Finally Frius, my ode to our largest organ, our skin, is finished. It is meant to be played directly after “Lost and Found”. I haven’t really settled on these two names for these songs, but I guess I need temporary names for them for now.

Frius was done over months and months of time. In order to record it I basically just sampled all of the sounds from my friend’s drum kit using cheap microphones and a cheap mixer/ USB interface into my mac. Although it makes for interesting sounds, its a pain.

The very first beat was made just with GarageBand midi sounds blasted out of Roland desktop monitors into an Audio Technica side-address microphone in 7/4 time. The rest of the song loosely follows 7/4, except in a few places where I needed to break away as to not render 7/4 monotonous.

The staticky sound with all the neat randomized electronic tones at the end of track one and the beginning of track two was a circuit-bent old casio keyboard that I got from DI (kind of like salvation army here in Utah). I think I’m going to post about my first experiences in circuit bending next.

Lately I’ve been mega-influenced by Deerhoof, and so I actually cut Frius from being an 8 minute song into about 4. I admire Deerhoof’s ability to write beautiful and catchy verses without necessarily repeating them very much during the song, unlike most pop.

So here are the first two tracks, meant to be played with “gapless playback” back to back.

1. Lost and Found
2. Frius