasonix D-1000 tube drum machine, and the Moog 701 & 702 Percussion Synthesizer modules. Check me out using the arpeggiator on the Sub37 for the first time in a recording! I recently opened the Reaper file for this track and discovered that the arp recording's just... gone. So if I ever compile this stuff into an album, it's going to be a little bit different.

In gear turnover news, the announcement of the Roland TR-8S inspired me to let go of my Quicksilver TR-606, which I managed to sell without taking a loss, and for enough money that I can by a TR-8S and have about $20 left over. But I've also got heaps of bad debt now, so instead I'm putting a chunk of that into paying off credit cards. Renovating an 18th century building is really expensive, you guys.

Leviathant
09-03-2018, 12:31 AM
At this year's National Puppetry Conference, I had the good fortune to work with Lyon Forrest Hill (http://www.puppet.org/about/blog/archive/meet-the-artists-of-the-2018-national-puppet-slam-lyon-hill/), underscoring "Tales of Woe", a series of puppetry performances built around poems by Edgar Allan Poe. Lyon's art is incredible, and he's been a pleasure to work with. This past weekend, he performed some of that work at Dragoncon. Melissa and I performed live when he was workshopping the piece at the 2018 National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, but we weren't headed to Dragoncon, so he asked if we could record what we'd put together.

I'm sharing the music to Annabel Lee (https://www.lyonforresthill.art/annabel-lee). This was performed live-in-the-studio, with reverb, delay, and comp/limiting added post-recording. For this track, the sequence consisted simply of an analog kick drum playing a steady 4/4 beat. The synth melody is all live arpeggio, making timbral and timing changes on the fly, while Melissa improvises on an acoustic violin, which we recorded with a Blue Baby Bottle for this session.

Listen to Tales of Woe pt 1 on Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/tales-of-woe-pt-1)

elevenism
09-12-2018, 01:35 AM
Listen to Tales of Woe pt 1 on Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/tales-of-woe-pt-1) 'Tis lovely and appropriately wistful.

Leviathant
01-07-2019, 02:24 PM
Melissa and I are recording a podcast about the story behind the crazy building we bought and live in, and like any good podcast, it needed a theme song.

You can listen to that theme song on Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/the-boghouse-extended).

This was the second iteration of an attempt at a theme song. Melissa cited the Unsolved Mysteries theme and the Stranger Things theme - 80s and synthy. Got it. Our first stab was super mellow, and reminiscent of Laura Palmer's Theme (although I don't think that was on anyone's mind while recording). It was moody, but I wasn't really feeling like it was a good theme. So the following week, I suggested that without listening to what we'd already recorded, we just do a new track.

Melissa played a few different thing on the piano, and at one point I asked her to stick with what she was performing, and I fired up the Moog Sub 37 and underscored it with a nice round bassline. I set up the JP-08 and Mel started playing the line on that while I dialed in a timbre that I liked. We did one take where we played it live, and then she went back to Sibelius, scored it out, exported the MIDI, and I used that to drive the synths so I could make timbral adjustments during playback. That's where we left it last week.

This week, we considered doing a solo violin theme using music similar to what was contemporary to the topic of the podcast, but didn't really like the music of the era, so that was bunk. We revisited the newer synth theme and decided to do a short version of it, since a podcast theme doesn't really play for that long. Iterating over about four bars, we added rhtyhm from the DSI Tempest (I even used the individual outs so I could run effects on different drums! Thanks Dave Smith), added a reverb saturated violin lick, which I reinforced with some synth strings from the JP-08. It still started kind of abruptly and somewhat more low key than what Mel was looking for, so I built out a swell using the SH-01a (in chord mode - so good). After we nailed down the short theme, I went back and took those elements and applied them to the longer recording I had made, and that's what's linked above.

Thanks for listening & reading!

eversonpoe
01-07-2019, 10:33 PM
dude, it's perfect. if i can get myself to find time to listen to podcasts, i am definitely going to check this out, especially because i'm fascinated with the subject matter.

Leviathant
01-09-2019, 01:21 PM
dude, it's perfect. if i can get myself to find time to listen to podcasts, i am definitely going to check this out, especially because i'm fascinated with the subject matter.

