“Earthquake” – The Half-BIT GAP RMX
It started with a tweet from @AudioPornTwitz about a Little Boots remix contest. The Earthquake stems were posted online so I DM’d Fernando to see if he was interested in having a play with them for our follow up to Separate.
I think it’s safe to say that Fernando and I have had enormous fun working on the Little Boots stems.
Producing glitch files, uploading initial arrangements, hosting diva-style bitching sessions (only kidding) and developing sounds on the fly have involved most of the social networking and music collaboration sites at one point or another.
We’ve Twittered, Waved, IM’d, SoundClouded, Skyped, Bandcamped and DivShared. We even emailed once. (But we’ve still not met.)
There have been tasters posted to this blog, my blog and private shares to a very privileged few – thanks for the comments guys! And our conclusion from all of this?
Guitars Are Pianos.
So here it is. We proudly present Half-BIT’s take on Little Boots’ Earthquake – The GAP RMX:
Earthquake – GAP RMX by Half-BIT
Netaudio EXPANDING 09 – Half-BIT Debut – Phase II
Hey, Mr. F here! It took me a BIT more time than expected to get all of this ready but now that is tested, and double tested, I am going to explain. For those who are not familiar with the project’s concept I would strongly recommend reading this.
Done reading? Let’s go.
Phase II Concept
Grab tweets that are either using #expanding09 and/or Barcelona and feed them into Max/MSP. Inside Max/MSP those tweets are going to be dissected and used to attribute several values to parameters that will generate cross effects that will be then applied to the original tracks. Each keyword uses a stereo channel.
So far so good right? But I was not really happy with this. Twitter is all about constraints (the 140c rule) and I started to think that a tweet that was more characters should have more weight on the whole databending process than a tweet that had less characters.
Alka “Separate” The Half-BIT STRBX RMX
Our first remix project (and one we are very proud of), mastered by Pure Tone.
Alka is to blame. He did this amazing track called “Separate” and asked around for remixes.
Kieron did a remix. Fernando did a remix but he was not totally happy with it. Kieron intervened. Half-BIT was born. This is the start of a new project.
And it starts like this.
Separate – STRBX RMX by Half-BIT
Netaudio EXPANDING 09 – Half-BIT Debut
Anybody remember Cosecha? And the fun we had pulling together PS011, recently released by the outstanding PublicSpaces netlabel?
Well, Mr Fonseca and Mr James require your help again. Our newly formed collaboration, Half-BIT will be providing an art sound installation at Netaudio’s EXPANDING 09 Festival on 14 November in Barcelona.