pleased to participate

gurdonark · Post by **gurdonark** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:42 pm

hi there.

I'm Robert, and I record as Gurdonark.

I am a big believer in Creative Commons and netlabels, and co-own the netlabel http://www.negativesoundinstitute.com. I am a big believer in sharing culture, new ways to experience music, and collaborations. I use a lot of shareware and freeware, as well as a a little commercial-ware and an analog instrument or two, to make my recordings.

My music is often on the fringes of ambient, noise, and chill, and hence the term "weirdbient" applies. But I dislike being too narrowly genre-bound.

I'm released here and there on netlabels, including in particular
http://www.disfish.com. I also do a lot of remxing over at http://www.ccmixter.org, which is a community I enjoy.

One of the mixters who is also one of the http://www.remixfight.orgfellows, MC Jack in the Box, turned me on to that site. That site turned me on to tihs site.

My first song here is "That's what she said".

I'm pleased to read of such a cool community here.

jack · Post by **jack** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:47 pm

hey bob! what a surprise. nice to see you expanding your horizons....

be nice to the man from gurdon, arkansas.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 8:50 pm

cool. ambient, noise, and chill sounds good - but note that many of the people here DEMAND vocals

not necessarily me, mind you...
welcome!
-bill

gurdonark · Post by **gurdonark** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 9:58 pm

I figured that vocals would pretty much be required, which appealed to me, because I so rarely record them well, though I love to sing.

I'm much more apt to use a spoken word or field recordings as samples instead of a sung track--but I did make an exception lately for a
track about animal adoption, one of my favorite causes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkTwtXF9wqU

I'm eager to work on recording better sung vocals, and using these fights as a good place to work on that.

Not that I ever mind instrumentals, myself--I find they are pretty idea-intense in their own way.

HeuristicsInc wrote:cool. ambient, noise, and chill sounds good - but note that many of the people here DEMAND vocals not necessarily me, mind you...
welcome!
-bill

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gurdonark · Post by **gurdonark** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 9:59 pm

Always good to see you, Jack--new song creation is just too much fun to pass up.

jack wrote:hey bob! what a surprise. nice to see you expanding your horizons....

be nice to the man from gurdon, arkansas.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 8:59 am

Good sounds, although I think that some more elements or changes should have happened halfway through in the musical elements.
No cats?
-bill

gurdonark · Post by **gurdonark** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 12:56 pm

It might benefit from more variation.

Cats certainly deserve the exposure--they deserve more adoptions, too!

HeuristicsInc wrote:Good sounds, although I think that some more elements or changes should have happened halfway through in the musical elements.
No cats?
-bill

obscurity · Post by **obscurity** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 5:13 pm

gurdonark wrote:Cats certainly deserve the exposure--they deserve more adoptions, too!

I'm sorry, but allowing cats to adopt is just plain wrong. They have no sense of responsibility and barely earn enough to support themselves.