audio design
Sound, soundtracks, sound collage...music in motion.....
I create sample-based compositions using obscure elements such as found sound, abandoned record albums, old-time radio shows, American history recordings...
surreptitious guerilla field recordings made on my handHeld, public domain multimedia, and more....
...then I write new arrangements and musical parts on the bass, cello, guitar, keys, vocals and computer.
info
These are sound beds created to evoke moods, textures, places - and a sense of motion.
Some were created just as music; some were written to accompany video.
influences
I've had a lot of recording projects over the years: as a professor, teaching intro and advanced industry standards; as a musician leading bands, writing music in a variety of styles: rock & roll, power pop, exotica & lounge, old (pre-1960s) country; soundtrack, etc.....
"Leon"
sPlatterKep
...i wanted to write something that sounds like what Blade Runner looks like....I composed it, played everything but drums and cello.
"in cog neat-o"
sPlatterKep
More music for motion....snakes slither for miles in the great southwest....I composed this, played everything but drums and cello.....
"pasta la vista"
sPlatterKep
...Amelia Earhardt emerges from the Spanish desert as a banshee...i composed and recorded this in one sitting, playing everything except drums.
"dogHeaven"
sPlatterKep
A black humor'd take on Clinton's impeachment trial, w/a midEast groove & Stalinist show trial overtones...I play everything except drums (John Orem).
"li'l duce loop"
sPlatterKep
Music for motion: an Italian jazz pizza abstraction in 7/4 time, written by me & perfomed by me and John Orem... Dig it!
"i drink, therefore - i am"
John Carmody
This piece is a soul-patch'd treatment of 2 bass guitars and obscure samples from a 1960s record collection, pt. 1
"Potluck Dinner"
sPlatterKep
....This is the audio portion of a video piece I did....it's a metaphor for the isolationist state of America right before it entered WWII.....
"all dogs look like andy"
John Carmody
More music for motion, this piece is sort of a "james bond meets trotsky to consider patterns in mark trail" kind of thing....
"the strange rage of boris yeltsin"
John Carmody
This piece is a soul-patch'd treatment of 2 bass guitars and obscure samples from a 1960s record collection, pt. 2
"be what you want to be"
John Carmody
This short composition combines live performance, LP samples, soul, marching band & twangy guitar to create a sweet (rare) bite of optimism.....