Much appreciated! It's funny, I'm not into podcasts, but Melissa is. I think it'll be a fun project.

I also noticed Soundcloud's compression fuzzes up my smooth Moog bass ever so slightly ;_; Related to that, this year I'll be compiling music I've made over the last couple of years and putting something out on Bandcamp, which should solve the fidelity issue, at least for downloaded versions.

Leviathant
04-15-2019, 11:03 PM
Everywhere else gets cryptic little announcements, but I'll share the full skinny here.

About five years ago, I started making music with the intent of compiling it into an album. Life took some wacky turns, but I've finally sat myself down and tracked everything out into a 45 minute long release.

If you've been coming to this thread and listening, you've probably heard most of the music on it, albeit compressed on Soundcloud and not properly downloadable.

I spent some time returning to the multitracks and fixing some things, and I ran the whole thing through my Sound Workshop 1280, which put it in an interesting space and gave cohesion to an otherwise somewhat disparate collection of music. I'm decorating it with photographs taken from the same five-year period. Right now I'm working on the proverbial liner notes, which I'm putting together on my Underwood No 5., and deciding how much additional stuff I want to include there. It'll just be a PDF in all likelihood, but hey. It's my art thing. Considering doing a GoFundMe or Kickstarter to fund a professional mastering. Lord knows I won't make money from sales to cover that kind of thing.

Here's the tracklist. A lot of what had been sketches got new names.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D4PtkGEXkAAUAPx.jpg

eversonpoe
04-16-2019, 10:24 PM
i am very, very excited to hear this in its complete form :D

don't know if you need a mastering recommendation (and honestly i don't know if he's even doing it any more) but Wade Alin of Standard Mastering did two of my albums and is fantastic (and affordable).

Leviathant
04-16-2019, 10:59 PM
i am very, very excited to hear this in its complete form :D

don't know if you need a mastering recommendation (and honestly i don't know if he's even doing it any more) but Wade Alin of Standard Mastering did two of my albums and is fantastic (and affordable).

Thanks! It's been a mild frustration that I've only been putting this stuff on Soundcloud, where the compression does no favors to the recordings, particularly when my friend Mr Moog is involved.

I hadn't been considering mastering but a friend of mine who runs Turtle Studios here in Philly gave me a good pitch. Since I'm considering that, and since I'll probably put a kickstarter up to help offset that, I've reached out to Josh Eustis to see if he's got the time and interest. Depending on his response, maybe that'll be a stretch goal :p

Leviathant
05-31-2019, 07:53 PM
If you like the music from The Boghouse (http://boghouse.thehannah.org/), you can now get it in lossless format over at Bandcamp (https://upyourcherry.bandcamp.com/album/the-boghouse-themes), including a super chill 7 minute ambient remix.

Leviathant
10-18-2019, 11:44 PM
Gettin' the album mastered next week, so leviathant.com is live (http://www.leviathant.com/).

Leviathant
10-30-2019, 09:21 PM
You can now download a lossless copy on Bandcamp and get a 30 page PDF booklet, or you can stream and download on the usual corners of the internet.

Visit leviathant.com (https://www.leviathant.com) for details.

Thanks!

butter_hole
10-31-2019, 11:40 PM
Digging it! "The Black Fades" is giving me Memorabilia vibes at first. The rest is also wonderful.

Leviathant
11-09-2019, 01:35 PM
A little backstory on that first track...

About four years ago, I was watching videos from a guy who has a couple of Moog percussion synth modules from the 70s. I thought the videos were absolutely terrible; perfect examples of why I'm generally not interested in modular synth stuff, for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXWHyg9-upc

At the same time, I was also thinking, why do Metasonix tube drum machines cost thousands of dollars? There weren't a lot of examples online, but I do remember watching the video below and thinking that unique doesn't necessarily equal good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FlzATgziuY

I probably tripped down this rabbit hole because the D-2000 had come out, and had some absurd price tag on it, and every clip I heard was absurd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--2iIT25cNE

