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APOD came together serendipitously around a collab for the Bond Challenge, encouraging us to form a band project. At first the name was V12 after the 12 versions of our Bond song that Bryn had mixed. I threw together a logo using that day’s apod image from http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ knowing that Michael was also a fan of the site. His response to the logo was to say “let’s just call ourselves apod - the sound of clanging steel from outdated satellites bumping into each other in space. Space junk with a pop sensibility.” And so it is APOD with the Astronomy Picture of the Day as background.
I proposed we do a Space Race challenge song – seemed only fitting. To up the ante I added the surrealist Exquisite Corpse concept to the project. To which Bryn suggested including The Oblique Strategies. The idea was this. Player one would create a track/tracks and send an aiff to player two along with an Oblique Strategy. Player two would add their tracks to the song moving it in whatever direction they chose. Then they would send their track minus player one’s contribution to player three with an Oblique Strategy. When player three added their contribution to the song that mix of 2 and 3 would go back to player one (with an OS) – where the first track would be mixed back in without alteration. The result would be a final mix without editing or EQing – just a few minor volume automations to smooth out the contrasts.
Well it almost went like that. There were a few mutations in the process but what you hear basically adheres to the original idea as reinterpreted by the players. The point is – no one had control over this three way collab – this is the sound of tracks bumping into each other in space. Space junk with a pop sensibility.
The title came from a random snippet of conversation that Bryn picked up at work.
As for the video – that was Bryn’s idea – and a brilliant one at that.
player 1: Bud
player 2: Particledots
player 3: Michael2
The photo is today's apod image of a double basin on Mercury.
I proposed we do a Space Race challenge song – seemed only fitting. To up the ante I added the surrealist Exquisite Corpse concept to the project. To which Bryn suggested including The Oblique Strategies. The idea was this. Player one would create a track/tracks and send an aiff to player two along with an Oblique Strategy. Player two would add their tracks to the song moving it in whatever direction they chose. Then they would send their track minus player one’s contribution to player three with an Oblique Strategy. When player three added their contribution to the song that mix of 2 and 3 would go back to player one (with an OS) – where the first track would be mixed back in without alteration. The result would be a final mix without editing or EQing – just a few minor volume automations to smooth out the contrasts.
Well it almost went like that. There were a few mutations in the process but what you hear basically adheres to the original idea as reinterpreted by the players. The point is – no one had control over this three way collab – this is the sound of tracks bumping into each other in space. Space junk with a pop sensibility.
The title came from a random snippet of conversation that Bryn picked up at work.
As for the video – that was Bryn’s idea – and a brilliant one at that.
player 1: Bud
player 2: Particledots
player 3: Michael2
The photo is today's apod image of a double basin on Mercury.
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MarkHolbrook
sound bed! Nicely done!