Some how Myspace dumped us.
Myspace is oh so trashy.
But if we dump them, we won't be able to easily talk to other bands and venues.
Phooey.
And so we conform.
http://www.myspace.com/Kalaloch
Friday, January 25, 2008
Loopy Loops
I haven't posted for nearly 2 weeks...when we aren't busy working or recording, we've been thinking about / praying for / or visiting our niece Fontainne.
Fontainne is our beautifully brave ballerina. Fourteen and fighting scoliosis, she has complained very little. Even now, after having 2 surgeries in 5 days, she spends her waking time trying to make her doctors and nurses smile. She's great. Her first surgery lasted for 8 hours! Yuk. There were some complications, so Tuesday she had to go back under the knife for about 2 hours. She is recovering and really enjoys the lunch-time visits from her uncle Al who only works a short bus ride away from the Children's hospital.
I don't know where my camera has been lately! I wish I had pictures of us with Fontainne and of our recording sessions!
Last night we had another recording session with Eric Lovre--we are having a grand time recording! I have a little cough that is bugging me and messing up my voice, so Alex did some extra vocal parts for Corridor. He wanted a really saturated distorted sound for his second vocal track, so Eric set him up with a neat-0 vintage microphone from the '30s and ran it through a groovy old tube pre-amp from the '60s. (I wish I had gotten a picture!) We got a great sound with the pre-amp overdriven. We only have my second vocal part to record on Corridor, and we'll be ready to mix it! We have yet to record vocals on either Pacific Shores or Over the Mains, but I think we'll be recording again this weekend.
Oh--the loopy loops. That's where I was going with all of this.
Before we started sub-mixing Over the Mains, Alex had Eric dump the individual tracks onto a CD so that he can play around with a dub remix on the computer. The other day we were hanging out in Fontainne's hospital room while her parents took a breath-air. She had just gone through a really tough ordeal and was tranq-ing out on some drugs. As she slept, we we became increasingly aware of subtle rhythmic sounds originating from Robot Fontainne. On a future visit, Alex brought his laptop and a cheesy karaoke mic to capture the tiny techno beats. He found some killer sounds: Fontainne has these special shoes she wears that are hooked up to some kind of water or air pressure machine to massage her feet (prevents blood-clots?). It sounds really creepy. He also found that her morphine pump produced a great sound that could be looped. Once Alex has massaged the beats into the song, we should have a pretty rad remix.
Remix name ideas:
The Power Tool Mix
Life-Support Loops
The Shriner Mix
Over the Mains / Under the Influence
Over the Mains / Under the Knife
The Drug Dub
whaddya think?
Fontainne is our beautifully brave ballerina. Fourteen and fighting scoliosis, she has complained very little. Even now, after having 2 surgeries in 5 days, she spends her waking time trying to make her doctors and nurses smile. She's great. Her first surgery lasted for 8 hours! Yuk. There were some complications, so Tuesday she had to go back under the knife for about 2 hours. She is recovering and really enjoys the lunch-time visits from her uncle Al who only works a short bus ride away from the Children's hospital.
I don't know where my camera has been lately! I wish I had pictures of us with Fontainne and of our recording sessions!
Last night we had another recording session with Eric Lovre--we are having a grand time recording! I have a little cough that is bugging me and messing up my voice, so Alex did some extra vocal parts for Corridor. He wanted a really saturated distorted sound for his second vocal track, so Eric set him up with a neat-0 vintage microphone from the '30s and ran it through a groovy old tube pre-amp from the '60s. (I wish I had gotten a picture!) We got a great sound with the pre-amp overdriven. We only have my second vocal part to record on Corridor, and we'll be ready to mix it! We have yet to record vocals on either Pacific Shores or Over the Mains, but I think we'll be recording again this weekend.
Oh--the loopy loops. That's where I was going with all of this.
Before we started sub-mixing Over the Mains, Alex had Eric dump the individual tracks onto a CD so that he can play around with a dub remix on the computer. The other day we were hanging out in Fontainne's hospital room while her parents took a breath-air. She had just gone through a really tough ordeal and was tranq-ing out on some drugs. As she slept, we we became increasingly aware of subtle rhythmic sounds originating from Robot Fontainne. On a future visit, Alex brought his laptop and a cheesy karaoke mic to capture the tiny techno beats. He found some killer sounds: Fontainne has these special shoes she wears that are hooked up to some kind of water or air pressure machine to massage her feet (prevents blood-clots?). It sounds really creepy. He also found that her morphine pump produced a great sound that could be looped. Once Alex has massaged the beats into the song, we should have a pretty rad remix.
Remix name ideas:
The Power Tool Mix
Life-Support Loops
The Shriner Mix
Over the Mains / Under the Influence
Over the Mains / Under the Knife
The Drug Dub
whaddya think?
Monday, January 14, 2008
Gangs and Gangs of Fun
Playing a Teenage Mutant Ninja Tutrles game with a 3-year-old ninja.
Seriously.
Seriously.
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Best Christmas Gifts of 2007
#1
("do Green Beans want to go to the party in my tummy?!")
Mom's Vintage (1926?) Grand Piano
(Yes, this is a picture of Stefanie Cheezing for the camera...but you can see a little of Mom's piano behind her...why did I not get a photo of that? Mom--you'll have to email me the picture you took)
#2
"Party in my Tummy" (from Yo Gabba Gabba) sweatshirt (Sewn by Alex! My husband sewed for the first time ever!)
("do Green Beans want to go to the party in my tummy?!")#3
Alex's Nintendo Complete with Mario Bros. & Duck Hunt (courtesy of Ryan) and Super Mario Bros. 3 (courtesy of Goodwill).
Christmas Recap
I know, I know....it is already 2008 and Christmas is long gone. But...I never got a chance to post about Christmas. So, with this post and a little packing and cleaning--I think I can finally get beyond the Holidays today and prepare for normality to return next Monday.
Alex and I flew to SLC from Salem for Christmas. Salem began commercial flights in 2007, with the ONLY flight being a Delta flight to and from SLC twice a day! How perfect is that! The airport is tiny and it is ten minutes from home to terminal. That was pretty cool.
The best part of Christmas was, of course, being with family. I got to spend some time with my soon-to-be-sister-in-law Tayva. I really like her. She fits in perfectly with our family...and not just because of her hair color.
The family photo shoot was fun. By the end it deconstructed into silliness...
I also got to hang out more with Stef's beau Darin. It was fun hanging out all together. We played a lot of Guitar Hero and Mario Kart.
Alex celebrated his 29th birthday in Utah with family and our friends Dave & Susan Jacobs (and daughter Hailey who insists she is "twenty-gix years old"). My mommy even made him his favorite cake and saved the frosting bowl for him to clean up (=
Stefanie is the only one actually living at home (Ryan lives with Peter in my Grandparent's basement apartment), but on Christmas Eve we had a big sleepover party. Ryan, Peter, Adam & Candice, and Darin all spent the night. We even did everybody's hair in pigtails!
I love my family! Christmas was a little nontraditional--everyone except Peter and Dad got sick at some point. Alex got sick the first day, spent 2 1/2 days in bed, and then (in the spirit of Christmas) he shared the cold/flu with everyone else! But...despite the phlegm and fevers, we did manage to enjoy our White Christmas!
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