But just because demos on YouTube sound bad doesn't mean there's no way to make these things sound good. I'm 99% sure Alessandro Cortini made a couple of records with Metasonix boxes, for example, and I put that stuff on repeat. So I set out to model these obscure, expensive machines using my less obscure, but also expensive drum machine, my trusty Tempest, designed by Roger Linn and Dave Smith. I also emulated some of the sounds from the Moog 701 & 702 percussion modules - notably the upswept kick drum heard in the clip below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MS-eRp3lAo

After creating a kit of weirdo electronic noises, I built out a four on the floor beat with it, and really, really liked the end result. If I had any kind of developed audience, I could probably have released that beat on a four minute loop by itself, but I ended up building up and around it, eventually creating what would become the opening track (https://leviathant.bandcamp.com/track/the-black-fades-and-the-chrome-pits) on my album (https://www.leviathant.com). You can hear the beat all by itself right near the end, around the time the Portland riot police start firing tear gas on protestors.

caca
11-27-2019, 08:33 PM
I'm late to the party, but I'm listening to this on Apple Music right now, and I'm digging the hell out of it. Nice work!

Leviathant
12-03-2019, 11:33 AM
This weekend we had a gray, rainy/snowy day that just felt oppressive, after what's been a mild few months. Melissa was in the midst of a 48-hour composing binge against a deadline, so I was stuck in the house without anything to do, just kind of looking outside as things got bleaker and bleaker.

So I made seven minutes of oppressive analog drone music (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/the-onset-of-winter) to go with it, and posted it on Soundcloud where you can freely download it. Moog Model 15 iOS app run through the Sound Workshop 1280b, and Moog Sub 37.

I find it suits being played loudly in headphones while working on stuff. I've been looping it for a half hour myself at work just now.

eversonpoe
12-03-2019, 11:40 AM
This weekend we had a gray, rainy/snowy day that just felt oppressive, after what's been a mild few months. Melissa was in the midst of a 48-hour composing binge against a deadline, so I was stuck in the house without anything to do, just kind of looking outside as things got bleaker and bleaker.

So I made seven minutes of oppressive analog drone music (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/the-onset-of-winter) to go with it, and posted it on Soundcloud where you can freely download it. Moog Model 15 iOS app run through the Sound Workshop 1280b, and Moog Sub 37.

I find it suits being played loudly in headphones while working on stuff. I've been looping it for a half hour myself at work just now.

gives me the same feeling as some parts of the dragon tattoo score, which is perfect given your intention to match it with the weather that day.

Toadflax
12-03-2019, 01:18 PM
Listened. Loved. Bought.

Leviathant
01-18-2020, 07:42 PM
At it with the analog pads again. This time, not nearly as oppressive - check it out at Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/the-long-fall/comment-859458346).

It started when I put together a patch on my JP-08 late at night, and just loved the way the resonance sang. I also recently bought a Boss RV-500 reverb and it is lush. Anyway, I was just playing these four notes over and over, listening to the resonance of two different sustained notes interacting, and then I played the second part overtop. I'm barely functional on a keyboard, so I was surprised at how well it went together. I hit record, and played it through about three times before I got the whole thing in one take.

It was late but I knew it needed something more, so I fired up my Behringer Model D and dialed in something syrupy sweet, and noodled a little bit overtop the second occurrence of the harmonies. While I'm playing, I'm bringing in the second and finally third oscillator, for some subtle timbral variation.

The oscillators on the JP-08 are cross-modulated, so they're a little out of pitch, which is why the lead synth sound flutters sometimes.


After I posted it on Soundcloud, I had an idea pop into my head: The Model D is an American design, the JP-08 is Japanese. I've got an SH-01a, and a Poly Evolver Keyboard - Japanese, American. So I've actually recorded alternate takes: one with only Roland equipment, one with my DSI Poly Evolver & the Model D.

It's interesting how easily the JP-08 instantaneously sounds good, so I was curious if I'd be able to match the tone of the JP-08 on it. A lot of what sounds good in this track (to me) are the filters. It took a while, but I was able to dial in a pretty damn close patch on the PEK. Of course, I cheated a little bit... the PEK's analog oscillators didn't quite have as much heft as the JP-08's - but last year I loaded up the custom waveshapes with oscillators from my Roland boutiques, including the JP-08, and I bring it in at about half the volume of the analog square wave to add the missing girth.

