About the Background Image
It's from a poster for a strange 1989 Mexican/Italian film called ''Santa Sangre", made by Alejandro Jodorowsky. I don't yet have permission to use it; I'm seeking it out.
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Powers of 10 : Awesome
Exactly HOW big is it ? Think carefully for a moment about: "All words ever spoken by human beings". E r, yeah. See Exabyte ! This table courtesy of Roy Williams at Caltech . A Connection to music? Yes; I like to make algorithmic music. My album "Loose" is all-agorithmic. I plan to use these in an upcoming song. Byte [ 8 bits] 0.1 bytes: a binary decision; 1 byte: a single character; 10 bytes: a single word; 100 bytes: a telegram ORr a punched card; Kilobyte [ 1,000 bytes OR 10 3 bytes] 1 Kilobyte: A very short story; 2 Kilobytes: A typewritten page; 10 Kilobytes: An encyclopaedic page OR a deck of punched cards; 10 Kilobytes: static web page; 50 Kilobytes: A compressed document image page; 100 Kilobytes: A low-resolution photograph; 200 Kilobytes: A box of punched cards; 500 Kilobytes: A very heavy box of punched cards; Megabyte [ 1,000,000 bytes OR 10 6 bytes] 1 Megabyte: A small novel OR a 3...
Music from Before: "Heaven" by Robert
Heaven Lyrics by Robert Janes, music by Martin Lomas - latin/pop feel (Intro: - with a simple guitar melody) Gmaj7 Cmaj7 Gmaj7 Cmaj7 Gmaj7 Cmaj7 Gmaj7 Cmaj7 (single strum, held) (Verse 1:) Am7 Dsus4 D A gift from God when you believe in the son Am7 Dsus4 D It's an open invitation for every - one Am7 Cmaj7 G Bm7 Come rich, come poor,...
Teaser > Upcoming New Remix > Four Building Blocks
What's it gonna sound like? We don't know yet. But here's some possibilities ...
New Music from ... 1997
Music I wrote, recorded (all tracks), and published in 1997. It's from what people tell me is my "best" album (Storm Animal - an anagram of Martin Lomas). I disagree; my fave album is "Loose" (all electronic & algorithmic). But "Loved By A Queen" is a decent song that may well be resurrected for The Garden Distrikt, or even sold to a name musician/singer.
More Stuff we Did Before
and that I can't find time to organize Sorry about the duplicates; I'm testing for the web.
Jeremy and the Local Crackie
New Music from 1998
Only 20 years old - a mere spring chicken, here's - "Hair of the God" 1998 Music by Martin Lomas, words from "The Eye of the Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran as read by Johnny Cash. All of the guitar tracks were created by sampling my own work at half-speed. Why? Serendipity. I had some recordings of mine on cassette tape. These were made on the typical TASCAM PortaStudio unit (see below), which uses the tape at double-speed to improve quality. I wanted to revive them, and so planned to re-record them digitally, double the speed (since I no longer have a double-speed tape deck), and clean them up. But I got stuck at the half-speed stage. Some wonderful new sounds become available.
New Music from 1997: P F Empathy
"P F Empathy" 1 997 Music by Martin Lomas. So named due to my love of the Italian prog-rock band PFM . All tracks recorded and produced by me. The two solos were originally electric guitar, which I then purposely allowed audio-to-MIDI software to inaccurately translate, feeding the results into software synths. Native Instruments' Reaktor software synth
A Sketch
Dirt poor; dog days of summer, but still sketching ....
Some links on this weird and wonderful movie:
ReplyDeleteIMDB - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098253/
Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Sangre
Rotten - https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/santa_sangre/
Ebert - https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-santa-sangre-1989
Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/sep/20/santa-sagre-review