This years album is a themed album based on some photos that I took at the Johnson Space Center last summer. Space themed titles? Yes. 60's sci-fi themed sound? Nope.
It should be a pretty straight forward electronica album with a nice mix of break-beat, lo-fi, ambient, IDM, glitch, and a few surprises thrown in.
My weapon of choice is my MacBook Pro loaded with Logic Studio, a few NI synths and Battery, G-Force's Minimonsta and impOSCar, and some fantastic gear by M-Audio.
Let's go!
Group Members:
Me, myself, and I - Jim Furey
music, etc
RPM demos, works-in-progress, or tracks-finished-early... a musical sketchbook. This is just a sampler -- complete and finished albums will be uploaded into the real jukebox in March!
Smooth electronica inspired by photos taken at the Johnson Space Center in July, 2007.
Tracks (w/numbers):
1. Heatshield
2. Multispectral Photographic Facility S-190
3. Intertank
4. Orbiter
5. Buran
6. Video Switch
7. LOXtank
8. Saturn Lost
9. Moonshot
10. Luna 3
Preferred Track:
5. Buran
Band Members & Instruments Played:
Just a bunch of musically inclined electrons floating around inside of me whose medium is a MacbookPro running Logic Studio 8 and a whole heap of software synths.
Band Location (city, state or province, and country):
Simi Valley. CA
2007 RPM Album Info
Date mailed or hand-delivered:
03/01/2007
Date received:
03/02/2007
Genre:
Electronic - Beat Driven
Album Name:
Random Processed Memories
Album Description:
This album contains primarily electronica based tracks. The exceptions are one straight jazz track, a classical/score style piece, and one track that infuses a good deal of asian percussion with rock/electronica. The overall goal was to explore a number of different ideas, while still managing to help develop an encompassing 'sound' or 'style'. While 'Hop to It' and 'Transect' have a completely different sound from the reset of the album, they do fill the desire to explore different approaches to music composition. Please enjoy Random Processed Memories.
Tracks (w/ numbers):
1. These aren't the Disco Droids You're Looking For
2. No Time for Rain
3. The Magic of String Theory
4. Departures
5. Hop to It
6. Transect
7. You know, Round...
8. Found 'Em (Droids Reprise)
Preferred track for listening party:
07 You know, Round...
Band Bio:
Jim began performing music in 1982, when he became a brass player in the 4th grade. He wanted to play the sax like his older cousin, but having rather long arms, and fourth graders tending to be rather short, he was roped into playing trombone. 24 years later, Jim still plays in various brass groups, and local community concert and jazz bands, where he splits time between playing the bass trombone and the baritone.
Jim's love of music composition started in 1986 with the purchase of a used Commodore 64 with the amazing 3-voice FM synthesis SIDPlayer. His musical moniker of Solarno was born around the same time, though the exact origin of the name is lost to the annals of time.
When not playing or writing, or attending performances of fine music, Jim can be found riding a two-wheeled, non-electronic contraption some refer to as a bicycle, or selling said vehicles for the world's largest bicycle manufacturer.
Jim Furey and his roving band of electron infused microprocessors reside in Simi Valley, CA where the quest for the perfect sine wave continues.
Group Members & Instruments Played:
Me, myself, and I. Hardware used: my trusty iMac G5, M-Audio Keystation 49e, M-Audio Trigger Finger. Software used: Logic Express, GForce impOSCar and Minimonsta, iZotope Ozone 3, bits from all the Garageband JamPacks.
Lots of knob twirling and parameter adjusting for all of the soft-synths. While stock programmed sounds are fine to sketch out ideas, once a song starts to take shape, different characters start to evolve from the varying sounds.
Band Location (city, state or province, & country):
the substars