I haven't posted the strictly-Japanese and strictly-American versions though. Maybe another time.


It's entirely possible that this is the first thing I've shared (that's not rock music) that also doesn't contain any sequencing in it.

Leviathant
05-04-2020, 11:31 PM
☝️ Those two efforts got me started on a series of chill analog music that I've found to be really good for listening to while you stare out the window.

This past Sunday, I put a bow on it and released "into, away (https://leviathant.bandcamp.com/album/into-away)" on Bandcamp, an EP of 4 songs largely inspired from being stuck in the house. The alternate version of "the long fall" is included as a bonus track.

eversonpoe
05-05-2020, 09:28 AM
☝️ Those two efforts got me started on a series of chill analog music that I've found to be really good for listening to while you stare out the window.

This past Sunday, I put a bow on it and released "into, away (https://leviathant.bandcamp.com/album/into-away)" on Bandcamp, an EP of 4 songs largely inspired from being stuck in the house. The alternate version of "the long fall" is included as a bonus track.

gonna wait to buy this til the next bandcamp fee-waiving day!

Leviathant
05-05-2020, 11:53 AM
I saw you advertise this on Insta the other day, bought it and have been really into it, along with the new Ghosts and the Dispatches From Elsewhere stuff. Good shit!

Thanks so much!


Are you into the Time Machines stuff that Coil did? This kind of reminded me of that a little..

Nailed it - one track in particular is very much Coil/Time Machines influenced. I had grabbed the Moog Model 15 modular app for the iPad and dove into making a really harmonically rich, dynamic sound. Honestly, I had made a recording of that track ("lockdown") that was much longer, and I would just listen to that (more loudly than I should have) for... well, longer than makes sense to release on a more digestible collection :)

allegate
05-06-2020, 10:47 AM
finally remembered to put it on my ipod and it's running now.

RE: Coil - I put How to Destroy Angels (Remixes and Re-Recordings) on during say the third or fourth day of the pandemic. It was a little much on the mood-setting to where it was actively making me anxious. whew.

allegate
05-28-2020, 12:58 PM
The EP is getting me through my morning. Again. Great stuff.

Went through the thread and I'm going to get that podcast onto my feed. I've seen some of the stuff you've posted on twitter and it sounds fascinating but limited (I mean it is twitter) so this should be interesting.

Leviathant
06-28-2020, 12:32 AM
Another year, another Puppetry Conference - this time, via Zoom. I was tasked with creating music for a piece called Demon Daycare by Marte Ekhougen. Marte sent me a few examples of the direction she wanted, and I knew right away where I need to go.

You can listen to it here on Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/demon-daycare)

Behind the scenes/ruining the magic: I started by breaking out my ride cymbal and my Blue Babybottle mic, which I placed very, very close to the cymbal. I recorded a few hits, and then I put three of them on the timeline, panned left, center, and right. Then I set them to play at half speed. So that drone at the beginning - that's all Sabian HHX ride cymbal. Then I grabbed my Ibanez soundgear bass and played a few notes in the same frequency - then reversed them & added copious quantities of reverb. The middle part's mostly Roland JP-08 drones. The electronic cicada sounds are a patch I made on my Poly Evolver Keyboard many summers ago trying to mimic the sound outside - so glad I finally found a home for that patch. The FM sweeps are on my Sub 37. Melissa played a melody on our toy piano, and I did some tweaky delay over it.

eversonpoe
06-28-2020, 10:56 AM
Another year, another Puppetry Conference - this time, via Zoom. I was tasked with creating music for a piece called Demon Daycare by Marte Ekhougen. Marte sent me a few examples of the direction she wanted, and I knew right away where I need to go.

