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UPAC Battle of the Bands at RPI

Colin — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:26:25 +0000

We will be performing at UPAC’s Battle of the Bands in the McNeil Room on Saturday!

Come listen! And vote!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170415819650409

Oct. 30th 2010 – [ ] at Ground Zero in Troy, NY

Colin — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:48:48 +0000

[ ] will be performing at RPI on Oct. 30th thanks to our good friends at gzbasement.net. Stop by and enjoy some tasty jams.

October 30, 2010 – 8:00 pm
“Street Chant”
“Life In Vacuum”
“[ ]”
at Ground Zero
directions here

Nov 10, 2010 – [ ] interview on Capital Underground Radio

Colin — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:33:51 +0000

On November 10, 2010, [ ] will be interviewed on Capital Underground Radio. This will take place in front of a live audience at Savannah’s (The Dublin Underground), and will later be streamed online for all to hear. Feel free to stop by that evening for a beer and some interesting conversation.

Nov 10, 2010 – 6:00 pm
[ ] Interview on Capital Underground Radio
Savannah’s (The Dublin Underground)
1 South Pearl St.
Albany, NY
See map

Dec 1, 2010 – [ ] at Savannah’s for Capital Underground Live

Colin — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:33:49 +0000

On December 1, 2010 we will be playing at Savannah’s (used to be The Dublin Underground) in Albany, NY. Should be a good time. See you there!

December 1, 2010 - 8:00 pm
“Charmboy”
“[ ]”
“Ghoul Poon”
Free show, no cover, 21+
Hosted by Capital Underground Radio

Savannah’s (The Dublin Underground)
1 South Pearl St.
Albany, NY
See map

Funk Train

Garrett Smelcer — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 04:33:31 +0000

When’s the last time you heard some tasty baroque jams when you were bumpin at the discotheque?

Funk Train
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234

Colin — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 04:25:25 +0000

And how does it make you feel…

…when nothing is real?

234
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Oh…. I didn’t see you there….

Garrett Smelcer — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:01:24 +0000

First and foremost, we’d like to thank [god] and all the strong women that support us. They are the wind in our pants.

These two songs that we, you know, laid down first take, (like our strong women,) aren’t some statement of good vs. evil, even though you’d like to think they were. Our songs are all based on the alphabet, and so these are the 1st and 3rd installment of our oeuvre: you missed the second. (we make songs and jokes)

Feedback feedback feedback: we want the gain all the way up. We hope you like this shit as much as we do. Well, actually more – damn if we aren’t sick of working on the same stuff for MONTHS. Good eatings for your ears.

On the way are three more songs, and damn if I don’t know how to describe them. These songs are just fun and, if you like them, good for you.

If you want to be in the loop, enter your name in the little box to my left, (your right). See you at the shows.

Air
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Coagulate
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Show at Ground Zero on October 3, 2009

Colin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:50:03 +0000

We have been practicing, and will be playing at Ground Zero at RPI on the 3rd. It looks like it will be a good show. We will start playing between 8:00-8:30.

A recording of this show has been posted! Enjoy.

Hope you got to enjoy it before we took it down-it sounded like shit.

Recording/Production

Garrett Smelcer — Sat, 16 May 2009 11:35:14 +0000

Okay so there’s this crazy sardine meatfest at my place, like dudes using each other as pillows and stuff, and we do it because we need to produce these first four songs. After the very first day of Colin’s set up blowing up a [gosh darn] fuse, we didn’t have a microwave haha for like 5 days, or even LIGHTS in the main room. But boy oh boy, we have like a few hours left cause we have to go home and stuff. Tim to his girlfriend, Colin to his mom, and me to the hordes of leddes; I’m coming girls, don’t worry.

(hahaha it’s 7:34, my parents will be here in 30 minutes, time to clean up.)

The First Idea

KaashArouet — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:53:51 +0000

Let’s just get started. I will say briefly that these might be the strangest posts you read, but the most important.

Language would be cold and artless thing if we avoided metaphor. This idea of using a word not for its denotation, but, by placing it in a new context, for its connotation or other subjective qualities is an idea that begins this entire paradigm. To paint a proper picture, I must choose carefully from my palette, employ discerning strokes, and most importantly decide on a unifying theme for my message, whatever it is I’m trying to convey. You may jump up and argue that not every [painting] has a message, nor can a [painter] reliably convey the intended message. But that is not the discussion, nor, on a separate note, have I said anything interesting yet.

Trope is necessary to communicate nuance, to add texture and flavor. I submit, then, that as language is one medium of communication, that all systems of communication should possess some tropical cognate. This homogeny exists because there is an inherent structure to all systems, however seemingly “man-made.” ‘All systems of communication,’ as previously referenced, can be generalized even more to systems of information. As long as we move between members of a set, we can expect to see those cognates.

To solidify this concept, we can take an analog of Trope’s function in Language and predict it another medium. “Irony,” for example, is, at it’s simplest, a disparity in meaning. There should exist, by this Homogenic Principle of Media, some ironic mechanism in music, for example. Music is too large a medium, and so we can look at a member of the set of music for simplicity and clarity. Harmony, an indisputable facet of music as we know it, has tradition. Excuse the jargon, but the ubiquitous harmonic progression, I IV V I, can be said to have a kind of “meaning.” (This “meaning” has an important connotation of purpose.) And so, after we set up both sides of the equation, we can use a function “Irony” to create a patently ironic harmonic progression if we make a substitution, for example of IV with an inverted ii6, we have created an analogy of “irony” within music. Easier illustrated with dramatic irony, you can imagine yourself examples of ironic melodies or rhythms, the latter of which is rampant in jazz.

This basic and fundamental idea of cognates, analogy, and function sets is merely the beginning of this Homogenic Principle.