You can listen to it here on Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/demon-daycare)

Behind the scenes/ruining the magic: I started by breaking out my ride cymbal and my Blue Babybottle mic, which I placed very, very close to the cymbal. I recorded a few hits, and then I put three of them on the timeline, panned left, center, and right. Then I set them to play at half speed. So that drone at the beginning - that's all Sabian HHX ride cymbal. Then I grabbed my Ibanez soundgear bass and played a few notes in the same frequency - then reversed them & added copious quantities of reverb. The middle part's mostly Roland JP-08 drones. The electronic cicada sounds are a patch I made on my Poly Evolver Keyboard many summers ago trying to mimic the sound outside - so glad I finally found a home for that patch. The FM sweeps are on my Sub 37. Melissa played a melody on our toy piano, and I did some tweaky delay over it.

definitely the most unsettling thing i've heard you do, and maybe my favorite?

Leviathant
08-19-2020, 10:41 PM
I have a new track that I made that I'm super fuckin' stoked about but I can't share it because I reached out to my old bandmate from Warfilm (https://warfilm.bandcamp.com/) and asked her to lay down some angry vocals for it.

I had set up my Tempest and my SH-01A in the bedroom, because my study is now where I work, which makes it incredibly difficult to be creative after the workday. Every now and then, I'd open up two folding tables and set up the two and just start plonking away at ideas, and this one was something that came together not too long after the wave of civil unrest in response to the murder of George Floyd. I could see pillars of smoke from my window. There were fucksticks in the comments of my Facebook friends' posts saying ignorant things. And I started out making a gnar-gnar sound, which I wrapped in a beat. And then I got to playing with the SH-01A over it and ooooooh man, it clicked.

I dragged the two over to the study and plugged them in, and recorded what I'd just done. As-is, I probably could have put it out, but I laid down a foundation on bass under the chorus movement, and it was exactly the glue I needed to bind them together. I had instinctively left a lot of room between parts, and after letting it sit for a few weeks, I recorded some screeching guitar and it's just right.

I have no idea what Renee has in mind for the vocals yet, but we're going to record them in a socially distant way next week. aaaaaaghghhh.

Leviathant
09-04-2020, 04:33 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNhvRdAzZU8

Get it @ https://leviathant.bandcamp.com/album/get-it
(https://leviathant.bandcamp.com/album/get-it)(All sales are going to Renee for this one)

eversonpoe
09-04-2020, 05:00 PM
told myself i wasn't going to spend more than $60 today but this pushed me up to $65. curse you for putting out such good music!

allegate
09-11-2020, 03:11 PM
This is the perfect soundtrack to the dystopian firescape I am in today, great stuff.

Leviathant
09-13-2020, 07:38 PM
I've probably mentioned a few times that I've been focusing on a more performance-oriented approach to the electronic music I make. Part of that was the plan that someday I might play some live gigs, but it also changes my approach.

This came in handy on the Friday when I was scrambling to put the EP up. I had a few ideas on my Tempest that I hadn't fleshed out, including the first eight measures of the track that I later called "Hold On"

I knew I wanted some kind of big pad sound overtop of it, so I went to my pad machine, the Poly Evolver, and put together a patch that was rich in harmonics and responded well to changes in the filter. I tied the mod wheel to FM between the digital oscillators, and the sound that came out was right where I needed it to be - but then I ran it through reverb and it went absolutely over the top. I went back to the Tempest and added in some more electronic percussion, and on Friday morning, I basically slammed the track together.

A couple days later, I decided to have a go at playing the whole thing live. The version on the EP was performed live, but I'd added reverb and delay via VSTs. In the video below, I'm using the Boss RV-500 for reverb, and the Yamaha E1010 for delay. I also kind of lost track of time so it's about a minute longer than the EP version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhtgCdHeU30

Jinsai
09-13-2020, 07:52 PM
great/beautiful stuff

Erneuert
09-13-2020, 08:25 PM
Leviathant, I love that big pad sound. It reminds me of a mixture between the relaxing-ness of La Mer and the nostalgia of A Warm Place.

neorev
09-14-2020, 03:32 AM
Wait... are you from Pennsylvania? I noticed your band Slow Andy is listed as York, PA.

I live in Charleroi, about 3 1/2 hours west.

Leviathant
09-14-2020, 02:34 PM
Wait... are you from Pennsylvania? I noticed your band Slow Andy is listed as York, PA.

I live in Charleroi, about 3 1/2 hours west.

I am indeed in Pennsylvania, but I'm now in Philadelphia, about a half mile from the Jersey border. Bit longer of a drive, I'm afraid.

neorev
09-14-2020, 04:27 PM
I am indeed in Pennsylvania, but I'm now in Philadelphia, about a half mile from the Jersey border. Bit longer of a drive, I'm afraid.

Yea, Philly is a tad far.. I lived in New York (Long Island) all my life up until the start of 2019. It got too damn expensive. So my wife and our 2 chihuahuas packed up and moved to Chicora, PA, just outside of Butler, on New Year's Day 2019 and then moved to North Charleroi in May this year. We got no friends or family out here, but, honestly, prefer it over Long Island, especially North Charleroi. Our goal is to eventually move to Pittsburgh or just outside it. You can find an apartment in Pittsburgh for the price of what a basement studio apartment costs out on Long Island. Back on Long Island, you pay all this money for what? You can't enjoy anything anyway if all your money goes into keeping a roof over your head. I do miss playing shows. I wanted to play some shows in the Pittsburgh... until the C word came along and ruined everything.

Nice to know a fellow PA musician/producer. When I'm doing my aggressive electronica stuff, I go under the alias Neorev, which you can find on the usual music services. I also have a more experimental side project called HΞX∆GR∆M. Perhaps one day, if you're into the idea, we could collaborate and do something different.

eversonpoe
09-16-2020, 09:49 AM
listened through yesterday and it was fantastic! sarah also really enjoyed it, which speaks volumes (she's very discerning about music).

Leviathant
01-02-2022, 04:25 PM
Bootblacks put out the multitracks to their most recent album, and I grabbed one of the songs, deconstructed it, but got off track before I could really dive in. Probably would have spent more time on the percussion, but hey - crazy year.

Listen to it on the Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/leviathant/inextinguishable-find-me)

I liked the tone of the original, but I was feeling more grim, and wanted to impart that into the music.

My bits are all Poly Evolver Keyboard & Tempest, basically recorded clean. I seasoned heavily with Eventide Blackhole Reverb.

Leviathant
04-26-2022, 07:57 PM
I still like to come into this thread and write a little bit about music I've put out into the public. So this time, I'll blog about Aurelia (https://leviathant.bandcamp.com/album/aurelia-music-from-aubrey-clinedinsts-starman), the title I've adopted for a collection of music I wrote as a score for my friend's puppetry show, which tells the story of an astronaut rescued by giant space jellyfish, who returns to their home planet to a confused lover that's been fighting off the advances of a creep. Aubrey Clinedinst's puppets are a visual treat, but I actually didn't get to see any of this iteration of the show in person, because workshopping started in early 2020 in anticipation of an April(?) 2020 performance date, which, yeah, didn't happen.

We had actually workshopped elements of the show in the past, at the National Puppetry Conference. In the first version I participated in, we (the musicians on staff at the conference) were asked to cover a couple of David Bowie songs as underscoring. We did so semi-relucantly, noting that when performing original puppetry, there are a lot of reasons why using original music is to your benefit. Not only because of licensing issues you could run into, but because original music might be designed more around the idea of improvisation, which is important when you have four or five puppeteers on stage performing - sometimes things go haywire. We did a second workshop another year, and this time Aubrey had asked for original music. Awesome!! A couple of the things done for that workshop were the seeds for the music that I would end up writing for a longer version of the show. I think it was closer to a half hour when we Aubrey brought the idea to me two years ago, but it was reduced to closer to 15 minutes for the 2022 performance.

Back in February 2020, Aubrey visited Philly - they were working with puppeteer friends on something in town, and took the opportunity to get away from NYC and grind away on puppet concepts and things, but also to sit in on my process for creating the music. Which... is not conducive to active observation, really. They asked that the music be in the style of David Bowie - mostly his 70s stuff. Reader, you're this far into the post, deep in the unvisited bowels of ETS, and here is where you'll learn that I just don't listen to much David Bowie with any regularity. I know! I know! Now, truth be told, they were really interested in Melissa and I working together on this, but Melissa was neck-deep in commissions that paid actual money. This was being asked as a favor, basically. While I have big opinions about paying artists and about not working for free, when the cards are down on this one, I think my finances are in better order, and frankly it was a fun opportunity to force myself to try something different.

So Aubrey is standing behind me in my study, while I'm remembering how much playing guitar hurts fingers. I suggest they go downstairs to the apartment they're staying in, and I'll text when I have something to share. So I'm like... standing there with a guitar. What do I do? I need to find notes, find chords. Is this too simple? Should I pick the strings individually? What am I doing, have I made a terrible mistake? Okay, 70s Bowie sound, let's get some synth in there... so I turn on my Poly Evolver Keyboard to some proggy preset, and start noodling. And I don't hate what comes out, at least whenever I manage a harmonious series of notes somehow.

Man was it stressful. I don't make music that sounds like Sound and Vision. But having that seed planted in my brain helped me to try new directions, and after finalizing a handful of tracks, some of it even grew on me. God it was mentally exhausting though. A few weeks later, I got some videos of rehearsals, and started rearranging the music to fit the action better. Then... pandemic. Two years later, I get a new set of rehearsal videos, we've got one new puppeteer, and soon I'm doing a Zoom call with a live rehearsal and rearranging on the fly, waiting for additional footage, re-re-rearranging, and then the show's live.

I took some time afterward to smooth out transitions, fix some little timing errors, and then I ran the whole thing through my Sound Workshop 1280b console to glue it all together. I hope. I'll write more later. No DAW screenshots this time, they're not terribly exciting anyway!

https://leviathant.bandcamp.com/album/aurelia-music-from-aubrey-clinedinsts-starman

Leviathant
12-28-2023, 02:32 PM
I think I'm going to eke out a release before 2023. A hair over 68 minutes of solo instrumental electronic music on the theme of dreams. I got a new instrument this year, and found myself wanting to post pictures of it. But that's not what it's for! And I'm also a bit sick of the fetishization of consumerism in the music-making corners of the internet.

All of these tracks were made live, on a single instrument. All of the tracks use the same instrument except one, actually. I did apply some sparse effects here and there (a little delay, a little reverb), and ultimately "mastered" the album by running it through the compressors on my wee little SSL console. There are one or two that aren't start-to-finish linear recordings - that is to say, for those tracks, I recorded a lot of material in one long go, and then basically cut and paste it on top of itself, mostly to get a stereo track out of a mono instrument.

In a way, this is an evolution of an old idea, making music to play back while I sleep. When I lived in an apartment by myself a couple of decades ago, I used to set up my Kawai K3 to run through delay and reverb, and have it modulate the filter on a chord while I slept. Super basic spacey music. I would also put on music by Coil, Aphex Twin's ambient stuff, and later albums by Belong, William Basinski, and so on, while I slept. I still do this when I travel, particularly since sleeping on planes and in hotels is a special kind of exhausted sleep. It's a very basic kind of rest, recharging after what's usually an unusually intense day.

I'm also really bad at remembering dreams. I would go years without remembering having a dream, but with a little training, I've gotten better. (It's really easy: as you fall asleep, repeat to yourself - "I will remember my dreams") I decided that rather than theme this album around music to fall asleep to, it's a soundtrack to trying to explore and remember those fuzzed out dreams, and thinking about how they affect waking life.

Thanks for your continued interest - looking forward to sharing this shortly!

Leviathant
12-29-2023, 08:23 PM
I make-a the teaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=931pFDjYrhM

tricil
12-31-2023, 01:28 PM
wake up babe, new Leviathant has dropped: https://leviathant.bandcamp.com/album/let-dreams-lead

Leviathant
12-31-2023, 06:51 PM
hashtag 123123

Leviathant
01-29-2024, 09:40 PM
Up too late? Got the place to yourself? Get comfortable in front of your TV, pop a gummy, and play the full-length video installation for Let Dreams Lead


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9VitRsBlgc